Azealia Banks hits out after calling air steward a 'f***ing f*ggot'

Oh dear. After a suspiciously quiet few months, loudmouth rapper Azealia Banks has found herself at the centre of another firestorm of controversy, after being caught on camera calling a US flight attendant a “fucking faggot”.

Banks was disembarking a flight from New York to LAX on Monday night (September 21) when she reportedly got into a dispute with fellow passengers who wouldn’t let her past to get her bags. In footage posted by TMZ, the Chasing Time singer is seen in the midst of a confrontation with a male air steward following the incident, and after he repeatedly refuses to hand her her luggage she is heard shouting: “Get me my bag, you fucking faggot!”

Reacting to the controversy on Twitter yesterday (September 22), Banks claimed she had been “terrified” by the way she was being “handled” by the male flight attendant, and that she would have been treated differently if she were a white woman. She once again denied being homophobic, reminding followers that she is bisexual, has a transgender brother, and declaring that America “picks and chooses” what language it deems offensive.

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Banks first came under fire for her use of homophobic language in 2013, when she labelled gossip blogger Perez Hilton a “fag” during a highly-publicised Twitter row. She later apologised for using the slur, saying that she hoped “the entire LGBT community can forgive her”. She later went on to previously claim that doesn’t use the term “faggot” as an anti-gay slur, but for “anybody that hates women”.

“A lot of gay men are way more misogynistic than straight men,” she said at the time. “The shit they say about women behind their backs, it’s like: ‘Wow, oh my God!’ You can be a straight faggot, you can be a gay faggot. A faggot is anybody that hates women.”

Azealia Banks hits out after calling air steward a ‘f***ing f*ggot’

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