Iggy Azalea Speaks Out After Kendrick Lamar’s Remarks: “Irony Is Real”

Written By Cyrus Langhorne

Hustle Gang's Iggy Azalea has come forward to speak out following recent support thrown her way from rap superstar Kendrick Lamar.

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Although Iggy refrained from name-dropping K. Dot, she hinted at his publicized support of her music on Twitter Friday (January 9).

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Check out what Kendrick said about Iggy’s music right here…

Despite Iggy’s critics, K. Dot said Iggy deserved her spot in hip-hop in a new Billboard interview.

“She’s doing her thing,” Lamar tells Billboard. “Let her. People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing, continue to rock it, because obviously God wants you here.” (Billboard)

Last October, Iggy’s mentor T.I. said too many people liked to classify artists like Azalea without looking at their full bodies of work.

“It should be attributed to her work ethic, her artistic views, her impeccable ability to kind of, she has a vision for herself and this vision for herself, she will not compromise,” Tip said when asked how Iggy should be classified. “I think she should be kind of judged based on that instead of her creed and her nationality and what country she’s from. I think all of that, those are stereotypes. I put her wherever she made the most noise, you know what I’m saying? I think when you start trying to classify people in different categories, you diminish the purpose of what we do. We try to bring people together – I think she can go into a lot of different genres.” (Hard Knock TV)

Rap veteran Rah Digga took specific aim at Iggy’s presence in hip-hop in a recent interview.

“Iggy Azalea, I can’t really get into her. Because it’s just not real to m. There is a white girl from Australia that spits in an Australian accent, and her name is Chelsea Jane. That I can get into. Teach me Australian Hip Hop culture. Don’t come to America and try to convince me that you’re Gangsta Boo… We’re not going to believe you if you’re trying to convince us that you’re out here trap shooting.” (This Is 50)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

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  1. “God is the only being I’ve never personally met whose opinion I’d consider strongly” That’s nice of her to consider it…

  2. I hate this bitch wanna rap like she black but in interviews she Australian as fuck

    • This is what people are saying, you copied the lingo and music, studied it and let somebody market that bullshit, if a black dude came out singing country…and he was from Chicago projects….you think he would get that support from country music fans.. Fuck no…no acceptance whatsoever…

        • Stop right there, I’m not talking about a kid that grew up around his peers in the south, Darius paid hips dues with the blowfish, infact he from South Carolina…I lived in North Carolina….and it’s nothing like north St. Louis or the south side of Chicago…I’m saying that if tupac would have came out with a country album…he would be fake as fuck, if Garth brooks came out with a hip hop album, he would be fake as fuck…this Australian chic, is imitating black lingo…to sound urban, or ethnic…but when she speaks to her peers and Australian papers…it dosent reflect her music…it just sounds non authentic…p.s. Darius sounds and looks the part of his music on and off stage..

        • You do know that darius rucker didnt come from no projects..nobody knew that boy..he was from an educated family right here in my city..and he hung with white boys…so what are you talking about

      • It’s niggas who rappin right now who probably gay on the low and frontin in all they raps and never even lived the life that they rapped about but that’s ok? Good music is good music.. If she sellin then the people fuck wit it.

        • I don’t think you get what I’m saying, I’m not saying a person about a certain life…I’m talking about a person speaking with a certain way, because they assume that’s how we talk, but then speak totally different when you around others..if you say “fuh realz doh”,to me why are you saying” forreal” to another group of people.

          • But It’s rappers who do that shit too. Look at Plies… He rap and talk gotta as fuck but Jamie Fox said in a interview that he talks real proper.

