Azealia Banks Asserts "Pitiful" Kanye West Has No More "Tricks" Amidst Rant

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2019 Canadian Music Week
TORONTO, ON - MAY 08: Singer and rapper Azealia Banks performs during Canadian Music Week 2019 at The Phoenix Concert Theatre on May 8, 2019 in Toronto, Canada. (Photo by Isaiah Trickey/FilmMagic)
Azealia Banks has been watching Kanye West melt down like the rest of us, and she was brutally honest about the rapper.

Kanye West has been written off by many fans over the last few years. The ones who remain have really had their patience tested over the last week. He has said just about every controversial statement he can think of, and frankly, it feels like there's little more for him to say. He has emptied the chamber in terms of shocking, politically incorrect comments about other celebrities. Azealia Banks definitely thinks so. She's one of the few artists who can hang with Kanye West when it comes to ranting. And she let him have it in brutally honest fashion.

Azealia Banks claimed that West's latest outbursts are "pitiful." She feels that the rapper's attempts to stir the pot are his most transparent yet. And it will not yield the grand results he's looking for. "I don’t think anyone is gonna do anything to Kanye because he obviously clearly wants it so bad," she wrote. "He's so out of tricks." Azealia Banks went on theorize that Kanye West is running short on ideas. She thinks he's resorting to even more extreme measures for clout. "Getting assassinated or being seen as a martyr for free speech is the next best biggest iconic thing he can think of," Banks added. "People can tell that's why he’s doing this."

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Azealia Banks did not stop there. She proceeded to delve even further into West's latest meltdown. She noted that his attempts to bait responses from Jewish organizations, or former friend Jay-Z, is not going to work because it would only make the responder look silly. "Trying to bait Jews into having him harmed would only make them look bad so it’s not going to happen," Banks asserted. "Trying to bait Jay and Bey into harming him would only make them look bad so they aren’t going to do it." Azealia Banks dubbed the once beloved rapper "pitiful" in his attempts. "He may as well quit the sh*t and go in the sauna and get a yoni steam," she concluded.

Azealia Banks lamented the fact that Kanye West seems to think he's still a provocative artist. She reasons that the provocation loses meaning when one recognizes it. "Funny that you think any of what he’s doing is even remotely provocative," she responded to a West fan. "I actually feel a deep sense of sadness because of how confusing all of this is for his children." In a separate tweet, Banks effectively closed the book on her West thoughts. "Yeah. Yeezy," she wrote. "It was nice knowing you."

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Elias Andrews is a music and entertainment writer for HotNewHipHop. He joined HNHH in 2024 as the lead night shift contributor, which means he covers new music releases on a weekly basis. In the year since joining, Elias has covered some of the biggest and most turbulent stories in the world of music. He covered the Drake and Kendrick Lamar battle, and the release of the disses “Family Matters” and “Meet the Grahams,” in particular, in real time. He has also detailed the ongoing list of allegations and criminal charges made against Diddy. Elias’ favorite artists are Andre 3000, MF Doom, pre-808s Kanye West and Tyler, The Creator. He loves L.A. hip-hop but not L.A. sports teams. The first album he ever bought was Big Willie Style by Will Smith, which he maintains is still a pretty good listen.