There were two perfect stories at the end of 2016. “Perfect” in that those two stories perfectly encapsulated the sh-tpile that was 2016. One story was Mariah Carey being “sabotaged” for her NYE performance on live television. The second story was crazy Azealia Banks being full-on crazy. Many people choose to clean up their homes or apartments ahead of the New Year. It just feels like good mojo, to straighten up and clean and bring in the new year with a clean slate, so to speak. Well, Azealia Banks took it to the next level. She Instagram-storied herself cleaning out her apartment, including her attempts to clean the closet where she’s been killing/sacrificing chickens for the past three years. I AM NOT JOKING.
Just when people thought Azealia Banks couldn’t get any crazier …The Harlem-born rapper posted a video on Friday in which she confessed to sacrificing countless chickens over the past three years in the name of “brujeria,” or witchcraft. In the since-deleted Instagram clip, Banks can be seen wearing safety goggles and a bandanna as she prepares to clean her blood-stained kill closet.
“The amount of crap that’s about to come off my floor right now, guys — oh my God,” she says. “Three years worth of brujería. Yes, you know I gotta scrape all this s–t up. I got my sandblaster, my goggles. It’s about to go down. Real witches do real things.”
The 25-year-old also posted a picture to her Instagram page of a blood-soaked wall that was emblazoned with a skull symbol. Social media users — who had thought they’d seen it all in 2016 — were quick to share the bizarre footage, saying it was the ultimate way to end such a preposterous year.
“Azealia banks confessing 2 sacrificing chickens in her bedroom closet is the grand finale of 2016,” wrote one user, who was retweeted more than 5,000 times.
Sia also gently criticized Banks for, you know, sacrificing chickens in her closet, which is basically what Banks wanted. She was dying to get into a beef with somebody! That’s what she was praying for when she was sacrificing chickens. So Banks got on social media and screamed at Sia, calling her a “pompous white bitch” and more – you can read about the exchange here. It’s worth noting that Banks deleted her Instagram story, and she deleted the sh-t directed at Sia. Luckily, people totally copied and posted the original video. It really is… something. Far be it from me to criticize how people practice their religion of choice, but OH MY GOD. Those poor f—king chickens.
LOOOOL AZEALIA BANKS BEEN SACRIFICING CHICKENS N USING THEIR BLOOD FOR MAGIC FOR 3 YRS WTF LOOOL N SHE USIN POWER TOOLS TO CLEAN UP THE MESS pic.twitter.com/N7i2F2QzbE
— ＳＨＴＯＮＥＧＨＯＳＴ (@datgrit) December 30, 2016
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
Imagine the smell. If she hadn’t cleaned up blood for three years? It’s enough for me to believe she’s not quite telling the truth.
All that brujeria and yet her life is still circling the drain. Might be time for a new religion …
All that brujeria and wearing a Christian symbol around her neck.
Try hard.
Not defending the sacrifices.
Wiccan respects all. She can wear that symbol as a show of respect and love. Or purely fashion. It’s not something that can be justifiably mocked in this context.
FLORC, she’s not Wiccan. Brujeria and Wicca are two very different things.
Imagine the smell. If she hadn’t cleaned up blood for three years? It’s enough for me to believe she’s not quite telling the truth. Than agin, she is not well, and doubtful has friends soooo?
Exactly. And I have a hard time believing that no one has spotted her entering her home with a live chicken every now and then, too.
The stench would be enough to make neighbors complain.
Seriously. I can’t believe she hasn’t been evicted, although this video should solve that.
Banks is mentally ill. I’m surprised she hasn’t been locked up yet.
Yes, its just a matter of time before she really breaks the law. But what she needs is diagnosis and treatment, not lock up.
considering her outburst at Russell Crowe’s party where she threatened to cut people? I’d say diagnosis and treatment WHILE in lock up. and I don’t mean prison, I mean a lock down mental health facility.
she is a danger to others.
(that incident at Crowe’s party was NOT her first violent outburst, either.)
