Azealia Banks crammed three distinct moods -- the nimble, cutesy rapping of the first two verses, the airy, detached bridge, and the aggressive hook -- into a compact, catchy product Read our full essay on how '212' impacted the 2010s below.
, and even more difficult to recall a world that existed before her debut single, “212.” But Canadian electronic musician Jacques Greene remembers those simpler times. “Azealia had moved to Montreal for the summer [of 2011], my friend was her manager at the time,” he says. “He asked us to show her around the city and we quickly became friends.”
Her talent and eclectic abilities were obvious, she just needed something to click. “She had been working on a collection of tracks and there was this one Dutch house-sounding one that was just absolutely insane,” remembers Greene of the song that’d become Banks’ breakout. “The funny thing is that even then, I told the label it could become a really iconic track with the right rapper on top of it,” Martens says. “But of course I didn’t know anybody in that scene at the time -- and ‘Float My Boat’ did so well as an instrumental, so nothing really came of that idea. Until one day a girl hears the track, writes a vocal over it, and voilà: ‘212’ was born.”
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