Azealia Banks Mocks Eminem Over Lana Del Rey Freestyle

Divisive US-bred performer Azealia Banks has expressed the desire to punch Eminem "in his mouth" following the release of a video in which the veteran rapper freestyled his way to the lyric, "Bitch, I'll punch Lana Del Rey right in the face twice, like Ray Rice."

"But does Eminem know that I will personally punch him in his mouth?!" Banks asked incredulously in a now-deleted tweet directed at Del Rey. She then followed it up by making a pointed jab at Slim Shady's lower-class upbringing, saying to Del Rey, "Tell him to go back to his trailer park and eat his microwave hotpocket dinner and suck on his sisters tiddies [sic]."

Ray Rice, if you're unaware, is a (now terminated) NFL player who was caught on film knocking out his fiancee, Janae Palmer, and dragging her body out of an elevator earlier this year. The domestic-abuse case and controversy that followed has resulted in Rice's indefinite suspension from the entire league.

The video in question, Shady CXVPHER, was uploaded as a promotional release ahead of Eminem's forthcoming studio full-length SHADYXV and, aside from this one ill-advised line (which has justifiably attracted vocal backlash on the internet), it's generally been highly praised, at least among freestyle rap fans. Eminem and Del Rey have both remained silent on the controversy since it first broke.

Meanwhile, Banks has just released a full-length of her own, the rapturously received Broke With Expensive Taste — which may go some way towards explaining why she deleted her original comment about ol' Em in the first place, lest we all get too wrapped up in drama at 140 characters to notice it.

To that end, get across new cut Chasing Time and appreciate Banks for her artistic merits, and not just her A+ Twitter sass game.