Cover Trends: Azealia Banks Blows Smoke and Looks Good Doing It

21 year-old rapper/actress Azealia Banks is certainly enjoying the benefits that come with youthful experimentation.

Her now globally controversial cover pic courtesy of British magazine Dazed and Confused has cast her once again in the headlines in a vividly challenging way.

Photographer Sharif Hamza staged the perfect coup with Azealia, by dolling her up and arming with her an inflated condom, which she seductively manipulates.

Judging from the interview it looks like the gorgeous ingénue is whimsically forthright and brazenly charming which undoubtedly matched her outward projection.

But those winning qualities haven’t made her popular in the seven countries that banned the September issue featuring the outspoken bisexual performer. Singapore, Switzerland, India and Thailand are on the list and not surprisingly so, considering the hovering rigid climate.

But all the fostered talk definitely helps put Azealia on the map and en route to a career that is already building tons of steam.