
She doesn’t have an official album out yet, just this four-song taster (admirers are directed to her mixtape Fantasea). But her breakout single “212” established her as a show-offishly gifted rapper, and the rest of 1991 backs up what it promises. Banks has a taste for club beats, an X-rated sense of humor and a gift for spectacular multisyllable rhymes. On the title track, she rhymes “Louvre in Paris” with “ruin her weave,” “juniper breeze,” “shoe with the bleed,” “Lou to the V” and “do it for free,” scarcely pausing for breath along the way.