Ron DeSantis wins Azealia Banks Primary
Azealia Banks performs at the 2015 Coachella Music and Arts Festival on Friday, April 10, 2015, in Indio, Calif. (Photo by Rich Fury/Invision/AP)

Azealia Banks
'He’s focused on the basic s**t.'

Gov. Ron DeSantis may be hollering “hip hop hooray” this morning, as rapper Azealia Banks sings his praises.

The rapper has yet to commit (as far as we know) to a rap version of the Governor’s 2022 campaign anthem “Sweet Florida,” but nonetheless dropped some bars to the London Guardian about how she feels “way safer” in DeSantis’ domain than in the liberal enclave of California.

“He’s focused on the basic s**t,” she said.

“There are elderly people in our country without walkers, who don’t have the money to get a septic tooth pulled. If we’re talking about divvying up health care funds, those situations should take precedence to facial feminization surgeries and stuff like that. I mean, I get it — but that’s a cosmetic surgery. Like, does your penis work? Can you pee? You’re not as in trouble as the older woman who can’t afford her dialysis. I think DeSantis is practical about a lot of things.”

While the Florida Governor is “focused on the basic (expletive deleted),” Banks can’t make the same claim about California, run by DeSantis’ Democratic foil, Gavin Newsom.

“Every which way I turn (in Los Angeles) there’s a Black Lives Matter sign, and then we’re watching swathes of Latino people die every day because they’re considered essential workers,” she said.

“There are no Latino Lives Matter signs. That’s not to negate any of the very real issues that Black people in America face, but in a rich state like California, in a neighborhood like Silver Lake — here’s Jenny with her f***in’ like” — she adopts a Valley girl accent — “biodynamic wine bar and her vegan cafe. She’s got a Black Lives Matter sign in the window, but sis, did you pay attention to papi who delivered the milk? Did he get a free cup of coffee? I had to go because I can’t do this — either COVID was gonna kill me, or depression. I’m going to f***ing Miami.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


9 comments

  • Elliott Offen

    January 27, 2023 at 9:46 am

    Uncle Tom’s sister up there singing praises to that far right cracker. Next thing you know he’ll be putting your kids in prison for life for a line of cocaine. Chasing you down over “Fentanyl Halloween Candy” and voting afterwards after they let you and changed their minds.

    • Rob

      January 27, 2023 at 10:34 am

      Keep up that racism. Just as the leftist POS you are.

      • Black Antifa

        January 27, 2023 at 12:19 pm

        He gon whip your azz cracker.

    • EA

      January 27, 2023 at 2:44 pm

      I guess you prefer the state pay you monthly cuz your so drugged out with fried brains and grunge teeth and scabbed up faces… Go to California! We’re finished trying to clean up your useless lazy peers here in Florida!

      • Black Antifa

        January 27, 2023 at 8:31 pm

        I’m not going anywhere. I’ma beat your azz if you say that to me in public. I don’t give a fk about jail. As long as I beat your azz. Take me to jail forever but I’m beat yo azz.

  • Elliott Offen

    January 27, 2023 at 12:18 pm

    The Tea Party is racist buddy you got it wrong like long dong. Get you some of that so called Fentanyl Halloween candy that they never found any of. Lied to scaremonger law and order. Rainbow Fentanyl for kids my azz. They make it bright colors so hopefully it DOESN’T get mistaken for something else. And lying Ron DeSanctimonious and rug muncher Ashley Moody saying it’s made that way for kids. Them crackers lie. Nothing more to government to them than tossing people in jail. Otherwise, they don’t give a flying fk.

    • Charlotte Greenbarg

      January 28, 2023 at 3:58 pm

      I love it when you far left loons froth at the mouth!

      • cassandra

        January 31, 2023 at 11:48 am

        the below reply is for you Charlotte:

  • cassandra

    January 31, 2023 at 11:47 am

    Speaking of frothing extremist “loons”: A Georgia woman’s health insurance denied her coverage for an IUD because of the “sanctity of life.” The new mom would have to pay out of pocket. The cost for an IUD without coverage? Two thousand dollars, which she could not afford. Again, the insurance company told her it was a “sanctity of life” issue.

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