Azealia Banks on Disclosure feud: “I want to punch the ugly one in the face”

Back in September 2013, a promising Azealia Banks and Disclosure collaboration came to nothing after the producers were “really rude in an interview, so I canned it.”

The feud fizzled out, nothing amounting of the sessions, but Banks has since gone on record to discuss what happened, following last week’s surprise release of ‘Broke With Expensive Taste’.

Speaking to The Guardian, she addressed the Disclosure feud, as well as a previous spat with The Stone Roses.

Of Disclosure she said, “I tweeted that I just had the best session with Disclosure, because I was such a fan-girl and I was so excited to have met them. But I guess their thing was: ‘What if the song isn’t that good and you hyped it up?’ But I was like: ‘So fucking what?’ So they tried to be, like, assholes. And the next day they went to the media and they were like,” – she assumes the identity of an uptight Brit – “‘Oh well, I don’t know why she’s so excited, because we haven’t even finished this song or written a hook for it.’ I mean, come on!”

She added, “I want to punch one of them in the face – the little one [possibly Guy Lawrence]. The ugly one. I want to hit him so bad. I saw him at the airport in Australia and I came over to him and I was like: ‘Hello? Like, what are we going to do with this song?’ And he was just being a dickhead. I started crying, I was so angry. I wanted to hit him. I cannot stand that little boy with all those pimples around his mouth. I love their music, though.”

In the same interview, she goes on to heap praise on Ezra Koenig from Vampire Weekend, Lana Del Rey, Drake and Ariel Pink (aka “Stink Pink”), who worked with her on the ‘Nude Beach A Go Go’ song.

Read DIY’s initial thoughts on ‘Broke With Expensive Taste’ here, alongside a timeline of the record’s rocky road to release.