Music / NewsListen 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. Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy Expand your creative community and connect with 15,000 creatives from around the world.READ MOREThe 5 best tracks from April 2026‘The stage is my ring’: Natanya is bringing WWE energy to popOakley Going ‘field mode’ with Kellyn WilsonDid this 90s art film actually inspire Beyoncé’s ‘Hold Up’ music video?Kneecap, Erika de Casier, Smerz and more call to boycott Eurovision PolaroidThree Dazed Clubbers on documenting a complete digital detoxEthel Cain’s Coachella stage was a ‘graveyard of American industry’TOMORA are the dance-pop superduo out to ‘connect unexpected people’If Geese are a psy-op, so is everything elseA deep dive into the fan-led SOPHIE archive projectThe secret history of Black British musicSilvana Estrada: ‘Bad Bunny is my hero, but Latin America is a continent’ Escape the algorithm! Get The DropEmail address SIGN UP Get must-see stories direct to your inbox every weekday. Privacy policy Thank you. You have been subscribed Privacy policy