‘It’s giving Wuhan wet market’ - US rapper Azealia Banks claims Birmingham fish market made her ill
US rapper says her visit to Birmingham Bull Ring indoor market led to her spending two days ‘sweating out’ an illness
The rapper,33, shared a post to X ordering city leaders to “do something” about the stalls. She told her followers she had spent the last two days recovering from an illness.
On Thursday, she wrote: “Sidebar. The city officials in Birmingham, UK, need to do something about the fish market at the bullring market. It’s giving putrid pathogen Wuhan wet market tease and just being in there I caught some s***.”
The rapper, from Harlem in New York, came upon the market while looking for a beauty supply shop.
She wrote: “I was looking for some falsely advertised beauty supply shop I saw on Yelp, and it was this little stand inside a outdoor building with this rank ass fish market boofin up the whole space. I wasn’t like, on tour trying to buy raw fish.”
During her time in the city last week, due to being on tour, she also hit out against Hotel du Vin on Church Street, where she was staying.
She said there was “dust on the headboards” and that it had “refilled Voss water bottles from the tap”.
When questions on where she was staying, she said: "Lol I Googled what the best hotel in Birmingham was and it said Hotel du Vin."
The hotel said they were taking the complaint seriously. However, Hotel du Vin has an overall rating of 4.3 stars out of five on Google Review
The indoor fish market dates back to the 1800s. However, stall owners were told earlier this month that the site would be demolished for student accommodation and apartments.
Banks was suspended from X in 2016 after a series of racially charged tweets attacking the singer and former One Direction star Zayn Malik.