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Rapper Azealia Banks has been removed from the lineup of an electronic music festival in Amsterdam only two days after organisers announced her involvement.

Milkshake Festival organisers announced that Banks was headlining their July festival on February 4, only to be met with a number of fans in the comments encouraging them to reconsider.

The next day, Milkshake reassured fans that their concerns were being , writing in a statement on Instagram that they “strive to be a place where everyone, and especially the most vulnerable and historically marginalized among us, feel free to express themselves.”

鈥淲e strive to pay homage to the roots of club culture, a community that has always been at the forefront in fighting for equality,鈥� they said.

鈥淲e have reached out to the management of Azealia Banks to get a clear statement. Please allow us some time to manage this situation.鈥�

An was posted only 24 hours later, rescinding the decision to have Banks headline.

“It is clear to us that we made a mistake and that we have overlooked essential information. We sincerely apologize for this. In correction of our previous update: this statement reflects only our standpoints as an organization, not that of Azealia Banks鈥� management.”

“The safety of our visitors, our team, the artists, and crew will always be our main priority.”

Banks’ controversial social media behaviour聽

While some fans thanked the Milkshake organisers, others criticised the festival for giving in to the backlash, citing misogynoir

“Wow I want to see this energy when white problematic artists perform…” one commenter wrote.

“Not the gays talking about community babies the only community you only care about is your circuit one. So drop the performative activism and stop being misogynistic against a black woman to perform that indeed has a strong impact on QUEER community,” said another.

Banks, although openly bisexual, has a long history of publicly making homophobic and transphobic comments. In 2015, she was filmed calling a flight attendant a slur, and later that same year compared the LGBTQIA+ community to the “gay white KKK鈥檚”.

She’s also repeatedly criticised the transgender community, arguing that gender-affirming surgery are essentially cosmetic procedures, and saying that trans women are 鈥渏ust gay boys on hormones using male aggression to force their ways into women鈥檚 spaces.鈥�

However, just this month she called out notorious anti-trans activist, JK Rowling, on X, writing 鈥淚 think the dolls are fab and do not need to shade them or change myself because my femininity is not threatened by them.

鈥淎ll of the insane anti-trans paranoid people like @jk_rowling feel their femininity is threatened for whatever reason and try to mask that insecurity with 鈥榮cience鈥� like anyone is stupid and doesn鈥檛 already know these things.鈥