NEW YORK: A London music festival on Wednesday removed controversial New York rapper Azealia Banks from its lineup after she went on a racially charged attack against former One Direction heartthrob Zayn.
Banks, in a series of tweets that she has since deleted, accused Zayn of copying her style on his latest video “Like I Would” and grew more agitated after he did not respond. Banks, who is African American, used epithets directed at Muslims against Zayn, a Briton who is partially of Pakistani origin. “When your entire extended family has been obliterated by good ol the USof A will you still be trying to act like a white boy pretending to be black?” she said in one tweet.
Banks, in a series of tweets that she has since deleted, accused Zayn of copying her style on his latest video “Like I Would” and grew more agitated after he did not respond. Banks, who is African American, used epithets directed at Muslims against Zayn, a Briton who is partially of Pakistani origin. “When your entire extended family has been obliterated by good ol the USof A will you still be trying to act like a white boy pretending to be black?” she said in one tweet.
