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Azealia Banks finally apologises

Azealia Banks finally apologises

Azealia Banks has finally apologised for her vicious Twitter rants last week.

The rapper used racial slurs in a social media tirade against former One Direction star Zayn Malik, before turning her attention to Rihanna, Lady Gaga and Nicki Minaj.

However, she's now apologised in full in a post published on her Instagram last night (May 14), four days after the initial rant.

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"Now that the immediacy of the infamous incident has worn off, I've had sometime to decompress & take a more rational assessment of things," she wrote.

"I want to extend my sincerest apologies to the world. Employing racial/sexual slurs/stereotypes in attempts to make fun of or degrade another person or group is completely unacceptable and is not fair or fun for anyone.

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"Allowing my anger to get the best of me, I've managed to insult millions of people without reason. And for that I give my deepest apologies."

Her rant against Zayn and others saw her get suspended from Twitter and dropped from a British festival, before she sort of apologised on Wednesday (May 11).

Banks, who is African American, used a series of epithets targeting Muslims in a rant on Twitter late Tuesday against Zayn, whom she accused of copying her style post-One Direction.

Banks at one point gloated that the US military would kill the family of Zayn, a Briton who is partially of Pakistani descent and is one of the most high-profile Muslims in Western pop culture.

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