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Azealia Banks is about to release her new mixtape, Fantasea, this week but first the rapper (are we allowed to call her that still?) has dropped a brand new track called “Neptune.”
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The mixtape is mermaid themed and so is the cover art for the new song, which features British rapper/singer Shystie. The number is a little slower and more meandering than some of Banks’ other tracks, at least in terms of the production. But don’t worry: Once she starts spitting the rhymes there is a shot-fire flow that balances out the instrumentals. Listen below:
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This is only one of 18 tracks on Fantasea. Banks tweeted yesterday that the disc will involve “15 Azealia Banks originals and 3 remixes.” She added, “I originally started this mixtape with the intention of letting go a ton of old ideas… like songs I started writing but never finished. My ideas and concepts started to develop, so I changed the title and began to try & make the project more cohesive. Fantasea is almost kind of a first album of sorts….but it happened by mistake…. It’s weird. This is a test run… I tried a lot of cool things… Sounds I thought were progressive, beats made by close friends, different flowsss.”
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What do you think of “Neptune”? We like it. We are usually partial to Banks’ more aggressive material so this feels like a new aspect of the singer being revealed. Tell us your thoughts in the comments.
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For more from Azealia Banks head to her Myspace Radio channel here.
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