text: CLOSE Skip in Skip x Embed x Share Sarah Palin is not laughing about the very NSFW Twitter rant Azealia Banks went on Monday in which she said that the former Alaska governor should be sexually assaulted. According to People, Palin is planning to sue. USA TODAY 
   
   Why are Sarah Palin and Azealia Banks fighting? (Photo: Cliff Owen/AP, Cassandra Hannagan, Getty Images) 
   
   This week's NSFW Twitter fight is brought to you by Sarah Palin and Azealia Banks. 
   
   Update: After Palin refused to accept Banks' apology and threatened to sue, the rapper fired back on Twitter with an incestuous trailer park joke about the Alaskan governor-turned-TV personality's family. 
   
   Why are they fighting, you ask? Let's rewind. 
   
   Their Twitter rumble all started with a satirical news article from Newslo.com on March 31 that Banks seems to have believed was real; it jokingly quoted Palin telling an Alaska newspaper that African Americans "enjoyed" being slaves. 
   
   That set Banks, an outspoken reparations advocate for African-Americans, off into a heated tweetstorm. The rapper issued missives that can't be reprinted here, but the implications included that Palin should be raped by a gang of black men. 
   
   Later, likely when Banks realized the original article was fake, she deleted the graphic tweets (Media Research Center captured them and Breitbart has them here), and said simply, "I can't." 
   
   Palin, 52, responded Tuesday morning on Twitter and Facebook. 
   
   "Hey Female Rapper," Palin addressed Banks in a post. "Listen up, little darling. No one has any idea what you're wigging out about in these bizarre, violent rants against me, but you're obviously not exercising enough intelligence to acknowledge you've been sucked into believing some fake interview in which I supposedly offered comments representing the antithesis of my truth." 
   
   Palin went on to encourage Banks to use her platform for social good, while promising to "go through my young daughter's playlist to make sure there hasn't been any inadvertent addition of any anti-woman, pro-rape garbage that you seem to endorse." 
   
   On Tuesday Banks was still tweeting about Palin, including this Saturday Night Live sketch starring Tina Fey. 
   
   Banks' latest rant joins a long list of feuds, fights and controversial statements begun by the young rapper, 24. Last fall she declared gay men are "like the KKK" before deleting the tweet, and was caught on video having a tantrum on a Delta airplane. In December she was arrested outside an NYC nightclub. 
   
   Recently, she declared she's voting for Donald Trump, because "Donald trump is evil like America is evil and in order for America to keep up with itself it needs him." Apparently voting for Trump is the one thing Banks and Palin have in common. 
   
   Update: Banks apologized to Palin – sort of – in an open letter via Tumblr later Tuesday. 
   
   "In my honest defense, i was completely kidding. I happen to have a really crass, New-York-City sense of humor," wrote Banks, in a meandering apology that attempted to define Palin's “je ne sais quoi," aimed for solidarity against "censorship" and clarified that her "joke" tweets referred to group sex "NOT" rape. 
   
   Then, in a kicker to her "sincerest" apology, Banks added: "If Bristol Palin listened to my music she probably wouldn’t have all those (expletive) kids!!!" 
   
   So, feud over? Doubtful. 
   
   The Sarah Palin page in history will be condensed to a footnote in the Azealia Banks chapter. Well behaved women seldom make history. — AZEALIABANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) April 5, 2016 
   
   For one thing, Palin isn't letting it go. She issued a statement to People that she will take legal action against Banks "on behalf of all reasonable women of every age, race and political leaning." 
   
   
   
   She said she's fed up with "unanswered threats and attacks against my family and me." 
   
   "So, for the first time I'm going to enjoy the only retribution some protected 'celebrities' seem to understand – I'm suing Azealia Banks and can't wait to share my winnings with others who have gone defenseless against lies and dangerous attacks far too long." 
   
   She said she was taking a stand against "problems like Azealia's mouth" and the "double standards that result in her actually being rewarded for her divisive tactics and aggressively inciting violence." 
   
   If a white girl had said what Banks said, Palin charged, "the screams for the entire white population's head would be louder than the nonsensical rap that Azealia spews all the way to the bank." 
   
   So no more just accepting lies and threats, Palin stormed. 
   
   "I think this time I don't just sit back and swallow it, but put the fear of God in her by holding her accountable. As many of you have for years implored me to do, I'm finally going to sue." 
   
   Details about how and when and where are still up in the air. 
   
   Read or Share this story: http://usat.ly/1MQvd4b ||||| Azealia Banks, the rapper known for calling paparazzi “f**gots” and demanding $100 trillion in slavery reparations, is calling for former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to be raped by a group of black men. 
   
   In a series of now-deleted tweets, Banks stated Palin “needs” to be gang raped and forced to perform oral sex on men [Warning: Graphic content]: 
   
   Banks wrote the rape should be filmed and uploaded to the website WorldStarHipHop, known for its graphic depictions of violence. 
   
   Within minutes after posting the tweets, Banks deleted them and stated she simply “can’t.” 
   
   Banks presumably fell for the satire article circulating that asserts Palin said African-Americans willingly accepted slavery. 
   
   Banks has not issued an apology for saying Palin “needs” to be raped. 
   
   Banks’ remarks on Palin come days after she reiterated her support for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump (who is also endorsed by Palin) and stated “minorities” have “nothing to show” for voting Democrat. 
   
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target: – Sarah Palin is feuding with notoriously outspoken rapper Azealia Banks—and even some of the Alaskan's detractors say this time, she appears to be in the right. Palin has threatened to sue Banks over an NSFW Twitter rant—which was deleted but can be seen here—in which Banks suggests Palin should be gang-raped by black men. Palin tells People that she is suing "on behalf of all reasonable women of every age, race and political leaning." "I've had enough of the unanswered threats and attacks against my family and me," says Palin, who, in an earlier Facebook post, said she would go through her "young daughter's playlist to make sure there hasn't been any inadvertent addition of any anti-woman, pro-rape garbage." Banks appears to have gone on the attack after reading a satirical news article with a fake Palin quote about black people enjoying slavery, USA Today reports. The rapper later "apologized" in a rambling open letter posted on Tumblr. "I want to start this letter off by telling you that I actually, really like you," she said, going on to claim that she had only been kidding, and the language she used referred to group sex, not rape. "Woman to Woman, I hope you will accept my sincerest apology," she concluded, adding: "If Bristol Palin listened to my music she probably wouldn't have all those cotdamn kids!"