Azealia Banks Is An Ice Princess
Pitchfork says: ‘Azealia Banks has always been good at playing dress up. Though her star-making breakout single “212” flaunted the raw lyricism of a brash Harlem art schooler, she soon constructed a persona that was something like a character from one of that student’s class projects: a globetrotting, but still sharp-fanged, MC who rapped over dance beats ready for European runway shows and manifested visually as an aqua-haired mermaid. On “Ice Princess,” a standout on her redemptive new album “Broke With Expensive Taste,” Banks is again playing dress up, but this time the pendulum swings back in the other direction.’
