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09-22-2015, 05:55 PM
Azealia Banks hurled a homophobic slur and various expletives at a Delta Airlines flight attendant after an incident with a fellow passenger aboard a plane from New York City to LAX.
Video obtained by TMZ taken Monday night shows Banks arguing with the male flight attendant (http://www.tmz.com/2015/09/22/azealia-banks-flight-homophobic-slur-delta-video/). Apparently when the plane landed at 1 a.m. in Los Angeles, the rapper got into an altercation with another passenger as they were exiting the plane. While arguing with the attendant, she can be heard calling him a "fucking faggot" and demanded he hand over her baggage.
Banks later tweeted (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/azealia-banks-drops-homophobic-slur-airplane-meltdown-article-1.2369767), claiming the passenger had hit her.
“Ok so I get hit in the face by a man and no one cares. The (sic) only hear what I called the man who was blocking my exit,” she wrote in a since-deleted tweet, screen grabbed by the New York Daily News. “I don't care. I've said it before and I'll say it again. I don't tolerate b**** a**ness and I don't tolerate men putting their hands on me.”
Banks briefly made her account private, but made the account public again (https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS) Tuesday afternoon.
Banks has come under fire for using homophobic slurs (http://start.westnet.ca/newstempch.php?article=2013/02/15/azealia-banks-faggot-slur-harlem-shake-baauer-debate_n_2695317.html) in the past. She defended her use of the word "faggot" during a fight with Perez Hilton last year.
You can be a straight faggot, you can be a gay faggot. A faggot is anybody that hates women. It’s like, y’all sing along to my words when I’m saying ‘nigga’ and ‘cunt’, but as soon as I call this one white man a faggot the whole world exploded. Listen, I didn’t say all gay men are faggots; I said Perez Hilton is a faggot, so don’t try and bring the rest of the gays down with your faggotry.
On Tuesday afternoon, she shared two tweets seemingly referencing the incident.
Here's me on a plane waiting for another bitch ass flight attendant to try me. #AzealiaBanks (https://twitter.com/hashtag/AzealiaBanks?src=hash) #Brokewithexpensivetaste (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Brokewithexpensivetaste?src=hash) pic.twitter.com/CHF2JGJcK6 (http://t.co/CHF2JGJcK6)
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 22, 2015 (https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/646373693929553920)
I am bisexual. my brother is trans. My employees are all gay men. . Nothing else to say.
— AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) September 22, 2015 (https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/646378278341636096)
Representatives for Azealia Banks did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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