The Rundown: Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste

A track-by-track look at the Harlem MC's debut.

Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste - The Harlem rhyme-tress made it worth the wait when she finally dropped her debut LP, which seamlessly mixed hip hop and dance music styles.  (Photo: Azealia Banks/Prospect Park Records) 

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The Rundown: Azealia Banks, Broke With Expensive Taste - Harlem rhyme vixen Azealia Banks has finally released her long-awaited debut, Broke With Expensive Taste. Check out the track-by-track rundown as Miss Bank$ proves that great things are worth the wait.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA) (Photo: Azealia Banks/Prospect Park Records)

Azealia Banks Drops Debut Album... Beyoncé Style - New York rapper Azealia Banks has become known so much for stirring up trouble over the past few years that many began to disassociate her with her incredible musical talent. Well, she reminded everyone just why she's worth the wait after unexpectedly dropping her debut — and repeatedly delayed — album Broke With Expensive Taste. To make matters even better, the album received rave reviews from both critics and fans alike with its international and culturally diverse sound, making Azealia the official comeback kid of the year.(Photo by Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images)

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"Idle Delilah" - Ms. Bank$ kicks off her debut singing and kicking lyrics about a clueless young woman wondering aimlessly through life as the world passes her by. With deep storytelling embedded within this drum and bass vibe, Azealia takes on the presence of a yarn doll that Delilah is holding and asks her lost owner, "Darling Miss Delilah.../Are you suicidal? Are you in denial?"(Photo: Christie Goodwin/Redferns via Getty Images)

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"Gimme a Chance" - This track might be called "Gimme a Chance" but the reality of it is Azealia is taking it and not asking for permission with her ferocious lines like, "The cutie from five fifth/Life like a movie, she typing her own script/What this? Young sis/Made it from the cement, started pushing her own bricks/...Know this: vocal and chosen/Opponents, leave ‘em dead in they own crypt."(Photo: Tim P. Whitby/Getty Images)

Azealia Banks on "blue-eyed" soul being "corny": - "It'll be like, 'For a couple of years, we're gonna f*** with blue-eyed soul, and here's Duffy, here's Adele' — who's great — but now we've got a thousand white girls singing blue-eyed soul. It's so regurgitated and corny."(Photo: Pacific Coast News)

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"Desperado" - The Harlem wordsmith takes the time to let you know how fly she is and how many suitors she has lined up at her door, but her lyrical wordplay separates this from your average fancy track. Azealia struts her stuff as she spits, "I be pretty, prissy, plenty plush and stuff/You be piggy-pissy, penny-crushed and crunched/Crust and dust/Slumped and jumped."(Photo: Pacific Coast News)

"JFK" featuring Theophilus London - Theophilius London escorts Azealia over this Boddika-production with its vogueish runway dance vibe. Ms. Bank$ displays her allure as she rhymes, "Assassinate the look, murdering the gown/Fashion killer the body on the ground/Get the picture nobody fit the crown/She’s the winner the lobby with the smile/Jet black weave ‘bout the length of a mile/Jet black feet while I clever craft styles."(Photos from left: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for LOGO, Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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"JFK" featuring Theophilus London - Theophilius London escorts Azealia over this Boddika-production with its vogueish runway dance vibe. Ms. Bank$ displays her allure as she rhymes, "Assassinate the look, murdering the gown/Fashion killer the body on the ground/Get the picture nobody fit the crown/She’s the winner the lobby with the smile/Jet black weave ‘bout the length of a mile/Jet black feet while I clever craft styles."(Photos from left: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for LOGO, Andreas Rentz/Getty Images)

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"212" featuring Lazy Jay - Who knew beauty could be so deadly. Azealia brings out the guns on this one as she guns for the crown. Here she spazzes with verses like, "N***a better ooh run-run/You could get shot homie/If you do want to put your guns up/Tell your crew don’t front/I’m a hoodlum n***a/ You know you were too once…/B***h I’m ‘bout to blew up too/I’m the one today/I’m the new s**t boo."(Photo: Interscope Records)

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"212" featuring Lazy Jay - Who knew beauty could be so deadly. Azealia brings out the guns on this one as she guns for the crown. Here she spazzes with verses like, "N***a better ooh run-run/You could get shot homie/If you do want to put your guns up/Tell your crew don’t front/I’m a hoodlum n***a/ You know you were too once…/B***h I’m ‘bout to blew up too/I’m the one today/I’m the new s**t boo."(Photo: Interscope Records)

"Wallace" - Azealia gets her freak on to this dance floor number produced by Yung Skeeter and lets you know how seductive she can be when the lights go out. (Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

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"Wallace" - Azealia gets her freak on to this dance floor number produced by Yung Skeeter and lets you know how seductive she can be when the lights go out. (Photo: Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

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Azealia the Scribe  - Azealia Banks definitely has a voice when it comes to fighting for Black issues and causes but her music isn’t the platform for those topics. Revealing that she's working on a book also, she stated, “I’ll give it to them in speeches and essays and this fable that I’ve been writing but not the music. I’ve been working on this fable for a long time and I’m a real author.”Currently only available on “Apple Pages” on her laptop, based on the subject matter, this should make a great read when it’s published.(Photo: Donato Sardella/WireImage)

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"Heavy Metal and Reflective" - Azealia continues to showcase her bedroom antics over this Lil Internet spaced out track and lets you know she can take your man, too, as she proclaims, "I could break ya n***a bone/Wanna bet, b***h?/I be V.I.P., I been knew cheddar, you be guest list/I be PYT, you Billie Jean, you been that ex b***h."(Photo: Donato Sardella/WireImage)

