Friday, May 11, 2012

"Jumanji" Azealia Banks

Since setting the blogosphere ablaze with last year's tenacious, outrageous "212," Harlem rapper Azealia Banks has been touted as the next big thing in music. While we await her full-length debut later this year, she's keeping fans satiated with a June mixtape, led by single "Jumanji." Full of blaring trumpets, tinkling steel drums and a pounding timpani, the track is like a jungle party where every animal is invited. That includes Banks herself, whose rapid-fire, tongue-twisting delivery is impressive to behold. Though she doesn't offer any snappy one-liners on the level of "I guess the cunt's getting eaten" this time around, "Jumanji" is still just as much a "jammer" as promised. B

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