T.I. offered a harsh dose of his reality to Iggy Azalea during a recent conversation with The Root. The Grand Hustle Records boss, who brought the Aussie singer onboard around 2011, ultimately severed ties in 2015.
Four years later, he evidently views her as a failed investment.
“I’m still actively looking for another female rapper who can undo the blunder of Iggy Azalea,” Tip said. “That is the tarnish of my legacy as far as [being] a [music] executive is concerned. To me, this is like when Michael Jordan went to play baseball.”
Azalea initially responded to Tip’s comments via Twitter but quickly deleted her sentiments. But, as we all know, screenshots are forever.
“Imagine thinking I was his biggest blunder lmfaoooooooo,” she wrote. “Tip. Sweetie. We have a whole list for you.”
Tip was originally going to executive produce Azalea’s 2014 debut album The New Classic. But according to a 2013 BET article, those plans were axed.
“He’s actually not, anymore,” Azalea said when asked about T.I.’s role. “He was going to be, but originally…all the records that I had on Glory [EP] were supposed to be on The New Classic, and he executive produced what ended up being Glory.”
Azalea added, “As I was making it, I felt like, ‘This isn’t The New Classic; this is something else. It’s not the right sound.’ Not that it sounded bad, but it wasn’t what The New Classic is in my head.
“And he executive produced that, and that went good, it was an experience, but after, he said and I said, it’s better if I just make my own music away [from him] because sometimes being around him, it influences the music I make to be a bit too much of a different sound, and so for that reason he’s not going to be [executive producing]. But not because I don’t love him, because I love him.”
Azalea’s latest album, In My Defense, was released in July and debuted at No. 50 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling roughly 16,000 copies in its first week. The New Classic, on the other hand, debuted at No. 3 thanks in part to the strength of the “Fancy” single featuring Charlie XCX.
Tip is a certified SUCKA for that shit! She’s not making him any money she’s a blunder? She was the biggest artist on Grand Hustle
Lol waiting for all the comments from dumb shit “woke” blacks calling her a culture vulture. Also waiting for bitter ass white suburbanites to get all offended and toss around racial slurs in response… Don’t dissapoint me.
Whoa buddy ease the fucking aggression you sound like a “woke” white.
He has a bunch of failed female rappers on the his roster …. he only views her as a blunder because she’s white … I would think employing the snitch Alfamega or being a snitch himself would rank a little higher
shit , that’s a great point … everyone forgets about that shit … TI had to have a press conference and all .lol ….
that was the end of grand hustle nobody wants to be associated with that org
He makes a good point, when she was hot and was what was poppin she elected to take her foot off the peddle which ultimately cost her career. I’ve only seen her make the news for twerking with chicken on her ass or getting nudes leaked, that was a blunder
She could have had Cardi B’s career except for her personality is a turnoff.
I agree. She got with Nick young clown ass and it fucked her whole career up.
I can’t believe he said that. She was way bigger than Young Dro…lol
I really, really, really miss Charmander. Not just any Charmander, but the Charmander that Ash had in the original Pokemon cartoon. I mean, remember when he use to say, “Char, Char”?
Please come back to me Char Char, you are our only hope to stop the empire.
Love,
Prince Leia
Iggy is ugly. No doubt about that, but I’d still shit on her face.
I don’t know why everyone takes shots at Iggy. She’s fine and doesn’t seem to bother anyone else. And we didn’t forget about that crime stoppers ad and that mysterious short sentence.
Unrelated – I’m sitting here taking a dump and my neighbor is watching the OG Ghostbusters.
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Yeah well T.I I’m a huge fan but I don’t like when famous people post their feelings regarding the other person in a deal gone south, or a mistake in judgement that was made. I don’t feel that’s the whole worlds business. Could’ve been left unsaid
you see, we’re dealing with the “woke” era of T.I., so its no surprise he felt the need to throw his former aussie artist under the bus. had she acted far more woke than she did for all these years, up to the standard that we see satisfy twitter folks, T.I. probably would have been more charitable, but since shes seen as a culture vulture who complained too much about being critiqued as such, up under the bus she goes!
If it fact this is even true. TI has struct me as a good ole boy that keeps his business to himself
bigger snitch than 69 who this guy kidding he had a good run & some bangers begining of the century but aint no body bangin mr tip line
I thought he was gonna say everything after KING was “the tarnish” of his career
So did TI really snitch?… I read an article awhile back saying that turned out to be a rumor, there’s no proof of it
Man im from Cincinnati and T.I came to court to point out the nigga that killed his homeboy. So everybody has their own definition of a snitch? To me that’s not snitching. Now when he got caught wit dem guns, he could have told on a mf that sell weight or anything and that my friend wud be a SNITCH!!
The guy who killed his brother own brother told on him.
Ti is hypocrite
Wouldnt the tarnish of your record be being in tax debt having liens on your property and staging robberies of valuables for insurance money? Wouldnt every single poppin artist you have ever had who got it on their own then you start stuffing yourself on all their shit to get yourself attention instead of your boy which is why hustle gang aint got shit for artists you clown you tip invests more in himself than his own crew tips one of the worst to ever do the record company game
Only a rapper would make a comment like that. There really wasn’t any need to even say that. He is fake and only saying it because she is a white artist. At least she ain’t getting into trouble with the law . Nobody’s finding any guns etc.
TI is a racist or what? Why won’t he stand up for her? She was loyal to him and was a sick rapper and killed the verse on no mediocre. Why he say that?
Because she white?
Did you miss the nearly 2 years of TI defending her whenever she caught heat for saying and doing some dumb shit? When she wasn’t even signed to him? She’s not gonna fuck you bro.
Lol. Black men be letting her down!
What’s everybody’s problem with Iggy? They should also have a problem with Post Malone, G Eazy or Yellawolf, ……I don’t hear anybody havin’ a problem with those posers……..
That’s because Yelawolf is great.
He didn’t even have to mention it. Ok yes people felt some kind of way about her appropriating black culture, but there are many others who do it. We forgot about it until he had to mention it again. She made a quick impact on the culture. Good bad or indifferent. like Charlemagne said he took a while women from Australia and made her a star. She was bigger than anyone on his roster minus BOB. I wasn’t feeling her, but she made some sort of impact musically.
what a racist piece of shit this guy is.
What about the snitch he signed alfamega…was she a worse signing than him?
Or when young LA got beat up and niggas forgot all about him, or Dro trash ass or the failed PSC album. TIP a great rapper but horrible exec
Yeah TI is a piece of shit for that, that’s why I am on these Hip Hop sites, to make sure these ghetto june bugs don’t get out of line. Rap is crap and I can’t relate, but I can relate to Iggy, because she looks like me.
TI pretending to be an intellectual is the worst