There’s a reason why the lyrics on Azealia Banks‘ latest album, Broke With Expensive Taste, sound like “literary non-sense.”
Banks has crafted a 16-chapter accompanying fable to go along with her studio debut. The story, which bears the same name as the album, Broke With Expensive Taste, was revealed on Twitter by the social media enthusiast yesterday (December 21).
During the weekend, Banks teased a slavery-themed snippet via her Tumblr account. The excerpt belongs to the “Idle Delilah” chapter, Banks says, which is “more about Delilah and her boredom.”
https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/546864224409239552
There are 16 songs on Banks’ album, Broke With Expensive Taste. “Idle Delilah” is the first track. Perhaps, each of the song titles will include coinciding chapters within her upcoming book.
https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/546749884054126592
https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/546751068416528384
https://twitter.com/AZEALIABANKS/status/546751146099232768
Check out an excerpt from the book below:
Delilah’s mother, Lilith; was a compassionate but suspicious woman. Her family was one of the most affluent southern families of the time. They were descendants of the royal crown and since their arrival in the Americas, built a fortune trading cotton, tobacco, and slaves for a living. While most madams of similar stature, were full of pride, basking in the glory of their good fortune and prosperity, Lilith remained uneasy and lived with a gnawing fear. Instead of hosting lavish tea and dinner parties to posture for other wealthy families, she kept watch over Delilah; making sure she never wandered off the porch into the fields with their Negro slaves. Lilith knew that people despised her husband just as much as they admired him.
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shits gonna sell less than her flop albums.
She’s a flop, her album is really flopping hard
this chick has something to say, nice to see it.
should be alright.
strictly speaking bars,,, her new album has weight.
So funny that this racist bitch who hates whites and white america and constantly talks about the white agenda looks and tries to make music for white people. aint no niggas or people from the hood listening to her EDM electronica european bullshit. this bitch is a hypocrite dying for attention and the only way she can is to keep TI and Iggy Azealia’s name in her mouth. Shes a racist black bitch who deserves no attention and hhdx keeps posting shit about her. foh.
she doesnt hate whites. she herself said as a teenager she fucked a lot of middle aged white guys
She’s a frustrated mad attention -seeking bitch. Her only way of staying relevant is by constantly calling out Iggy and Tip. She’s so jealous of IGGY’s success. A re-release of Iggy’s album outsold her flop with expensive taste album
Is this bitch actually pretending she’s relevant?
We wont buy the album, why are you writing a book?????
who the fuck would buy this book when we can just watch her rant her life away on twitter.
for free!!!!!!!
Ayo someone better tell her most niggas dont read books
she prolly wants to give sloppy head to riff raff
Does this girl actually put out music or does she just exclusively talk bollocks in the media? If you’re an MC, plug the mic in and spit. Then again, going off the music I have heard rhyming isn’t her strong point so maybe that’s why she’s ovulating on Twitter. “Jokes” aside, she is behaving like such thick, ignorant bimbo that she is making the people she is targeting all the better for it. Talking shit about Action Bronson?! You don’t have the vocabulary for that battle, princess….
damn right. i would take her much more seriously if she stepped away from twitter and wrote some bars for iggy, t.i. or whoever else she has a problem with.
anyone peep lupe fiasco defending iggy azalea. that shits cray.
Vous n’avez juste rien compris en fait….
If you dont get it, just leave it alone. No need for foul mouths.