Did you really think Iggy Azalea was going to go quiet after quitting Twitter? Not a chance. Iggy’s been fired up lately and hitting various radio shows. Iggy spoke with Power 106 yesterday (via TMZ), and her boyfriend (Nick Young of the LA Lakers), joined the conversation. She revealed him as “a sleep farter” and a really messy guy, but that’s okay because they have a full-time housekeeper. Nick said Iggy’s too much of “a lady” to fart during sleep. Iggy also talked about why she quit social media: “It makes me hate people and I don’t wanna hate people. My job is entertaining people. It’s really hard to do that when you feel like what the hell is going on with humanity that we’re all doing this?”
Iggy also stopped by the “Zach Sang & The Gang” show to complain about how she gets no respect from rappers. There are a lot of reasons for this, starting with how Iggy doesn’t rap the same way she speaks. We’ve covered that a lot in terms of Iggy’s cultural appropriation. She’s unwilling to gain wisdom and thinks everyone criticizes her simply because she’s a woman. Iggy now says everyone knows she’s an amazing rapper, but no one will admit it.
Do other rappers respect Iggy? “No, I think ultimately they don’t, but I think … it’s very frustrating for me with them because I’ll have personal relationships with them outside of the media that people maybe don’t understand or realize how deep that goes. And so then I find it particularly personally offensive when they oftentimes take on the general opinion of others on the viewership to try and get clicks. Things like that, I’m like, ‘I’m finding that pretty unrespectable right now. Which are you? Don’t text my phone.’ But it’s fine. It’s a tough world out there for rappers.”
Does she want to play that game? “No. That’s why I don’t do interviews. I don’t have to play it. It doesn’t benefit me. It only kind of helps to put out misinformation on things that aren’t really helpful to me or people who aren’t understanding my character or who I am or my art. ”
Why doesn’t Iggy get respect? “They know, deep down. I think they know. They just don’t want to admit it. That’s what I think. I have a feeling. That’s why they’re mad. Because they do know that I actually am good, and they can’t really accept that. But we could be friends, and this could all be easy. Or we could not, and I could send Bitcoin sh*t chocolate boxes to your door. But I’m still going to be here.”
[From Zach Sang on YouTube]
At least Iggy and Nicki Minaj have delusions of rap grandeur in common. There are moments when I wonder whether we should all leave Iggy alone. Then I remember she’s said so many terrible things. She also refuses to believe any criticism against her is valid. She doesn’t get why other white rappers like Eminem and Macklemore don’t receive the same treatment. Iggy doesn’t notice that they are rapping with their own voices and speaking to their own experiences. Whereas Iggy changes her voice and lets her ghostwriters pen inauthentic (and racist) lyrics.
Here’s the clip of Iggy talking big with Zach Sang.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
LMAO.
Okay Iggy. A part of me now feels bad that she is apparently so sheltered that she thinks her pedestrian raps are so talented that others are just ignoring it.
Nobody can slowly and painfully rhyme words like you Iggy!
It’s like that kid in school who was a terrible singer or dancer and their mom was like “no sweetie you’re the BEST the other kids are just jealous!”
Or that girl who is a total bragger, back stabber and completely obnoxious and thinks other girls don’t like her because she’s pretty.
I had a classmate like this.. She thought she was the best singer,dancer, actresss,painter and student and also the most beautiful girl in this world. She was horrible in everything!Her voice was awful and she was singing loud to cover everyone in the school choir.Of course when we were telling her to slow down she though we were jealous and didn’t get her talent.
Everyone believed that after graduation she would auditioned for every music show existed because in her mind she was a gift from god but i haven’t seen her anywhere.
Memories.
I know that kid! And this person grew up and auditioned for Idol. Facepalm.
