Azealia Banks: AB2 "Business & Pleasure" Half-Done & Ready For 2016 Release

[Serendipity 7,821]

Just a few months after the surprise release of her debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, Azealia Banks has confirmed the title of her follow-up LP. Speaking to NME in a new interview, the Harlem musician says her sophomore set is called Business & Pleasure, echoing her statement to Billboard when she explained the title was inspired by her penchant for sleeping with her security detail. Banks told NME she’s eyeing a 2016 release for the project, and that it’s half-finished at the moment.

Of course, it’s easy to disregard any talk of release dates when it comes to an Azealia Banks album, since the road to her debut was filled with numerous false starts and delays. Broke With Expensive Taste eventually dropped last November, three years after “212” burned up the internet, months after Banks was dropped by Interscope (after she had already been tossed aside by XL) and in the aftermath of an irrelevant Pharrell collab right in the middle of Peak Pharrell Relevancy.

 

But now that the 23-year-old has that first album under her belt, it seems she has figured out how to make the system work for her, and not the other way around. So perhaps we really will see a new Azealia album next year!

One thing we may not see, mercifully, is Banks beefing with every musician with a verified Twitter account. Because she’s a lady now.

“Am I hanging up my fighting gloves? Yeah. I’m a lady. I don’t wanna be dealing with that,” she told the British magazine. “Now, when you feel the adrenaline going, you stop yourself. I’m done with that. I’ve done it already. You’ve seen me curse people out. Let’s do something else now.”

In fact, she was even the one breaking up a fight at a recent show. Instead of feuding, she has taken up the dinner party life, often dining with Ariel Pink and Lana Del Rey.

“It’s cool because I’m really loud and like, aaagh! And she’s really reserved and dainty,” she said of LDR, hopefully while plotting a collaboration.

 

http://www.idolator.com/7592738/azealia-banks-new-album-sophomore-business-pleasure

No @Teenage Cream, @Palutena, everybody end of the world

 

WTF, inspiration = sleeping with bodyguard ew

[Pharamon 6,839]

Cant wait to hear it though

[Serendipity 7,821]

Look she's fighting Taylor now

 

She recently fired a mini-shot at Taylor Swift and Gigi Hadid over stealing her nickname "Slay-Z" for the "Bad Blood" music video.

 

 

 

[RAMROD 109,711]

I need it this year tho, AB gurl 

 

[Didymus 34,380]

We already knew that in like December. No news here.

[UC PiXELVISION 353]

So we'll actually get it ~2032. 

[Kabexuela 1,184]

Yawn

[Spock 20,290]

Kinda looking forward to it tbh. I really got into BWET these past few weeks

[Wolf 1,328]

Yay new music

[Iwontell 7,312]

How long until she starts ****ting on Lana, tho...? (it would be a fun feud to watch...all the wannabe hipsters would go insane...XD)
Hard as she is to take, AB is freaking talented, so, yeah, I'm excited to hear her new tracks...

[Tropico 4,145]

You highlited the most negative part of the article which actually had nothing to do witht he topic (im referring to the delay part).  Sure, you highlighted one part inch actually had to do with the album but left out crucial bits like possible collars and possible release dates. Your whole OP wreaks of bias.  

 

Plus, this was established months ago. 

 

And also: what exactly is wrong her with being inspired by s-xual relationships with her bodyguards? She is a grown woman with the right to use of s-xuality and freedom of speech. "Ew" is very childish. 

[monketsharona 81,942]

Look she's fighting Taylor now

​Another name to add to the list of people she has shaded 

[PEXI 250]

Look she's fighting Taylor now

 

She recently fired a mini-shot at Taylor Swift and Gigi Hadid over stealing her nickname "Slay-Z" for the "Bad Blood" music video.

 

 

 

​You should make a tumblr blog dedicated to hating her. It could be Paws Down Littler Monsters 2.0 http://pix.iemoji.com/sbemojix2/0742.png

 

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

I hope her next album will make her more popular, her incredible talent needs to be exposed to all the people.

[Tropico 4,145]

Look she's fighting Taylor now

 

She recently fired a mini-shot at Taylor Swift and Gigi Hadid over stealing her nickname "Slay-Z" for the "Bad Blood" music video.

 

 

 

It's a joke tho?