| "Escapades" | ||||
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| Promotional single by Azealia Banks | ||||
| from the album Fantasea II: The Second Wave | ||||
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| Recorded | 2013–2017 | |||
| Genre | EDM | |||
| Length | 4:04 | |||
| Label | Chaos & Glory Recordings | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Azealia Banks | |||
| Producer(s) | O/W/W/W/L/S | |||
| Azealia Banks singles chronology | ||||
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"Escapades" is a song recorded by American rapper Azealia Banks for her planned second album, Fantasea II: The Second Wave. O/W/W/W/L/S handled production of the song , while the song was penned by Banks alone. [1] The original version of the song was released as a free streaming single, on June 26, 2017, to Banks' SoundCloud. [2] A "radio edit" of the song was released to SoundCloud on August 9, 2017. On September 1, 2017, Banks released the final version of the song to iTunes. [3]
The song was originally conceived as the unreleased track "Bizarra", produced by Disclosure, which was intended for Banks' debut studio album Broke with Expensive Taste . Banks has said that she will be solely singing on the track, and has described it as "very orgasmic" although not being "a sexual song," with more singing than rap. [4]
Anna Gaca, a writer for Spin , described the first two of the three versions of the song as "works-in-progress". [5]
| Country | Date | Format | Label | Ref. |
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| Worldwide | June 26, 2017 | Streaming | Self-released | [1] |
| August 9, 2017 | Streaming (Radio Edit) | Self-released | [6] [7] | |
| September 1, 2017 | Digital download | Chaos & Glory Recordings | [3] |