Azealia Banks' 'Fantasea II' Project Is Expected to Drop Very Soon

The rapper announced she will release the project in March via Entertainment One.

January 10, 2018

Azealia Banks says “mermaid season” has officially begun.

More than five years after she released her debut mixtape Fantasea, the 26-year-old Harlem rapper announced she will deliver its long-awaited follow-up in 2018. Banks shared the news Monday via Instagram, writing: “Okay guys !! so Fantasea Two the second wave is going to be released via @entertainmentone In March 2018.”

The project will mark Banks’ first full-length release since her 2016 self-released tape Slay-Z. In a 2017 interview with XXL, she spoke about reworking the project and her decision to change Fantasea II from a mixtape to a full-fledged album.

“We're gonna be redoing Slay-Z, just because there are a couple of songs on Slay-Z that didn’t really get their chance, and I think that, coupled with some new material, Slay-Z can actually have her moment in time,” she said. “Then after that, it’s Fantasea II, which is gonna be an album instead of a mixtape. It’ll be a follow-up to Fantasea. Then after that, it’s Business & Pleasure, which is the proper follow-up to Broke With Expensive Taste.”

We’ll see if everything goes according to plan.

Last summer, Banks shared a now-deleted Instagram post that featured a list of lofty goals: “If I can manage to get signed by JAY-Z, have him pickup Slay-Z (a no brainer), release the iggy collab, get Kanye to give me this beat (for free lol), release Fantasea II: The Second Wave on TIDAL (so fitting), and get Lionsgate to release CoCo, all my little rap bitch dreams will be complete,” she wrote, before adding, “I’ll sign a gag order I don’t care lol. I want to sign with JAY-Z.”

Clearly, she’s wasting very little time in 2018.

On Monday, Banks called on her fans for financial help to make a video project happen. She posted a breakdown of the budget, which totaled nearly $100,000. The rapper is aiming to film the video at the end of the month and premiere it on Valentine’s Day.

“I really want to make this project a reality. And where there’s a will there’s a way,” she wrote. “Let me figure out a way to do this … even if I get half ! I will be good!”