Yesterday Azealia Banks pulled off one hell a magic trick when she dropped her once-mythical debut album, Broke With Expensive Taste, and proved everyone wrong. It seemed increasingly unlikely in the two years that have lapsed since it was originally slated to come out in the fall of 2012, and it even less so when she was released from her contract with Interscope/Polydor in July. But somehow the spirited Harlem spitter pulled it off, and she'll have you know that she did it all on her own. She took to Twitter to let fans know that she had done it herself, "No help from polydor or interscope," she wrote. "I am the executive producer, everything," she continued. "my blood sweat and tears literally went into the making of this album."
So now it's officially for sale on iTunes and streaming on Spotify, and fans are still in a state of shock.
Breaking: Hell frozen over as Azealia Banks sets to release album, Exclusive photos from hell pic.twitter.com/lg68j1ArrX
— Buy DK3 on iTunes (@Theregoeskitty) November 6, 2014Hell has indeed frozen over. Azealia Banks has an album out.
— Alex Goldschmidt (@alexandergold) November 6, 2014azealia banks' album is finally out. hell must have been frozen over. that would explains why last weekends weather feels like a dream
— Leona *Quincampoix* (@LDNG) November 7, 2014Azealia banks finally released her album now I'm waiting for hell to freeze over and the four horsemen of the apocalypse to ride the earth
— thats somewhat Raven (@foucaulttheh8rs) November 6, 2014It's been cold in Austin because hell actually froze over now that Azealia released Broke With Expensive taste
— kian (@notkiangass) November 6, 2014Has hell frozen over?! Azealia Banks' album FINUHLY dropped
— Mikey Talk Shit (@MikeyToxic) November 6, 2014Hell has frozen over Azealia Banks has finally released her album and I am salsa dancing with the devil
— Jessie Tarlington (@JessieDT) November 6, 2014
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