Azealia Banks doesn't like being compared to Nicki Minaj.
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The '212' rapper went to the same school, LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts in New York, as Nicki and also has a similar distinctive sense of fashion, but insists they are very different characters.
She told The Guardian newspaper: "She's only had one album, and she's only been famous for a year, so she doesn't have that big of a legacy for me to be the new her. She's her and I'm me. "
Azealia is also keen not to be pigeonholed into just one sound, wants her debut album to reflect her eclectic personality.
She added: "I want to create a smorgasbord of sounds, so they'll be like, 'Oh, I get it, she's a musical person who likes to make different kinds of music, she's not just in the hip-hop or electronic categories.'"
Although she is critically acclaimed, Azealia had a rough early start in the record industry, when she was signed with Britain's XL Records, with the relationship leading her to go "into a bit of a depression" before she eventually parted company with them.
She explained: "It was almost the day I signed to XL that they started checking out. There were a good seven to eight months where I was just sending them texts and no-one would say anything or pick up the phone or respond to my emails. Nothing. And it started to ruin me.
"I was like, this is not what I worked so hard my entire life to do - to be rejected by some English guy in West Bumblefrickin' nowhere London, telling me I'm amateur or something like that. So I just said, 'Screw you!'"
A woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind without sounding bitter? (Ex: Lil Kim)? Well of course the gerls are upset... They just like pretty little things to look at...
A woman who isn't afraid to speak her mind without sounding bitter? (Ex: Lil Kim)? Well of course the gerls are upset... They just like pretty little things to look at...
