Racialicious Crush Of The Week: Azealia Banks

May 18th, 2012 by Andrea

By Andrea Plaid

Courtesy: The Guardian

(NSFW–Lyrics. Don’t say we didn’t warn ya!)

I crush out hard on Azealia Banks because her potty-mouth lyrics make me little-kid giggle. And her visual world isn’t an intentional stab at big-D diversity or that dreaded p-word (“post-racial”), but a place, I think, more people live in than the media–be it a fictive universe or the real world--would want us to believe or give us credit for.

I know her jam, “212,” is the It Track now. But it’s not the song that I like so much as the video: there’s something just so performance-school Black fun seeing Banks bouncing in front of the camera with her male pal (which is a rare moving image to see in rap videos), rapping hard in the ear of that Everything-Is-Illuminated-Elijah-Woods-looking white guy, and then licking her lips with a “yeah, I did” sureness (video after the jump):

Or in this 2-minute vid (“L8R”) of silly-naughtiness boasting set at an afternoon barbeque:

But like I said, I don’t love those cuts as much as I giggle and wiggle to Banks’ “Liquorice”:

Here are the lyrics (the explanations are from and Rap Genius, though I have some serious side-eye about “cunnilingus being a “submissive act.” Another post for another day…;-)):

Look, niggas really wanna beat they chests, for B-A-N-K-S

These niggas be gorillas for the pin-k flesh

These niggas be vanilla, the chips be legitimate

They just want the pumpernickel sis in the linens with em

So since you vanilla men spend, can my hot fudge bitches get with your vanilla friends?

Hey, I’m the liquorice bitch, you know I’m looking for these niggas if these niggas is rich

I make hits , motherfucker, do you jiggle ya dick when ya bitch pop singing on the liquorice hit, ya know?

[HOOK]

CAN I CATCH YOUR EYE, SIR?

CAN I BE WHAT YOU LIKE, YEAH

I COULD BE THE RIGHT GIRL

TELL ME IF YOU LIKE YOUR LADY IN MY-MY COLOR