Azealia Banks Explains Why She Cooked Her Dead Cat

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Azealia has a logically reason for seemingly cooking her deceased cat.

We previously reported that social media was in a frenzy after rapper Azealia shared a graphic video of her digging up her dead cat, then proceeding to cook it. In the video you can see Banks putting the cat in boiling hot water. In the caption she said, “Lucifer 2009-2020. My Dear Kitty. Thank you for everything. A legend. An icon. Forever a serval serve.”

After receiving extreme backlash, Azealia explains exactly why she boiled her cat. She writes, “it’s called taxidermy.. plenty of hunters with preserved deer heads hanging off their wall.”

She continued, “the cat head is soaking in peroxide to fully clean him, then I’m taking him to a jewelry shop to have it gilded..”