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Azealia Banks has voiced her concerns about the potential use of nuclear weapons in the ongoing conflict in Syria.
The rapper quickly turned from tweeting about people not washing their hands after using the toilet to a far more serious tone, when she started to a discuss a New York Times article about disarming Syria of its chemical weapons through 'brute force and chemistry'.
She spoke of her concerns about the environmental implications of what to do with the refuse from the chemicals, before going on to talk about the dangerous futility of nuclear war and mutually assured destruction.
Banks posted:
Is this Field Deployable Hydrolysis System they're gonna use to break down bombs in Syria Eco-friendly? Where R they gonna pour the refuse?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
I hope not back into the oceans.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
I always think about nuclear bombs when people talk about global warming. Like what if the globe gets too hot and they all just detonate ?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Crazy how much shit gets dumped into the ocean. It's kind of upsetting.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
War is so confusing . I seriously don't get it.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Why even waste time developing nuclear weapons if no one in the world can use them? Who chooses who can and can't have them?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Surely, if ONE country decides it's angry enough to set off a nuclear bomb it'd completely destroy all of earth.... What's the point then?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Like who will there be left to fight?
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Banks then responded to those who were less keen on her interest in current affairs and international relations:
I apologize for paying attention to the news guys... Sorry I'm not reading gossip blogs or watching people twerk on worldstar. My apologies.
— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) October 8, 2013
Banks is currently gearing up to release her long-awaited debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste - which she recently hailed as 'the most innovative hip-hop album of the last 10 or next 25 years'.
Below: Azealia Banks live at Glastonbury 2013
