Azealia Banks has written Ice Cube an open letter to ask him to recover her “stolen” royalties from BIG3 co-founder and his manager Jeff Kwatinetz. Banks was formerly signed to Kwatinetz's Prospect Park company. She wrote via Twitter, “Hi @icecube. This is Azealia Banks. thanks for this nod to my new single ‘Black Madonna ft Lex Luger’ on all platforms now. Your white manager Jeff Kwatinetz has stolen all of the royalties from my debut album and I was wondering if you could use your influence to get them for me?”
She continued, “I worked very hard on that album and Jeff wasn’t the person who paid for its production. Universal did. Jeff purposely released an uncleared record acting as Manager & Label and has screwed me out of millions of dollars.”
She added, “I see you are being very active in this election years Black Lives Matter antics and was hoping my black life and art mattered to you as well and you could get my much deserved royalties to me as soon as possible. Again, my name is Azealia Banks, I’m an artist from NYC. Creator of an international anthem called ‘212.’ Your help with this would be greatly appreciated.”