Azealia Banks

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

it's also a state wherein people see something popular or buzzed about attempt to engage that media with preconceived and/or inflated notions and walk away going "eh not so hot" less because of what the media is and more about what the surrounding response to that media is

now let's define strawman

i heard this song weeks ago before i had even even heard the buzz, and that was my opinion at that time

i don't see anyone accusing people of only liking this song because other people like it, so i don't see why anyone should be accused of only disliking it because other people like it. benefit of the doubt has to flow in both directions.

forks we've been hating on this shit since the moment we heard it, before it was 'buzzed about'

that explanation lex linked to is lol

I just went back and checked facebook to see when it was I first posted the video for "212": September 27, 2011

Not braggin (okay, maybe a little), but I was into this pre-buzz and I'm still into it now.

i'm just hearing it for the first time. sounds great. they used to call this "spank rock" tho.

that explanation lex linked to is lol

and this is tru

I just remember Alfred posting it on Facebook and saying "single of the year!" and when I played it my overall reaction was "... really?"

Basically my opinion is "it's no 'Rolling in the Deep'"

we could've ruined you cunt/ rolling in the deep

why does everything have to be rolling in the deep

It's either Rolling in the Deep or Video Games.

CHOOSE YOUR SIDE

actually if I could point to something that is the complete opposite of "rolling in the deep" it would be "212"

video games eazy

actually if I could point to something that is the complete opposite of "rolling in the deep" it would be "212"

Really? I'd probably point to Liturgy.

maybe we should just do a 'top 10 pazz & jop 2011 singles' poll to hash this out

i would point to silence

I think the complete opposite would be silence, no?

hahaha

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.

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