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by Gaby Whitehill | Photos by WENN

Tags: Azealia Banks

Azealia Banks: 'I want my label to think I'm dead'

New interview. Still no album

 

Azealia Banks: 'I want my label to think I'm dead'

Photo: WENN

Azealia Banks still isn't happy with her label, Interscope. In a new interview, she's said she's been distancing herself from them - and even wants them to think she's dead.

After a promising start with her debut single '212' in 2011, which ensured her position as one of the hottest new acts to emerge that year, Harlem rapper Banks has floundered in a very public way. Her debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, was announced back in 2012, but has failed to materialise.

Meanwhile, Banks hasn't exactly been winning fans over with a series of nasty Twitter spats with the likes of Rita Ora, Lily Allen, The Stone Roses, and Iggy Azalea - and most recently with rapper TI and his wife Tiny (who Banks slammed as having "meth mouth").

Speaking to Out, Banks says she is biding her time until she can switch labels and is keeping a low profile (hmm). "Right now, I kind of have my head down," she explained. "You know, keep my head down and my mouth shut until everything is worked out and then hopefully release some songs that I've been holding onto forever."

Watch the video for Azealia Banks' 'Liquorice' below:

Adding that she's "probably going to be switching labels", Banks continued: "I can't talk about what I've been writing about because I'm just keeping stuff until I'm off this label. I can't really risk them getting excited about me again. I kind of want them to think that I'm dead. I haven't been leaking any songs that could potentially be hits.

"I haven't been releasing anything that could potentially be phenomenal," the '1991' MC added. "I haven’t been doing anything good because I don't want these people to want me. It's like a relationship with an ex-boyfriend, where you kind of do things to make him go away.

Banks has previously expressed her frustration at her label, taking to her Twitter back in January claiming she was "begging to be dropped" from Interscope.

 

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