Azealia Banks - Liquorice

[FlyingJesus]

okay, first off @FlyingJesus you can snap your mouth shut about who is 'talented'. you have no right to say and i would list off a few things that you consider your talents that i've had a laugh about with others. it's not a quantitative measurement. when you get a meter that you can plug in to someone and test how talented they are, you can come back and talk. perhaps you are confusing 'people you like' with 'talented' as well!

This is totally hilarious. I said she is talented, but good try, and nice ad hominem

secondly, i am a huge nicki minaj fan. i admit i'm not as involved in the hip hop scene to have been there a week after her first mixtape but by the second and third were dropping i was in tune with it. both her major label releases have done nothing but impress me. it just drives me crazy when people think 'rap' is a concrete genre like 'thrash metal'. especially with females who rap. you can listen to a variety of songs and you will find tracks with rap that sound more like pop music (with the presence of rapping) or tracks with rap that sound more like soul music or electronic music (again, with the presence of rapping). are you honestly saying that you are going to put 'starships' by nicki minaj, '212' by azealia banks and 'lip gloss' by lil mama in a genre together? it doesn't make any sense to me.

Didn't say anything about Nicki Minaj but ok

someone saying that azealia banks is like a female sean paul is just laughable. i mean, clearly you aren't comparing the sound of their music. i'd hope not, anyways. are you comparing their careers? their appeal? azealia has not been in the public eye a year yet. let's drop the sandbags of arrogance from the hot air balloon that is your head before you compare her to someone that has been around as long as him.

No I'm not comparing the sound of their music or their careers or their appeal. If I'd been doing any such thing I'd have said so, but what I quite clearly stated as the similarity was how comparatively little I enjoy their music for how talented they are musically. I'm pretty sure nothing that I said has anything to do with ego, I merely stated my opinions as everyone else has - it's you who's taken it upon yourself to get holier-than-thou without apparently reading what I've actually put. Really Jason, it would be great if you'd learn to reply to posts rather than people

[jasey]

This is totally hilarious. I said she is talented, but good try, and nice ad hominem

oh my i know how funny it must be when people actually put effort in to replying you your walled garden of bizarre arrogance. totally hilarious, in fact. i see you've been reading the wikipedia on logical fallacies! wait, i don't want to assume. did someone just tell you what ad hominem was in a previous argument or something? i guess i have to re-teach you anyways! it wasn't an ad hominem. i didn't say "you can't decide what is talented because you are not talented in picking a skilled hairdresser," but rather i found it an ironic thing on the side that you are talking about talent so recently after i had the same discussion about your assumed talents with someone else. cheery fun, that's all! in any case, the argument stands. you don't get to decide who is talented. you dig?

anything after the first paragraph was not directed at you. if you were wondering why i mentioned bizarre arrogance earlier in this post, there's a prime example. i was addressing the general debate in the whole in that post because not only has nicki minaj been brought up in this thread but she has been constantly associated with azealia banks since '212' dropped. i don't know why you tell me to reply to posts and not people and then proceed to tell me i am 'holier-than-thou'. tom, shall i use the lovely search function to find more examples of you picking out my bad qualities when i don't deal with your ********? i can do that when i get time tomorrow or the day after. let me know, or err, if you don't want it posted i can send it as a private message. i'm big on being discrete, you know me.

cheers to your reply but i was kind of looking forward to lamar giving me a response first as i was more excited at what i had typed to him. even still, i was kind of concerned that everyone would abandon the thread as has happened in the past. for example, when i asked a certain member on this forum why their 'webdevelopment examples' were so inconsistent and dodgy in sequence. he saw the thread but never replied and then it mysteriously disappeared a week later or something. it left me wondering! thank you for always being one to pop your name in to a thread when you can.

it's crazy, i'm listening to azealia banks right now. not to throw bad words but every time i get bored of the short length that '1991 ep' is, i put on any song by iggy and realise how lucky i am as far as having a second amazing female rapper really come to the forefront in the past bit. maybe, like, iggy and kray can join together and have a little female 'watch the throne' or something. they can call it 'watch the speculum'.

[Judas]

well at least there's an actual debate happening instead of the "I lyk dis song eheh xox"

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it's crazy, i'm listening to azealia banks right now. not to throw bad words but every time i get bored of the short length that '1991 ep' is, i put on any song by iggy and realise how lucky i am as far as having a second amazing female rapper really come to the forefront in the past bit. maybe, like, iggy and kray can join together and have a little female 'watch the throne' or something. they can call it 'watch the speculum'.

omg lmao

[FlyingJesus]

I genuinely don't get what you're trying to argue here, are you telling me off for giving someone a compliment? Really not sure why me giving an opinion has escalated like this. Also I apologise for assuming that the rest of the post was directed at me but the 1st paragraph and beginning of the 3rd paragraph were, hence the confusion there. Honest mistake

[Lamz]

@jasey; oh I'm sorry mr know it all. I posted my opinion saying I find the song confusing because I think she is doing too much.

