Azealia Banks

Oh yeah, I'm sure whatever turns up on her album will be created solely for her with her in the loop of the process. Look forward to it, tbh.

Hmm, so there's this thing...

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

http://blindgossip.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/garbage-can-2.jpg

It's not bad, but I feel like I've heard tracks before where it's just somebody chatting up somebody else over a beat. From what I understand, though, this was just made to be runway music.

I swooned over "212" too, and notice I really don't have any other nasty female rap on 125-130 BPM house beats, which is a pretty natural environment. Not asking for a derail, but I'd appreciate a few pointers to Bank's precursors.

^^^^^

You can recognize them by their buffalo stance

@Sanpaku -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDExY9TK9Ow

ur also looking for Missy really.

aren't we all

difference is between those of us who are willing to accept substitutes, i suppose

Dude cmon, she's sitting RIGHT THERE

Some clarification, I'm not looking for more nasty female rap with hip-hop backings, there's no shortage of that. I'm curious about nasty female rap over 125-130 bpm 4-on-the-floor house ala "212".

"4 My People" is only 118 bpms :(

i swear i was just posting that

FWIW, I think AB is interesting because of the ease with which she crossed that ethnic/oceanic divide on "212", though her other tracks lack that tension of syncopated boast over metronomic propulsion.

All prob 130-ish

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-g-QimJKlc

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3piv9EFZU8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRefxBSRR68

Dunno about nasty tho.

Hope this helps with your blog house mix :'D

Thx. I haven't done a mix since my nephew's wedding 14 months ago. Blog house wasn't in favor.

Sanpaku you prolly heard this one - it's not exactly rapping and it's maybe not up your nephew's alley either but what it is is immortal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMvpP9Rq3t4

d-40 otm about 'bambi'

tracer otm about 20 fingers

'youve got to lick it before we kick it' is also classic

"bambi" =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXKo90-DNA

had never heard that Ms Bratt track, ty for posting

hearing "SXLND" without AB on top of it made me like it more

Is this a Hip House thread now? This is an all time favorite:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfQT7etnKg

"Club Action" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "212"

Yeah "Club Action" is one of my favorite songs ever so obviously I prefer it to "212."

also.. http://azealiabanks.atmoapparel.co.uk/

willfully ignorant about this person

"Club Action (I Believe In Love)"

fuck bambi is terrible. she is going to be as disappointing as ldr isn't she

212 is so perfect I almost don't want to hear anything else by her in case it's just ordinary. You know what I really love? "But you do like to slumber, don't you?" The way she chews through that line.

Otm

My fave is probly "Imma eat yer food up, boo" followed by "Whats yr dick like, homie? What are you into?"

It's like she's up in your face rapping while you're bent over backwards and she's picking your pockets and not giving a shit about personal space or how you feel AT ALL

"cock-a-licking in the water by the blue bayou / caught the warm goo / in your doo-rag too, son?" is my fav line

It's an embarrassment of riches, is what we're saying here.

http://azealiabanks.atmoapparel.co.uk/clothing/chiildren.html

guess that.... section of the store isn't open yet

"I do like to slumber, don't I?" would be perfect on a onesie.

Weird NY Times interview.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/fashion/azealia-banks-a-young-rapper-taking-cues-from-the-street.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&ref=arts&adxnnlx=1328293094-wvCkWk+QvRt5w/IykfIShA

"Reggae-spackled"? "Crass lyrics"?

haha in what way is the crassness of her lyrics in dispute

you're gonna nitpick about whether a song in which the word "cunt" appears more than once can be said to have crass lyrics?

lol xpost

[young, minority], Taking Her Cues and Lyrics From the Street

"how weird of the New York Times to say that a person whose big buzz song contains the lines 'I'mma ruin you, cunt' and 'What's your dick like, homie?' has crass lyrics, I mean what were they thinking"

i just realised that the great michelle myers blogpost on what makes "212" so great wasn't posted in here, dunno where i put it originally but for the sake of completeness - http://theremixbaby.tumblr.com/post/13146055905/thesinglesjukebox-azealia-banks-212-9-10

