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June 10, 2013 Andy Cush

“No Bueno,” Angel Haze’s NSFW doozy of a new video, features a whole cast of characters lip synching or actually rapping and signing along to Angel’s verses–fat people, thin people, black people, white people, young tattooed punks, and old-timey country-and-western types. It’s great. Angel Haze is a very good rapper. And yes, as you noticed when […]

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January 4, 2013 Andy Cush

This is what rap beef looks like in the social media age: formerly friendly-seeming MCs exchange not-so-friendly words on Twitter, a track is dropped, another track is dropped, and another track is dropped, all in the scope of about 24 hours. “Shut the Fuck Up” is the latest from Angel Haze, and the hasty construction […]

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Andy Cush

The fastest-escalating rap beef of all time continues today, with the release of Azealia Banks’ “No Problems,” in response to Angel Haze’s “On the Edge.” On first listen, Angel wins handily. Azealia basically dropped a boilerplate Azealia song–all ravey siren synths and stuttering triplet flows–which, removed from the context of this Twitter-fueled feud, probably wouldn’t even […]

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January 3, 2013 Andy Cush

The Great Azealia Banks/Angel Haze Twitter War of 2013, which no one quite understands but appears to have started today over a seemingly innocuous tweet from Banks, has already produced its first diss track: Angel’s fiery, hilarious “On the Edge.” For a song that must have been banged out in hours or less, this thing […]

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