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Celeb News: Azealia talks Second and Third album
Member Since: 8/31/2013
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Originally posted by Saint
The full interview is everything and more!
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i'd quote some parts but i dont really know what part so lol
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Originally posted by Azealia Banks
i'd quote some parts but i dont really know what part so lol
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Lol. You can just quote some of the good & informational parts like her talking about Kendrick, Business & Pleasure, her book, & her thoughts about toning things down. I'd say you could also quote the sales they list but I don't want people in here trying to drag her and take away from what she's accomplished 
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Originally posted by Saint
Lol. You can just quote some of the good & informational parts like her talking about Kendrick, Business & Pleasure, her book, & her thoughts about toning things down. I'd say you could also quote the sales they list but I don't want people in here trying to drag her and take away from what she's accomplished |
Well people said her # of tweets is bigger than her sells but she hasnt tweet 31k times.
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Does someone know how to adjust the images and make them smaller?
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She looks hot. 
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They hella photoshopped her to look chubby, its weird! She does not have an ass like that and her legs are not thick af.
I love the pic of her doing the Lana pose (for GQ I think?) in the nude. She looks good!
The interview, I feel bad for her at times but then others she really gets on my nerves. I feel like she'd be way more successful and in the mainstream if she had just taken advice given to her and done the things people that know better than her said. Like this "I know everything attitude!!!" is good to have in certain situations but not in the music business. I mean she's doing her so I can't hate on that, but I've always just wanted more of AB.
Honestly tho, I'm not too crazy about this shoot. There's a lot of awkward posing and unflattering shots. The only shots I like are the sitting down in the nude one, the over the shoulder close up, and the one on the couch.
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Ezra Koenig about Azealia:
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"The first time I met Azealia was at a bar in New York with a bunch of music-industry types," says Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig. "She was responding to a drunk, middle-aged white guy's provocations with 'your mama' jokes. I love her combination of truth, passion and irreverence. You hear it in her music, too."
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Ilana Glazer and DJ Ebro Darden about Azealia:
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"Azealia Banks is a prodigy and tortured artist," Broad City actress and Banks fan Ilana Glazer tells Billboard. "It's exciting that one of those actually exists today." Hot 97 executive and DJ Ebro Darden says, "She may come out as aggressive, emotional and angry, and once they tag you with that angry or bitter tag, it discredits what you are trying to say. But I think what she's trying to say" in relation to the frustrations of black women who feel undervalued "is very important."
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212 Release
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But because she was "prideful," she decided to release "212" on her own, recording the track in a friend's bedroom and premiering it on YouTube with a black-and-white, micro-budget video in which she bounced around in a dirty Mickey Mouse sweatshirt while smirking at the camera. The song made the 19-year-old an instant star, New York's new resident cool girl, and eventually sold 250,000 copies after she put it out digitally, according to Nielsen Music
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BWET Release:
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So she started to take back control. "I don't turn to anyone for advice," she explains. "I do what I want." Banks surprise-released Broke With Expensive Taste on iTunes in November 2014 -- although she didn't put out a physical CD until just now, on March 27, and in total the album has only sold 31,000 copies, according to Nielsen Music. Still, the music is as dense and exciting as "212," pulling from a seemingly endless pastiche of influences, including garage rock (grungy California singer Ariel Pink produced "Nude Beach A-Go-Go"). And Banks will tour this year with a full band for the first time -- a woman she met "in the nail salon, who does PR" recommended the group -- starting with a major kickoff show at Coachella. "Everyone told me she was unmanageable and difficult," says Prospect Park chairman/CEO Jeff Kwatinetz, her manager since September 2014. "She had a lot of history, a lot of challenges. But she's the most talented artist I've ever worked with." The goal for 2015? "To get people to focus on her music."
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Her Fable:
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Banks reads from the opening chapter to her story: "Once upon a time there was a container and the container was filled with space. Inside the space was white light and dark matter ..." She reads for a half-hour, telling a metaphysical allegory that reveals her frustration with race relations in America. It's more veiled than the way she approached the subject in her Playboy interview, demanding reparations for slavery and its aftermath.
With the book, Banks wants to show people how her mind works -- how deeply she actually thinks about both her music and the bombastic words that she says online.