Azealia Banks, @AZEALIABANKS - Tweet: "awwwwwww they're flowers from @DonaldGlover !!!"Azealia Banks has a "secret" admirer. Early Thursday morning she received a special delivery from a southern gentleman, Childish Gambino.(Photo: Marc Grimwade/WireImage/Getty Images)

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"BBD" - The Harlem vixen lets you she's that "poison" Bell Biv DeVoe was singing about as she goes for the cake on this strip club anthem. Her baller breaker rhymes include, "Flossin' on them haters/It’s that boss, the b***h, that caker/Tricks that’s born to tip that shaker/He's forfeiting all that paper/...It’s that sporty b***h that game 'em/They calling me Super Sega."(Photo: Marc Grimwade/WireImage)

Azealia Banks - The Harlem rapper is one chart-topping debut album and six ubiquitous hits away from being hip hop’s next Nicki Minaj. But, until Azealia Banks can muster up the requisite music accolades to become a household name, a spot on The X Factor judges’ panel would suit her fine. We all know she’s not light on opinions and sass, introduce that to Simon Cowell’s snobbish approach and Demi Lovato’s catty critiques and there could be some real fireworks there.(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for HTC)

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"Ice Princess" - AaribMuzik commands the boards here and gets the crowd moving as Azealia shows how cold she can be when she enters into her mack mode. The "Ice Princess" drops her frosty rhymes and jacks women for their men as she rhymes, "I’m so cold I’m dripping icicles/I go and take your man, that n***a might miss you/Spent his whole commission on my neck and ear/To stand around me need to have your winter gear."(Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for HTC)

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"Yung Rapunxel" - The Harlem femme fatale lets you know she can command the mic and make you sweat to the music simultaneously as she rips, "Who’s cooler than this, witch/Maneuver then dip, hip like the ruger, this clip/B*****s zooted and sipped/I’m suited and zipped/Make a move or get skipped."(Photo: Sebastian Gabsch/Future Image/WENN.com)

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"Yung Rapunxel" - The Harlem femme fatale lets you know she can command the mic and make you sweat to the music simultaneously as she rips, "Who’s cooler than this, witch/Maneuver then dip, hip like the ruger, this clip/B*****s zooted and sipped/I’m suited and zipped/Make a move or get skipped."(Photo: Sebastian Gabsch/Future Image/WENN.com)

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"Soda" - Azealia switches it up with this techno dance track produced by SCNTST. Describing the track herself as a "self-medicating song," her therapeutic lines include, "I tried to hide behind tired eyes/I sigh/I'm tired of trying to try not to cry and I say soda, soda/I say soda, soda."(Photo: Jennifer Graylock/Getty Images for Ferragamo)

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"Chasing Time" - Azealia Banks is only willing to wait so long for love and is fed up with a lover who is unwilling to lock her down and has now turned into more of a homie. Ready to spend her nights alone now, she asks, "Am I chasing time?/'Cause I wasted all mine on you/Check my watch, I had the future in my pocket/But I lost it when I gave it to you."(Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)

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"Chasing Time" - Azealia Banks is only willing to wait so long for love and is fed up with a lover who is unwilling to lock her down and has now turned into more of a homie. Ready to spend her nights alone now, she asks, "Am I chasing time?/'Cause I wasted all mine on you/Check my watch, I had the future in my pocket/But I lost it when I gave it to you."(Photo: Chelsea Guglielmino/Getty Images)

Azealia Banks on the ingredients of Black culture:  - “Black American culture is essentially some adapted version of British culture, Because American culture is bastardized English culture.” (Photo: PBI/WENN.com)

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"Luxury" - The Harlem MC goes looking for love here as she flirts over spring-like Machinedrum production. Azealia coos, "I'll hip you, hip you now/When I whistle, whistle owl/I'm gonna split you, lift you, get when I hit you/With this smile, I make you, make you wow/Now I'm with you, with you now."  (Photo: PBI/WENN.com)

Azealia Banks @azealiabanks - Tweet: "@ladygaga make sure u let them know where u got the title for red flame from. U stole that from the demo I sent u."Azealia Banks is back at it again in her war of tweets with Lady Gaga. This time she's alleging that the pop star stole a title from her.(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

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"Nude Beach A-Go-Go" - Azealia lets her hair down here with Ariel Pink as this Beach Boys-sounding song takes you on a ride to the pop side. Just having a good time here and letting the music take her away, Harlem's young diva sings, "Everybody goes where the roses bloom/Come and enjoy the living rooms/By the lifeguard station by the coral reefs/Hallelujah, Heaven, Hell and all in between."(Photo: Ilya S. Savenok/Getty Images)

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Azealia Banks, @AZEALIABANKS - Tweet: "I'm the only new female rapper with her own voice. All the other girls are doing the post-nicki minaj thing."Azealia Banks is definitely not new to Tweefing, but she may have just started World War Female MC with this one, especially since Nicki Minaj has been back in the booth lately. (Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for LOGO)

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"Miss Amor" - Azealia has fun with this Lone production as she spits about moving on after heartbreak and just flexes her delivery here with lines like, "I went downtown to breeze through freaks/I got a job interview with Hebrew G/Pump-shigga-pump-parrump-pump."(Photo: Michael Buckner/Getty Images for LOGO)

Rebel Yell - Azealia Banks gives a roar while onstage at the NME/Radio 1 stage during day three of the Reading Festival at Richfield Avenue in Reading, England.(Photo: Simone Joyner/Getty Images)

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"Miss Camaraderie" - Azealia closes out her debut showing it's okay to fall in love again after love goes astray. The European dance production has her going for hers as she serenades, "Ayo hound/I might've seen, I swore I saw ya looking/Looking all at me/Admiring amor..../Be idol in my heart, oh be inspiring and more/What kind of wizard?/Wh-what a dream!?"(Photo: Simone Joyner/Getty Images)