Azealia Banks’ Playboy Cover Is Here – And So Is Her Explosive Interview!
The hip-hop star gets sexy (and angry) for Playboy’s Sex & Music issue…
Azealia Banks’ Playboy cover has finally been unveiled, and while the 23-year-old star might look like a pussycat, inside the Sex & Music issue she roars like a lion.
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Covering her thoughts on everything from her Twitter rants to her youth, Banks reveals that she once punched a teacher in the face, before she had even left preschool.
“People have always been scared of me,” says Azealia. “I punched my teacher in the face one time when I was in preschool. We were playing house, and the lady was like, ‘I’m a monster! I’m gonna eat your family!’ I punched her right in the eye. [laughs] It was a Head Start program, so I was three.”
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On the subject of her social media outbursts, she says, “It’s always about race. Lorde can run her mouth and talk s**t about all these other b***hes, but y’all aren’t saying she’s angry. If I have something to say, I get pushed into the corner.”
Wonder what Lorde has to say about that… Thankfully, there is one person Azealia speaks highly of, whose career she hopes to emulate one day.
“Jay-Z. That’s the only person I have my eye set on. The race thing always comes up, but I want to get there being very black and proud and boisterous about it. You get what I mean?
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“A lot of times when you’re a black woman and you’re proud, that’s why people don’t like you. In American society, the game is to be a nonthreatening black person. That’s why you have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar saying, ‘How can we expect people to respect us if we don’t respect ourselves?’
“He’s playing that nonthreatening black man s**t, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, ‘We love him.’ Even Kanye West plays a little bit of that game - ‘Please accept me, white world.’ Jay-Z hasn’t played any of those games, and that’s what I like.”
Playboy's April Sex & Music issue hits newsstands on March 20th. For more from Azealia's pictorial click here.
#BreakTheInternet: Pop Culture’s Most Controversial Magazine Covers
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John Lennon & Yoko Ono, Rolling Stone, January 1981: On sight, John’s nudity in Annie Leibovtiz’s Rolling Stone cover is the most shocking thing about this magazine cover… until you hear the photo was taken just hours before John’s assassination. -
Demi Moore, Vanity Fair, August 1991: Annie Leibovitz also shot Demi Moore’s iconic pregnancy cover for Vanity Fair, which has since been copied by everyone from Britney Spears to Jessica Simpson. Scout LaRue, you were one famous baby bump! -
Britney Spears, Rolling Stone, April 1999: David LaChapelle shot 17-year-old supposed virgin Britney Spears in her underwear, clutching a Teletubby, for Rolling Stone magazine. We all know where the Britney story went from there. -
Kanye West, Rolling Stone, February 2006: Thought the whole Yeezus move from Kanye West was a recent thing? Nuh-uh. David LaChapelle photographed Yeezy as Jesus Christ – complete with crown of thorns – back in 2006. -
Jennifer Aniston, GQ, January 2009: Golden girl Jennifer Aniston posed naked on the cover of GQ except for a striped tie. Michael Thompson was the man behind the lens, as Jen-An gave Angelina Jolie a sexy run for her money. -
Lindsay Lohan, Purple Fashion, Spring 2010: Photographed by Terry Richardson, LiLo posed as Jesus Christ for Purple Fashion’s cover, while inside the issue she pulled down her underwear to reveal a much smaller butt than Kim K’s. -
Lady Gaga, Vogue Hommes Japan, September 2010: Another one Terry Richardson was responsible for saw Lady Gaga draped in meat, with animal rights activists up in arms, before Mother Monster went on to wear a full-meat gown to the 2010 MTV VMAs. -
True Blood’s Alexander Skarsgard, Anna Paquin & Stephen Moyer, Rolling Stone, September 2010: Two guys and a girl naked was always going to be a talking point, but add a load of blood and Matthew Rolston’s Rolling Stone cover became uber controversial. -
Glee’s Lea Michele, Cory Monteith & Dianna Agron, GQ, November 2010: At the height of their wholesome fame as Glee’s Rachel, Finn and Quinn, hot threesome Lea, Cory and Dianna posed in their underwear for none other than Terry Richardson. -
Azealia Banks, Dazed & Confused, September 2012: Sharif Hamza snapped Azealia Banks blowing up a condom for Dazed. She’s promoting safe sex, no? -
Kim Kardashian & Kanye West, L’Officiel Hommes, March 2013: Had the 'Bound 2' video come first, we might not have been quite as shocked by Nick Knight’s Kimye cover for L’Officiel Hommes, where it pretty much looks like the hot couple are having hot sex. -
Rihanna, Lui, May 2014: Mario Sorrenti shot RiRi for French magazine Lui, where the Bajan babe decided to #FreeTheNipple, piercing and all. -
Kim Kardashian, Paper, December 2014: Kim Kardashian’s oiled booty, shot by Jean-Paul Goude, went on a mission to #BreakTheInternet as it was unveiled in November 2014. We reckon those buns of steel could break a lot of things!
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