Azealia Banks Parts Ways with Universal

Azealia Banks' record deal with Universal went sour this past winter, when the Harlem rapper begged to be released from the label following repeated delays of her album Broke with Expensive Taste. Now, Banks has got her wish.

Today (July 10) Banks revealed the big news in a series of tweets. She's clearly delighted by this development, since she wrote "Free at last" and "I'm gonna have a fresh start. I'm so excited!!!!" Read some highlights from the Twitter spree below.

IM ABOUT TO GET OUT OF MY DEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THATS THE BIG SURPRISE!!!!!

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

I'S IS FREE!!!!!!

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

I'm feeling like miss celie at the end of color purple.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

Free at last.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

I'm gonna have a fresh start. I'm so excited!!!!

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

Ugh, now I get to be the cool indie chick I imagined I would be when I was 14!!!

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

All of my 14 year old dreams are coming true.

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

All I need is to be a member of Interpol and my teenage dreams are complete !

— AZEALIA BANKS (@AZEALIABANKS) July 10, 2014

This presumably means that Banks will finally be free to release Broke with Expensive Taste, which she's been talking about since early 2012. At one point she gave it a February 2013 release date, but this didn't pan out, and she threatened to leak the album this past spring.