Thereās quite a lot of buzz surrounding Azealia Banks these days and why shouldnāt there be, considering her catchy debut single ā212," which put her on the list of artists to watch.
Banks has just released her new mixtape, Fantasea, a 19-track album with her standard fiery, danceable beats and fast, aggressive, and sometimes indecipherable lyrics. Banks contextualized the mixtape a bit on Twitter:
I originally started this mixtape with the intention of letting go a ton of old ideas... like songs I started writing but never finished.
ā ā„ YUNG RAPUNXEL ā„ (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is almost kind of a first album of sorts....but it happened by mistake.... It's weird.
ā ā„ YUNG RAPUNXEL ā„ (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2012
This is a test run... I tried a lot of cool things... Sounds I thought were progressive, beats made by close friends, different flowsss
ā ā„ YUNG RAPUNXEL ā„ (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2012
Fantasea is not the last we will hear of Banks in the coming months -- her debut studio album, Broke With Expensive Taste, is set to drop in September.
To hear what all the hype is about, download the mixtape here via Banks' Twitter account. Peep the full tracklist below:
"Fantasea" Tracklist:
01. Out of Space
02. Neptune feat. Shystie
03. Atlantis
04. Fantasea
05. Fuck Up the Fun
06. Ima Read
07. Fierce
08. Chips
09. Nathan feat. Styles P
10. L8R
11. Jumanji
12. Aquababe
13. Runninā
14. US
15. Paradiso
16. Luxury
17. Azealia Skit
18. Esta Noche
19. Salute
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The Huffington Post | By Hallie Sekoff Posted: 07/12/2012 12:36 pm Updated: 07/12/2012 12:37 pm