Azealia Banks Has Moved to Israel

After years of burning and rebuilding her bridge to Israel, Azealia Banks has now moved to the other end of it. The “212” rapper hard-launched her relocation to the country on social media this week, along with a photo of what appears to be her new home in Tel Aviv. “Moving in,” she wrote on Twitter/X. “If you would have told me years ago id end up moving to Tel Aviv and liking it, I would have said youre crazy.” In a subsequent post, she praised Israel’s arts circuit and even shared that she is working on a new album. “Its ironically just been easier to create here because Israel’s arts scene is really mature,” she wrote. “People arent witholding stems and holding grudges about social issues and its freeing. Everyone in Israel thinks my political opinions fucking suck and think i have trash taste in men but no one is trying to sabotage me for that.” Yet, all her political opinions criticizing Israel from just a few months ago have now disappeared from her X profile. Her on-again, off-again relationship with the country goes back to 2018, when she performed at Barby in Tel Aviv. Soon after, Banks said she experienced racist treatment at restaurants and shops as well as at Ben Gurio...