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Azealia Banks is popular on Twitter after posting a gruesome video appearing to dig up and cook her dead cat Lucifer.
The 29-year-old rapper posted – and deleted – a disturbing series of clips in which she and another person dig up the bagged remains of her cat who died last year.
She explained to her 683K followers on Instagram in one of the videos: ‘A lot of you don’t know, Lucifer the cat died three months ago, and we had to put him in the ground, and we’re digging him up. for the very first time. She comes back to life c **** ‘
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Seeking Controversy: Azealia Banks (aired August 2017) is trending on Twitter after posting a gruesome video appearing to dig up and cook her dead domestic cat Lucifer
The first video shows her using her hands to claw into the ground to dig something up before pulling a large white bag out of the ground.
She could be heard scatting before proudly declaring, “The cat … is in the bag.”
Banks captioned the post: ‘Lucifer 2009-2020. My sweet cat. Thanks for everything. A legend. An icon. Always a serval service. ‘
Dark: The 29-year-old rapper posted – and deleted – a disturbing series of clips showing she and another person the bagged remains of her cat who died last year
Horrifying: The first video shows her using her hands to claw the ground to dig something up before pulling a big white bag out of the ground
Retrieved: She could be heard scatting before proudly declaring, ‘The cat … is in the bag’
Oh no: the next video is even more grotesque as it shows her stirring a boiling pot of contents, including what appeared to be a skull, which she captioned ‘She’s done’ before she even knew it
The following video is even more grotesque as it shows her stirring a boiling pot of contents, including what looked like a skull, which she captioned ‘She’s done’ before she even knew it.
Her name quickly started to gain popularity on Twitter Tuesday morning when thousands responded with memes to social media posts.
She has previously admitted to being a ‘witch’ when she revealed in 2015 that her interest in magic came from her mother.
My mother practiced white table magic. Prayers to the ancestors and pray to saints and pray for all kinds of protection, ”she told Broadly Vice.
Amused: Her name quickly started trending on Twitter Tuesday morning when thousands responded with memes to social media posts
Compassion: One Twitter user had empathy for the artist
She elaborated on the explanation with a typically controversial tweet in which she wrote, ‘Black people are born naturally SEE, DIVERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS. we have REAL supernatural powers, and the sooner we ALL learn to cultivate and access them, the sooner we can REALLY solve problems.
Nor is this the first time Azealia has been criticized for her alleged treatment of animals, as she shared in December 2016 a bizarre Instagram video showing her cleaning up a closet after apparently sacrificing chickens for three years.
The video kicks off with Azaelia looking ready to do some DIY telling fans, ‘The amount of c ** p coming off my floor right now guys. Oh my God.’
However, it soon becomes apparent that this is no ordinary cleaning job with the camera swinging at a small cabinet covered with the remains of feathers and blood.
Bizarre: This isn’t the first time Azealia has been criticized for her alleged treatment of animals either, as in December 2016 she shared a bizarre Instagram video showing her cleaning up a closet after apparently sacrificing chickens for three years.
“Guys, you know, I have to scrape all this up,” she declares, with blood all over the walls.
It is not known exactly why the rapper sacrificed the birds, but she claims on the video that it is ‘three years of brujeria’, which is the Spanish word for witchcraft.
“I’ve got my sandblaster, my glasses … it’s about to go down,” she says with safety glasses on her nose. “Real witches do real things.”
Witchcraft: It is not known exactly why the rapper sacrificed the birds, but she claims on the video that it is ‘three years of brujeria’, which is the Spanish word for witchcraft.
Sorcery: Azealia claimed to be a ‘witch’ last year, revealing her interest in magic came from her mother
Shockingly, the small closet appeared to be the scene of some animal sacrifices
The star can then be seen swinging its sandblaster to scrape a series of feathers off the closet floor.
She also rose to fame in a heated back and forth on social media with artist Sia criticizing her over the post.
Sia, now 45, wrote: ‘Sacrificing animals for your gain is the craziest s *** I’ve ever heard. Get ahead by working great, nice and hard. ‘
Doesn’t like what she sees: She also got famous in a heated back and forth on social media with artist Sia (seen February 2013) criticizing her over the post
Warning! She followed up the post by offering to make an ointment for the singer’s ‘chapped face’ before declaring ‘this is your first warning’
Responding to the comments, Azealia raged, ‘And your ugly, pasty, dry, white, ladies, winter skin face is the ugliest favorite I’ve ever seen, that must be why you always hide it.
‘HAVE SOME F ***** G RESPECT FOR MY F ***** G TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION YOU POMPOUS WHITE B * TCH’
She followed up the post by offering to make an ointment for the singer’s ‘chapped face’ before declaring ‘this is your first warning’.
The messages were deleted at the time and replaced with a screenshot of the message ‘Stop apologizing. No more explanation. ‘
In the spotlight: Banks saw a performance in London in January 2019