Something tells me Angel Haze won’t think twice about kicking your ass. Whether it’s her slender, black widow looks or her lethal delivery on the mic, it’s apparent that Ms. Haze isn’t fucking around. The Michigan-born rapper best describes her musical style in the track “New York,” stating “I am zero past 100 / Spitting like a dragon that went missing from a dungeon.” With a body like Aaliyah and rhymes so dirty they would drive the Orbit gum lady up the wall, Angel Haze is starting to make a name for herself in the hip-hop scene.
The track “New York,” with tribal percussive handclaps, alludes to the common perception of the city as a jungle. Here, Haze is the guide “running running through the jungle,” but keep up because the slightest diversion could let you fall behind. For a few seconds around 2:20 into the track, it sounds like Haze’s tongue is trying to outrun her thoughts. What at first sounds like incoherent babbling turns out to be some more self-reaffirming proclamations of Angel Haze’s roughneck persona. Even following the lyrics your eyes will frantically scan the page to try and match the flurry of sounds to actual words and phrases.
Since 2010, Angel Haze has rubbed elbows with some of hip-hop’s finest rising stars. Ms. Haze appeared alongside A$AP Rocky, Childish Gambino, Joey Bada$$, and Driicky Graham at the 2012 BET Hip-Hop Awards, aviator shades on and mid-riff exposed as she led off the friendly rhyme fest. In a recent interview with Billboard, Haze talked about working on her debut album and her plans to collaborate with New York femcee Azealia Banks. Accumulating close to 30,000 Twitter followers in the last couple of years, the young female emcee is at the beginning of a budding rap career. Just don’t compare her to Nicki Minaj.