That’s true but it’s not like she has no access to treatment, and I highly doubt she’s unaware that people consider her as someone who needs psychiatric help. So it looks like she chooses to be untreated, and this will end in getting locked up sooner or later due to her violent tendencies.
@zxc
As they say, if you wonder if you are crazy then you probably arent. There are clusters of disorders which the sufferers do not realise they are not well. They just cant and it takes a great deal of convincing to shatter their perceived reality and get them to accept help. Thats why mental illness is so tragic. Its bad enough that you are unwell, that it effects every aspect of your life but peoples ignorance means they dont see that you have a reduced responsibility. They will actually withold human compassion because your illness also paradoxically makes it difficult to recognise that you have an illness.
Thinking you have magical powers can be a symptom of manic depression. It seems like she is in great need of a medical intervention.
Yes. This is Exhibit Z.
First off, I am an agnostic. I am also a TRUE BELIEVER of SCIENCE, so I do not suscribe to magical thinking. However, I also believe everyone has the right to practice their religion of choice, including Santeria.
That said, Ms. Banks appears to have severe emotional problems, has probably suffered physical and emotional trauma, and cannot reconcile the trauma with her mortality, thus Santeria.
Religion works well for people who feel totally powerless, until it doesn’t.
Did not expect to read this this morning! Oof. I bet that closet smelled…
So Azealia lived in an apartment where she used her closet like a slaughterhouse and most likely smelling like one? Gross
This woman needs to seek professional help
Yeah this girl really needs help. People were laughing about it but she is clearly very very mentally ill. Where is her support system?
Doesn’t that stink? Have bugs or maggots? Can’t she do that outside? Or at least clean up after each sacrifice? Or line the walls and floor with plastic like Dexter? If it’s her religion I won’t judge, and I eat meat so I’m in no position to judge killing chickens, but does she have to be filthy about it?
But does having a religion really give someone a carte blanche to kill an animal however and whenever they want?! Surely there are rules governing how/when animals can be killed, otherwise where do you draw the line? What about the poor animals’ rights to be protected from any random crazy person claiming to kill them for their religion?
The law allows people to hunt for sport, it would be utter bs to draw the line at religious practice. In fact, even allowing people to slaughter for food but not for religious conviction would be hypocrisy. There may be regulations on where the ritual can be conducted though and she may have a few code violations for this.
@ Ramona, exactly – there are regulations governing how/how many animals, etc. can be killed in what circumstances, be it for sport, food, whatever, and if this kind of thing falls within the scope of what is allowed then it should surely change! The animal’s suffering has to be a major part of the conversation, not everything is trumped by freedom to practice religion.
Sadly for the animals involved it is legal. In the 90’s the supreme court ruled that private ritual animal sacrifice was a constitutionally protected matter of religious freedom. If I remember correctly it was even a unanimous ruling. It came up in the Afro-Cuban community in Florida. And given what goes on in factory farms and slaughter houses I would be a major hypocrite if I complained about it while being a meat eater. Even free range, organic farms have been shown to keep animals in less than optimal conditions.
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YES THIS EXACTLY! Why wouldn’t she clean up immediately? That’s so disgusting. And I’m sorry killing an animal for no reason is just evil. I hope she at least ate them afterwards but something tells me she’d be too lazy to pluck them (hard work) and gut them properly so I’m guessing they just went to waste. Horrible. I hope she at least ensured their deaths were quick. What a weirdo.
Can this even be blamed on mental illness? Think how much planning this would take over and over for years! It’s not like you can pop into your local grocery store or even farmer’s market and find live chickens for sale. She would have had to look up where they were sold, drove there, bought them, brought them back, repeatedly.
My money is on this being a hoax though. I feel she would fake this for attention.
She hasn’t cleaned up the blood until now?!?!?? She should be cleaning that sh-t up every time. That’s disgusting.
Sacrifice? She just wants to kill. Jmo
based on her previous violent outburst and known violent tendencies, I agree.
I think she’s a violent sociopath who wouldn’t blink an eye at cutting her enemies. she threatened as much at Russell Crowe’s dinner party that she was forcibly removed from.
