the new Hungry Game movie seems like such a non event. I mean I know it's going to be a smash at the box office, but compared to the buzz around the movie last year, this one seems so uneventful.
The party line among hip-hop aficionados is that New York rap currently lacks a distinctly New York identity. There’s some truth to it. The city’s biggest success stories of late involve locals breaking out by spicing Big Apple grit with outside flavors, from A$AP Mob’s Texas screw fixation to French Montana’s trap circuit traction to Nicki Minaj’s day-glo EDM daze. But the scene in 2014 can’t look like it did in 1994 or even 2004, and it’s becoming increasingly clear that the Statlers and Waldorfs pining for a new age of rappity boom bap wouldn’t notice a new New York if it came up and offered them molly in a Brooklyn bar bathroom.
Well, Azealia Banks is it, and Broke With Expensive Taste is a reminder that the corner of Harlem that she claims is walking distance from both Washington Heights and the Bronx, where you’re as likely to hear hip-hop booming out of apartments and passing cars as freestyle, reggaeton, house, or bachata. It’s a quick subway jaunt away from the landmark clubs where ball culture persists, as well as perennial dance parties at Webster Hall and the glut of eclectic Lower Manhattan concert venues. Broke With Expensive Taste glides through all of these, just like the faithful 1 train sampled on "Desperado". Both album and the artist revel in the freedom of a New York City where divisions between these sounds and scenes have ever so slowly ceased to exist.
LOVE this and so true through omg. BWET reminds me of living in Washington Heights and working downtown and visiting friends in Harlem this year.
I feel like NicKKKi is angrily applying cold wax strips to her bushy, thick mustache and FUMING about Beg For It (a horrible song) barreling past her one month hit "anaconda"
the new Hungry Game movie seems like such a non event. I mean I know it's going to be a smash at the box office, but compared to the buzz around the movie last year, this one seems so uneventful.
I feel like NicKKKi is angrily applying cold wax strips to her bushy, thick mustache and FUMING about Beg For It (a horrible song) barreling past her one month hit "anaconda"
This is probably true. She is an extremely angry & bitter person.
