Okay, first things first: rapper Iggy Azalea has both a Twitter beef and a (rumored) sex tape. And now Azalea is being threatened by the hacker super-organization Anonymous because of some ill-advised comments she made in response to criticism from similarly-named rapper Azealia Banks. The group, using the now-suspended Twitter handle @TheAnonMessage, threatened to release stills from Azalea’s alleged sex tape unless she apologizes for the Twitter missive she launched at Banks over the weekend.
After Banks blasted Azalea in an interview on Hot97 for appropriating black culture without caring about the issues that affect black people, Iggy lashed back on Twitter, calling Banks a “bigot” and a “miserable, angry human being”:
Banks replied in kind, referring to Iggy as “Itchy Areola” and accusing her of being a minstrel:
Itchy Areola, you are so stupid and selfish to make any of this about yourself in particular,
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
My tears had absolutely nothing to with you and everything to do with society and the media in general.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) December 19, 2014
All of this led the Anonymous group to side with Banks, calling Azalea a “trashy bitch” for her comments and for her insensitivity to the Eric Garner protesters in New York City. The group then gave Azalea 48 hours to apologize before they release images from her rumored sex tape:
The group claims it will not actually release the sex tape, because it has no interest in sharing the salacious video of the possibly underage rapper, but it will prove by sharing images of her face that it has possession of the video:
This isn’t the first time that Anonymous has threatened Azalea. They also claimed they would shut down her free show at USC earlier this month, but that show ended up going on. She also probably spelled out I-G-G-Y at least 20 times during that performance, further angering people who already knew how to spell her name.