In the video, the Broke with Expensive Taste star, now recognisably a few shades lighter than her formerly deep brown shade, equates hair extensions with the often dangerous practice. “Nobody was upset when I was wearing 30-inch weaves and tearing out my edges”, she said.

But to suggest that weave, which is not inherently intended for the purposes of emulating a tempered blackness, is comparable to skin lightening, a practise steeped in colourism, is an affront to the psychological fallout of ongoing societally enforced contempt for dark skin.

Similarly, Banks’s suggestion that it isn’t “important to discuss the cultural significance of bleaching anymore”, because the use of skin lightening products is simply a form of assimilation for black people, indicates an unwillingness to acknowledge the weight of often normalised practices such as skin bleaching, and other manifestations of internalised racism.

Banks calls her new practise, 'body modification', a term so tame, you could easily forget the ramifications of long-term bleaching. As part of Gal-dem’s Skin Lightening Series, a collection of articles exploring skin lightening products and identity, Niellah Arboine outlined some of the damaging aspects of bleaching, writing:

“Prolonged use of skin-lightening products with [Hydroquinone] (which can be prescribed safely) can lead to a plethora of long-term problems, from skin-ageing and liver damage to a serious condition called exogenous ochronosis, which can cause hyper-pigmentation and skin lesions”.

“Azealia Banks is wrong, skin bleaching is a practice steeped in racism”