          • “Proper”, nas talk proper , jay z talk proper, lil Wayne talk proper, niki minaj talk proper, drake,puffy….I’m not saying they sound stupid in their music but intelligent in their day to day conversation…go pull up a interview on plies, he sounds like the person that is doing the song…but if a Chinese rapper broke out singing a Chinese song with broken Chinese English …the Chinese would say..wait one fucking minute….you can speak perfect Chinese …it’s a insult to their culture, it’s you are making a mockery….Asher Roth raps the way he talk, so does eminen, so does drake…so does Wycef john…so does will smith, if Haden smith..started talking all urban lingo, or ethnic lingo, or Ebonics…I guarantee blacks would say ” what the fuck”

          • Its just weird when we do something that’s mainstream…the acceptance is different….you ask the average white fan, who is your favorite rapper…ten years ago ….they would say eminem, not to take anything from eminem, he was and still is one of my favorites….but then you ask them, who was your favorite before eminem came along the answer, “well I didn’t really listen to rap music”…huh…eminem heard that shit so much he started saying he help build the hip hop scene….even though it was solidified in the early eighties, with run dmc,ll cool j, curtis blow, fatboys, the entire crush groove cast…TWENTY YEARS BEFORE HE SHOWED UP…I do agree with, it’s not a big deal…but “it is what is”

          • I mean he did help hip-hop because he brought over a large white fan base and honestly it was the best thing for HipHop because the white audience is where the money is at. I doubt Iggy gives a fuck about all this because at the end of the day she selling and white people fucking with it. Why would she care if true HipHop heads don’t feel it?

          • The white fan base has always been the largest fan bast, he didn’t bring the fan base, they was always there …hell vanilla ice sold 14 million albums, beastie boys sold five they first album, cool j sold 4, then 5…will smith sold ten, snoop sold 5….and this is when the books were getting cooked, …I know we getting off topic…I’m not saying she don’t sound good….I’m saying don’t make a movie about Indians and have white men dress up like Indians and play they part…iggy flow would still be liked if she did it in here voice, not a made up black voice, and she would still have the same fans…I mean she has charisma, style and swag…but she doing “black face”…not cool

    • Do you hate Amy Winehouse to nobody hates her what about adele the rolling stone everybody adores them. Their all european artist that sing in a american accent & do soul music. I guess hip-hop ain’t ready for that to happen in our genre even though it was gonna happen at some point.

  3. “God is the only being I’ve never personally met whose opinion I’d consider strongly” That’s nice of her to consider it…

  4. I hate this bitch wanna rap like she black but in interviews she Australian as fuck

    • This is what people are saying, you copied the lingo and music, studied it and let somebody market that bullshit, if a black dude came out singing country…and he was from Chicago projects….you think he would get that support from country music fans.. Fuck no…no acceptance whatsoever…

    • Are you being serious? Because you do know about multi-platinum country artist Darius Rucker?

    • Stop right there, I’m not talking about a kid that grew up around his peers in the south, Darius paid hips dues with the blowfish, infact he from South Carolina…I lived in North Carolina….and it’s nothing like north St. Louis or the south side of Chicago…I’m saying that if tupac would have came out with a country album…he would be fake as fuck, if Garth brooks came out with a hip hop album, he would be fake as fuck…this Australian chic, is imitating black lingo…to sound urban, or ethnic…but when she speaks to her peers and Australian papers…it dosent reflect her music…it just sounds non authentic…p.s. Darius sounds and looks the part of his music on and off stage..

    • It’s niggas who rappin right now who probably gay on the low and frontin in all they raps and never even lived the life that they rapped about but that’s ok? Good music is good music.. If she sellin then the people fuck wit it.

    • I don’t think you get what I’m saying, I’m not saying a person about a certain life…I’m talking about a person speaking with a certain way, because they assume that’s how we talk, but then speak totally different when you around others..if you say “fuh realz doh”,to me why are you saying” forreal” to another group of people.

    • But It’s rappers who do that shit too. Look at Plies… He rap and talk gotta as fuck but Jamie Fox said in a interview that he talks real proper.

    • “Proper”, nas talk proper , jay z talk proper, lil Wayne talk proper, niki minaj talk proper, drake,puffy….I’m not saying they sound stupid in their music but intelligent in their day to day conversation…go pull up a interview on plies, he sounds like the person that is doing the song…but if a Chinese rapper broke out singing a Chinese song with broken Chinese English …the Chinese would say..wait one fucking minute….you can speak perfect Chinese …it’s a insult to their culture, it’s you are making a mockery….Asher Roth raps the way he talk, so does eminen, so does drake…so does Wycef john…so does will smith, if Haden smith..started talking all urban lingo, or ethnic lingo, or Ebonics…I guarantee blacks would say ” what the fuck”

    • Do you hate Amy Winehouse to nobody hates her what about adele the rolling stone everybody adores them. Their all european artist that sing in a american accent & do soul music. I guess hip-hop ain’t ready for that to happen in our genre even though it was gonna happen at some point.

    • Its just weird when we do something that’s mainstream…the acceptance is different….you ask the average white fan, who is your favorite rapper…ten years ago ….they would say eminem, not to take anything from eminem, he was and still is one of my favorites….but then you ask them, who was your favorite before eminem came along the answer, “well I didn’t really listen to rap music”…huh…eminem heard that shit so much he started saying he help build the hip hop scene….even though it was solidified in the early eighties, with run dmc,ll cool j, curtis blow, fatboys, the entire crush groove cast…TWENTY YEARS BEFORE HE SHOWED UP…I do agree with, it’s not a big deal…but “it is what is”

    • I mean he did help hip-hop because he brought over a large white fan base and honestly it was the best thing for HipHop because the white audience is where the money is at. I doubt Iggy gives a fuck about all this because at the end of the day she selling and white people fucking with it. Why would she care if true HipHop heads don’t feel it?

    • The white fan base has always been the largest fan bast, he didn’t bring the fan base, they was always there …hell vanilla ice sold 14 million albums, beastie boys sold five they first album, cool j sold 4, then 5…will smith sold ten, snoop sold 5….and this is when the books were getting cooked, …I know we getting off topic…I’m not saying she don’t sound good….I’m saying don’t make a movie about Indians and have white men dress up like Indians and play they part…iggy flow would still be liked if she did it in here voice, not a made up black voice, and she would still have the same fans…I mean she has charisma, style and swag…but she doing “black face”…not cool

    • You do know that darius rucker didnt come from no projects..nobody knew that boy..he was from an educated family right here in my city..and he hung with white boys…so what are you talking about

  5. Fake gangsters ok, fake drug dealers ok, fake ballers ok, fake ass and titties ok, fake accent, oh hell naw!!! Lmfao

  6. Fake gangsters ok, fake drug dealers ok, fake ballers ok, fake ass and titties ok, fake accent, oh hell naw!!! Lmfao

  7. its alotta dumbasses on here,,there was a time in hiphop if u were a fraud u got called on it but this new generation(in&outof the industry) made it ok to be a fraud when it cosigned rick ross(bcuz he was caught blatantly lying) but alotta people still don’t rock like that,,so iggy(not from the hood),,both justins(black sound courtesy of black producers),,ross(law enforcement background) or whoever gonna get called on being fake by some of us even if the music sound good,,,when u throw in all the fake/blackface type ish u knew iggy was gon feel the wrath a lil bit,,white mcs/groups like the beasties,3rd bass,,even vanilla ice(who was wack) had their own thing they brought to the game,,if they came in tryna be LL or rakim they woulda got shitted on(fact),,then throw in the black music artforms that have been white washed like jazz&rock and hell yea your gonna get held accountable when you fkn with hiphop..its still rules to this game

  8. its alotta dumbasses on here,,there was a time in hiphop if u were a fraud u got called on it but this new generation(in&outof the industry) made it ok to be a fraud when it cosigned rick ross(bcuz he was caught blatantly lying) but alotta people still don’t rock like that,,so iggy(not from the hood),,both justins(black sound courtesy of black producers),,ross(law enforcement background) or whoever gonna get called on being fake by some of us even if the music sound good,,,when u throw in all the fake/blackface type ish u knew iggy was gon feel the wrath a lil bit,,white mcs/groups like the beasties,3rd bass,,even vanilla ice(who was wack) had their own thing they brought to the game,,if they came in tryna be LL or rakim they woulda got shitted on(fact),,then throw in the black music artforms that have been white washed like jazz&rock and hell yea your gonna get held accountable when you fkn with hiphop..its still rules to this game

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