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"Azealia Banks has said that she is not surprised by being compared to Nicki Minaj.  The &amp;#039;Liquorice&amp;#039; 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.  &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s not something that I particularly like, but it&amp;#039;s something that I understand. It&amp;#039;s just people making sense of things,&amp;quot; Banks explained in an interview with GQ. &amp;quot;If you listen to BoB for the first time, you might think, &amp;#039;He sounds like Andr\u00C3\u00A9 3000&amp;#039;. If you eat sorbet for the first time, you might think, &amp;#039;Oh, this is like ice cream but there&amp;#039;s no milk in it&amp;#039;.&amp;quot; Banks also discussed her breakout hit &amp;#039;212&amp;#039; - which she wrote about her adolescence in New York City - and its growing popularity in the UK &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;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&amp;#039;ve just been learning about life. I&amp;#039;ve been making mistakes and learning from my mistakes: got dropped from a label, got my heart broken, lost my apartment,&amp;quot; the 20-year-old said.  &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m lucky that I learned my lessons this early, because sometimes people don&amp;#039;t learn their lessons until they&amp;#039;re like 28 [or] 30, you know?&amp;quot; Banks continued: &amp;quot;&amp;#039;212&amp;#039; makes fun of everything and my reactions to it. I think that&amp;#039;s a lot of the reason why people relate to it so much, because everybody wants to say, &amp;#039;F**k you!&amp;#039;  &amp;quot;I think by virtue of English culture being so polite, I feel like there&amp;#039;s definitely a part of every English person that just wants to be like, &amp;quot;Aargh!&amp;quot; That&amp;#039;s why it&amp;#039;s picking up so much over here [in the UK].&amp;quot; Banks recently finished in third place in the BBC&amp;#039;s Sound of 2012 poll.  &amp;gt; Azealia Banks launches Kreayshawn Twitter feud over video Watch Azealia Banks&amp;#039; video for &amp;#039;212&amp;#039; below (Warning: Video contains very strong language):       "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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