Coming to the attention of producer Diplo, she landed a deal with XL Recordings, but soon fell out with the label and had to rebuild her career, first in Montreal, and then in New York, where she came up with '212'.
Born in Harlem, New York she originally had dreams of starring in Disney musicals and studied drama at LaGuardia Performing Arts School in Manhattan, but began making up rhymes whilst she was dating a rapper and started posting tracks to MySpace when she was 17. Blazing onto the scene with the electro-rap hit '212', Azealia Banks combined endless amounts of swagger and attitude with thumping house beats and razor sharp hip-hop barbs and was quickly championed as one of the most creative, controversial female MCs to emerge in years.
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