Azealia Banks

or reema major this year! a lot of the time when i see people wetting themselves over azealia, i think, yall need to expand your horizons and stop reading the same blogs as everyone else

Lady Stush and Azealia aren't exactly similar though.

Or if she basically had a career like Slarta John or Richie Dan

^^^ Yes this. Given the people involved in her career and the sort of audience she's courting it's more likely that they could fuck it up completely and she could end up with some hamfisted try-to-please-everyone-actually-please-no-one Lady Sovereign career.

Lady Sovereign is a good reference point actually. Though obv they don't actually sound alike.

i still think kid sister is the closest ref point for az banks - she's kind of like a kid sis who hit at the right time

and i think that line about "i am the young sis, the beacon" in "212" is shade directed at kid sis ;_;

Yeah I'd say Kid Sister works best as a sonic comparison (the big slab of dancehall influence in Lady Stush separates her from this conversation for me), Lady Sov as an example of where/how her career might go wrong.

lol i was just gonna make a crack yesterday about it just being about the time for moka to start a thread about azealia banks

good thing she started it first

living the dream: http://www.factmag.com/2012/01/18/azealia-banks-signs-to-universal/

I love they say she's not a one trick pony, yet every track she released in 2011 was just her performing on top of a song that already existed. That's exactly ONE trick.

that's not really a 'trick,' that's just something a lot of new artists do, especially rappers, whether you think that's a valid measure of their talent or creativity or not. obviously that's probably not what she's going to do on her major label album anyway.

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.

I’ve known people who I could imagine having an animal skull on a shelf. Perhaps even a beloved pet’s skull. I would not ask how they got the animal to skull form, but I would hope it was hired out

some people are just DIY types and like making how-to videos, I guess

Others are just starving for the attention

I mean, not nearly on the same level as Banks here, but let's not forget that Fiona Apple used her dog's bones for her widely loved by ILM new record.

I once again had to reread Azealia’s wiki page section on her feuds. I forgot she called LdR “the hamburgler“

Fiona did this too?

stopped clocks, etc

xp: I don’t think Fiona made a soup

lol no, well at least not that I'm aware of. She did use her dog's bones as percussion on her new record though.

Music’s hottest new trend is “house pet hot pot”

I feel like accusing anyone, however bizarre their behaviour, of being "an attention seeker" is just nagl, can we not do that?

says the person who armchair-diagnosed her as mentally ill

what? fuck off.

this is you

self-clowning oven (Murgatroid) at 6:45 9 Aug 20
we've all had fun at her expense but I'm really concerned for her at this point (if you don't know what I'm talking about, check her IG stories)

i'm not the one saying it's a bad look to accuse her of seeking attention

to accuse anyone, not just her

this is completely normal behavior and frankly anyone who suggests otherw

Music’s hottest new trend is “house pet hot pot”

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almost everyone seeks attention in one way or another, so turning "attention seeking" into an accusation is always a proxy for something else, it's like "uppity" or "shrill" - it says a lot about your values and not much about theirs.

Okay now

so she boiled her pet to get the bones because she wanted to keep them? that's a different thing from making soup out of a cat obviously.

It is. And it is connected to, like, rituals she does. I remember she sacrificed a chicken a while back. Idk.

yeah, she's got an affinity to santeria iirc

Yeah. Not my thing but less disturbing than the headlines suggested.

she had a million dollars and she spent it all

i mean THAT'S disturbing but i'd like to see an itemized receipt

She sold her house for over 800k

pretty wild thing to post to instagram but it’s probably near the bottom of azealia’s top ten wildest moments tbrr

uh the internet says her house sold in a foreclosure for that much

meaning she still had a mortgage

Oh that sucks

well i mean how much was the mortgage

“guess that cat gettin eaten” and “fuck watching a cat” both elite-level posts, a++

well i mean how much was the mortgage

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how should i know, i ain't got no crystal ball

I would guess she had at most $212k in equity

I guess "Fuck Him All Night" was not an ILM hit.

last song of hers I liked was "Anna Wintour"

fairly certain i never actually listened to "slay z"

she just called Elon Musk "Apartheid Clyde" so uh points for that I guess

Lol my hatred for Musk almost makes me likes her for that tweet, but that line was crossed ages ago for me.

i guess that kant getting eaten!
i guess that kant getting eaten!
i guess that kant getting eaten!
i guess that kant getting eaten!
i guess that kant getting eaten! pic.twitter.com/SahMeq389s

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