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Azealia Banks is trending on Twitter after posting a gruesome video of herself appearing to dig up her dead pet cat Lucifer and boiling it.
The 29-year-old rapper posted – and deleted – a disturbing set of clips in which she and another person exhume the bagged remains of her pet cat who died last year.
She explained in one of the videos to her 683K followers on Instagram: ‘A lot of you guys don’t know, Lucifer the cat died three months ago, and we had to put him in the ground, and we’re digging him up for the very first time. She’s coming back to life c****’
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Courting controversy: Azealia Banks (seen in August 2017) is trending on Twitter after posting a gruesome video of herself appearing to dig up her dead pet cat Lucifer and boiling it
The first video shows her using her hands to claw in the soil to dig something up before pulling a large white bag out of the soil.
She could be heard scatting before proudly declaring: ‘The cat… is in the bag.’
Banks captioned the post: ‘Lucifer 2009-2020. My Dear kitty. Thank you for everything. A legend. An icon. Forever a serval serve.’
Dark: The 29-year-old rapper posted – and deleted – a disturbing set of clips in which she and another person exhume the bagged remains of her pet cat who died last year
Gruesome: The first video shows her using her hands to claw in the soil to dig something up before pulling a large white bag out of the soil
Retrieved: She could be heard scatting before proudly declaring: ‘The cat… is in the bag’
Oh no: The next video is even more grotesque as it shows her stirring a boiling pot of contents including what looked like a skull which she captioned ‘She’s ready’ before also deleting it
The next video is even more grotesque as it shows her stirring a boiling pot of contents including what looked like a skull which she captioned ‘She’s ready’ before also deleting it.
Her name quickly began trending on Twitter on Tuesday morning as thousands reacted to social media posts with memes.
She has previously admitted to being a ‘witch’ as she revealed in 2015 that her interest in magic came from her mother.
‘My mother practiced white table magic. Prayers to the ancestors and praying to saints and praying for all kind of protection’ she told Broadly Vice.
Amused: Her name quickly began trending on Twitter on Tuesday morning as thousands reacted to social media posts with memes
Compassion: One Twitter user had empathy for the artist
She went into further explanation with a typically controversial tweet where she wrote: ‘Black people are naturally born SEERS, DIVINERS, WITCHES AND WIZARDS. we have REAL supernatural powers, and the sooner we ALL learn to cultivate them and access them, the sooner we can REALLY fix s***.
This is also not the first time Azealia has been criticized for her alleged treatment of animals as in December 2016 she shared a bizarre Instagram video showing herself cleaning out a cupboard after three years of apparently sacrificing chickens.
The video starts with Azaelia looking ready to do some DIY, telling fans: ‘The amount of c**p that’s about to come off my floor right now guys. Oh My God.’
However, it soon emerges that this is no ordinary cleaning job with the camera panning to a small closet covered with the remains of feathers and blood.
Bizarre: This is also not the first time Azealia has been criticized for her alleged treatment of animals as in December 2016 she shared a bizarre Instagram video showing herself cleaning out a cupboard after three years of apparently sacrificing chickens
‘Guys, you know, I’ve got to scrape all this ‘s***’ up,’ she declares, as blood is shown all over the walls.
It is not known exactly why the rapper has been sacrificing the birds, but she claims on the video that it is ‘three years of brujeria,’ which is the Spanish word for witchcraft.
‘I’ve got my sandblaster, my goggles…it’s about to go down,’ she says, protective eyewear perched on her nose. ‘Real witches do real things.’
Witchcraft: It is not known exactly why the rapper has been sacrificing the birds, but she claims on the video that it is ‘three years of brujeria,’ which is the Spanish word for witchcraft
Sorcery: Azealia claimed to be a ‘witch’ last year, revealing that her interest in magic came from her mother
Shocking: The small closet appeared to be the scene of some animal sacrifices
The star can then be seen brandishing her sandblaster to scrape an array of feathers off the closet floor.
She also famously got into a heated back-and-forth on social media with artist Sia who criticized her over the post.
Sia, now 45, wrote: ‘sacrificing animals for your gain is the wackest s*** I’ve ever heard. Get ahead by being awesome, kind and working hard.’
Doesn’t like what she sees: She also famously got into a heated back-and-forth on social media with artist Sia (seen in February 2013) who criticized her over the post
Warning! She followed the post by offering to produce an ointment for the singer’s ‘chapped face’, before declaring ‘this is your first warning’
Responding to the remarks, Azealia raged: ‘And your ugly pasty dry white lady winter skin face is the ugliest fave (sic) I’ve ever seen that must be why you hide it all the time.
‘HAVE SOME F*****G RESPECT FOR MY F*****G TRADITIONAL AFRICAN RELIGION YOU POMPOUS WHITE B*TCH’
She followed the post by offering to produce an ointment for the singer’s ‘chapped face’, before declaring ‘this is your first warning’.
The posts were deleted at the time and replaced with a screen grab of the message ‘Stop apologizing. No more explanations.’
In the spotlight: Banks seen performing in London back in January 2019