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In case you missed this interview…check these quotes from controversial rapper Azealia Banks published in the Summer 2012 Edition of Paper Magazine.
Azealia spoke boldly and confidently to Paper about making her latest mixtape “Fantasea;” losing her manager, boyfriend, and record label; and holding up the music industry.
Here are a few of the highlights…
On Writing Her Song “212″:
“Nobody was listening to my music, I had been dropped from [the English record label] XL. My manager dropped me. My boyfriend left me. I was starting to accept that my career was never gonna happen. So the song was just me, like, ‘F*** y’all. Y’all not gonna help me? I’m gonna help myself.’”
On the music industry:
“The music industry is like a machine, it’s always going, and this new generation of artists – me, A$AP Rocky, Rita Ora – we’re the fuel that’s keeping it going. And once you get in that machine you’ve gotta run with it. There’s a crazy inertia that’s been going for years and years and years, and it’s not gonna stop for you, so you’ve gotta keep f***ing working. The minute you stop working, that’s when you get stuck in the gears. And that’s when it grinds you up and spits you out.”
On moving to California:
“For me there’s three options of where to live: L.A., London and New York. London’s too expensive and New York’s too exciting: too many parties, too many of my friends. If I wanna make this my life I have to live somewhere I can work, somewhere I can focus. My album will not come out in September if I live in New York.”
Cocky isn’t the word for this girl. BUT THAT’S WHAT HIP HOP STARS ARE MADE OF!!!
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