In a preview of a new cover story for Billboard, Kendrick Lamar addresses Iggy Azalea and the rapper’s current status in the industry.
“She’s doing her thing,” Lamar said of the often-criticized Australian rapper. “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.”
Over the last couple months, Azalea has been under fire for her status and self-positioning in the industry. In late December, Q-Tip unleashed a long series of Tweets directly addressed at Iggy Azalea, retreading the history of Hip Hop and its importance and unique relevance to communities of color.
Also in the Billboard story preview, Lamar touched on his Grammy loss last year and hinted at wanting to move past a debacle over Macklemore’s Best Rap Album win.
“I appreciate [the Grammys] recognizing me,” Kendrick said. “That’s not my overall goal…It’s best to just go and enjoy the festivities.”
Lamar added of Macklemore specifically, “I wish him much success.”
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Either someone told him to say this to get brownie points and make her look like she is bigger star or he scared to say what everyone else is saying in fear of losing his white followers
Nah man, I think he’s following Bun B’s approach. Bun B wasn’t talking directly about Iggy, but he said Hip Hop started on the block and WE (black folks) wanted it to go global. We saw opportunities to take it worldwide and we;ve collectively made billions and billions off of it, if not trillions by now. So how can we get made if it comes back to us in the form of an Iggy when we went to Australia and made five or six figures per show over there. Music is an art and art is meant to inspire/entertain. Those two elements hold no barriers.
On another note, I don’t get how we can bash Iggy for place in music and let trash artists in all the time just because they’re black or artists who disrespect the culture by saying they’re “hustlers, not rappers.” That shit really erks me.
All that said, I don’t fuck with Iggy’s at all lol! But if we’re gonna hate her, let’s hate the other rappers who we consider wack too. Let’s not hate her just because she’s white.
^ I respectfully agree with this comment. Good read.
@respectful. Bingo. As a white man that loves music from rap to blues to county to classical to rock to we id never tell a black man their not wrlcome into country or classical or opera( idf w opera tho) so it always irked tf outta me to hear theses rappers coming with eminem w noone defendinghim
NO ONE hates Iggy because she is white. They hate her because she is fake. If you were born in Australia, YOU ARE AUSTRALIAN! Be an Australian rapper and be proud of it. She looks like a crazy idiot up on stage everyday imitating some black chick from Atlanta. SHE is a MamasGunz WANNABEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@truth serum. Maybe she does look like an idiot lol but again, music is meant to entertain and inspire. She’s clearly doing what she’s doing because she’s satisfying one or the other. At the end of the day, we have a choice to listen to what we want to listen to. I DON’T listen to the radio at all, and my spotify stays on 90s hip hop with a few artists from this era mixed in. Whatever Iggy does, that’s for her and the fans who like her. We can dislike it, but to hate on it to the point that we start demeaning her as a human being, it’s like “damn. For real?” Like what did she do that was so bad? So what if she’s being fake in her music? Plies talked hella shit in his music and got exposed when gangmembers came knocking. There’s a bunch of fakes in the industry but good music is good music and wack music is wack music. To each his own!
kendrick stays being true to himself and his music! how could someone put out a song like “i” and then tell someone to change who they are???
kendrick aint loyal he aint a real nigga. He like all them otha niggas that worship the whites and give us a bone once in a while. Where them real niggas mayne. Real niggas in rap are going extinct
Real igornant niggas* like u who keep race hate alive by calling with pwn successful brothers whotewashed or unc toms bc they can enjoy life with all races
they wanna be accepted by white people so bad. Typical wannabe. Ive lost all respect for him. He wanna collaborate with Taylor Swift. lol. REAL TALK
I wish niggas that spell street SKREET and man mayne would go extinct! Carry your real ass back to the real Street while that man gon make some real hits.
ignorance and hate are the only reasons anybody would hate iggy … point blank period, n i aint talkin menstruation
OH PLEASE. White people love to pull out the race card and then get mad when black people do it.
People hate on Nicki ALL THE TIME. Not just HOT97 or LIL KIM either.
Its hip hop
In what way when Iggy has time and time again proven herself to be ignorant. You get hate all the time in any music genre especially when your reason for “success” is your fake ass and associates. If people knew anything about hip hop you would know that Iggy has no flow, she hasn’t got the talent to be a MC, she has yet to go plantinum and I doubt she will.
Nick Young is his cousin of course he is going to have good things to say.
Is he really?
he got that right
No, he’s not. lol. Stop making up shit.
Iggy is playing a dangerous game mocking people. If someone came out using a Chinese accent, They would be offended. Any race would be if they were mocked. Black people like anyone else can be radical as well. You see what happened in Paris when mocking went too far.
You’re an idiot. You’re justifying what happened in Paris as an understandable reaction?
It’s a clear subliminal diss to Iggy. He mentions to the Australian artist, “Continue to ROCK it”. What did he mean exactly? Continue to use Hip-Hop and disrespect the originators just like the so called “heroes” of Rock music did to Black artist. Kendrick isn’t a sell out, but he is tryin to sell them records especially now that Taylor Swift loves him and thus her fans will also. Kendrick ain’t tryin to get caught up in no fufu album sales with a direct diss to Iggy, hence the subliminal diss instead. Still got love for ya boy boy.
I don’t ever wanna hear Kendrick or anybody comparing him to 2pac again.
Kendrick is like 2pac
KENDRICK > 2PAC
Can’t we hate Iggy for being an ignorant, appropriating bitch? In light of the recent court case travesties in the U.S., people are putting their lives on the line protesting, knowing the cops might get violent, and this bitch says they’re just trolling, cuz she’s mad they protested outside her show? Or how about calling herself a “runaway slave master” in hip hop? Wake up brothers! I’m sick of this insanity! Don’t let White America make you feel guilty for pushing her ignorant ass out. T.I.’s Uncle Tom ass already showed his colors. Please, I beg of you, don’t be like him!
While I agree 100%, we have to also target the corporations behind Iggy as well. Who is she signed to? Interscope? Ok, well protest Iovine or whoever is Chairman at the moment. Stop giving sites like Forbes traffic when they printed the article “Iggy, Queen of Hip-Hop”. MTV didn’t play Black artists until the 80’s! Stop watching that sh*t! Take your dollars away from these heathens, it’s their power. It’s also about ownership. I’m happy we now have the Hip-Hop Hall of Fame so that we can archive our OWN history and induct members who actually deserve to be inducted (if Black people actually do in fact own the HipHop Hall of Fame).
Azalea Banks is that you? Eat afucking si k dick. Go try and make a hit!
Oooooh!So thats why azelia mad!Now its startin to make sense.
can I call her fake a** out yet? Y’all still trying to protect her from the critics?
I wonder what Drake gonna say? U know these white media gonna ask him about the female vanilla ice wannabe.
Don;t sell out like NAS did Drake.
do yall think kendrick makes his voice husky on purpose what do his regular voice sound like DUCKWORTH im white