Producer 9th Wonder serves as one of a number of artists to share their thoughts on the controversy surrounding Aussie musician, Iggy Azalea. While sharing his two cents on the matter, 9th criticized Hip Hop fans for not flexing their purchasing power when it comes to buying albums.
According to the North Carolina beatsmith, fans of Iggy buy her music while Hip Hop fans wait for an artist to become popular, or even unpopular, before they support.
He then encouraged Hip Hop fans to “buy and support your artists to the end of the earth.”
Although 9th revealed that he doesn’t listen to any of Iggy Azalea’s music, he did commend the pop star’s fans for supporting and buying her music. He then stated that that energy should be transferred to those complaining about Iggy’s popularity.
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Tell these fools 9th
“Cultural Appropriation” = Black Insecurity. The game is a joke. People getting buttmad about some white Australian chick shaking her ass around. It’s so depressing how this is an issue right now. Hip hop is so culturally significant and so dominated by black millionaires but this random bitch is a civil rights issue.
go in a dark corner and fist yourself
Fist yourself? Fucking Hilarious
…and to all the lames who buy there grandmothers,mom’s,sisters or girls Iggy’s albums…your the pinnacle of a cornball GayLord scumbag bitchmade hermaphrodite.
who the fuck is buying their grandmas an iggy record? do you realize her album still ain’t even gold? she cant even sell like nicki so whats everyone so afraid of!
lol @Golbez got the comment of the day! 9th is 100% correct.
I bought PRhyme
I bought Pinata,
9th nailed it. End of discussion. Too bad the Iggy Azelia clusterfuck will only get worse after she wins a Grammy for best rap album/best New artist.
I think the reality is that most “blacks” aren’t hip hop fans, they fans of gossip&partying. They all into that (since the slave days). There is no objective opinion on the music but whites do judge it objectively.
That’s probably not gonna change. For centuries.
P.S. My race doesn’t matter, these are “facts not theories”.
I know you’re begging for attention. here’s my reply to your mental instability……….(.__.)
Nigga shuttup. Ain’t one fact in your argument.
I Feel 9th wonder , he makes sense when he talks . true hip hop heads know what the real shit is and the bullshit is . Geeaah
First of all you need to get a job, though. I suppose you can watch/listen to the songs on Youtube and Spotify. Guns up in the air…. Bang, bang, bang. Culture.
First you need to get a job. I suppose you can watch/listen to it on YouTube videos or on Spotify. Guns in the air…. Bang, Bang, Bang. Culture.
I’m sure this nigga want me to BUY some of his music!
First you need to get a job. I suppose you can watch/listen to it on YouTube videos or on Spotify. Guns in the air…. Bang, Bang, Bang. Culture.
J Cole’s new album went gold in 2 weeks. Iggy been out since April and still isn’t there. Hip-hop is alive and well, J Cole is proof of this.
HHDX don’t wanna hear that tho. U can tell they hate that Nicki outsells Iggy so they go out looking for random quotes by irrelevant rappers to defend her.
HHDX really wants to write an op ed piece defending Iggy against her critics but they know no one would take them seriously after that.
Someone needs to tell her to get over it. Drake has more rapper critics than Iggy. Welcome to hip hop.
Iggy went PLATINUM fam smh…
^ Single wise, yes, but not album wise.
I appreciate how HPHOPDXX is trying to hold it down for “iggy”. That’s cute. Y’all are so protective of her….
However, this guy must be old cuz nobody is buying Iggy’s albums… She is the female Flo’ Rida.
Now J Cole and Nicki are actually selling albums. I love how y;all trying to hold it down for the one hit wonder tho HHDXXX. Nice try.
423,000 albums sold plus a ton of singles sold. fancy black widow all went multi platinum. how about tickets and tours? how many people doing real hip hop has sold that. anyway the table has turned j cole and joeys album will do quite well
dolce, 423,000 albums sold for an artist with the most exposure for any artist over the past 5 years is an Epic Failure. In a year or two her white teenage fans aren’t going to give two shits about her failed rap career
Remember when beef was settled with songs? Remember when East Coast was going after West Coast and vice versa? LL Cool J and Kool Moe Dee and Cannibus? What happened? Now you can cry and get sympathy for being fake? Put up or shut up. Instead of “Hittin’ ’em up” like Pac did, People are Twittin ’em up. LMAO CORNY! She is out of her league and the saviors look inauthentic in every way.
I don’t think I have heard anyone really dissin Iggy in song except that J Cole grammy line.
He’s speaking the truth. I dont like Iggy one bit but we dont support our artists like we should. Last CD I bought was Ghostface and Adrianne Younge and 7 Days of Funk.
I bought that Ghostface and Adrianne Young too but RZA and his scam of a record label never sent me my $100 order! Sad to see scumbags like Bob Perry fucking thousands of die hard Wu fans trying to support hip-hop.
uhhh do you mean twelve reasons to die?
obviously thats what we mean bitch. what else have adrien younge and gfk done?