Good, bad or indifferent she’s certainly coining the money! As they say there is no such thing as bad publicity
http://www.celebritynetworth.com/richest-celebrities/singers/iggy-azalea-net-worth/
I’m tired of the constant trashing of Iggy. Where is the same trashing of DRAKE???? You can see many early interviews with Drake when he was an ACTOR on a Nickelodeon show. Now, suddenly, his new hip-hop personal is accepted and unquestioned??? Does anyone actually think that DRAKE has the street-cred, experience, and background to infuse the lyrics of which he sings???? Is he authentic??? Or has he had the privileged background of a child actor who has channeled his early success into an appropriated hip-hop persona in 2009 when he realized that was the route his celebrity should take??? Why is he given a free pass because of the color of his skin even though one could argue that his background is far more inauthentic to the lyrics and image he conveys???
…except you don’t see Drake dismissing senior musicians who try to politely educate on the history of hip-hop and referring to them in a derogatory way as “hip-hop squares”. Or making racist tweets. And he’s a better rapper than she is though that really isn’t saying much.
So please stop this false equivalency “why don’t you criticise HIM instead?!” derailing, it’s not going to work.
It’s not about street cred, it’s about talent. Drake actually has some. Iggy does not. End of story.
One shot, you don’t see drake constantly being attacked on his twitter as iggy is either. Fair to call her out for racist things/ bad jokes she said, but I don’t get why someone wanted an opinion about ferguson from her, a high school drop out.
@oneshot, Didn’t Drake famously yank P. Diddy’s microphone out of his hands as well as diss him rather publicly? For more on Drake’s feuds, please see the following:
http ://en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Drake_feuds
It would appear that Drake has had issues with both his senior musicians (P. Diddy, Common, Pusha-T) as well as his contemporaries (Chris Brown).
But I guess his beefs with everyone are COOL and STREET, whereas Iggy’s aren’t?
Also “Bitcoin sh*t chocolate boxes to your door”
What has she been Googling, lol? Because that sounds too specific to be off the cuff.
Well, going to the store and buying sh*t chocolate boxes using regular money is “pretty unrespectable right now”
LOL Ill admit, when I read that I was like, “what in the hell has she been googling for revenge schemes?”
Can she please go away?
But…but Iggy’s got FLOW!
http://instagram.com/p/zQvH2hQ9by/
Ok didn’t know I needed sound the first time. WTF. Natalie Portman raps better than that in an SNL (I think) sketch! I don’t listen to rap much, but even I know that’s beyond pathetic.
That link is priceless. My sincere thanks 😂😂
DAMN! That link gives me life! HAHAHAHAHAHA
OMG I love your name. I just found out that Invader Zim is playing on TV again and have recorded every set to record on my DVR.
Thanks!
And whaaaaat….must watch!
Ummmm….No.
Nope, that’s not it, I think the one thing almost everyone can agree on when it comes to her is that she’s not a good rapper. And as for her being done with hip hop, bye felicia. She can go back to being a Britney Spears tribute act.
In order to take her laments seriously, you’d actually have to consider her a rapper. Which I don’t. It seems most rappers don’t either, so there in lies the problem. Race isn’t the issue, talent is.
“Race isn’t the issue, talent is.”
Period. End of.
Yet it has to be said over and over again because she doesn’t seem to get it.
It has to do with race (because she’s continously appropriating cultures and tries to pretend shes “down” and “hood” when we all know she’s never been to any kind of hood) and also the fact that she can’t rap or make beats.
I think race is a part of her issue and her added lack of talent is what’s nailing her to the wall.
She came out of the box completely insulting to different minority groups all while drawling in that Dirty South rapper voice for her image. She’s dubbed herself the ‘Runaway Slave Master’ and called a beat played for her on a radio station as ‘Hood-ass’. She goes hard on raps probably written for her and then when challenged falls back on being the victim.
Suddenly “Iggy-Iggs!” vanishes and we get Amethyst speaking clearly completely able to distance herself from what she’s appropriating. Sadly I think she’s STILL be successful if she simply didn’t flip out all the time and refuse to acknowledge even the kindest of constructive criticism from some of the most respected people in the music she claims to love.
She is her own problem tbh.
Oh yeah, racism is part of HER problem, but Iggy isn’t disrespected simply because she’s a female white rapper, although she seems to think so. White rappers like Eminem have been able to achieve success and acceptance in the hip hop community before.
Being white isn’t the de facto problem, it’s her lack of talent, lack of awareness, and lack of authenticity that frustrates people.
Absolutely.
She’s completely delusional. Has anyone else seen her on Sway in the Morning when he asked her to freestyle and she said she couldn’t over this “hood a** beat” and then proceeded to rap a verse from her album but play it off as if she freestyled?? She’s so phony, I can’t believe she still has fans.
I don’t get the Nicki Minaj comparison though. The songs that are submitted to pop radio are not a good representation of Nicki’s rapping abilities, those songs are meant to be catchy and be similar to Pop music. She has several songs that show she’s a pretty talented lyricist but they’re usually submitted to Urban radio.
Yeah I think Nicki was unfairly mocked for that, every rapper boasts but they have to have the literal words to back it up. Nicki Minaj has eviscerated people in 20 words or less and done great word play with her lyrics. Her bars compared to Iggy’s are incomparable.
Yessss! Why is she getting away with calling this a free style…it’s the first verse from her song “new bitch” off of her album, and her delivery of it was cringeworthy. It was slow paced and simple and she still managed to slip up words and stutter. She completely copped out of doing a freestyle…calling a generic back beat too “hood” for her to rap to!!! Smh. I guarantee you a white rapper female with actual talent would be welcomed and praised, she just can’t rap…she really cant. I’ll save the fake accent for another post.
Yeah, she’s become a public punching bag in a lot of ways.
But she makes it so easy to dislike her, you know?
And she really shouldn’t be compared to Minaj. Minaj might be cocky but she can rap. Iggy cannot.
Easy to dislike, she definitely is. Hopefully “easy to ignore” will pick up steam as well and she can be on her way to existing as nothing more than a musical footnote.
More like a musical asterisk. 😉
and doesn’t Nicki Minaj write at least some of her own material? That’s more than this human silicone-oatmeal pudding can say for herself.
Flash in the pan. “sniff”
Nicki Minaj is actually a great rapper, especially when she stops the foolery, the music she releases for commercial success is garbage but if you listen to a full body of work she is very good, especially her mix tapes. Not forgetting that she completely killed all the male rappers in ‘Monster’
+1,000
Yes, Nicki is a better rapper, and her latest album the Pink Print is amazing.
Enjoy your 15 minutes, Iggy.
Yeah, she’s good.. at getting people to talk about her.
Most artists channel their pain into their art, not lame Twitter rants.
Go away Amethyst, there’s only one Iggy.
You don’t have street cred, Iggy. No, feuding with Papa John’s on twitter does not count as street cred.
😂😂😂
I thought her quitting Twitter meant we wouldn’t HEAR her.
Iggy needs go to that new ginormous soccer stadium they are building in Dubai for WC and have every damn seat available!!!
This trick really thinks people don’t like her because she has skills on the mic?!?!? I need her to watch her attempt at free styling, repeatedly,On a continuous loop, Clockwork Orange – style; til she gets that nonsense out of her head.
There aren’t enough side eyes in the world! !!
If none of your peers neither like you nor respect you, it’s not jealousy that’s your problem.
Lmao, girl sit down. If she did have those deep personal relationships with other rappers then they wouldn’t be talking crap about her just for clicks. I don’t listen to her music, but have any good rappers and not T.I. ever been on one of her songs?
Nicki Minaj is a very talented rapper, so it’s not delusions of grandeur on her part. She has something to back it up.
Not a fan.
Well hell if KanYe West who I thinks stinks at everything he does can self promote and call himself a genius in everything he does well she should be able to so as well. But yes they hate her because she is a woman and she is white for sure.
No they don’t. They hate her because she’s a talentless caricature of the rap culture with EXTREME illusions of grandeur. On top of that she is racist and hateful. She thinks it’s cool to talk sh*t about Mexican girls’ “square bodies” but her gross cellulite is off limits?!? Lol. I’m a latina with mostly Mexican heritage and I don’t have a square body, but I was offended by her moronic statement. I’m almost ten years old than her and my ass is naturally tighter and way more cellulite free than that moron (which debunks her stupid comment), so I found it to be delicious schadenfreude when her own body flaws were magnified, regardless of the fact that I normally do not find body-shaming the least bit acceptable. I can’t wait until the industry is over her flash in the pan self.
Kanye is an ass who is a crappy “fashion designer” with a persecution complex but at least pre-Kardashian he was creating some actually good music and drawing on his own experiences to do so. I hate his antics but can’t deny that Stronger, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy etc, are actually good pieces of work which he put his own stamp on.
Which is more than Itchy Areola has ever done, and certainly more than she cares to do.
…between this and a Igloo Australia I’m having real trouble seeing her actual stage name whenever there’s a post about her. You just made it worse, lmao.
Haha, Itchy Areola is the best yet.
Iggy is a novelty act just like Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer.
Vanilla Ice could actually rap though. His problem was he blew up quick and sold out even quicker (teenage mutant ninja soundtrack, selling vanilla ice dolls etc). If he would have just stuck to the music he may have lasted longer, but he ended up becoming a mockery of himself in his first blush of fame.
Then 3rd Bass came and destroyed him and Hammer and it was a rap.
Same thing kind of happened to Hammer. He made good party music but he wasn’t like…the hardest emcee. But he blew up and next thing you know Hammer dolls, Hammer cartoon, Addams Family sdtk, schilling for KFC. He became a mockery and got rightfully roasted by 3rd BASS
I thought she was terrible before and then I saw her “freestyle” and realized why NO ONE respects Iggy. Not only is she racist af and tries to repackage a culture that is not her own but SHE IS NOT THAT GOOD. I haven’t heard one song where she is rapping from start to finish without a girl with pipes singing a catchy hook. Her album hasn’t done well with critics because again she’s terrible.
Eminem got respect by rapping about HIS story. He got respect by working hard at his craft and the rest came after he paid his dues. Iggy plays the victim because no one is buying her crap beside people who wouldn’t know real rap if it hit them in the face. Girl bye with that mess.
As if! How about taking some of the criticism to heart and look at what you’re doing? Just cuz you’re selling records doesn’t mean it’s GOOD! Nuthin’ wrong with a time-out to reassess.
Nicki can rap, though. The problem is she minimizes her talents in most of her songs. But if you listen to her old stuff (or a few collabos here and there) you’d notice she can truly spit. The way she raps reminds me a lot of Left Eye (may she RIP).
I feel I would like Iggy so much if it weren’t for that stupid fake accent. I do like her “haters gonna hate” attitude. But she’s so delusional and so unwilling to listen, it’s hard to make a case for her.
Dear Iggy,
Eminem can freestyle about a pot of potato soup and leave us blown away and begging for more.
You will never have 1/100th of his talent and skill.
Die Antwoord.
Yolandi is the front woman, and has Ninja by the balls. . Look that up. Now, thats talent, weirdness, and Yolandi owns her life. Take no prisoners. Iggy is a little bus rider compared to her.
“She also refuses to believe any criticism against her is valid.” It seems like sometimes when a celebrity is on the receiving end of both valid criticism and unwarranted nastiness, they learn to dismiss all criticism as people just being ‘jealous’ or just looking for a reason to hate/be offended. She needs to realize or admit that not all criticism she gets has anything to do with her being a woman or others being jealous of her success. Some of it definitely is misogynistic, and I do think celebrities do sometimes get a little jealous or intimidated when they see another celebrity who shares the same gender as them and does the same thing as them getting ‘too’ successful- especially if that celebrity isn’t as talented as them, they’re constantly being compared to them in the media, or they feel like that person didn’t have to work as hard (which is a somewhat justifiable jealousy and resentment.). But I definitely think it’s reaching on her part to assume that jealousy is the only reason for criticism she receives from other celebs, or that every famous person who has criticized her was jealous of her. It’s her being inauthentic, people not feeling she’s talented enough, her racist history, and her inability to acknowledge her privilege and how that privilege could possibly have helped her career.
