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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…

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Monday, March 16, 2015 - 16:58

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.

Image Courtesy Playboy/Ellen von Unwerth

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.”

Image Courtesy Playboy/Ellen von Unwerth

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?

Image Courtesy Playboy/Ellen von Unwerth

“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.

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