Fully agree with 9th Wonder. This has been an issue for quite a while now. I always buy music from artists I’m a fan of. Wish more people did the same because, obviously, the numbers don’t reflect that. Albums cost an average of a measly $10, and people wanna be cheap as fuck downloading albums off the Internet. J Cole just went Gold this week because his fans are willing to go out and buy his shit, and he’s the only hip hop artist to do so this year. If we can build off that, then I believe hip hop can make a strong comeback.
a handful of success stories isn’t gonna change it. A good analogy is the house of Hip Hop has termites. A quick fix spray or poison isn’t gonna get rid of the problem, you have to go into the structure and repel and refurbish the house because the insects have weakened the foundation, and then be diligent in it’s upkeep. THEN you can say the house will have a chance of survival.
^ Yeah, you make a good point.
this is the whitest post ever
^ Wrong!
How much did Iggy Azalea’s album sell?
Thats an important question because none of us seem to remember Iggy’s first week. It’s quite interesting. She’s being promoted to the end of the Earth but nobody seems to remember a remarkable first week. That’s the privileged right there. Entirely possible she flopped but is still getting more press than Cole.
Her album did well plus her singles like nine times platinum. how many PRHYME sell?
yet the IMPORTANT question is, which did you BUY? I brought Prhyme yesterday, that Wu last week and Diamond D. did YOU buy Iggy’s album and WHY, when she’s speaking to teenage white girls, MAN?
dolge, he album sold terribly. She can’t even go gold, that’s 500,000 records sold. Epic Failure for the endless exposure she gets it. All the single sells tell you is people will buy anything tv and radio tells them just to fit in.
Hip hop is art, it’s not a fucking job! Do your art, if you can make any money doing it, then fine, but that should NEVER be the main objective, or even one at all when it comes to art! But sadly for most rappers it is, that’s why we got a rap industry!!!………………………………………..
I support hip hop artist that needs the support, for instance independent rappers. I don’t support rappers who ain’t struggling at all, signed to greedy labels, over pricing the albums to the extreme!
Fuck all these hoe ass rappers, prostituting themselves for that green!
Iggy sold 423,000 and counting because her singles still popping. first week doesn’t always determine. also her singles are all multi platinum.
True, but what I’m gonna say is what separates the men from the boys, the real from the posers. Some of the best songs ever are songs that you can sing along w/o obstruction. like I’m Bad-Michael Jackson, you’re saying you’re bad. Sean’s new song with E-40 can be sung in that way. Can YOU sing Iggy’s Fancy that way, MAN? then WHY are you online praising her accolades of “success”? you look like you’re desperate for acceptance by aligning yourself with her and she doesn’t speak for you! merry Xmas!
for every dollar iggy makes her label takes more than 50% of it
I’d say 80-90%
Most rap fans would rather be shot in the head than part ways with a $10 Bill. You tell them they need to buy something, they get mad at you and give you a list of reasons why your wrong and all music should be free. It’s kind of humorous actually, watching people justify their thievery. It’s like watching one of those NAMBLA spokemen try and tell you how there is nothing wrong with raping children. You know their full of BS but they firmly believe their right and there is nothing you can do to change their minds.
The buying power of the average white middle class parent & child/teen demographic is stronger than that of the average hip hop fan. Artists like Drake address that wider demographic by releasing music that caters to them. If hip hop artists like 9th wonder want to sell units they have to understand there are not enough hip hop fans to sell to. Not everyone that complains about Iggy is a hip hop fan, a lot of them simply don’t like the fake southern black rap accent.
Iggy is shit but it’s funny to me that people are getting pissed over an accent. It’s kind of corny but if she made good music speaking about something that actually mattered she could be talking like an Italian pizza maker I don’t give a shit.
Have to Agree.. Crazy how us blacks are. Some of us, complain about how all the jobs are taking, but yet refuse to work, and would rather stay on the street and hustle. Like, Why complain? Nigga you aint trying to work, so you just want attention? at the end of the day, Negros always want to fight, but not support each other. It is really beginning to be a sad race and its getting worst by the day … SAD
MC EIHT – TAKE 2 WITH ME = CLASSIC SONG ABOUT THE NEW YORK POLICE MADE IN 1994 OFF THE ALBUM WE COME STRAPPED . ALSO COMPTONS MOST WANTED – ONE TIME GAFFLED EM UP OFF THE ALBUM IT’S A COMPTON THANG CLASSIC SONG ABOUT THE POLICE . GEEAAH WAKE YO PUNK AZZ UP THE STREIHT UP MENACE IS A GREAT MC = MASTER OF CEREMONY
Are ppl still stuck in the early 2000’s talkin bout album sales?! Artists don’t have to sell one album to be platinum now and days. The singles go platinum, going on tour and booking shows make artists go platinum. Smh, its good to go and support your favorite artists like this man said but ppl who aren’t selling records is not considered flopping, they still cashing in.
