Angel Haze

but she has so many twitter followers! xxp

"gypsy letters" is so gorgeous

though haze's "fall for your type" from the year before really does set a high bar for her love songs

my main gripe with banks is that she hasn't really settled on a "sound" and i don't get the sense that she's experimenting as much as she just doesn't have a good grasp on what she wants her music to be. she can still make good tracks regardless but over the course of a full length it feels a bit amateur to me.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, January 3, 2013 2:08 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

She seems to have stuck pretty consistently with the whole neo-hip-house thing.

I always forget that I like "1991".

It sounds great in jackin sets.

i think "1991" was the last song i put on my EOY trax list, it's decent

what most disappointed me about banks last year was how rarely she seemed to match the beats she choose, her vox fell flat so much of the time

and that's true of her new one too

One thing I'll say frustrates me about her is, "212" aside, she seems better at coming up with memorable pieces of songs than memorable songs. Like I'll constantly get bits of her tracks stuck in my head, but have no idea which song they're from.

totes

even "212" is basically three or four cobbled bits.

that's sort of why fantasea sounded good to be but also why it made me doubt that she has a solid proper LP in her right now

wrote about this at length on tumblr, but basically, azealia is great when she is great but has poor quality control.

and yeah, angel's colorist bullshit was out of line, but i'm actually impressed with how quickly she apologized, even in the context of a beef? it's rare that quasi-famous folks recognize when they've crossed a line and accept responsibility immediately instead of after doubling down and getting gross for a while.

and yeah, love reservation, tho love the best AZ tracks more than all but Werkin' Girls, Hot Like Fire, Gypsy Letters and New York. But still...1991 and Esta Noche aside, Banks is... inconsistent at best.

really all this beef did was remind me that even though i actually love 5 or 6 azealia songs, i am so ~tired~ of her simultaneously getting to be a big gay icon among (in my experience) mostly gay men, esp. white gay men who are really into trying on and playing with the language and culture of the ballroom/vogue scene while also (them and her) being constantly and intensely transphobic and occasionally homophobic.

like. Angel was over the line. But Azealia trying to knock down another queer woman by saying she has an adam's apple and that she needed to "fix your tuck" because "your dick is showing" or whatever? awful awful awful on so many levels.

she peppered a couple of Fantasea tracks with similar ridiculousness & I think she called Jim Jones a faggot during their twitter beef?

all the ab tracks ppl hold up as highs (post 212) have been really forgettable to me

^^ yep. But I can't say she's disappointed me because as much as I loved "212" she already sounded like a one-hit wonder.

like. i dunno. neither of them came out of those particular statements looking great (although, angel's other insults were pretty amusing), but one of them recognized that she said something fucked up and apologized for it, and the other has and continues to insult people by implying that they're trans, while making music heavily indebted to trans folk.

i know it has nothing to do with the quality of the music (and that this is actually about azealia) but it's so tacky.

and way grosser than text message convo cover art, no matter how unethical it is.

anyway, back to listening to reservation.

I feel like with Haze it's more like I really like a few of her songs a lot and the rest just bores me.

xps, yeah both of them have said some total bullshit today and neither of them have come out of this looking good, but big ups to Haze at least for copping to it and apologizing for the dumb shit she said.

yeah that is v shitty good posts alex

haha oops https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/286971736405204993

lol

They're chucking metadata at each other now. I'm out!

wow....not at all surprised though.

lol! That was kinda awesome.

damn, mcafee'd

haha oops https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/286971736405204993

― hemioblock (The Reverend), Thursday, January 3, 2013 5:18 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whatd it say?

that the track she said she recorded in 20 minutes was actually recorded in 2012

does angel's response that the track was produced then but not the vocals make sense?

or is that nonsense?

this is getting stupid

its like ilx beef

[hemiola joke]

unless she recorded it directly over the beat in the same file, but that's generally not how recording works xxxp

what's beef? beef is when you talk about hemiola and chief keef

too many syllables, you're rapping like angel haze

you make her sound like talib kweli

don't insult volcanic lahar's rapping skills

you make her sound like talib kweli

― hemioblock (The Reverend), Friday, January 4, 2013 12:02 AM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Bingo. She is the female kweli, more or less.

...

i know, redundant huh

i thought his homegirl greezy had that spot on lock

yeah Grae is unquestionably the female Kweli (although she is fun on twitter)

so is Kwe!

so why did this whole thing start today

because AB thinks she has to defeat every other female rapper mini-boss before she can face Bower Minaj for supremacy

er Bowser shit

AB said some shit about people not originally from NY claiming New York, AH took it as a sneak diss

that dis track is great. seems too timely to have been recorded much earlier? i don't pay any attention to banks. does she do dis tracks etc. or just twitter beef?

AB specializes at making great instrumentals slightly worse

cool beef between two really important artists

cool post from really important ilxor

dag