Im African so I get animal sacrifice, but why the fu*k was she doing it in her closet?!
Get the ambulance ready. I’ve got the chlorophorm and the rag. I’m going in.
I’m kind of a germaphobe and I was about to freak at the view of her wardrobe and I totally understand criticizing the lack of basic hygiene. That said Santeria and other similar religions of African descent are widely practicised in the Caribbeans and in some countries in West Africa. So yeah, we should criticise Banks for her lack of hygiene and her tendency to overshare.
There are a lot of religions that have unsavory outdated elements. If the Christians, Jews and Muslims can tone down the violence then I’m pretty sure we can judge killing in the name of God human or animal.
I personally think religious animal sacrifice should be illegal, it’s cruel. There isn’t much of a line between killing animals because you’re just evil and cruel and killing animals in the name of religion. At the end of the day it’s just animal cruelty.
OK, so where I’m from “brujeria” is actually evil. It’s something you do when you want to cause evil to someone else, sometimes resulting in real consequences. Those sacrifices are not meant for God… This woman has officially creeped me out.
Thissss!
Where are you from? Where I’m from, brujeria is for everything and anything – love, career and yes, causing evil. She was probably doing it for her career.
Argentina. I’m atheist so I don’t turn to anything but from what I know and have heard when you want something GOOD you go to Church. You pray to God, light candles, etc.
You want to cause evil? You go to a Bruja or Brujo. And kill chickens amongts other effed up things.
My friend is a curandero and he said this year, he was extra busy untangling the work of the practitioners of Brujeria.
I’m a practicing green witch, have been for close to 25 years. We believe in the first rule: Do no harm. I can’t comprehend the darker practices.
Exactly. She sounds like she is a practitioner of the dark arts.
No wonder her life is a mess.
Do no harm. Negative energy will come back three fold.
Plus she appears to be mentally unstable.
I do not believe in Brujería, but it is considered “evil”, where my parents are from, as well.
This young lady is very sick, and full of rage, in my estimation.
I cannot imagine having an extremely rare opportunity to perhaps embark on a successful music career, and wasting my time sacrificing chickens, in order to advance my agenda.
Three years of sacrificing poultry, with nothing to show for it, except a sleazy Instagram video, confirming to the world that you are indeed, mentally and emotionally unwell.
I have a relative who did this stuff for years. She’s now in her 70s, and leads a very lonely life. No one wants anything to do with her, including her children and her grandkids. Sadly, she created her future by constantly hating, and “hexxing” those around her, until everyone decided she was nuts, and dangerous to have around.
I stay away from these things. People who practice this form of evil freak me out and since I have no faith i’d rather keep myself away. I believe in karma and I don’t want to expose myself to that since I have no protection whatsoever.
I’m so sorry about your relative – who in their right mind would want to have anything to do with her? Same applies for this woman.
Lipstick Alley (if you could wade through the crazy and or flat out ignorant comments) had some comments from people who actually practice this stuff. To condense she’s doing it wrong. A priest usually would do the sacrifice and it should be cleaned up immediately afterward not years later. I’m not saying I condone animal sacrifice but all religious have crazy practices. And I’m not a vegetarian so it would be hypocritical for me to judge her for the act of killing a chicken. It’s a shame her foul and dirty practices are representing a non traditional religion.
Well the bible says you can beat your wife, shall we turn the other way because it’s religion?
Religion doesn’t excuse animal abuse, just like religion doesn’t excuse murder…. which many religions have call for.
I’m not condoning animal abuse or sacrifice and I said that above. I don’t know enough (and probably neither do you) to have any idea how the chickens were killed. If you’re a vegan and you’re against all animals being killed that’s one thing but if you’re just judging the practice because it sounds weird well maybe you should look at it in the context of the religion.
I’m vegetarian, and I do judge animal sacrifice, but not on that account. There’s rationality in you eating the chicken, because you’re feeding yourself, whereas it’s hogwash to think that sacrificing animals will change the future in your favor (much like buying this number of candles and so on). But I’m also aware of the social and cultural role these brujos and brujas have in their communities, so I’ll keep my further peace.
