Azealia Banks is back from her deletion from the twitter world, and showing how much of a bad girl she really is, just in time to drop off her first professional music video for her latest funky banger, "Liquorice," the closing track off her debut EP "1991," which is stuffed with slick rhymes and follows an insane rhythm, and its visual accompaniment is as juicy as the popsicle she wraps her lips around, and it's got a heavy taste of the old west and a unique take on some classic Americana.The dance-rap track, "Liquorice" is the first release for Banks since she terminated the services of Lady GaGa's manager and employed Coldplay's, who also happen to be her boyfriend. Meanwhile, the 21-year-old young Harlem star, is spitting explicit lyrics on "Liquorice" that could rival that of Lil Kim's "Hardcore" days, however her flow is so sick that the content might be an afterthought to the average listener. With its ravey beat and relentless rhymes, is one of our favorite songs of the year.
The Harlem rapstress unleashes her Wild Wild West side in the American West themed visual, which was directed by famed English photographer Rankin, styled by Nicola Formichetti, in a sun drenched 'dust bowl' western backdrop, with the singer in everything from leather cowboy outfit to an American flag bikini with some extra long ombre hair while suggestively sucking on a red, white and blue popsicle. It's as stylish and as slick as you could ever hope for.
The clip starts with an intro straight out of a Sergio Leone western, and as gunshot effects and two tone animations and stop shots lead into the song. As a bat-wielding, horseback-riding, shootout-hosting cowgirl, Banks gallivanting around a town from the Old West and wraps herself in all sorts of American cultural iconography, such as, baseball and hot dogs and mashes them up with the rappers own brash personality, and she somehow manages to get in a shootout with herself near the middle. Even though Banks herself is the only human being who shows up onscreen, it's still a fun, ridiculously glossy affair.
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