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Her manager on Playboy:
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Says Kwatinetz (Manager), "My immediate reaction to Playboy's offer was, 'No f--ing way.' I asked other people around the office, though, and they said, 'There could be something here.' " Even though she disavows it as any kind of statement, Banks clearly thinks of the pictorial as an act of defiance, maintaining that "people are so repulsed by me, because I'm such a polarizing figure, that no one really wants to see me naked."
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Business & Pleasure:
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In real life, she volunteers, "I sleep with my security guards. I love security guards. They're these big meathead bald white guys with blue eyes. And I have had sex with a lot of my female friends. It's a proximity thing. It's why I am going to call my next record Business and Pleasure, because I'm always mixing the two."
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The parts that are important imo lol
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Originally posted by Eros
They hella photoshopped her to look chubby, its weird! She does not have an ass like that and her legs are not thick af.
I love the pic of her doing the Lana pose (for GQ I think?) in the nude. She looks good!
The interview, I feel bad for her at times but then others she really gets on my nerves. I feel like she'd be way more successful and in the mainstream if she had just taken advice given to her and done the things people that know better than her said. Like this "I know everything attitude!!!" is good to have in certain situations but not in the music business. I mean she's doing her so I can't hate on that, but I've always just wanted more of AB.
Honestly tho, I'm not too crazy about this shoot. There's a lot of awkward posing and unflattering shots. The only shots I like are the sitting down in the nude one, the over the shoulder close up, and the one on the couch.
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She's not that skinny now, have you seen her in her live videos in tokyo or photos lately? she's getting thick
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Originally posted by Eros
They hella photoshopped her to look chubby, its weird! She does not have an ass like that and her legs are not thick af.
I love the pic of her doing the Lana pose (for GQ I think?) in the nude. She looks good!
The interview, I feel bad for her at times but then others she really gets on my nerves. I feel like she'd be way more successful and in the mainstream if she had just taken advice given to her and done the things people that know better than her said. Like this "I know everything attitude!!!" is good to have in certain situations but not in the music business. I mean she's doing her so I can't hate on that, but I've always just wanted more of AB.
Honestly tho, I'm not too crazy about this shoot. There's a lot of awkward posing and unflattering shots. The only shots I like are the sitting down in the nude one, the over the shoulder close up, and the one on the couch.
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Her ass is actually like that though, probably a little photoshopped but just to touch up. Her legs are still skinny anyways. Shes been eating good tho.
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When do the HQ's come out?
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Originally posted by cherrygoddess
When do the HQ's come out?
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when someone buys the magazine 
or someone who's suscribed to the digital thingy, they get it on ipad/iphone and its HQ but i havent seen any
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I like the title Business & Pleasure. I'm guessing Dr. Luke's production will be on that album since they worked together (at least I'm hoping it will)
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Originally posted by Jezang Looz
I like the title Business & Pleasure. I'm guessing Dr. Luke's production will be on that album since they worked together (at least I'm hoping it will)
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It will be on Fantasea 2
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I like that album title. The reasoning behind the title is an absolute mess, though.
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Originally posted by Azealia Banks
when someone buys the magazine
or someone who's suscribed to the digital thingy, they get it on ipad/iphone and its HQ but i havent seen any |
Oh i thought they would come out through Billboard 
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Originally posted by Azealia Banks
hihi
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Originally posted by Azealia Banks
She's not that skinny now, have you seen her in her live videos in tokyo or photos lately? she's getting thick
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Originally posted by cherrygoddess
Her ass is actually like that though, probably a little photoshopped but just to touch up. Her legs are still skinny anyways. Shes been eating good tho.
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Yeah she's gained a little bit of weight which is not a bad thing at all because omg she was getting SO skinny.
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In real life, she volunteers, "I sleep with my security guards. I love security guards. They're these big meathead bald white guys with blue eyes. And I have had sex with a lot of my female friends. It's a proximity thing. It's why I am going to call my next record Business and Pleasure, because I'm always mixing the two."
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 I just ****ing love her, she's such a damn character.
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Originally posted by Eros
I feel like she'd be way more successful and in the mainstream if she had just taken advice given to her and done the things people that know better than her said.
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..Seriously? Like collaborating with Pharrell? If she had done what people had wanted she'd still be recording, still sitting on her album. She's way more exciting since she became independent. Azealia isn't built for the major label recording style. It might work for others who need that structure and people to tell them what to do, but not her.
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Nice to see a US sales stat for 212. That's 750k between the UK & US.
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business & pleasure
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Oh my god, she looks so pretty!
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