There's an amazingly insipid video floating around the internet lately: Dorm rooms full of kids going apeshit to Baauer's 2012 dance track "Harlem Shake," doing dances that have nothing to do with the actual Harlem shake dance. ( Observe .) So obviously, the time is right for an actual Harlem native, dance-rap queen Azealia Banks, to use the track as a bed for some hardnosed rap shit-talk. Download the Banks version below. Read More...
Harlem dance-rap sensation has just released yet another free MP3 out into the online ether. Like a lot of her other songs, this one has her going in over a jittery dance-music beat, this time from Drums Of Death. Unlike a lot of her other songs, this one also features a veteran New York rap hardhead: Yonkers great Styles P, of the Lox, who sounds surprisingly effortless alongside Azealia. Grab the track below. Read More...
Stereogum Harlem dance-rap sensation has just released yet another free MP3 out into the online ether. Like a lot of her other songs, this one has her going in over a jittery dance-music beat, this time from Drums Of Death. Unlike a lot of her other songs, this one also features a veteran New York rap hardhead: Yonkers great Styles P, of the Lox, who sounds surprisingly effortless alongside Azealia. Grab the track below. Read More... [...]
Azealia Banks is now off of Twitter , but her spurt of solid musical output continues unabated. Here's another one from the forthcoming Fantasea , a gurgling track produced by frequent collaborator Machinedrum called "Aquababe." Lyrically, it's brimming with bars reflective of the aqua-colored mermaid aesthetic she's been favoring lately . Download it below. UPDATE: Actually, she's back on Twitter ! Read More...
Fast-rising Harlem dance-rapper Azealia Banks has just dropped the first track from her forthcoming mixtape Fantastic , and it's easily the best thing she's done since her " 212 " breakout. On the track, her bratty flow gets impressively twisty over a lightheartedly jittery, seesawing beat from producers Hudson Mohawke and Nick Hook. Download it below. Read More...
Over the weekend, Azealia Banks posted a new track called "Fuck Up The Fun," a drum-heavy track produced by Diplo that showcases a rapid, dense flow of shit-talk from Banks. Download it below. Read More...
Here it is, the first mix of The Last Year. So far we've had a flood of good music these first few weeks of 2012, which in fairness is probably just the result of bands wisely holding back on releasing things into the holiday void that is the winternet, but let's be optimistic about it and say this is going to be one of the greatest years for music in your lifetime. Why not! All of that said, this mix is only 10 songs, but they are ten of the very best songs we posted this month, with the added [...]
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