Rapper Azealia Banks is well-known for her rage-filled rants about race relations and how Iggy Azalea is a cultural appropriator. For her April “Playboy” cover, she dished on how she hates America—particularly middle America, which she imagines as a swarm of “racist conservative white people who live on their farms.”

Azealia Banks @Playboy COVER by Ellen Von Unwerth on stands next Friday! More will be revealed on Monday ... pic.twitter.com/ozVKBgjEql — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) March 13, 2015



“Do you want to leave the U.S.?” asked her interviewer, Rob Tannenbaum.

“Yes! I hate everything about this country,” she replied. “Like, I hate fat white Americans. All the people who are crunched into the middle of America, the real fat and meat of America, are these racist conservative white people who live on their farms. Those little teenage girls who work at Kmart and have a racist grandma—that’s really America.”

When asked about why she focuses so much on race, she answered like this:



Because y’all motherf---s still owe me reparations! [laughs] That’s why it’s still about race. Really, the generational effects of Jim Crow and poverty linger on. As long as I have my money, I’m getting the f--- out of here and I’m gonna leave y’all to your own devices.



“When you rip a people from their land, from their customs, from their culture—there’s still a piece of me that knows I’m not supposed to be speaking English, I’m not supposed to be worshipping Jesus Christ,” she said. “All this s--- is unnatural to me.” She hinted that she herself practices something akin to “21 Divisions,” a type of Vodou practiced in the Dominican Republic.

In the past she has tweeted things about how minorities have magical powers they can use to make white people pay for their sins: (NSFW/not-safe-for-sane-people language ahead)

So all I'm trying to say is that black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015

we have REAL supernatural powers, and the sooner we ALL learn to cultivate them and access the them, the sooner we can REALLY fix shit. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015

I'm really not joking. I'm so so serious — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 10, 2015

Seriously, once all YALL black people learn how to kill sicken people without actually touching them the sooner we really get from under ... — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 12, 2015

Whiteys foot.... Yall niggas think I'm playing. — AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) January 12, 2015



Banks, who grew up in Harlem, went on to recount how she once got in trouble for writing in her journal, “I cannot stand this white b--- teacher. F--- this white b---.” According to Banks, the teacher was disproportionately harsh to her black students.

“She found my journal and called my mother, who was embarrassed, because my mother used to say stuff like that—'White people are of the devil. Stay away from them,’” Banks recalled. “That teacher was scared of me after that.”