bobby shmurda got a plat single and hes was on the radio crying about not getting paid, 1 month later hes indicted and still not out on bail a week later facing like 70 fucking charges LOLOL
major labels take a percentage of all these rappers money and in the long run they all get fucked. the label makes more from the artists than the artists makes for themselves look at lil wayne for example he is cash moneyes best selling rapper but yet birdman is the one with the most money because its his label. chief keef just got fucked out of his deal with interscope he signed a 6 million contract and only made a few million and they dropped him because his album only sold 200k now hes even more irrelevant. a flop is a flop its doesnt matter if they still make money on the side. wayne, drake, jay, eminem, kanye are all going platinum so there is no excuses for people who are only selling 250 that is a straight flop. grand hustle will be robbing iggy blind why do you think t.i. defends her so hard? he needs to protect his investment because if she loses fans it will affect her album sales and that affects t.i. because he is the one who puts money into promoting her. she is his artist.
iggy is not on grand hustle. she blew up after she left t.i.’s label. but it is very likely that he still owns a piece of her.
Right on 9th Wonder – The Truth! If YOU aren’t ‘buying music’, you have NO credibility of telling us ‘who’s nice’ & ‘who’s wack’! You’re just a thief & a HATER! STFU! If you don’t like it – don’t buy it, but find WHAT YOU LIKE & buy it & support them! Don’t try to tear everyone us down, ‘crabs in a bucket’ mentality – voice your opinion with your dollars!
when rappers shade iggy i dont call it hate i call it standing up for the hip hop culture. there is no denying that iggy is wack and people like her is how we went from 2pac and biggie to lil wayne to young thug smh. i dont like iggy for the fact being she talks with a fake ghetto accent and her entire image is fake its like everything she does is just one big joke and its obvious everybody knows it because i dont see any real rappers collabing with her her biggest songs are with pop singers. she has a video from before she was famous and shes trying to rip off britney spears singing in a white american accent now she raps like shes black like wtf? she talks nothing like that in interviews so i find it disrespectful because black people and other races who live in ghetto environments like the hood talk like that because of where they come from and they hope to get out of places like that so its not very cool for an australian white girl who grew up in a farm to come to america and start rapping like shes from some hood in atlanta i think that’s disrespectful to the black community and the hip hop culture and every time someone calls iggy out for it she calls them racist and says its just music smh. hip hop is not just music its a culture and its called hip hop for a reason. anyone can be a rapper black or white but if you dont respect the culture then dont expect anyone to respect you. eminem doesn’t have the problems iggy has because he is a real mc and he has a lot of respect for hip hop. all the og’s from the 80’s and 90’s respect em nobody respect iggy because shes a fraud.
“i dont like iggy for the fact being she talks with a fake ghetto accent and her entire image is fake its like everything she does is just one big joke” … I say the same thing about Rick Ross
Thurman Merman…just b/c u feel the same about Rick Ross doesn’t make your point an equivalent one…u feel Rick Ross is fake yet you don’t know him personally nor whether or not he’s making up anything he talks about as a fact…Iggy factually doesn’t come from the south and doesn’t speak in the same accent she raps in..its not an opinion..that’s a fact..smh…I swear to god some of yall are seriously dumb as fuck!
actually its a fact that ross was a c.o., lied about it. stole another living inmates identity and didnt catch his first charge until he was in his 30s. hes a certified buster and its no secret to anyone that hes making up EVERYTHING he says. and i never heard anyone in the south that sounds like iggy when she raps….
Hip hop is art, it’s not a fucking job! Do your art, if you can make any money doing it, then fine, but that should NEVER be the main objective, or even one at all when it comes to art! But sadly for most rappers it is, that’s why we got a rap industry!!!
I support hip hop artist that needs the support, for instance independent rappers. I don’t support rappers who ain’t struggling at all, signed to greedy labels, over pricing the albums to the extreme!
Fuck all these hoe ass rappers, prostituting themselves for that green!
salty old negro just hatin
She ain’t selling no records. The bitch’s album can’t even go gold. iKKKy Azalea ain’t selling shit, it’s just that television and radio play her songs non stop. Which makes that even worse that she can’t even go gold.
Compared to the 60,000 or so people who ever bought a Little Brother album and all the stuff like the series of 9th Wonder produced MURS albums and all kinds of independent “stars” who are broke, she sure is selling.
co-sign 9th Wonder. however i download a lot of stuff i do buy the ones i really like to support them. of course selling albums is a little piece of the cake but i love albums and i have tons of cds on my shelves. i think this is a good way to show love towards your favorite artists
Word!!Now WHAT THE FUCK IS A 9TH WONDER?been lookin for it all over town,but nobody seems to be sellin anything by that brand.What the fuck is it?Is it a coffeemachine?
9th Ti are sellouts!
Did some of Yall not grow up listening to the old heads at the barber shop. At the time what they say does not pertain to you but later in life it makes since. Realness support those artist. I remember Me and My friends would buy one cd and make copies. Still bad nut some one BOUGHT the cd exposed them to a new concumer and now 2of the 5 or going to see the live show. Someone copy might get damamged and they just have to go buy another one. That was my generation. It was the begining of this DL stuff. We looked at album covers. Read Credits see who writing, What samples, Have to listen and handwrite lyrics.