Taylor Swift says that female artists, including female rappers, are not evaluated in the same way as their male counterparts.
“It’s a little discouraging that females have to work so much harder to prove that they do their own things,” Taylor Swift says during an interview with TIME. “I see Nicki Minaj and Iggy Azalea having to prove that they write their own raps or their own lyrics, and it makes me sad, because they shouldn’t have to justify it.”
In August 2013, Nicki Minaj endured ghostwriting claims from rapper Ransom, who said that he wrote some of her early material.
“What?” Nicki Minaj said at the time. “I rap better than him. Who the fuck is he, crazy?”
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She continued: “Yo, I’m not even a man and niggas got my dick in their mouth. Are you serious? I’m undisputed because I’m the only female rapper, that, day one, I don’t need no motherfucking ghostwriter. So if you tellin’ that lie, you must be real fucking desperate and you still ain’t gunna pop. How ’bout that?”
In July 2014, T.I. said that he does not write for Iggy Azalea, but that Iggy and he do, like many other artists, get input from others while recording.
“I ain’t no ghostwriter,” T.I. said at the time. “Iggy got her own ideas and thoughts that she presents to the world her own way. I couldn’t write a lot of the shit she say, you know? I couldn’t put her thoughts into words as articulate as she does. You know what I’m saying? She just has a different way of presenting herself and her art. So, I mean—Now don’t get me wrong, everybody in the studio helps with hooks and certain things like that. That goes for me and any of the other top five rappers, performers…You want the best ideas.”
