Azealia Banks

I like 212

I really like the 1991 EP, but who in the world decided on the sequencing? Why would you put a track that ends with complete silence and then some "hidden" stuff at number two? "Van Vogue" absolutely kills the momentum. Baffling decision not to put that one at the end.

i was just listening to this. i feel like i shouldn't judge it hastily cuz "212" wasn't that immediate to me but it feels a bit slapdash. every time the title track starts it's a head-turner cuz i always think HNAG ON THAT'S MISSY but it sounds like a new missy demo or something.

nicki is waaaaaay off-base as a comparison

Yeah, I'm not sure I really feel those Nicki comparisons, but people seem to struggle when they try to compare female rappers. They used to always get somehow compared to Missy, not that's Nicki's job to be the default comparison.

I really love this EP though, its pretty infectious.

I keep seeing this thread title and thinking it's going to be about Azalia Snail.

Late for the show here but in that 212 video, the kind of facial expressions and stagey persona she puts puts on are no less "lol theater girl obviously" than the girl from Karmin. Azealia may have even more of a theater girl background from what I read.

"liquorice" video is really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPaXn2XR-P8

really like this EP now, her flow is pretty tightly packed and dense so it takes a while for her songs to arrange themselves in my head but once you start hearing the words they make a lot more internal sense

That video doesn't match the song at all. They're both cool when separated.

yeah, good video

I love that the production is more or less Old Skool Hardcore.

idk that vid seems super awkward to me, doesnt at all present her natural appeal the way 212's did

not nearly as pronounced a balls up as nicki's 'massive attack' vid was but it's reminiscent all the same

bitches must be dreading a hit these days if they're gonna get driven out to wear outfits in the desert every time

SOoo, the new song is just the one which was around last year. "Riddim" is Lone's Pineapple Crush if anyone doesn't know.

Ah, I see there's a whole EP. 1991 sounds OK.

http://www.factmag.com/2012/07/10/azealia-banks-keeps-it-aquatic-with-shystie-on-neptune/

Over an Ikonika this time. Shystie kinda runs rings round Azealia here.

that is amazing

I should admit to myself that I just don't like AB and stop trying

Shystie is kind of wau on this tho

whatever @ this

my second fav AZ is 'jumanji'

bitches must be dreading a hit these days if they're gonna get driven out to wear outfits in the desert every time

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 20 June 2012 11:42 (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

such a classic rtc post

Crazy weaves/twitter accounts aside, I like what she's doing musically. And yes, her rhyming skills are better than Missy's. I just hope she proves to be as innovative and entertaining over time.

the heston jam is a nice idea but azealia's vocals are so weak&lazy

And yes, her rhyming skills are better than Missy's.

http://nohomeworkmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/ceelo-fuckyou.jpg

You always follow my bread crumbs without fail lol.

haha full disclosure i'd already half written an extended riff on cheri dennis and idk, letoya luckett eating rats and hiding from packs of coyotes behind boulders in the mojave before i saw i'd been xposted

not sure the jackin flow that worked so well for AB on 212 really works on this track, tbh

that said it's a little weird that they gave up rapping 1/3 of the way through the track!

lol j0rdan

Mixtape's out.

If anyone was concerned she'd drop the dance-music influence, you can rest easy.

it's good fun. hooray.

i was worried she would drop the rap influence

woud've been so progressive

BEATS BY IKONIKA, O/W/W/W/L/S, MACHINEDRUM, EPROM, DRUMS OF DEATH, HUDSON MOHAWKE & NICK HOOK, LUNICE, & MUNCHI

apparently this is what it takes for me to care about a rap mixtape

06 IMA READ

i haven't listened yet but LET ME FIND OUT!!

Kinda doesn't work without that hissing basso profundo.

http://www.nowness.com/day/2012/7/24/2314/jacob-sutton-lil-buck

love buck so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWk-5F2A1zE

is she just going to rap over that whole machinedrum ep

I love how this board is pretending she's not a "thing" right now.

http://img.youtube.com/vi/D93t_NCgPVs/0.jpg

how exactly could the board that voted her song the #1 track of last year be in denial of her thingitude

I mean. I'm not going to rave about the flawlessness of her videos or how much I love her because that's not really what we do here? I dont have much of substance to say. The mixtape is a mixed bag, Esta Noche is wonderful, the EP is perfect Crystal Waters 90s house rap vogue realness. I hope the album is more like the EP than the mixtape although her verse on that MIA remix shows she can rap on a more traditional beat pretty well too.

