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  Watch Azealia Banks Bring '1991' Back in Chic New Video

  September 4, 2012 – 1991 is more than the year Azealia Banks was born. It's the tattoo in Roman numerals on her left shoulder. It's the title of her debut EP. And it's also the name of that release's fourth and final video selection, with visuals that pay stylish tribute to the hip-house, pop, and R&B clips from the early '90s. …
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  The Making of Azealia Banks

  August 28, 2012 – The invention of Azealia Banks, the Harlem-born rapper, actress, singer, dancer, and — maybe, someday — bona fide music-industry star, took place on November 9, 2008. Some might say it happened earlier. When she was a kid, Banks danced at block parties, patterning her steps after videos by Bow Wow, Lil' Romeo, and B2K. Later she starred in plays. At the Fiorello H. …
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  Watch Azealia Banks' Frenetic 'Van Vogue' Clip

  August 14, 2012 – Harlem hip-pop fireball and newly minted SPIN cover star Azealia Banks unleashed her new Rankin-directed video for "Van Vogue," a head-thumping highlight from this year's 1991 EP. It's an expectedly frenetic, fashion-forward clip redolent of early '90s R&B visuals, shot at times in her adopted mer-vixen persona's natural habitat. …
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  Azealia Banks Is On the Verge: SPIN's September/October 'Look' Issue Is Here

  August 13, 2012 – If, like us, you're vulnerable to a '90s-nostalgia geek-out (it's in the SPIN DNA, I suppose), the news last month that 170 clips from the House of Style archive were being released was enough to have us catwalking to the bathroom to freshen up (ah, those visions of Cindy Crawford's windblown splendor encountering alt-rock and hip-hop culture, as if she were visiting exotic villages of the Serengeti). …
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  Rap Release of the Week: Azealia Banks' 'Fantasea'

  July 17, 2012 – Azealia Banks is embattled, and I love it. …
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• Azealia Banks, 'Fantasea' (self-released mixtape)

  July 16, 2012 – "Welcome to the After-Future," is how the poet Mike Ladd aptly summed up the deflationary aughts of this century. A moment in history when the choices for bold, visionary expression in popular media were reduced to Team Al Qaeda or Team Abu Ghraib, Osama Bin-Laden or Bush-Cheney. …
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  No Trivia's Friday Five: Azealia Banks and Machinedrum Go Off

  July 14, 2012 – Was it a coincidence that the original Frank Ocean, Cody Chesnutt, unveiled the Kickstarter for Landing On A Hundred, his full-length follow-up to 2002's The Headphone Masterpiece, the day after Channel Orange arrived on iTunes? Probably not. Actually, it was totally a coincidence. There's like, no way it wasn't. And I'm mostly just being a jerk about the "original Frank Ocean" dig, but hey, go give Cody Chesnutt some of your dough. …
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  Download Azealia Banks' Fierce 19-Track 'Fantasea' Mixtape

  July 12, 2012 – Up until now, Azealia Banks has been a rapper enjoying the ephemeral type of success born of giddily irrepressible YouTube videos, four-song digital EPs, and a rare live set or two. Yesterday the New York MC posted her first full-length release, the 19-track Fantasea, the 19-track Fantasea mixtape, for free download, and took the next leap. …
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  Azealia Banks Hot Dogs With Styles P on Squelchy 'Nathan'

  July 2, 2012 – Azealia Banks has joined forces with Styles P, just after declaring the Gangster and a Gentleman MC, via Twitter, "literally my FAVORITE rapper." The Gotham duo kicked off the weekend trading tongue-twisting, catchily crass verses on "Nathan," backed by Scotland producer Drums of Death's squiggly synths reminiscent of '80s acid house. …
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  Triple Trouble: Azealia Banks, Missy Elliott Join M.I.A.'s 'Bad Girls'

  June 26, 2012 – Live fast. Die young. Leave plenty of (beautiful) remixes. Former Major Lazer half Switch's brilliantly "bangin', bangin'" reworking of M.I.A.'s "Bad Girls" surfaced last week, featuring sharp-tongued verses from Missy Elliott and Rye Rye. …
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