Azealia Banks’s net worth
Azealia Banks is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter. She is one of the richest celebrities in America. She has a net worth of $2 million. Azealia Banks has several singles to her credit, including 212, Liquorice, and Yung Rapunxel. She is the winner of several awards, including New Style Icon at the Billboard Awards in 2011 and Best Single at the 2012 Urban Music Awards. Azealia became well known because of her notorious online feud with celebrity blogger Perez Hilton. She has also publicly feuded with Elon and his girlfriend, Grimes. Azealia was born on 31 May 1991, in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. After her father passed away, her mother raised her as the youngest of three sisters. At the age of 14, Banks moved out of her mom’s house to live with one of her older sisters. Azealia was interested in acting, singing, musical theater, and dancing. An agent who watched her star in a production of the musical City of Angels discovered her. The agent then sent her auditions to a variety of networks but ultimately could not secure any work. She then decided to stop pursuing acting and started writing music and rapping. Azealia Banks never finished high school but began working on her debut recording, Gimme a Chance. She released her debut online on November 9, 2008, besides the track seventeen. She has a successful career in the music industry.
Azealia Banks’s successful career
Banks signed a development deal with the XL Recordings label. She left because of conflicting creative ideas. Azealia then began releasing music on YouTube and had to sell keychains at a Manhattan jazz club and work as a dancer in a strip club in Queens. She experienced some success after releasing the song “212” at the end of 2011 on her website. It charted in several countries across Europe. She started working with producer Paul Epworth on her debut album, though she remained unsigned. In 2012, her track became the soundtrack for a Thierry Mugler show in Paris. She released a mixtape entitled Fantasea in 2012. Banks worked with artists like Lady Gaga and Kanye West. In 2013, Banks began releasing music that was to be featured on her upcoming debut album. She released her first single, Yung Rapunxel, on SoundCloud in March 2013. After releasing the second single from the album, Heavy Metal, and Reflective, in July, Banks unexpectedly released the full album, Broke with Expensive Taste, under the Prospect Park production company on iTunes in November 2014. Banks later released the physical album in March 2015. Banks performed at the 2015 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. She also posed in the April edition of Playboy. In February 2016, Banks released the first single off her second mixtape, Slay-Z. Banks launched her online store, CheapyXO, in early 2017, which featured skin care products and other forms of merchandise. Banks have continued working on the branding and content of the website.