Obviously Azealia Banks is not the first or the best rapper to use assonance and internal vowel rhyme this way. I hope my blurb doesn’t make it seem like I’ve never heard rap music before! I’m fully aware that most ‘good’ (god, whatever that means amirite?) rappers play with phonemes, both vowel and consonant, in a similar manner. But Azealia’s use of assonance struck me for two reasons. First, she sustains a very high level of internal rhyme based on the same few sounds (say “212” and then say “ruin you cunt”) for two whole verses. Which is impressive although I’m not interested much in ‘impressive’ rapping. I own a Twista album. I got it. But all the assonance, especially when combined with Azealia’s bitchy flow (the verses are, fundamentally, just a stream of rudely-posed questions), simply makes the rapping fun to listen to regardless of the actual substance of what she’s saying. A lot of rappers just don’t get this shit. I don’t consider myself a head and I know some people will disagree with me on this one, but, in my opinion, you can rap about the dumbest, most useless shit ever as long as you sound hot on the track. The other effect of the the assonant lyrics, is that Azealia ends up holding her mouth in a “oo” position a lot, which, in the snobby drawl she affects sounds more like an “eww.” Azealia puts that “eww” sound to work. I know I said that in my original blurb, but I don’t really know how else to explain it. It’s a concept I learned doing Shakespeare shows—you give respect to the sounds, let them resonate through your body, and they will work for you, they will help you be truthful in your circumstances. The sounds are honest. So Azealia Banks filters the tone of her rapping through the actual sounds that she’s rapping. Without ever needing to say it or even perform it, she reads as disgusted, bored, and condescending. Talkin’ shit and making oral sex jokes, she raps like a classically trained actor might, and that’s a very good thing.

crass in uk is more 'guileless/stoooopid' than 'obnoxious'

i do not like 212

my mans

sup homies

I don't hate it but I don't understand what about it makes it so alluring to ppl beyond the beat, which I like more as a standalone track.

Anna Wintour stepping down as EIC of Vogue, found out that Azealia is a Zionist and got super bummed y'all

idk if she’s a Zionist, as much as she’s just a huge racist who hates Muslims in general and Arabs in particular. She doesn’t like Israel much either.

yeah idk really had to search the archives for this one

I’m a Zionist https://t.co/OmTJ6HGTKH

— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) June 3, 2025

The rest of the thread makes it pretty clear what her motivation is.

you can never underestimate her ability to take the most irritating position in any possible situation

don't really care to argue the distinction of whether she's "racist" or "so racist she wants to ethnically cleanse Palestinians"

"is Azealia Banks Zionist for the right reasons?"

i'm not sure if she holds any genuine political beliefs, she is just a shitposter

Looking through her feed it does seem to be entirely shitposting, yes. Her taunting of JK Rowling is quite fun. Would suggest that she is not to be taken very seriously in anything.

As evil and thirsty as this lady is, at least she’s trying out some *new* lies. Sure it’s a very stupid lie, but after 21 months of the same lies over and over, it’s kinda nice to see someone trying to spice it up a bit. pic.twitter.com/zpIi9bmVNT

— Matt Lieb?? (@mattlieb) July 5, 2025

I know X the Everything App is bleeding users and has been for.... years? now so this doesn't mean as much as it used to but I'm heartened to see that her new Zionist heel turn has not gotten her much in the way of likes, like I said this is probably ultimately meaningless but I'll take what I can get

aside from the obvious creepiness, I cannot fathom how stupid Conor McGregor must be to send a DM of his nudes to Banks and think it would not go wrong for him

learning about this through ILX and not through any other channel, oh her star has definitely fallen

I would ignore her like most of you are comfortably doing but it is frankly fun to root for the downfall of terrible human beings

she's defending pedophilia now

http://i.imgur.com/s58Bbji.png

i no longer think she is mentally ill, I think she is just a garbage human

I told you that exactly one post ago

lol that “nobody cared about fucking teens until Jerry Springer” read one fucking book

It has been obvious from the jump that Azealia Banks is a garbage person

she has hilariously correct opinions like 10% of the time, but it’s all in the same tone. she’s just in Azealia world and the rest of us are observers for the shitshow

“212" reflects Banks' adolescence in Harlem, New York, and features her rapping over cunnilingus.

tbf that would be a lot more interesting

She's a bitch, she's a lover, she's an awful human being, she's mentally ill, she's a troll, she's a shitposter, she's whynotboth.gif...

“When we make love together” 🎶

I cannot fathom how stupid Conor McGregor must be to send a DM of his nudes to Banks

He was found guilty of rape last year. Unsolicited dick pics would be vmic.

jesus

Girl my dad was 47 and my mom was 14 when they got together …. Cry somewhere else loser https://t.co/90dTM3nDwO

— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) July 27, 2025

I know society really tries hard to protect the innocent image of girls and women and likes to assume that we can never be the perpetrators of such things but you are very very very wrong.

And know nothing about the secret world of women and girls, dear.

:) https://t.co/gkCYsH0WLG

— Azealia Banks (@azealiaslacewig) July 27, 2025

It’s curious when people very confidently state completely misbegotten ideas like “every 15 year old girl is fucking 40 year olds”. Like I’m sorry your experiences were so fucking weird but guarantee this is not the norm.

It's sad more than anything

Hamas do your thing

I’m coming to Israel like next week guys, it’s not a drill honey

— Azealia Banks אזיליה 🧜🏾‍♀️🇺🇸🎗️ (@azealiaslacewig) September 15, 2025

wot

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/31/badenoch-supporting-us-rapper-azealia-banks-to-attend-spectator-summer-party-in-london