Azealia Banks Says Her “Voice Has Matured” Ahead Of 2 New Albums

Azealia Banks says that her “voice has positively matured rather a lot” and has plans to launch two new albums. She mentioned her upcoming music throughout a latest interview with Dazed. Talking with the outlet, she revealed that she’s recorded 50 songs for Fantasea II, and one other 25 for Enterprise & Pleasure. She describes the brand new music merely as “rap,” however cites Spanish drill and a few R&B.

“My voice has positively matured rather a lot, and I really feel actually horny once I sing now,” she says within the piece. “If you’re youthful, particularly whenever you come from theatre like I do, you’re type of listening to your self as you sing to just remember to sound fairly. However I don’t care about sounding fairly. As a result of I’ve realized that I’m fucking attractive.”

Azealia Banks Performing In 2022

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA – FEBRUARY 27: Azealia Banks performs throughout the Noise Pop Music & Arts competition at The Warfield on February 27, 2022 in San Francisco, California. (Photograph by Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Photographs)

Elaborating on her new music, Banks explains that she’s by no means operated inside one style. “I do have some home songs, however a number of my class is technically digital music, and other people actually do gloss over how nice of a conventional rapper I’m,” she continues. “I’ve accomplished all the things. I’m singing opera on ‘JFK.’ I’m doing dembow on ‘Salchichón.’ I’m doing bossa nova with that cowl of ‘Chega de Saudade.’ I put out a fucking Christmas document. I similar to music.” Enterprise & Pleasure will probably be a follow-up to Banks’ solely studio album, Broke with Costly Style. She dropped that undertaking again in November 2014. Within the time since, she launched an EP and a pair of mixtapes.

Elsewhere within the interview, she discusses her retailer, CheapyXO, her frustration with individuals contemplating her to be making a comeback, and extra. At one level, she remarks, “Persons are all the time like, oh, it’s the Azealia Banks redemption arc. However who the fuck am I redeeming myself for? You have to be attempting to redeem yourselves for me.” She additionally said at one other time, “I by no means left. I’ve all the time been right here.”