The Amsterdam-based Milkshake Festival has removed rapper Azealia Banks from its 2025 lineup following criticism from attendees over her past homophobic and transphobic comments. The festival initially announced Banks' inclusion but reversed the decision after fans expressed concerns about her history of inflammatory statements.
Azealia Banks performs during the Noise Pop Music & Arts festival at The Warfield on February 27, 2022 in San Francisco, California.Amsterdam’s electronic, queer-inclusive Milkshake Festival recently announced that rapper Azealia Banks would be joining the lineup for its 2025 festivities. Now, two days later, the event has cut her from the lineup altogether.posted on Tuesday , the organization revealed that Banks would be “serving C-NT” at its July 2025 festival.
Banks — who has become well-known in recent years for her inflammatory rants on social media — does indeed have a track record of making homophobic and transphobic comments online. Back in 2015, Banksauthor J.K. Rowling for her transphobic comments. “I love you down sis, but are not a threat to your femininity,” she wrote on her X account. “You are really too rich and legendary to keep spewing the same stuff over and over and over.
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