It’s not abnormal for Iggy Azalea to post a seductive photo of herself on social media — her 14.7 million Instagram followers probably count on it.
But one particular photo is causing controversy online. On Wednesday (July 7), the “Fancy” rapper shared a photo of herself rocking a body-hugging Fashion Nova outfit looking noticeably darker. The Shade Room later posted the photo and the comment section lit up with remarks about her appearance.
“Now when did Iggy start looking like a light skinned black woman,” one person wrote, while another said, “They keep gettin darker and darker.”
Others were even more direct with comments such as, “She Black now” and “Everyone wanna be a Black woman. It’s sickening.”
The criticism surrounding Iggy Azalea is similar to what Bhad Bhabie faced in April 2020 after the controversial TV personality-turned-rapper unveiled a new look on Instagram, revealing a much darker complexion than people were typically used to seeing on the now 18-year-old Floridian.
Twitter users quickly pounced and accused her of cultural appropriation and “blackfishing.” Bhad Bhabie soon headed to Instagram to defend herself, claiming the darker look was simply for a photo shoot.
“Millions of people sick, thousands dying every day and y’all worried about me getting make up done for a photoshoot?” she wrote in her IG Stories at the time. “I’m usually the wild one but y’all need to chill and focus on what’s important right now.”
Bhad Bhabie Goes At All Black Women Accusing Her Of Cultural Appropriation
In December 2019, Bhad Bhabie was ridiculed for sporting box braids and exploded on Instagram, insisting she had every right to do what she wanted with her hair.
“To all the black females that are saying my hair ain’t meant for box Braids,” she wrote. “Guess the fuck what? y’all hair ain’t meant to be straight but y’all glue whole wigs on to your heads and sew Brazilian/Indian/Peruvian hair which is anything like your natural hair texture at all and I don’t say a god damn thing neither do the other cultures that you get the hair from.”
As of publication time, Iggy hasn’t addressed the backlash. This marks the second time in less than a week the Aussie rapper has been at the center of controversy for her darker complexion. After the release of her latest video, “I Am The Strip Club,” she was again accused of blackfishing on social media.
Bhad Bhabie is the voice of reason… Smh
Maybe she got a tan dumb dumbs. Not everything is about race. Plus, she’s banged enough black dudes and has been cheated on enough by them to be an honorary member.
I do believe girls do this, there’s beautiful girls that come from all backgrounds and black girls are beautiful and the “light skin” ones attract every single dude in the world so it doesn’t surprise me that white girls try to look like them. But it’s a shame everyone man/woman u just gotta be yourself and literally be comfortable in your own skin. Obviously way easier said than done.
Great point!!
She’s a babe!!!
Smh…this looks like a tan…Ole girl can’t sunbathe anymore?
When light skinned people catch sun rays they get “tan”, resulting in a slightly darker complexion. People are fucking dumb these days SMH.
The sun is racist!
White liberals telling whites what blacks don’t like. You can’t make this up lol!!!
Look: Damn all that. The mamma jamma is FINE. That’s all that matters. (Horrible musician though)
ZERO and i mean this literally ZERO people want to be a black women
Are you fucking kidding me. There are so many young white men and women that try to emulate black culture and physical traits.. But your ego and deep rooted racist beliefs think the opposite. It’s sickening.
Well said!!
He specifically said black women.. not black culture..
Fuck you bitch! Coming from a black woman!
No Nicole . Fuck Youuuu you dirty bitch.. from a white man.
black people in the US are the whiniest group of people in the whole world. ive never seen so much whining about stupid stuff in my entire life. and dont give me the whole racism dialogue. every country in the world has racism towards each other. whine, whine, whine, whine. african americans are the dumbest and whiniest black people in a first world country on earth. us blacks in the uk are laughing at yall haha holla!
All y’all ran to UK from Africa because you didn’t get accepted into U.S. so we laughing at y’all too!! We know y’all are envious of “US” but don’t give a fux clown
Literally no one in the entire world gives a fuck about the UK. Ya’ll don’t even have an army, you’re so pathetic lol
This b•tch got issues..
Hmm. Your user name issues seem to overthrow her issues, which don’t seem to bother her at all. Why you change your name boss?
Black Women would have zero competition and very few copy cats if they stayed natural. But the moment the out them tracks in their head they open the flood gates and weaken their own position giving away leverage to Women of other cultures
Zero competition? Is that why black men are all going for White, Latina, and Asian women? And these arent even woman trying to act black, just your average, White, Latina, and Asian females.
Who gives a fuck? Really y’all mutherfuckers really need to get a life..fucking hilarious ??? i
Y’all know damn well this ain’t no Sun tan. This is custom tan work.
The issue is Everyone needs to love themselves. But someone told her to get clicks n views and ppl talking, do this. This is not the first time that people are getting attention for emulating or humiliating Black women.
When will this stupid site post the image instead of a link i can never view.
I’ve been visiting this site for nearly a decade, nothing has changed with the broken links, they dont care about giving readers solid info, its all about clicks and make ad revenue money. Sad but true.
white chicks get spray tans all the time. why is this news?
Hold up, black women been wanting to be white forever….how you made if a white woman wanted to be black??
Black women don’t want to be white… they want just want the courtesy, praise and affection the world shows white women
cry me a r*ver negro.Your woman probably wears a blonde straigh hair wig like Mary J and Beyonce.
Since when and based on what? ?
Social media, consumerism and capitalism has created a modern, American culture based entirely off image. There’s no substance just shiny, beautiful objects that we mistakenly think will make us happy. So we struggle to keep up because we can’t maintain the lavish lifestyle. Spend $20 at the carwash on a leased car we can’t afford, $30 at the barber so we look the part, then feed ourselves with fast food combo meals. Successful rappers at French fashion shows, broke rappers pretending to be rich, fans up in arms because of some little drama with people they don’t even know. America is rotten
Well said