212

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]."

Awesome track. She sums up the meaning in the sung part after the second verse. Don't just pose and coast or Azealia's gonna ruin your cunt.

Cunninglingus,is just part of the song it's overall meaning is about being famous for talent rather than image or a hook. She targets fake-ass singers that pretend to be something they're not to get famous and then coast until fame spits them back out. It's also a warning to herself not to become complacent in the same way as she's said in an interview that the bridge is about her.

The eating out stuff is in reference to a female artist that pretends to be gay/bi to get famous and also just to show that Azealia, being actually bi herself, isn't squeamish about c***. She's happy to much down on her male enemies gf's too and damn if he can do anything about it.

Don't agree? This guy summed it up nicely rapgenius.com/Azealia-banks-212-lyrics

This song is about Azealia's experiences growing up in the 212 area of Harlem. It's about the attitude she took in order to survive there and to make it in the music business as a woman. She's the 'bitch who wants to compete' and is willing to play her sexuality, and men's fear of their own, as a weapon. "You're gay to get discovered in my two-one-deuce/Cock-a-licking in the water by the blue bayou/Caught the warm goo in your doo-rag too, son" could be taken as an exposure of a rivals literal rent-boy style behavior towards some power broker or other, or just a cutting and wildly effective put-down. Either way, Azealia is saying she's not willing to sit down and play nice. She's going to play the male game that is rap music exactly the way men play it. For better or worse.

these rhymes are so good.

she's such an asshole and i love it lol

This song is about the obsession and anxiety caused by the singular attention to oral stimulation of the female genitalia by the singer, which is inevitably transferred to her prospective sexual partners and subsequently intensified and magnified by her extremely high quality standards, which bring about an element of risk and daring for said partners, for the lyrics seem to suggest that failure to please her virtually insatiable urges is a very really possibility.