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Mar 11 2013 11:19 AM ET

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Azealia Banks premieres 'Yung Rapunxel': Hear it here

by Ray Rahman

Tags: Azealia Banks, Hip-Hop/Rap, New Stuff

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What is a Yung Rapunxel anyway? As Azealia Banks explains on her Twitter, it’s the name of a “mad scientist” and the title to her latest single to drop online.

The “212″ provocateur has finally taken a break from her various beefs to premiere the lead single from her upcoming debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, theoretically due sometime this summer. And, well, the Lil Internet-produced track is a doozy. Banks’ spitfire raps are delivered in a low register over a busy background of punishing beats and chaotic screams. “Jumanji” this ain’t.

Give Azealia Banks’ “Yung Rapunxel” a listen below:

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Aug 14 2012 01:28 PM ET

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Azealia Banks takes a dip in 'Van Vogue' video -- Watch here

by Nolan Feeney

Tags: Azealia Banks, Hip-Hop/Rap, Music Videos, Rankin

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Azealia Banks is on the verge of inspiring some excellent Halloween costume ideas with her recent music video fashion. She’s also really obsessed with mermaids, so it comes as no surprise that the Harlem rapper’s new music video for “Van Vogue” finds her swimming around a pool like Daryl Hannah.

In her last video for “Liquorice,” Banks was a baseball bat-swinging desperado who proudly rocked the American flag and some Satan horns. Here, Banks keeps the same director, fashion photographer Rankin, as well as her love of wide-brimmed hats, but swaps the baseball bat and black leather chaps for a cane and some funky pant suits. Upgrade!

The track is off her 1991 EP, which was released in May. Banks also released a free mixtape, Fantasea, last month, but she isn’t done with 1991 just yet — she shoots the video for the EP’s title track on Wednesday. Watch the video for “Van Vogue” here: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 18 2012 06:46 PM ET

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Rapper Rye Rye drops new truth-in-advertising video for 'Dance' -- Watch it here

by Nolan Feeney

Tags: Azealia Banks, Dance, M.I.A., Party in the U.S.A., Rye Rye

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There are two things we can count on in a Rye Rye music video — an ever-evolving hairdo and a feisty dance routine.

Fitting, then, that the 21-year-old Baltimore rapper’s new music video for “Dance” features plenty of popping, dropping, rocking, shaking, and whatever else the kids are doing these days. The video doesn’t show off Rye Rye’s own moves quite like her “Party in the U.S.A.” remix video, but thankfully she has a posse of bikini-clad dancers to do most of the heavy lifting (thrusting?).

Rye Rye’s much-delayed debut — seriously, Go! Pop! Bang! was in gestation longer than Rye Rye’s own baby daughter — came out last month, but new music is already on the way. Rye will join Missy Elliott and Azealia Banks for a remix of M.I.A.’s “Bad Girls,” a snippet of which has already been circulating on the Internet: READ FULL STORY »

Jun 4 2012 06:41 PM ET

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Azealia Banks drops rhymes, balloons, confetti at NYC Mermaid Ball

by Ray Rahman

Tags: Azealia Banks, Hip-Hop/Rap, Mermaid Ball, Musics

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At a packed Bowery Ballroom on Manhattan’s Lower East Side late Sunday night (or more accurately, early Monday morning), Azealia Banks had several questions. “Who’s already drunk?” the shimmering Harlem rapper shouted, whipping up the already whipped-up crowd. “Who’s already high? Who’s f—ing tonight?”

Judging by the hoots and hollers, there wasn’t a sober celibate in the house. And the Harlem hot thing gave them what they wanted, pulling out all the stops for the Mermaid Ball, which also doubled as her homecoming party. Like the glitter-clad Banks herself, the event’s underwater theme was anything but subtle. She said her sister was in charge of the decorations — octopus and seahorse balloons, free cotton candy everywhere, flurries of confetti and balloons and more confetti — but we were more concerned about whoever had to clean up. READ FULL STORY »

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