Azealia Banks uses homophobic slur during foul-mouthed argument with flight attendant

Tirade: Azealia Banks used homophobic slur against flight attendant
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Jennifer Ruby22 September 2015
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Azealia Banks has been caught on camera launching a foul-mothered tirade on a flight attendant.

During a dispute over disembarking a Delta plane at 1am on Tuesday morning in LA, the musician can be heard calling the flight attendant a “f***ing f****t' in a video on TMZ.

Filmed by a fellow passenger, the 24-year-old can be seen arguing with members of the cabin crew about her baggage after she reportedly tried to leave the plane before the other passengers.

An eyewitness has told the US website that the dispute began when a man tried to stop the rapper from squeezing past him by putting his hand out to stop her.

According to the onlooker, Banks then allegedly ‘spat in the man’s face, punched him in the face and clawed at his shirt.’

A member of staff is then said to have intervened and tried to take Banks’s bag away from her.

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The video then captures the star arguing with the cabin crew before leaving the plane and shouting the homophobic slur.

While Banks is yet to offer a comment on the incident, she posted a tweet earlier today before making her account private.

It read: “Now you all can sit here in your fake outrage and discuss this amongst yourselves !! I'm headed to the beauty parlor! SIYONARA MOTHERF****RS.”

Evening Standard Online has contacted Banks’s reps for comment.

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