Iggy Azalea’s brand new video for “I Am The Stripclub” manages to find a way to pack stripper escapades in the back of a truck with the ballroom group House Of Balmain but also has drawn plenty of controversy on social media.
The video, co-directed by Iggy and Thom Kerr, finds Iggy rocking a black wig and bodysuit while simultaneously having a tan which made her appear darker than her usual complexion. Fans immediately called out Iggy for “blackfishing,” a term coined by journalist Wanna Thompson about non-Black men or women utilizing Black features to pass off a certain image.
After clothing company boohoo posted a still photo from Iggy’s “I Am The Stripclub” video, fans reacted en masse.
“You are telling me that THIS is Iggy Azalea?” one Twitter user wrote. “When will the blackfishing cease? When.”
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The newest single from Iggy’s upcoming End Of An Era album comes on the heels of the launch of her Parfum De Azalea fragrance line and the first signature scent, Devil’s Advocate. The fragrance line has been a year in the making for the Australian rapper and detailed her debut fragrance was meant to “embrace the duality of yourself.”
Watch the video for “I Am The Stripclub” above and see more reactions to Iggy’s look below.
What the hell is she doing? Just embrace your pawgness and be good
She should just do porn and get it over with.
Lol she just dyed her hair black chill. Shes a hot white bitch. Why does everybody hate her so much? Plenty of way uglier girls to pick on trust me. Saweetie needs to lose the ink. shes a 10 with a good voice. Stop dissing saweetie so much too
They jealous, if she faking, there’s alot of fake hair and butts and eye lashes. where’s a real black woman at? IJS.
People need to relax , not everything is about black people or race
First cultural appropriation. Now blackfishing ? Who with nothing better to do comes up with all this BS ? You aint seen nobody complain when cardi or megan wears their hair straight like a white girl. Fuck the damn double standard. Looking sexy doesnt have a fucking color were all fucking equal !
Same people who come up with this shit are blind to the fact that Nikki Minaj used to rock blonde wigs waaaay too often. So, why does she want to be white then? Stupid ass logic
While we fight each other, 1% win, let the work slaves fight each other while we raise taxes.
divide and conquer tactics. don’t fall for this.
This is nothing compared to the rate at which black people bleach their skin. Fucking hypocrites.
Why you deleting comments when I only stated Nikki Minaj rocked blonde wigs too?
People on social media virtue signaling. Nobody in real life cares about this stuff. Iggy looks weird after the surgery though.
So “The Culture” (lmao) owns the sun and tans now???? How dare a white person get a tan lol damn racists lmao
Idk about blackfishing but the queer baiting continues…
Clearly, this comments section is 90% white. Somehow, THEY seem to be the ones offended. Ain’t that a bitch? The mental gymnastics to justify her complexion… Nicki with a blonde wig? LMAO. it just never stops.
Na it’s just that your hypocritical ideology and constantly reaching to find racism that has made you a joke and insanely laughable
I’m black and I agree with them. Y’all nixxaz need to go out and get jobs, contribute to society meaningfully. Get off twitter and quit crying about every fuxxing little thing! Fuxx black twitter and cancel culture. So much negativity and nothing to show for. Go feed your cotdamn babies, you ain’t winning no trophy from canceling iggy azalea. Y’all sad as fuxx.
Man damn that why are dudes twerking this some bs
I’m just offended that someone still lets her in a studio to rap. She’s thicker than a bowl of cold oatmeal though.
Black women offended as Iggy hops on a different black man’s pole every night.
Only ones complaining are black bitches without jobs that sit on their phone all day and need to be persecuted and offended. and gay ass men who do the same. If a white person is tan now that’s racist? American history X. That’s a racist lol.
Whats the black equivalent of blackfishing? Coz I’ve black women walking around with blonde wigs, bleached skins, nose jobs etc so if non white people find black features appealing and want to look similar then i think that’s ok especially since black features have been hated on in the past for so long.
“ Fans immediately called out Iggy for “blackfishing,” a term coined by journalist Wanna Thompson about non-Black men or women utilizing Black features to pass off a certain image.”
First off, I am black. Second, why do black folks bleach their skin, want blonde like hair but yet cause an uproar on this nonsense? It doesn’t make any damn sense. They should’ve never given social media to a lot of idiots. How are you going to make a difference if you can’t make a change at home? Can we talk about the current state of artists that don’t want to be all black (Nicki, Cardi, every damn fake so called R&B artist? Worrying about a white chick doing the same shit y’all do. Eff y’all.
So do you condemn black folks for doing abc, or do you support Iggy doing xyz? Neither? Both? You said a bunch of nothing here.
I’m pointing facts. Your response tells me you can’t comprehend my point and that’s okay. Hopefully some day it will. Until then, I recommend you read more so you can actually comprehend another persons point of view without coming off as a cliche comeback responder that’s quick to react once their feelings are rattled. Peace!
I just said your comment didn’t make sense. It didn’t really rattle my feelings because you didn’t say anything…just kinda straddled the fence. *shrug* Peace.
because we as an people we lost our identity and they made us hate ourselves so we looking for acceptance by putting these things on
I did roll up on the video thinking “Aw ish, where the lotion at…”then my thing shrunk back in the box seeing it was booty guys. It’s all good. Jus not my wieners cup of tea…
Whoaa just clicked on the video thinking it was about the stripclub… Nah just a generic techno beat and a bunch of trannnies
Through their outrage, they are seeking to define what is black smh. No such thing as black features. People of color have features of all kinds. We used to dream of a better tomorrow without race and now people really wanna lean into this bs.
And her dancers gay. Iggy lost again!
We should all just stick to our own cultural garb from here on out! white people: polos and cargos ONLY. Black people: tall tees, very baggy or very tight jeans, and du rag ONLY. Mexicans: cowboy hat, button down, boot cut jeans, and curl toed boots ONLY. asians: kimonos ONLY. middle eastern: turban and that bed sheet ONLY!
sometimes it really does feel like this is the world you weirdos wanna live in..
We the most hated race in the world but we are the most emulated race in the world