It’s a belief system that’s not part of her own culture or heritage, so, of course, she’s doing it all wrong and with the added zeal of a convert. She’s a recent devotee, not a traditional or familial one. POC groups are different and don’t have interchangeable beliefs, traditions or superstitions. But, if she wants to practice it, fine: freedom of religion and belief is a great thing. But she should get educated and go visit and learn from people who actually use this practice culturally/traditionally and who know what they’re doing (for instance, blood should be cleared up immediately after any sacrifice, etc.) rather than co-opting a series of practices just to shock and troll people.
Yes, from what I understand, not cleaning up after the sacrifice is a major faux pas.
Batty. She needs help and isnt getting it. Clearly she thinks shes doing great!
Also, If its true she’s violated nyc laws against keeping live farm animalsand also butchering.
Crazy AF. As someone who eats chicken for dinner, I guess I can’t condemn her for sacrificing chickens but I’ll be a hypocrite today because I’m not comfortable with that at all. I think she needs a diagnosis and some meds. She’s a talented girl and if she can get some help she may be able to salvage what’s left of her career.
Eating a chicken is at least serving a purpose. Killing a chicken and then throwing it away is wasteful!
I’m not really a supporter of people being free to perform whatever actions they want under the guise of ‘religion’…. there are so many crazy religions out there which are actively out to do bad stuff (including the major ones). Look up Vampire Temple for an example of a minor ‘religion’ which promotes some absolutely harmful practices.
I do not have to respect the actions of any person, regardless of their ‘reasons’ for doing them.
Whatever gods she’s sacrificing to are not heeding her entreaties. They’re all ‘nah, we don’t know her.’
So she’s praying to the Mariah Carey of gods? LOL
YES! I’m dying over here!
The ancestors pretty much have NOPE on Azealia for ABOUT 3 years sooooo
The gods watched and then said “That was ah-mazing…….don’t get much better”.
Pfft, I hope she gets salmonella in the new year. (And if she does, does it mean I’m a witch with the power of the curse?)
Yeah, she’s not getting the deposit back for that apartment
I was wondering the same thing. Not only that, but the sound of chickens being slaughtered for three years ! How did others in the building not complain? The smell alone, plus dangerous e-coli and other bacteria she probably spread. My God. I don’t know if I believe her.
What the F did I just watch?!? I don’t even know what to say…..
This poor woman is badly in need of help. She’s mentally ill – sacrificing chickens aside.
This woman needs help asap.
RIP poor chickens
This woman is disgusting and lives for drama. Everything she does and says is for attention and a reaction and she continues to show signs of being mentally unstable. I highly doubt she practices this religion. New year, same bs.
The only thing that grosses me out is that it was in her house. My family used to sacrifice goats or lamb on sacrifical holidays. Its their right to practice. I would prefer it be outside and humanely, but its not uncommon in non-white cultures and intersectionalities for animal sacrifice.
The fact that she is posting this on social media reveals her ignorance about the craft. I’m thinking the only thing she sacrificed was her dignity.
We all know how this will end…Not very long to go now..
We all know how this will end…Not very long to go now..
Banks is a troll (she was also tweeting derogatory things about Brazilians over the weekend) who likely suffers from a mental illness and/or personality disorder She says outrageous things to provoke people and get attention. The best course of action would be to ignore her antics and hope that she gets help at some point. I’ve never listened to her music but I’ve heard that she’s very talented; it’s sad that she’s destroying her career.
Revolting. I lived in Hialeah from a while and can still very clearly remember the gut wrenching stench of congealing chicken and goat’s blood, along with their rotting carcasses that permeated the air while I made my way to the train station for work each morning. The aftermath of the santeria practices was often just tossed along the side of the road with no concern for others and no sense of pride for the town in which they lived. I couldn’t get out of that hole fast enough.
And to think this psycho lived with that in her apartment for 3 years? My stomach is churning just thinking about it. I wonder how her neighbors coped.
