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Azealia Banks stalls single amid sample fracas, blames Illuminati
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 27 September 2012
Postponement-prone MC Azealia Banks was meant to officially release her new single ‘Esta Noche’ this past Tuesday, but didn’t – she tweeted at the time – because the track’s original author, one Dutch DJ Munchi, “thinks I’m in the Illuminati”. Hmm.
Apparently, the real-life reason for the track’s deferral was not an insidious cult conspiracy, but that Munchi hadn’t granted, or even been asked for, his permission for Banks to commercially release a remodel of his 2010 original (itself sampling Montell Jordan’s ‘Get It On Tonight’).
Actually, Banks has already rapped over Munchi’s instrumental as part of her ‘Fantasea’ mixtape, but as is often the case, no such permission was sought for that by the rapper or her people, and seemingly the DJ didn’t object to the distribution of the freebie mix. However, he is seemingly now pretty pissed that Banks and her label announced the commercial release of the rapper’s version of his track without even trying to licence his work.
He took to Twitter too after Banks confirmed the delay, writing: “Bitch trying to buy me off after trying to blame me on this shit, fuck outta here. ‘$25,000 and a public apology’? GTFO with this bitchshit”.
Now on a roll, Munchi had a lot to say about “puppet bitch” Banks, not least: “Good luck being a dickriding, trackstealing, sorry excuse for a artist. Have fun with the fame – it’ll get back at ya”.
Nice. So basically, The Illuminati, unauthorised sampling and whatever else aside, it doesn’t look like anyone’s going to hear the official ‘Esta Noche’ until (if ever) Munchi and Banks reach a resolution.
Saying that, the unofficial version is still available for free, so who really cares?