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JANUARY 2013

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Azealia Banks

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her opinions about Nicki Minaj,a fellow outspoken female MC, and graduate of New York’s LaGuardia High School (known to most as the setting for the movie Fame [1980]). “I don’t want to talk about Nicki Minaj anymore,” Banks groans. “At this point, I’m being scrutinized for everything.” Understand-ably, Banks doesn’t want any-thing to mitigate her speedy trajectory. She’s already col-laborated with Paul Epworth—hitmaker for the likes of Adele and Florence + the Machine—and signed a major-label deal with Universal, which will release her debut album this fall. Karl Lagerfeld even invited her to perform at his home in Paris at a gala celebrating the launch of his new line, Karl. It’s all been quite a journey for Banks, whose current jet-set lifestyle belies her hardscrab-ble beginnings: Her father died when she was 2, and she was raised in Harlem by her moth-er. “Nowadays when I walk around, I get noticed, which is kind of weird,” Banks says. “It’s really just starting to hit me. For me, a 20-year-old girl from Har-lem, it’s like . . . What?”

“They’ll forget your name soon,” Azealia Banks warns haters in her breakout Internet smash, “212.” Banks herself shouldn’t worry about fad-ing from pop-culture memory anytime soon. The 21-year-old New Yorker has proven to be one of music’s most intrigu-ing new shape-shifters since she started posting songs and videos online a few years ago. Fast-forward to today, and her cheeky black-and-white video for “212” has amassed more than three million-plus YouTube hits. What’s fresh about Banks is how she combines audacious charisma with lyrical naughti-ness and genre hop-scotching: Over ultrafuturistic dance grooves, she sings like a bird (check out her glistening cover of Interpol’s “Slow Hands”) and spits rhymes like a sexpot (“I guess that cunt gettin’ eaten” goes the unforgettable hook of “212”), forging an irrepressible persona in the process. “The beats are like scripts, and the raps are my monologue,” says Banks, who studied musical theater before she took to the mike. Her frankness also makes for good copy: Her shots at newcomer Kreayshawn made their way around the Web in January, and she’s also voiced

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For a while now, Solange Knowles has been one of those singers you feel warmly about. She has a beautiful voice, impeccable style, and a perfect instinct for what’s cool. Her songs have always been good—though never quite great, never quite hits. Until now. Her new EP True is great. A collaboration with her producer Devonté Hynes (a musician in his own right, Hynes records under the monikers Lightspeed Champion and Blood Orange), the collection of seven songs, out today, has sent ripples across the music world, pleasing fickle bloggers and established critics alike. Among fans, the music video for the

EP’s catchy first single “Losing You” has been a sensation.

It’s hard not to see Solange Knowles as the Janet to Beyonce’s Michael Jackson: a younger, edgier more human sibling to a superstar. Although the 26 year old singer/songwriter remains largely unknown here, she has been making music since 2001, releasing two solo albums and performing on several occa-sions with her older sister’s group Destiny’s Child. But Solange never became a permanent member, and thank heavens for that, for this is a gifted artist

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