Azealia Banks sees sales surge after Angel Haze Twitter spat

January 10, 2013 8:22

Rapper sees small spike in sales after dubbing Perez Hilton a "faggot"

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The ongoing fued between Azealia Banks and Angel Haze ? which then became a row with Perez Hilton ? over the weekend has sparked a sales surge for Banks.

According to Billboard, Banks' '1991' EP saw a sales increase of 18 per cent over the last week, which equates to around 1000 copies sold in the US. Sales of her single '212' rose by 3 per cent to 3,000 downloads.

Earlier this week, The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation group critisised Banks for calling Hilton a "messy faggot" during the escalating online spat, which began when he took the side of Angel Haze during last week's feud between the two up-and-coming rappers, which saw them both savage each other via diss tracks.

The 'BBD' rapper went on to call Hilton "dickbreath" and told him to "gobble a dick". Banks later defended what she said by tweeting: "A faggot is not a homosexual male. A faggot is any male who acts like a female. There's a BIG difference."

However, GLAAD has hit out at Banks' use of the word "faggot" and said it is a term "almost universally used by bullies, often used as part of a larger verbal or physical assault".

You can hear Azealia Banks' and Angel Haze's diss tracks ? 'On The Edge', 'Shut The Fuck Up' and 'No Problems' ? by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking.

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