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"Azealia Banks has announced that she does not plan to continue rapping.  The 21-year-old musician rose to fame in 2011 with the release of her raunchy hip-hop song &amp;#039;212&amp;#039; and has since released an EP called 1991. However, despite her popularity as a rap artist, Banks recently posted on her Tumblr blog that she has quit rapping.  She wrote: &amp;quot;No longer wishing to be a rapper. I never was... and as soon as I started paying attention to bulls**t urban media, I started getting myself in trouble. From now on I&amp;#039;m a vocalist, and will not be associating myself with the &amp;#039;rap game&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; The Harlem-born artist has recently been embroiled in several feuds via her Twitter account and through interviews, taking jabs at artists like Iggy Azalea, TI, and Lil&amp;#039; Kim.  Banks has now deleted her Twitter account, saying that it &amp;quot;makes me entirely too accessible&amp;quot;. According to NME, she will play the upcoming Reading and Leeds Festivals and BBC Radio 1&amp;#039;s Hackney Weekend this summer.  A new mixtape called &amp;#039;Fantasea&amp;#039; is due for a July 4 release, while Banks is currently working on her debut LP.  Listen to Azealia Banks&amp;#039;s new song &amp;#039;Jumanji&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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