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And Finally
Banks says Lil Kim offended by pre-written rhymes
By CMU Editorial | Published on Wednesday 9 May 2012
Azealia Banks says that plans to collaborate with Lil Kim on her debut album ‘Broke’ have been scuppered because the Kimster didn’t take kindly to being given a set of rhymes to deliver written by the younger rapper. Kim’s people insisted their client would only contribute her own penned lines, though Banks in turn claims that she knows Lil Kim never writes her own raps.
Speaking via Twitter, Banks wrote last weekend: “Okay, so true tea is that Lil Kim got mad that I wrote a verse for her on a record I wanted her on. Everyone knows Lil Kim doesn’t write her own raps and I saw this as a faster more efficient way of getting the track done. [But] she then had her assistant write me some long ass offensive email about how Lil Kim writes her own raps and doesn’t need anyone’s help. So my question was and is still… IS SHE DOING THE TRACK? Who cares about what you use to do… WILL YOU DO THE TRACK?!”
I suspect that by tweeting in this way, the answer tothat question is now more likely to be “no”. In fact, I’m almost certain it is, because Kim’s publicist told All Hip Hop: “My client and Azealia have NEVER spoke to one another or met AT ALL. Kim was actually very flattered [by] Azealia’s public admiration for her, which is why it’s so hard to understand how someone who claims to be a true Lil Kim fan could flip the script so easily on someone who was supposedly their idol”.
But Banks insists she has no beef with Kim, who she’d still like to work with. A subsequent tweet read: “All this extra shit is stupid. Keep closing your own doors ma. Lil Kim, there is no beef. At all”.
