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  Hear Angel Haze Rap Over Purity Ring's 'Lofticries,' Get Personal on 'Element'

  May 1, 2013 – Angel Haze is one of a handful of rising and/or fairly established rappers featured on the brand new, DJ Drama-hosted XXL Freshman Class Mixtape. (Action Bronson, guys? Really? Dude's at least a junior at this point.) For your ease-of-listening and free-downloading pleasure, the already Broken Out MC has handily uploaded her two contributions to SoundCloud. …
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  Angel Haze Admits She Was a 'Bully' in Azealia Banks Twitter Beef

  January 15, 2013 – We were all recently exposed to what SPIN's own Brandon Soderberg dubbed the "Worst Beef Ever." After our cover star Azealia Banks made a seemingly innocuous comment about who is and isn't allowed to claim New York, Breaking Out rapper Angel Haze — an NYC transplant with a song called "New York" — used the opportunity to fan the flames of online discontent. …
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  Azealia Banks Rewarded With Sales Boost After Homophobic Twitter Rant

  January 10, 2013 – "Are Racial, Sexual, and Anti-Gay Slurs Ever Okay?" blared a headline yesterday on the Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog. For Azealia Banks, who was unrepentant after a leading gay advocacy group criticized her use of an anti-gay slur during a tiresome Twitter feud, a little controversy was definitely okay for sales.The dance-conscious New York rapper's 1991 EP has returned to Billboard's Heatseekers chart at No. …
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  Azealia Banks vs. Angel Haze: Worst Beef Ever

  January 7, 2013 – Angel Haze vs. Azealia Banks began last Thursday when Banks tweeted, "Seriously, if you were not born and raised in NY.... DON'T CLAIM NY. YOU ARE NOT A NEW YORKER." Haze, who is not from New York, but recorded a breakout song over a sample of Gil Scott-Heron called "New York," responded with, "And you don't want this fade off Twitter. So knock it off. …
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  Angel Haze Tells Azealia Banks to 'Shut the Fuck Up' in Second Dis Track

  January 4, 2013 – Update: Angel Haze has laid the beef to rest.This beef is quickly becoming overdone. …
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  Azealia Banks Fires Back at Angel Haze: You Don't Want 'No Problems'

  January 4, 2013 – Update: Haze is prepping yet another dis track in response to Banks'.Yesterday, we reported on the positively triflin' Twitter beef that Angel Haze stirred up when she took personally a comment that Azealia Banks made about what constitutes a real New Yorker. …
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  Angel Haze Puts Azealia Banks 'On the Edge' in Brutal Dis Track

  January 3, 2013 – Though they once appeared to be friends, rising rap star Angel Haze and recent SPIN cover artist Azealia Banks have buried whatever relationship they had in a mountain of Twitter beef topped with a single dis track. The entire thing began this morning, when the latter seemingly innocuously posted:Seriously, if you were not born and raised in NY.... DON'T CLAIM NY. …
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  SXSW 2013: Angel Haze, Wavves, Major Lazer, Dead Prez Top New Lineup

  December 6, 2012 – Austin music megafest South By Southwest has announced the second round of artists confirmed for its 2013 edition, which will run March 12 through 17. A month ago, SPIN sifted through the initial lineup announcement, a 230-band list that seemed quite massive at the time. Well, for this new batch, we had 583 more acts to organize. The biggest names this time around? …
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  Angel Haze Shills for Samsung With Spacy New Song 'Galaxy'

  December 4, 2012 – Which came first: the chicken, or the egg that's named after the posh nest that the chicken's just chillin' in? Like the age-old query that inspired it, that question may never be answered, but it may not matter all that much. …
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  Angel Haze: Fearless MC Spits Frightfully Intimate Rhymes

  November 28, 2012 – Who: Angel Haze is only Angel Haze when she needs to be, which is becoming an increasingly frequent — and powerful — occurrence for the young rapper. "There's a huge difference between who I am when I make music and who I am the rest of the time," says the 21-year-old born Raee'n Wahya. "Raee'n doesn't have the guts to do the things that Angel Haze does. …
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