Azealia Banks sweetens it up with ‘Liquorice’

Azealia Banks released her latest single and video this week with “Liquorice.” The video is a bombastic mishmash of cowboy love, food porn and rapid-fire lyrical delivery.

It’s good, but I still wish it had that wicked lyrical hook of “I guess that cunt gettin’ eaten’” from “212.”

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