Azealia Banks Issues Apology For Offensive Tweets

Azealia Banks has issued a formal apology for her controversial tweets about Zayn Malik. Last week Banks attacked Malik via their social media accounts claiming that he had copied one of her music videos. The rapper began aiming racial and homophobic slurs at the former One Direction member.
Bank's Twitter account was subsequently suspended by the social network and is still on lockdown. The tweets contained insults aimed at the former boy band member included slurs such as "punjab" and "dick rider". Yesterday Banks issued an apology via her Instagram account.
The rapper suffered backlash online for the insults and had her headline appearance at London's Born and Bred Festival was pulled by organisers in response to the slurs. In it she extends her "sincerest apologies to the world" for the controversial comments.

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A photo posted by Azealia Banks (@azealiabanks) on May 14, 2016 at 3:52pm PDT

Banks is now reportedly under investigation from the Home Office in the UK for the racist tweets which could see her banned from entering the UK altogether.