The Angel Haze/Azealia Banks Diss Track Already Exists
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 actually goes pretty hard. And it’s not shy about about calling out Young Rapunzel by name, either.
Oh, internet. We used to have to wait weeks for rappers to lob disses at each other; now we wait hours. You are a very good rapper, Angel. Your move, Azealia.
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…
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…
Harlem rapper Azealia Banks has released a new music video for "Ice Princess" off her debut album Broke With Expensive Taste. The video is not as technologically immersive as "Wallace," the interactive Google Chrome-powered single that Banks put out a few weeks ago, but it nonetheless tech-heavy; reliant upon CGI…
