Azealia Banks posts an email on her Tumblr/Instragram

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Azealia Banks just tweeted a link to an email that she threatened to post a few days ago:

It's safe to assume that the post above was in response to Baauer's comments to the Daily Beast which was summarized by Pitchfork:

"Now, Baauer has responded to Banks. In interview with the Daily Beast, Baauer explained that he had planned to release a version of the song with Banks quite a while ago. But when her verse wasn't up to snuff, he pulled the plug on the collaboration and went ahead with the instrumental version of the song."

"She laid something on 'Harlem Shake' and it was so/so. Didn't love it," he said...So we told her, 'Please don't release your version.' And she said, 'Well, I'm going to put it online anyway.' And we said, 'Please don't. We'd really like it if you didn't.' And she did."

I wonder how much further this back and forth is going to go.

The weird story of Azealia Banks, Baauer, and Perez Hilton *Updated

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In Azealia Banks' world, engaging in one feud isn't enough as she apparently needs two separate feuds at the same time to keep her engaged. Her squabbles involve Baauer for her unauthorized use of recently #1 iTunes track 'Harlem Shake', and Perez Hilton with her all too frequent use of the word "Faggot".

Spin wrote a fantastic article describing both of these feuds at the same time while Fact Mag wrote an earlier piece summarizing the Baauer-Banks feud.

For the more adventurous types you can even read the raw Twitter conversation first between Baauer-Banks that eventually devolves into a weird Twitter duel between Banks-Hilton.

As these events have yet to fully unfold, Azealia Banks released a video for her highly controversial version of the 'Harlem Shake':

Update:

Yesterday Azealia Banks had this to say about Diplo:

According to Fact Mag (VIA Pitchfork), Azealia Banks sent a Twitter message to Baauer stating that she has emails that show Baauer giving her permission to use Harlem Shake.

This post will be updated if new developments arise.

The best Harlem Shake video so far?

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Harlem Shake (Matt and Kim Edition):

One word: WOW. Can it be beat?

If you live in Montreal - this Sunday there is a meetup on Facebook to do a Harlem Shake at Mont Royal. Click here for the details.

*Bonus: The Black Edition is hilarious but NSFW.

*Bonus II: The Underwater version - Insanely good. Special props to the guy in the sleeping bag. (VIA @VanCityDanceNrd)

Update: As much as I like the Matt and Kim Edition, the underwater version is probably the best one out there for the moment: 

Watch this: Baauer's 'Harlem Shake' goes full viral *Udpate III

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I'm not quite sure how it all started but the 'Harlem Shake' dance has caught on like wildfire on Youtube while the online community of Reddit has been stoking the flames. According to a Reddit thread, the first original 'Harlem Shake' video was released 5 days ago:

On the same day these two videos were released:

Yesterday these guys took the concept to a whole new level with an entire office doing the Harlem Shake:

Hilarious Peanuts version was posted today:

Collectively these videos have been viewed 1,267,228 times, not bad for just 5 days.

Has the 'Harlem Shake' phenomenon already hit its peak or is it just the beginning? This thing looks like it has legs and has the potential to build up to become an international sensation. So stay tuned as the world might be doing the 'Harlem Shake' not before long.

Here are the latest videos gaining traction:

Today's Harlem Shake winner goes to T-Pain:

Norwegian Army edition: