Iggy Azalea
For those keeping tabs, Jill Scott and Eve were asked about cultural appropriation in Hip-Hop, so of course Iggy Azalea came up. The R&B chanteuse was quite diplomatic when discussing Azalea’s “blaccent,” but nevertheless the Grand Hustle rapper eventually threw some shade, via Twitter.
Yesterday (Jan 22) we asked our Twitter followers to “Tweet your face when Iggy Azalea said she ‘sparked a change’ in Hip-Hop,” and immediately our timeline caught fire. Even Ebro Darden got in on the fun, which eventually led to Iggy Azalea reacting, on Twitter, and calling Hip-Hop Wired and the Hot 97 host the “BIGGEST […]
Iggy Azalea may just need to stop doing interviews. Recently, the Australian rapper went on the record to say that she’s a game changer. True story.
Aside from general boredom with her overexposure, the general Iggy Azalea detractor probably falls into one of two categories. They’re either baffled at what sounds like a total lack of self-awareness regarding cultural appropriation or simply over it.
Conversations about Iggy Azalea, and cultural appropriation have been going on for a while now, and the Aussie rapper finally knows why. It’s because she’s a woman.
Iggy Azalea is at that high point in her career where people can’t stop attacking her. The dichotomy is as strange as it is par for the course, once an artist reaches a certain stature.
The sensationalist media is known for twisting rapper’s words in hopes to generate some sort of beef to boost ratings.
When you are on top, sometimes a newfound confidence is instilled from within and you have to let the world know it. That sense of fearlessness has seemingly overtaken the mind of Iggy Azalea because she gave her Instagram followers a sexy swimsuit spread for no rhyme and reason.
Although few people are admitting to sipping the Forbes-induced Kool-Aid that Iggy Azalea was running Hip-Hop as a whole, her prowess is definitely being felt on the Billboard Charts.
Forbes has pinpointed the new leader of Hip-Hop and she happens to be a “white blonde Australian woman,” who goes by the stage name of Iggy Azalea. The 23-year-old rapper is the game’s most exciting “new artist” who again, just so happens to be White.
Though Rita Ora will have a hard time following last week’s racy photo shoot with Terry Richardson, she does show a little more skin in a photo that surfaced today. Credit the harmless flick to fellow foreign artist Iggy Azalea, who posted an image of the Roc Nation artist in her underwear.