She beefs too much, a lot of the goons won't like her on the grounds of her not being real enough especially deej and I have no desire to start another debate a la le1f about whether this is actually good or only popular with hipsters or fashion kids or whatever. I will say that Tumblr loves it and so does the queer scene in Montreal and Toronto.

Anyway, there is a bunch of talking about how she is a thing. But like. Some people like her and some don't and for whatever reason any statement of thinking she's awesome is likely to prompt an unnecessary shitshow of a debate and I'd rather just listen to 1991 in my room or on a club and not argue about what she means and if she's a rapper etc. ad nauseum.

No ones pretending tho. I think we all just know where we stand and are unlikely to change. Like The Weeknd or whoever else.

I was leaving a bathroom and saw this dude leaving and was like you're that azelia banks vid dude and he kinda blanched and was like yeah and I left

I'm back to listening to 212 and Seventeen every day like I was last summer, now that 212 is showing up at karaoke and I have to get prepared. But just for my own singing-along-at-the-bus-stop purposes, I'm trying to work out all the words to Seventeen - anyone got any ideas or corrections?:

I’m not the don diva, I'm beyond you don skeezers
I get cake from quick juxes [?] with long heaters
1-7, hot steppin’ like Tekken, I'ma be a main bitch in the game like Nina
Ain't Sabrina but the teenage magic
I have [?] your cups and the scene so graphic
The fake ID don’t got a mistake
Mi$$ Banks keeps these niggas caught up in their teen angst
They’ve been tryin’ their luck, tryin’ to fuck
Since I first came through with the triple-A cup
Now I got hips lips tits and a butt
Now I’m on radar like warm weather fronts
No candy, no hellos from strangers
And Mom Dukes got four in the chamber
So you better proceed with caution
Or lay six feet deep somewhere foreign

(Ladytron)

M.I-double-$ B.A.N.K.S
I keep the fifth tucked in my breast
Snuck in the club, ID, half dressed
Got all them niggas by the bar impressed
I vaguely skim the crowd, and I peep her man looking aroused
And maybe we can just retreat to the a.p.t., but that’s only if he D.T.E.
Nigga that’s down to eat, cause I'm down to leave if you are a freak and
Parents left town for the weekend
We can do the freak and keep sneakin’
‘Beep beep!’ and I hop in the whip
He got a two-seater Beemer and a Glock and a clip
And sitting in his lap he got a black four-fifth
You can cock that shit and the bitch won't trip
Since I walk and talk and act like a lady
But he got me chilling at his crib like a baby
We hit the liquor, now he wanna lick her, YKK he’s on my zipper
He wanna tickle my fancy and just go downtown like Delancey
So spit out ya gum, let your tongue
Check the nooks and crannies, and pass the panties

(Ladytron)

(and...) Ain't nothing finer then a minor
Keep these niggas eatin’ at my diner
Turn twenty two with the Mac eyeliner
Got curfew so you better set the timer
Now - you got a girl going crazy
My hormones are going insane - please
Top me off like Pizza Hut baby
We can do it in the butt maybe (not)
S’like nigga just playin’
All the bitch is really sayin’
Is we can get a day in and
That passenger seat looks vacant
And if you with it I’m yours for the takin’
So hey shorty what it is, you settling the fizz
By just sitting there looking at it
Come take a sip of my thrush [? crush?]
Put your hand on my blush
Better keep it on the hush

her being 'real enough' is not the issue, its an aesthetic one. i just dont like that lyrical style

how is her lyrical style substantively different from, like, missy or someone?

the idea that this board doesn't pay enough attention to az banks is bizarre though

as is the idea of people going completely nuts for her particularly

I was leaving a bathroom and saw this dude leaving and was like you're that azelia banks vid dude and he kinda blanched and was like yeah and I left

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, September 4, 2012 6:34 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I hung out with dude who filmed the video on friday night, who's going to find Azealia and do the 212 trifecta?

how is her lyrical style substantively different from, like, missy or someone?

― lex pretend, Tuesday, September 4, 2012 3:45 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

c'mon man