Fighting Words

Today's column for the Daily Banter is actually pegged off of a column currently running over at HuffPo. It's a piece that had me nodding my head over and over again.

Here's the opening shot:

"I’ll make this quick because I’m still fighting the flu and it’s winning.

My favorite quote this week comes from New York City-based musician Keo Nozari, writing for the Huffington Post. It has to do with a recent Twitter war between hip-hop rising star Azealia Banks and Perez Hilton — one Hilton decided to involve himself in for entirely self-serving reasons — in which Banks called Hilton a 'messy faggot.' This, of course, resulted in Hilton hilariously clutching his pearls and GLAAD stepping into the fray to condemn Banks’s comment, insisting that it 'hurts kids.'

Here’s Nozari:

'We can’t be outraged when a 34-year-old gay man who built his career on bullying is in turn ‘bullied’ by a 21-year-old bisexual woman employing his same methods.'

A-fucking-men."

Read the Rest Here

Listening Post

Azealia Banks grabbed hip-hop by the throat with 212 and now she's released a follow-up EP to that single.

Here's the first release from it -- Liquorice.

Happy Monday, kids.

Listening Post

If Nicki Minaj is big, this girl should be massive right now. And apparently if you're running in the right circles -- which I rarely am -- she already is.

Here's Azealia Banks's ode to, among other things, cunnilingus and generally being bad-ass. Yeah, it sounds obnoxious, but this damn song will be stuck in your head all day.

This is 212.