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Azealia Banks on XL Records: 'Screw You!', Richard Russell Called Her 'Amateur'....
The young lady was none too pleased at the treatment she received from XL Records head Richard Russell… the first volley comes from Self-Titled:
And the second from the BBC:
The youngster believed that XL president Richard Russell – “he was this really cool guy” – could turn her into a “superstar”, much as he had done with MIA and Adele, but things quickly turned sour.
“It was almost the day I signed to XL that they started checking out,” she recalls.
“There were a good seven to eight months where I was just sending them texts and no-one would say anything or pick up the phone or respond to my emails. Nothing. And it started to ruin me.
“So I started harassing Richard. Like, ‘Dude, I’m going to chop your neck off. Answer my emails!’”
When Russell finally got in touch, Banks says, it was to give a lukewarm response to a track she had just written – and that track was 212.
“So I was like, this is not what I worked so hard my entire life to do – to be rejected by some English guy in West Bumblefrickin’ nowhere London, telling me I’m amateur or something like that.
“So I just said, ‘Screw you!’”
