Theory: Azelia Banks was purposely held back/allowed to publicly self destruct because...

[Clapsteel O'Neal]

When 212 popped off bish was over here in London wilin out with the local hipster diccheads. Foh. She's been washed.

 

[trillanova]

We should revisit this conversation. It only got worse since then.

 

[Street Knowledge]

She talked WAAAAAY to much shyt about top people for someone who essentially has no clout in the music industry

 

[BigMan]

Or she’s just not that good and absolutely batshyt crazy

 

[Jaguar93]

What a dumb ass theory

 

[Don Homer]

she's a complete moron and she's not talented enough that people think they need to put up with her bullshyt. A bytch with no talent burning every bridge she ever crossed is a bad combination. That's why her career is over

 

[Yayo Toure]

If she kept her mouth shut she'd be up right now. Music moved to where she was trying to take it a decade ago.

 

[kt773]

She talked WAAAAAY to much shyt about top people for someone who essentially has no clout in the music industry

Stop trying to make her impact more than what it was, it’s not what she was saying …she’s just not marketable aka she wasn’t able to make them money due to her crazy ass

 

[trillanova]

she's a complete moron and she's not talented enough that people think they need to put up with her bullshyt. A bytch with no talent burning every bridge she ever crossed is a bad combination. That's why her career is over

She's definitely not a moron and she does have talent. I think she burned alot of bridges, but she was and still is speaking truths on alot of bullshyt behind the scenes.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Her music is good, it’s her attitude

 

[⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐]

Her music is good, it’s her attitude

You're gonna need good examples to justify this

 

[King Sun]

the establishment/society didn't want the positive upbeat house music vibes infiltrating the destructive trap hop that they flooded the industry with.

this is not to say Azelia didn't do some straight up crazy stupid shyt, but from the jump, she was the most Influental, creative female out of her group and I could easily argue her being one of the most original dope artists of the last decade. for those of you reading that last sentence, you should definitely take a listen to her early music. now if you've never actually been to a real party with true house music by a real house DJ, it might be difficult to understand why this type of music alone is so powerful. The fact that AB blended it so perfectly and effortlessly on beat with flow and lyrics was never done before....not consistently.

I believe she had the type of music that could easily transcend genres and taken hip hop to it's rightful place OVER POP. See, Nicki was doing a poor man's Azelia the whole time she was in her pop lane, but couldn't really flow over a house beat with the finesse and flawless execution Azelia did. The type of beats she would kill even the best MCs we herald today couldn't catch or do anything with it.

Overall House Music is very positive and upbeat and puts you in a really good mood. I like alot of trap but it we're being honest it's mostly self destructive, vain and empty repetition over a hard ass beat. Occasionally you'll have some artist that break the mold, but as a whole, this is the direction that the culture went in and now has took a turn for the worst.

I'm not saying Azelia was hip hop's last great hope or that house music should've been the new wave for hip hop, but we did miss out on a vibe and a wave that could've been more uplifting. During her come up it seems Nicki got the push then a literal carbon copy aussie backed by the king of the trap himself was pushed to the top....as if to totally erase her from existence.

What ya'll think?

Nah man she crashed out on people and until this hates people that look like her thats getting more looks. If anything shes an example of black people needing to take clinical mental health serious and not try to self medicate.

 

[Harry B]

I guess that's why they are trying to push afro-beats, latin beats, and shyt like that globally
Labels care about one thing, the same thing most companies care about, the bottom line.


Also she was only with the majors for like 1 year before she signed to an indie label.