搬運自：網(wǎng)易云音樂專欄【Music Online Zine Courier】（在原文基礎上添加了英語原文與排版調(diào)整）

翻譯：Beans_Beans

Because there's such a dearth of visible female rappers, 19-year-old?Azealia Banks?is inevitably going to elicit more than a few comparisons to?Nicki Minaj. Like Minaj, she's a New Yorker who attended?Manhattan's drama-friendly?Fame?school. And while this song's squelching, uptempo beat is more akin to?Kid Sister?or?Amanda Blank, "212" highlights a characteristic both Minaj and Banks share: the unpredictable vocal range of a former theater geek. In three and a half minutes, Banks delivers solid, straightforward flows, guttural yelps, top-shelf singing, triple-X raunch, and a smug talk-rap cadence that shuts down potential adversaries: "I'ma ruin you, cunt." She clicks between characters and styles casually, effortlessly. No seams. A jaw-slackening demo reel.

當前由于市場明顯缺乏女性說唱歌手，19歲的Azealia Banks不可避免地會引起諸多與Nicki Minaj的比較。和Minaj一樣，她也同樣是一個紐約妞，曾在曼哈頓的戲劇名校上學。雖然這首歌的壓迫感、快節(jié)奏更類似于Kid Sister或Amanda Blank，但“212”凸顯著Minaj和Banks所共有的一個特性：一個前話劇怪才不可預測的音域范圍。在三分半鐘的時間里，Banks提供了厚實的、直白的Flows、陰陽怪氣的叫聲、頂級水準的Vocal、三倍速的饒舌和自鳴得意的唱腔，足以將潛在的對手逐個擊潰?！癐'ma ruin you, cunt.”她在不同角色和風格之間隨意地、毫不費力地無縫切換。簡直是一個令人瞠目結舌的Demo。