"Emigrating when you're a kid is a defining moment of your life, where you're about to become an adult. I don't miss Australia, not because there aren't great things about it," she told GQ Australia (via The Oregonian). "Of course I like Australia, but I don't know why people get so offended as it's not my home. That could have just been an offhand comment, or Azalea having a bad day, but when she tried to walk the statement back a month later, she seemingly doubled down on the diss. She allegedly started pulling diva moves on set and flippantly told a reporter, "I never really consider this my home. Unfortunately, things didn't go so swimmingly Down Under for the "Black Widow" rapper. Perhaps it's not surprising that later in the year, she decided to take a pause from the Hollywood drama to return to her homeland and appear on the Australian version of The X Factor. On a not so positive note, that album release was nothing short of a mess (more on that momentarily), and as of this writing, the collaboration hasn't seen the light of day. On a positive note, Azalea and Banks apparently made up in July 2017 and even agreed to collaborate on a song for Azalea's long-awaited second album, Digital Distortion. In an especially heated moment, Q-Tip tweeted a long history of the origins of hip-hop directed solely at Azalea. The reason you haven't is because of your piss poor attitude." Things eventually got so tense and so nasty, that even rappers Q-Tip and T.I.
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"And it says to black kids: 'You don't have s**t.'"Īzalea later responded to Banks' interview in a series of angry tweets, writing, "Special msg for banks: There are many black artists succeeding in all genres. "When they give these Grammys out, all it says to white kids is: 'Oh yeah, you're great, you're amazing, you can do whatever you put your mind to," said Banks in an interview with Hot 97.
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