• I find her flow & attitude very Lil' Kim ish.
• Her lyrical content is very Rihanna.
• & her whole approach to dance music is very Katy B the way Katy B tried to urbanise dance.

i don't find this a good mix, yes Nicki does some crazy **** too in her music but if she is making pop she makes pop if she makes dance she'll be dance & if she makes rap she'll be Nicki. She blends into the genre & makes it a Nicki track.

With this Amelia or w.e woman I don't think she blends in with the genre that well & is trying to make an impact & stand out too much.

@Judas;]

[jasey]

@jasey; oh I'm sorry mr know it all. I posted my opinion saying I find the song confusing because I think she is doing too much.

• I find her flow & attitude very Lil' Kim ish.
• Her lyrical content is very Rihanna.
• & her whole approach to dance music is very Katy B the way Katy B tried to urbanise dance.

i don't find this a good mix, yes Nicki does some crazy **** too in her music but if she is making pop she makes pop if she makes dance she'll be dance & if she makes rap she'll be Nicki. She blends into the genre & makes it a Nicki track.

With this Amelia or w.e woman I don't think she blends in with the genre that well & is trying to make an impact & stand out too much.

ooh, lamar, you responded! i'm not a 'know it all'. in fact, i'm even more confused now as to before. i thought you heard rihanna when azealia sang parts of her songs. now you're telling me it is lyrical content? i agree with the lil' kim reference — and i'm pretty sure azealia does as well as the ep is meant to throwback to the nineties — but the rihanna thing is just absurb. you can show me some lyrical content that makes you think a manufactured tabloid pop icon inspired azealia. please don't include any lyrics referencing violence or sex or sexual violence as these are mainstays of the music industry today and can be found in more songs than rihanna has in her catalogue. not to mention, many people did it before ms. fenty.

i don't understand what you are saying in your nicki reference. are you talking about nicki or azealia? either way, it's absurb. if you are saying that "when nicki does dance she is dance but when nicki does rap she is nicki" then you clearly don't realise nicki's spectrum of musical influence and interest. nicki is not only rap and for you to tell her she isn't herself unless she only does rap is just, well, it's just so typical of the music section here. if that is not what you were saying and you were instead saying that azealia banks is nicki when she raps, i have to disagree. hugely. incredibly. there's a reason why (and i'm a big nicki fan, big up barbz) people slate nicki on pretty much every mention of azealia. they are barely alike and people see azealia as a fresh alternative to what they don't like about onika. more or less, don't tell people they can't blend dance or pop with rap. i already explained why so if you are lost for words you can go back and read my prior posts. err, also, i don't think katy b was getting the attention that azealia is getting. at all, it doesn't even compare. what the heck is 'urbanising dance'? dance music is very urban and has been before katy b or azealia banks. it's kind of telling when you look at all the dance and pop artists that have rap verses or features on their biggest tracks for years and years back. i really want to believe you are talking out of your neck but half of me thinks you are actually validating these thoughts in your brain.

i have to say that it is funny that you call her 'this amelia or w.e woman' when you clearly know her name. i mean, you listened to 212 and now you're listening to liqourice. let's not play dumb for the sake of our arguments! we know you know her name. i mean, i know you know her name.

have a nice evening, lamar.

[dirrty]

omg you care far too much @jasey; lmaooooo

[Plebings]

bloody hell at this thread

but i agree with jasey about the katy b comparisons, its very 90s dance, nothing new (but still amazing)

[The Don]

@jasey; oh I'm sorry mr know it all. I posted my opinion saying I find the song confusing because I think she is doing too much.

• I find her flow & attitude very Lil' Kim ish.
• Her lyrical content is very Rihanna.
• & her whole approach to dance music is very Katy B the way Katy B tried to urbanise dance.

i don't find this a good mix, yes Nicki does some crazy **** too in her music but if she is making pop she makes pop if she makes dance she'll be dance & if she makes rap she'll be Nicki. She blends into the genre & makes it a Nicki track.

With this Amelia or w.e woman I don't think she blends in with the genre that well & is trying to make an impact & stand out too much.

@Judas;]

Ignore Jasey, didn't you know he's always right and also happens to be an expert in just about every field of interest there is?... :rolleyes:

I didn't like it, I love 212 though. Maybe it'll grow on me...

[Ardemax]

I'm sure I've heard a bit of that song somewhere before... well it sounds familiar.

Also can I just say that, jasey, it probably wouldn't hurt to calm down...