Surprise, surprise: Azealia Banks got into a spat with Erykah Badu on Twitter yesterday. After Badu replied to someone who asked if she listened to the rapper and said that she “tried,” Banks ascended from whatever hell dimension she constantly checks her @-replies in to call her out. “When artists grow old and begi...

Azealia Banks has made plenty of headlines recently--now she's making the front page. Banks will grace the front pages of Playboy

She will appear on the cover of the April issue of the magazine

As Pitchfork points out, Azealia Banks will pose nude in the April edition of Playboy. According to the magazine, the shoot is “frisky pictorial that’s sure to break the Internet.” “Frisky,” if the teaser image is anything to go on, appears to be code for “we’re making her look like a...

Iggy Azalea has soared to stardom as a rare white woman in hip-hop, but her meteoric rise has triggered a backlash that reveals much about the music business's fault-lines on race and gender. Her most vociferous critic has been fellow rapper Azealia Banks, a black woman who has accused Azalea of mocking African Americans.