''How Else Am I Gonna Reach Y'all?''
6:00AM ET August 10th, 2012
Contributor : Rayna Dean
A Rocky Williform Company

Azealia Banks knows that she's become notorious for poppin' off at celebs on Twitter. In the recent issue of VIBE, the rapstress says that her reputation is justified, but also she says that she has to defend herself. In particular, she mentioned the controversy surrounding her beef with T.I. and his protege Iggy Azalea.

"It's like, 'Listen, T.I., if I was a f*cking boy you wouldn't say anything to me.' But when I'm a girl and I say something back, the media wants to turn it into all these different things. Rappers beef all the time. I said what I said about [Iggy Azalea] and kept it moving. Then a month later you said what you said. And it keeps coming up. Leave it alone. I didn't say she couldn't rap. I said something very real. Out of everything, she had to [call herself] 'a runaway slave master?' C'mon, that's not swag. That's not fly sh*t."

"Of course, because it's e-thugging... Who wants to look like that? But how else am I gonna reach y'all?" she went on. "I don't have a T.I. to get on a radio show and defend me; I'm the one behind me. Y'all expect me to agree like, 'Oh yea, I'm wack. I only have one song.' That's one song y'all n***as don't f*cking have. You might win some, but you just lost one."