Iggy Azalea has always said that her rap voice is “ironic and cool“ because it’s nothing like her speaking voice. She doesn’t understand why that upsets a lot of hip hop fans and artists; those cultural appropriation claims are not coming out of nowhere. Iggy’s not budging from her opinion. She refuses to listen to anyone’s criticism, but she keeps tweeting about it and sounds dismissive and rude. Iggy truly feels that people criticize her rapping only because she’s female. She’s not interested in any other possibility.
Another critical pile-on went down. You can read about it at The Root. The complaints concern Iggy’s fake rapping accent – because she’s clearly not using her Australian accent to rap. Iggy popped off again:
(1) There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype. When people I’ve never met say I should act more like “myself”
(2) I feel like they’re really saying “act more like how I sterotype you to be, so I can feel comfortable”
(3) I’m myself as strange as I may be, daily. I think it’s really important we all feel free to explore or feel passionate about whatever u wish
(4) And I hope all my young fans take what I’m saying and remember it if you ever find yourself in similar shoes.
(5) Be as complex and multidimensional and interesting as you possibly can.
[From Iggy Azalea on Twitter]
Iggy demands to not be stereotyped, yet she uses a stereotypical accent when she raps. And she’s made so many stereotypical statements during her history of racist tweets. She’ll never understand, right?
Things are only going to get worse with the Grammys approaching. Iggy won this past year’s AMA and PCA awards for hip hop. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Grammys rewarded her too. If that happens, there will be Twitter wars all over the place. Nicki Minaj will toss a ton of shade. Azalea Banks will implode. Yes, it will be a righteous mess.
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