Azealia Banks has claimed {that a} fish market in Birmingham has made her sick, evaluating it to a “Wuhan moist market”.
The rapper made the feedback on X on Thursday (September 26), six days after enjoying on the metropolis’s O2 Institute as a part of her ‘Again To The Union Jack’ tour.
It will seem that shortly after the present, she paid a go to to the fish stalls on the Bull Ring Indoor Market, and it didn’t go nicely.
“Town officers in birmingham, UK, have to do one thing in regards to the fish market on the bullring market,” she wrote. “Its giving putrid pathogen Wuhan moist market tease and simply being in there I caught some shit.”
Sidebar. Town officers in birmingham, UK, have to do one thing in regards to the fish market on the bullring market. Its giving putrid pathogen Wuhan moist market tease and simply being in there I caught some shit. Simply spent the final two days bathing , massaging, ingesting tea sweating…
— Azealia Banks (@azealiaskuntrag) September 26, 2024
“Simply spent the final two days bathing, massaging, ingesting tea sweating that shit out,” she added. “That’s not cool b”.
By evaluating the market to Wuhan, she is invoking the hypothesis {that a} market within the Chinese language area is the place the COVID-19 pandemic started.
Banks went on to make clear what she was doing in a fish market to start with: “I used to be searching for some falsely marketed magnificence provide store I noticed on Yelp, and it was this little stand inside a outside constructing with this rank ass fish market boofin up the entire house. I wasn’t like, on tour making an attempt to purchase uncooked fish lmao,“ she wrote.
I wasn’t even. I used to be searching for some falsely marketed magnificence provide store I noticed on yelp and it was this little stand inside a outside constructing with this rank ass fish market boofin up the entire house. I wasn’t like, on tour making an attempt to purchase uncooked fish lmao https://t.co/3j5e6vYI3b
— Azealia Banks (@azealiaskuntrag) September 26, 2024
Banks isn’t any stranger to ruffling feathers on-line. Earlier this month, she advised Taylor Swift ought to sue Elon Musk over his feedback about her, which Banks described as “harassment”.
After Swift introduced she was publicly endorsing Kamala Harris, Musk responded on X, “High quality Taylor … you win … I will provide you with a toddler and guard your cats with my life.”
“Nah that is precise sexual harassment,” Banks replied on X. “Taylor ought to flex on his ass and sue him for a great deal of money n degree as much as be probably the most undefeatable richest girl within the historical past of music. Take his fucking cash taylorrrrrrr!!!!
“Put his ass in a gap sis. Lmao the pop girlies would all be so crumb. I really like this,” she added in a subsequent tweet.
Again in March, Banks was additionally brazenly important of Beyoncé’s new nation course on ‘Cowboy Carter’, describing it as “white ladies cosplay” and stating that she feels the singer is “setting herself as much as be ridiculed”.
These feedback led to an unlikely on-line friendship being solid between Banks and KT Tunstall, after the previous bemoaned the latter’s absence from the album.
Banks additionally reignited a years-old feud with Lily Allen this summer time, additionally in reference to ‘Cowboy Carter’. After Allen gave her personal criticisms of the album, Banks accused her of previous racist feedback and informed her to “sit this one out”.
