[Shaun]

-glares at Smithy-

New York upstart Azealia Banks has kept busy as of late, issuing a string of Best New Tracks and collaborating with the likes of Machinedrum and Lady Gaga stylist Nicola Formichetti. And now the rapper/singer is signed to the biggest label on the planet, Universal, as she announced today on Twitter.

"God dealt me a really ****ed up hand at birth," she wrote. "Half the **** I've been through & successfully gotten through would blow some of your minds. God just dealt me a new hand today."

Discussing the possibility of signing to a major in a recent Pitchfork interview, she said, "I want to do this thing-- and I don't even really know what the **** 'this thing' is yet-- but considering how ambitious my ideas are musically, I definitely need a label that will really get it out there. I'm not really scared of major labels. I just want to work where I'm allowed to make mistakes and do my own thing rather than get into a situation where someone else has their own agenda of what they want me to be."

[Z]

Good for her. I don't get the hype but I like what she has to say for herself, going by that snippet from an interview you posted!

[GypsyGoth]

[Jords]

/proud /excited

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

[Locke.]

I'm calling rights to the "Azealia Banks dropped by Universal" thread in 6 months time

[bbfan1991]

So pleased, really excited about her career taking off now.

[Benjamin]

[vortex]

That's really cool but I wonder if her career will really take off, only time will tell.

[Damaris]

Azealia is going to be BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG.

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Damaris

Azealia is going to be BIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIG.

When she gets dropped and turns to cakes for comfort

[Saph]

Im sure there's a town in a Pokemon game called Azealia Town

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Originally Posted by Smithy

When she gets dropped and turns to cakes for comfort

like when gaga was first dropped ha3
and didnt she end up sucking dick to get a meeting with one of the label bosses idk if thats correct but i think it was you that mentioned something similar

*****

[Shaun]

Originally Posted by SaphLiike

Im sure there's a town in a Pokemon game called Azealia Town

Azalea Azalea's a flower and a colour, most of the towns in Pokemon were named after colours - vermillion, pewter, fuschia, lavender, indigo

[bbfan1991]

MissyElliott Missy Elliott
@ @AZEALIABANKS Congratulations! On ya deal! Love the unique risky underground style! Enjoy!!

[Mystic Mock]

Who is she? where did they get her from?

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

missy has spoken

[Niall]

Okay who is this woman

[Smithy]

Originally Posted by Scott

like when gaga was first dropped ha3
and didnt she end up sucking dick to get a meeting with one of the label bosses idk if thats correct but i think it was you that mentioned something similar

*****

wow thats relevant

[Shaun]

212 came on in the club i was in my element

[Black Dagger]

The girl is fooking shocking.

[Shaun]

Youtube video

Azealia Banks has posted her new track 'Bambi' online – scroll down to the bottom of the page and click to listen.

Pitchfork reports that the latest offering from the rapper was used as the soundtrack to a Paris fashion show for the clothing line Mugler, whose creative director is Lady Gaga's stylist Nicola Formichetti.

[Shaun]

Azealia Banks is the toast of the fashion world right now. The famed Chanel designer and king of excess Karl Lagerfeld seems particularly obsessed with the Harlem-bred rapper.

He designed her a sweater just like the Mickey Mouse one she wears in the "212" video-- but with his own silhouette woven into it-- and invited her to perform at his home in Paris this week. From Lagerfeld's house, Banks Tweeted, "Listening to The Blueprint over dinner with my friends & fam at @karllagerfeld HQ", and later, "This was what Karl served us for dessert last night" with a link to a photo of an iPad also with Lagerfeld's silhouette engraved on it. Decadent!

Below, watch video of Banks performing "212" at Lagerfeld's home, seeming entirely unfazed by the madness (via the Fader):

Youtube video

[Marc]

[Shaun]

I like the blueness. -can't think of the word to describe highlights that're at the ends of your hair-