But it wouldn’t surprise me at all if she was telling the truth about some of the people who have criticized her- or been downright nasty to her- in the media present as friendly to her in her face. This is Hollywood, and she’s not the first celebrity to say something like that. Sometimes celebrities do criticize or attack another celebrity to get publicity for themselves. Sometimes there are even fake feuds played up for extra media attention for both of or one of the people involved.
She sounds like Khia.
I think she’s good. Go ahead and attack me for my opinion 🙂
It’s only because my 8 year old daughter loves her. The tracks they play on the radio are clean enough for my kid to listen to and she doesn’t slam women in her songs. I can’t say whether that makes her a real rapper.
I love Minaj and Khia and Foxy…..but my kid can’t listen to that stuff yet. So for now, when it’s not just my ears listening, she is a good rapper.
I’m gonna attack you. Just kidding.
But seriously, her lyrics are “clean” and she “doesn’t slam women”? Have you heard the song D.R.U.G.S?
http://www.metrolyrics.com/drugs-lyrics-iggy-azalea.html
Foxy and Minaj’s songs are also censored when they play on the radio so I guess I don’t understand…
Anyway, I liked a lot of bad music as a kid so I’m certainly not gonna fault your 8-year-old 😉
Thanks for warning me about that song! That’s pretty terrible. The only Minaj song my kid has heard is that silly Bang Bang song (and I know it’s technically Jessie J’s song). And that proves that 8 year olds often listen to bad music 🙂
Why can’t she rap in her Aussie voice and write her own raps and lyrics. Cus it’s to hard for her cus she doesn’t know how to do any of that, and she’s under contract to do whatever TI says. Some career advice to Iggy if u want longevity in hip hop u must be authentic and real, not manufactured and fake. I think we might actually like a female rapper with an Aussie accent she would be the first. When I first heard her I thought she was just another American female rapper.
Seriously, rap is a genre of music that’s actually travelled to so many countries and adapted there – I’ve heard rap in French, Korean (they have some pretty good MCs too!), Spanish, Japanese……..none of those artists felt the need to do “vocal blackface”, they just rapped in their own accents!
And Iggy is far from the first non-black woman to do well in rap, what was M.I.A. (Paper Planes lady) then? She rapped in a pretty distinct British accent with a tinge of Sri Lankan underneath i.e. her own accent, and wrote her own albums. But maybe to Iggy people with darker skin don’t count as “not black” even if they are actually not black at all.
This!!!! Thank you for the “vocal blackface” comment. Exactly.
The first time I ever heard this woman rapping, I knew she was lame. Nowadays`s rappers usually are.
This. This is why I cannot stand this woman:
http://thatgrapejuice.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Iggy-Azalea-allegedly-racist-tweets.png
She’s racist. And has zero talent.
Who dat? Who dat? I-G-G-BYE!
My siblings grew up next town over from her and reports are that she was a very unpleasant person.
These small country towns aren’t exactly paradise, surely there’s something in that she can write about.
What’s with female rappers these days needing to have fake butts and tacky clothes and rhymes? Give us something real. Lauryn Hill and Mc Lyte did. We respect Eminem because he can rap and he’s not so obviously fake. Iggy Azalea is just a gimmick who is trying to hop on the American Southern rap bandwagon. You’re Australian. Use your real accent. I feel that iggy Azalea just wants to be famous. Why is she doing interviews saying she doesn’t do interviews? Girl, bye.
I genuinely liked her at first, her music was kinda good her rap too. For a while now, she’s become annoying as hell and she’s really pissing me off. She wants a nod from other rappers but believes she’s the best… ? And who would you be? Nobody. Work hard, be humble and show them otherwise Just shut up! Like this she just comes off as a self-entitled vapid brat.
Please shut up and fcking DISAPPEAR! God, I so sick of her.
No Iggy I’m sorry but no. But if that’s what you have to tell yourself in order to sleep at night than fine.