MusicNewsListen to the new Azealia Banks mixtape hereBanks is back with surprise new eight-track mixtape Slay-ZShareLink copied ✔️March 25, 2016MusicNewsTextSirin Kale Azealia Banks is back. After controversially quitting Twitter earlier this month, the Harlem-born rapper made a surprise reapparance to public life with new mixtape Slay-Z, which she released for free late on Thursday night. The eight-track tape follows on from the release of debut 1991, first mixtape Fantasea in 2012, which broke Banks' international career, and her first studio album Broke With Expensive Taste in 2014. Slay-Z includes already-released track The Big Big Beat. In a since-deleted tweet, Banks alleged that she was prompted to release Slay-Z because her sound engineer was "spitefully leaking" the mixtape, before going on to add "YOU GUYS GET SLAY-Z NOWWWWWW YAAAAAAAY !!!!!" Yay indeed. You can listen to Slay-Z below. Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe 10 best music videos of 2025, rankedListen to our shadowy Dazed Winter 2025 playlist7 of Chase Infiniti’s favourite K-pop tracksMeet The Deep, K-pop’s antihero ‘This is our Nirvana!’: Are Geese Gen Z’s first great rock band?10 of Yung Lean’s best collabs‘We’re like brother and sister’: Yung Lean and Charli xcx in conversationIs art finally getting challenging again?The only tracks you need to hear from November 2025Inside the world of Amore, Spain’s latest rising starLella Fadda is blazing a trail in the Egyptian music sceneThe rise of Sweden’s post-pop underground