--- description: Rapper Azealia Banks unleashes criticism against "fat white Americans" in the April 2015 "Playboy" issue. title: Azealia Banks: "I Hate Everything About This Country" image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [celebrities](/tag/celebrities/) ## celebrities Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Azealia Banks: 'I Hate Everything About This Country' by [Sabrina Toppa](/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 18, 2015 5:29 AM CUT by [Sabrina Toppa](/author/sabrina-toppa/) ## Sabrina Toppa Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 18, 2015 5:29 AM CUT Harlem-born rapper Azealia Banks has some trenchant criticism for Middle America in the April 2015 _Playboy_ cover story, [assailing](http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/03/16/azealia-banks-playboy-interview-attacks-america/ "undefined") everyone from “fat white Americans” to black musicians, most of whom fail to meet her grade. > [](https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/576502151947522048) “I hate everything about this country,” Azealia discloses, unleashing vitriol toward “fat white Americans … who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, \[who\] are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms.” The brash starlet also targets black musicians for offering a more sanitized image palatable to a middle-American consumer base: “You have Pharrell or Kendrick Lamar … playing that nonthreatening black-man shit, and that gets all the white soccer moms going, ‘We love him.’ … Jay Z hasn’t played any of those games, and that’s what I like.” The _Playboy_ cover story is out March 20. \[[_Hollywood Life_](http://hollywoodlife.com/2015/03/16/azealia-banks-playboy-interview-attacks-america/ "undefined")\] _Read next:_ [_Rihanna Wants to Make ‘Songs That Are Timeless’_](http://time.com/3748430/rihanna-music-new-album/?iid=time%5Freadnext "undefined") ### Artists Who Have Never Won A Grammy  Queen John Rodgers—Redferns/Getty Images  Jackson 5 Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images  Spice Girls Ray Burmiston—Photoshot/Getty Images  GLENDALE, AZ - FEBRUARY 01: Recording artist Katy Perry performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl XLIX Halftime Show at University of Phoenix Stadium on February 1, 2015 in Glendale, Arizona. 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