Well. I don’t eat animals so I’m feeling FREE TO WEIGH IN THAT THIS IS F*CKED UP!!!!! I also work in mental health, so I’m doubling down!
I’m picturing that angry little woman buying chickens, lighting candles and muttering nasty shit in her apartment before slicing that chicken open in a nasty closet … the chicken deserves better.
Certified freak. When you do harm to something innocent, I’m doubtful it impacts anything beneficial to your life. No wonder Russell Crowe gave her the heave-ho. I hope her negativity doubles back on her.
You work in mental health and label someone who is clearly severely mentally ill as a freak? Her actions aren’t clearly terrible, still that seems beyond harsh.
I don’t know if I believe this. The smell, the bacteria, etc. How on earth?
If you look at her eyes…she’s mentally ill.
I don’t care if this makes me intolerant, animal sacrifice for a religion is not something I will ever be tolerant of. Hunting for food and sport are two things I will grudgingly accept but killing an animal for a religion is unnecessary and what is the point? How does killing an animal make you spiritually closer to whatever deity you worship? This is just like self mutilation which certain religions accept (like Opus Dei in the Da Vinci Code). Harming yourself does not prove you are more pious than others. Nope nope nope.
How about religious animal sacrifice when the meat is also consumed? Is that tolerable to you?
AB’s craziness aside, I really don’t get why animal sacrifice is seen as any worse than what goes on in the meat/dairy industry, those animals seriously suffer, lobbing off a chicken’s head (even in one’s own cupboard) is teeny tiny potatoes in comparison to the systematic cruelty of industrial farming.
Someone needs to educate her a little about blood sacrifice. It is not something to be done lightly (in my view not at all) and you can attract all the wrong things. Which explains alot of her crap. Fool. FFS, at least watch Angelheart” or something.
Preach.
My religion engages in sacrifice but we ensure the animal feels no pain and lives a better life than most of us.
It’s so sad that people need to break the law or threaten to kill themselves before mental health practitioners can step in. This is not a situation that is going to get better by itself. Just sad.
Religion and animal rights aside that has to be a hotbed of bacteria and disease. Chickens are filthy animals alive. I can’t imagine leaving their blood and guts around for years. Someone call the CDC before she creates a new plague.
This notion that we have to be tolerant of someone’s practices because they claim it’s their religion is alien to me. I’m not just talking about the chickens.
As a Muslim, i feel compelled to clear the air about some vile accusations im reading here about Muslim’s animal sacrifice. The animals are slaughtered to be EATEN and distributed to the POORS. The process is called ‘sacrifice’ because you dont have to be all that wealthy to be sponsoring meat to the poors, hence ‘sacrificing’ your own means. I’ve chipped in money few times to supply for the animals to be slaughtered, since I cant afford to sponsor the whole body of the sacrificial animal.
And mind you, it’s not like people are taking joy in degrading these animals just because they are ‘sacrifice’. We believe these animals will be rewarded with heaven, hence why Muslim animal sacrifice requires you to bury every bone from that animal after you’ve consumed the meat. For this reason, we avoid to give the boney part of the sacrificed animal to the non-Muslims out of the concern that they might not bury and honor the remaining parts (since they are not obligated to).
So, yeah, dont you dare equate what we do with what AB is doing. Our sacrificed animals did not die in vain just to work some magic on yourself or your enemies. Even if you dont believe the same “fairytale nonsense” part of our Eid, surely your condescending, ultra liberal tushie can digest that Muslim animal sacrifice actually feeds the poor as opposed to letting the corpse rot for nothing.
That’s very interesting! Know I’m wondering if all halal meat is done that way and if so, about where all the bones get buried
For halal meat that is consumed apart from Eid sacrifice, there is no extra care for the bones. You can dispose off the remainings like one would with any other type of garbage
Who said a single thing about Muslim sacrifice?
Killing these poor chickens have done nothing for her career. Didnt see this stupid
A–hole wearing a face mask, lets hope she get the bird flu.