Azealia Banks

The press was full of smug "has Samantha Cameron listened to the lyrics?" pieces today. I doubt she's even listened to the song.

I know, it's really annoying me that even the Guardian etc is covering this, it's so obviously a "HEY DID YOU KNOW Dave has a fucking bike?" type story.

Before anyone feels the need to point it out, I know she once hung out with Massive Attack and Tricky in Bristol.

even if she does like azealia she's still married to david cameron which fairly nullifies any suggestion that she has good taste in anything.

munchi going in on twitter

crikey. but the mixtape was free so i dont quite get his beef there. although yeah hes every right to be pissed at the way the single has been handled. mind you.. 25 grand he's been offered. 25 grand, name on the sleeve and the artwork and the itunes etc, plus all that exposure. shit i might take that.

lol

that's the thing, making an official single off a mixtape track kind of defeats the point of a mixtape (at least in the sense of a rap mixtape where the beats/samples aren't cleared).

getting p good exposure anyway

munchi going in on twitter

A lotta ONTD xposts up in this piece lately...

that's the thing, making an official single off a mixtape track kind of defeats the point of a mixtape (at least in the sense of a rap mixtape where the beats/samples aren't cleared).

i was initially under the impression it was anything but this... like every almost (every?) track was appropriated from within the fairly close rbma + nyc bass scenes - like nick hook / lunice / machine drum / munchi have all hung out with each other - i'd assumed one of them was doing most of the arranging on the album and had requested use of the tracks from the others, i guess not?

...what's ONTD

i thought it was interesting and didn't want to discuss on twitter.

All I know is that she's on the cover of the SPIN that I'm in ;)

boycott spin

Meh. Kind of weird to see Azealia on the receiving end of drama over nothing tho.

dude's throwing a tantrum bcz she illegally rapped over his illegal re-edit of Montell Jordan and offered him money for it, is that's what's happening?

illegal editing?

it's gonna be the next proper single that's teh main beef

http://i1.cdnds.net/12/39/618x618/music_azealia_banks_esta_noche_1.jpg

the main beef is that they announced it as real single before asking him or offering him money

but fuxache it's an edit, if her ppl have cleared the sample (!) then 25k and an artist credit is probably more than he'd get on a producer royalty after paying Jordan

Of course, the Montell song is, in turn, a sample:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb30jrVoU2I

http://www.complex.com/music/2012/09/munchi-speaks-on-azealia-banks-and-esta-noche-situation

lol

song is a jam tho, only thing i've really been feeling from her for a while. i'm guessing she'll get her way eventually.

rap game veruca salt

munchi's explanation seems solid

her Fantasea mixtape in which the beats were being selected by Diplo and her

here we lol again you'd think he'd know better at this point

never

this song is stupid. just makes me want to listen to the montell jordan song

aka it's an Azealia Banks song; everything she's done just makes me want to hear the original

oh makes sense, he originally designed it as a dance floor edit & shes rapping over his edit. lmao.

do you think we'll get a thinkpiece about sampling out of this

munchi's explanation seems solid

he certainly makes a much better case in that statement than he did on twitter

I feel extremely bad for Montell Jordan, Claudja Berry and all of the people at Interscope and Polydor who were very helpful in trying to make a solution to this shit, but if you get disrespected 11 times over a course of a couple of months -more than half being in one day- things will get extremely difficult.

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11 times.

http://youtu.be/yj-xBpQ0CI0

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w/ever

seapunk

she is like the annoying spawn of Santigold and Nicki Minaj

terribly ordinary this.

so awful

Why can't she just write some good songs? It's infuriating.

maybe... she isn't that good

That's what I'm afraid of.

lol djp otm

lol

Actually, that whole video is pretty infuriating. IT'S SO WACK!
It almost makes me regret liking 212.

#seapunkgate

i dunno guys, while the song isn't very good, the video definitely feels like it's mocking the whole seapunk thing...

How?

by being terrible?

a friend of mine posted this on fb yesterday, was it in re to this?

"thrilled that the tumblr/seapunk ironic internet imagery is now lameified by mainstream artists..was stupid in the first place and UGLY AS HELL"