Azealia Banks

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

on "1991" she bites missy so much i have to actively remind myself it's NOT missy

on "1991" she bites missy so much

mmmm

which dude? because one of them is jacques greene

did you guys like the new video?

xp and the other is Lunice

lol the "1991" video is just an extended advert for her new lipstick

she does look great in it though, great song

My best friend directed that video. He said she wanted a 90s vibe a la "Vogue" but he needed more reference material. So I sent him links to New Order "Round and Round", Cathy Dennis "Touch Me", Stevie V "Dirty Cash", D-Mob etc.

My girlfriend's a big fan and played me some of the Fantasea mixtape yesterday...woahhhh, one of the tracks samples Claudja Barry's 'Love for the Sake of Love'. Which was rad as it meant I got to play her DJ Harvey's Sarcastic Disco mix in return.

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

Ah, right, that makes more sense. Fun to imagine Azaelia being into Harvey tho.

funny that this board is still pretending she's not a "thing" right now.

safe board

http://www.youtube.com/v/HxZrAIyaY-M&fs=1&hl=en

Is Fantasea worth listening to? I haven't got much further than putting it on, hearing the Prodigy and thinking "nah, can't be arsed right now".

not especially imo

fantasea is a mixed bag. there's nothing particularly exciting on there that you haven't heard from banks before and there's nothing as polished as the 1991 EP.

with the exception of esta noche, the aforementioned montell jordan flip, which i love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTeSsV_2sLE

and maybe 'fierce' but probably not.

there were two or three OK tracks but I couldn't be bothered remembering which ones and keeping them

perfect Crystal Waters 90s house rap vogue realness

quite a bit of the... real.... vogue realness out of nyc is complaining that no one's seen her in the scene before and she's just jocking lingo

dunno/care/w/e

the montell jordan flip comes via munchi, whose original 'esta noche' she is basically just rapping over

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFEpj_zJgF4

tight song regardless

RT @AZEALIABANKS Just met Samantha Cameron... She told me she loves 212...... *mind blown*

lol @ this, makes a lot of sense tbh

aw I was hoping this would continue the trend of ppl reviving this thread to say "I can't believe no one's talking about Azealia Banks here"

quite a bit of the... real.... vogue realness out of nyc is complaining that no one's seen her in the scene before and she's just jocking lingo

dunno/care/w/e

― fauxmarc, Tuesday, September 11, 2012 11:16 AM Bookmark

ha, basically

WTF she is playing at the London Aquarium?

Aquababe, Mermaid Ball, etc

presumably

I guess that carp getting eaten.

RT @AZEALIABANKS Just met Samantha Cameron... She told me she loves 212...... *mind blown*

i can't remember where i read this but "i guess that cunt went to eton" ftw

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).