Australians have reacted to a famous rapper claiming the country makes her “utterly miserable” and she will never come back.
Australians are reacting to US rapper Azealia Banks unleashing on the country saying she won’t be back because the place makes her “utterly miserable”.
Banks’ Melbourne show was cancelled on Saturday night and so was her show in Brisbane on Tuesday. She only made it to Sydney on the Aussie tour.
Hours before the Brisbane show was officially cancelled, the 31-year-old took to Instagram saying she refused to perform in the city because of a previous experience where she had a bottle thrown at her on stage, which she described as “the most racist, most f***ing demoralising experience” of her life.
She later followed up the video with a list of strict security measures that would need to be place for her to perform and said it would be her last time touring Australia.
“This place makes me utterly miserable and I’m too black and beautiful to have a bunch of white people in my face playing with me over their WEAK ASS CURRENCY,” she said.
Point Productions then released a statement confirming the show would not go ahead.
Reacting to Banks’ criticism of the country, some Australians said the 212 hit maker’s refusal to perform was justified.
“After reading further about her original experiences here, and the subsequent security measures she would need to feel safe, the cancellations are not surprising,” one woman said.
“Nobody should be throwing stuff at performers, no matter how good or bad the performance is. That’s just dangerous,” said another.
“Well hold on … why were people throwing bottles at her on stage? No excuse for that,” wrote a third.
But others could not understand why she had chosen to come to Australia again, sell tickets to a tour and then cancel last minute.
“Well why come back again when last time was so bad,” one person said.
“I’m confused why she came all the way back just to cancel because of what happened last time she was in Brisbane,” added another.
“I knew she wouldn’t follow through with her shows. Was tempted then realised it would never happen,” said one fan.
Australians were also quick to criticise Banks in return.
“I dunno, maybe Aussies didn’t like the whole animal sacrifice thing,” wrote man on Facebook gaining hundreds of likes.
The comment refers to the time last year when Banks dug up her dead cat from a grave to “bring her back to life” as horrified fans watched on Instagram.
She then proceeded to boil the cat in a large pot of murky water.
Another person said they used to be fan but “homophobia tainted her” in their eyes.
Banks has publicly feuded with a list of celebrities, outraged fans on numerous occasions for homophobic and transphobic comments and slurs, and has been banned from Twitter more than once.
Azealia Banks and Australia
The rapper previously called her performance at Splendour In The Grass in 2015 a “waste of my f***ing time”.
She also called Australian crowds “violent and belligerent”.
In 2013, she infamously walked off the stage just 90 seconds into her set at the Listen Out Festival in Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens reportedly after a bottle was thrown at her, and 15 minutes into her 50-minute headline set in Sydney when a can of beer was thrown at her.
Her latest concert in Melbourne on Saturday night was officially “postponed” just hours before she was set to take the stage at Festival Hall, citing visa issues.
But Banks lashed out at the promoters claiming it was their fault, adding she would not be rescheduling the show as she had “s*** to do”.
“The promoters dragged their feet, agreed to provide a number of amenities which were not provided, I have been at the airport since 7am, there will be no rescheduled Melbourne show,” she said.
Azealia Banks performing for fans during Splendour in the Grass in Byron Bay in 2015. Picture: Cassandra Hannagan/Getty Images
“That was the most like racist, most f***ing demoralising experience of my f***ing life and right now I’m on a really good track.”
She said she had “enough emotional intelligence to kind of erase room for error before it happens.”
“I am a beautiful black woman and I am not going to get in front of some audience of white people for them to be throwing s*** at me,” she said. “I am so not sorry. I am not sorry at all. Brisbane, y’all are just going to have to take the L and smoke it.”
A second post claiming she would do the Brisbane show but there would be “LOADS of security measures” also hit out at Australian promoters again for “slave like contracts” and visa issues.
The Brisbane show was then officially cancelled.
This is not the first time Banks has criticised promoters publicly.
Earlier this year during a topless performance while headlining Miami Pride, Banks told fans she had been “f***ed with” by promoters with set times and whether she was headlining or not, and was “so unhappy to be here”.
“But what did the fan ever do?” she said to the crowd. “What did you guys ever do, right? I’m trying y’all, but it’s difficult.”
“I really don’t want to f-” she said before the microphone was cut off and she was escorted off stage.
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