After rumors surfaced a few weeks back that Harlem newcomer Azealia Banks was seeking a feature from Hip-Hop vet Lil’ Kim, this weekend it seems like those plans fell flat.
According to MTV, Banks’ camp had reach out to Kim for a feature on the emcee’s upcoming debut Broke With Expensive Taste. To speed up the process Azealia wrote a verse to present to Kim, but was later shut down by Kim’s assistant. She took to twitter to address it.
“Okay so true… Lil Kim got mad that I wrote a verse for her on a record I wanted her on,” Banks wrote. “Everybody knows Lil Kim doesn’t write her own raps and I saw this as a faster more efficient way of getting the track done. She then had her assistant write me some long ass offensive email about how Lil Kim writes her own raps and doesn’t need anyone’s help.”
Kim’s camp later fired back, stating that Banks’ team never reach out for a collaboration and that the two have actually NEVER met.
“Earlier today a press release went out making a claim that there was friction between Hip Hop Icon “Lil Kim” and aspiring hip artist azealia banks. The release comes as a surprise to our team,being that my client and azealia have NEVER spoke to one another or met AT ALL. Kim was actually very flattered azealia’s public admiration for her, which is why it’s so hard to understand how someone who claims to be a true Lil Kim fan could flip the script so easily on someone who was supposedly their idol. It is also VERY interesting that NO ONE from her team made any attempts to reach out to anyone from our team to voice any concerns or problems that they may have had. I have NEVER heard of anyone having a conflict with someone they have NEVER met with or personally spoke with. We have no idea what they are referencing and have no desire to discuss the matter any further as there is nothing to talk about.”
-@JohnyB_TKND
