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Azealia Banks Goes Retro For Chasing Time Video

11/14/2014
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(Radio.com) Hot on the heels of her surprise album release earlier this week, Azealia Banks released a music video for the track "Chasing Time." The time she's chasing? Apparently the late '90s, when Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes convinced TLC to invest in a futuristic sci-fi inspired look. Everything, down to the dance moves, is a dead ringer.

Over a decade later, the future still looks to be populated by silver space suits, appearing and disappearing cubes of matter and is visible mostly in stark black and white. The future-retro costuming trend continues midway through the clip when Banks dons a body suit and nipple covering, evoking images of Lil Kim's famous 1999 VMA outfit that scandalized Diana Ross.

There's also a costume call-back to Missy Elliott's famous trash bag outfit from 1997′s "The Rain," appropriated to be a little more figure-flattering to Banks and modernized.

It's a clever slew of looks that pay tribute to Banks' hip-hop heroes but stay fresh enough for those who don't remember the fairly recent past to have a current-looking piece of video eye candy to watch.

Check out the video here.

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