Azealia Banks says Bull Ring’s ‘Wuhan moist market’ fish stalls made her in poor health

The US rapper Azealia Banks has accused Birmingham’s fish market of constructing her in poor health, evaluating it to a “Wuhan moist market”.

In an unlikely intervention, the American star posted on X that metropolis officers wanted to “do one thing” concerning the stalls earlier than evaluating the market to the positioning in China recognized because the place the place the Covid pandemic most certainly started.

Banks, 33, mentioned she was satisfied her go to to the market, within the metropolis’s Bull Ring, led to her changing into in poor health, leading to two days “sweating that shit out”.

She wrote: “Sidebar. Town officers in Birmingham, UK, must do one thing concerning the fish market on the Bull Ring market. It’s giving putrid pathogen Wuhan moist market tease and simply being in there I caught some shit.

“Simply spent the final two days bathing, massaging, consuming tea sweating that shit out. That’s not cool b.”

The rapper, from Harlem in New York, is thought for her high-profile public feuds with the likes of X proprietor Elon Musk and British rock band The Stone Roses.

However going toe-to-toe with Birmingham metropolis council over alleged well being and questions of safety referring to a fish market was an sudden growth.

In an extra tweet, Banks clarified that she had stumbled upon the market whereas in search of a magnificence provide store within the metropolis.

“I used to be in search of some falsely marketed magnificence provide store I noticed on Yelp, and it was this little stand inside a out of doors constructing with this rank ass fish market boofin up the entire house. I wasn’t like, on tour making an attempt to purchase uncooked fish,” she wrote.

The indoor fish market dates again to the 1800s and sells a spread of conventional and unique fish, in addition to contemporary fruit and greens.

Nonetheless, stall house owners had been advised earlier this month that the positioning’s house owners can be making use of to demolish the market and construct a combination of scholar lodging and flats.

If the plans are permitted the council would now not management the market, with merchants being compensated and moved out, the Instances reported.

It’s removed from the primary time that Banks has induced controversy on social media. She was suspended from X, then known as Twitter, in 2016 after a collection of racially charged tweets attacking singer and former One Course star Zayn Malik.

She additionally used the social media web site to name Australian stay music audiences “horrible”, “violent” and “belligerent”.