Azealia Banks has said that she is not surprised by being compared to Nicki Minaj.
The 'Liquorice' rapper admitted that she does not think she has much in common with Minaj, but gets why people would put them in the same bracket.
"It's not something that I particularly like, but it's something that I understand. It's just people making sense of things," Banks explained in an interview with GQ.
"If you listen to BoB for the first time, you might think, 'He sounds like André 3000'. If you eat sorbet for the first time, you might think, 'Oh, this is like ice cream but there's no milk in it'."
Banks also discussed her breakout hit '212' - which she wrote about her adolescence in New York City - and its growing popularity in the UK
"I didn't finish school. I just walked away from it because I had the little rap thing going on. So for the last few years I've just been learning about life. I've been making mistakes and learning from my mistakes: got dropped from a label, got my heart broken, lost my apartment," the 20-year-old said.
"I'm lucky that I learned my lessons this early, because sometimes people don't learn their lessons until they're like 28 [or] 30, you know?"
Banks continued: "'212' makes fun of everything and my reactions to it. I think that's a lot of the reason why people relate to it so much, because everybody wants to say, 'F**k you!'
"I think by virtue of English culture being so polite, I feel like there's definitely a part of every English person that just wants to be like, "Aargh!" That's why it's picking up so much over here [in the UK]."
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