Azealia Banks

^^^^^

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.

haha c'mon people generally care way more about the vocals than the music in that song

“Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips.
“Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips.
“Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips.
“Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips.

just sounds annoying and derivative to me

Pile on cause there's lotsa room on the backlash train wooowoooo

"backlash" is just the word people use to intimidate others out of vocally disliking something popular or buzzed about

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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