Iggy Azalea On Detractors: “I Actually Am Good, And They Can’t Really Accept That”

    Iggy Azalea has a peculiar relationship with Hip Hop.

    There are the highs, such as winning an American Music Award for her album, The New Classic, receiving multiple Grammy nominations and topping the Billboard charts.

    There are also the lows, like the criticism she’s received from rappers, radio personalities and the Internet.

    In a recent interview with the Zach Sang & The Gang radio show, Iggy opened up about her personal tribulations within the genre.

    When asked if she feels if she doesn’t get enough respect from the Hip Hop community, Iggy says, “I think ultimately they don’t… It’s very frustrating for me because I’ll have personal relationships with them outside of the media, that people don’t understand… Then, I’ll find it particularly offensive because often times they’ll take on the general opinion of others or the viewers to try to get clicks or things like that.”

    “It’s fine,” she added. “Hip Hop is tough. It’s a tough world out there for rappers.”

    As the three-minute clip continues, Iggy goes on to say that she’s done “playing that game,” referencing the back-and-forth with the media.

    She also offers her own idea on why she doesn’t receive the respect she deserves within Hip Hop.

    “They know, deep down,” she says. “I think they know. They just don’t want to admit it. That’s what I think. I have a feeling. That’s why they’re mad. Because they do know that I actually am good, and they can’t really accept that. But we could be friends, and this could all be easy. Or we could not, and I could send Bitcoin shit chocolate boxes to your door. But I’m still going to be here.”

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    35 thoughts on “Iggy Azalea On Detractors: “I Actually Am Good, And They Can’t Really Accept That”

    1. i mean she’s no Nas but you cant tell me she’s any worse than Soulja Boy, Migos, Chief Keef or French Montana. It’s all a matter of preference,.

      1. True, I can’t lick my finger and wipe it against my laptop’s LCD. Well, I guess I can do it to the Migos. Imagine being surrounded by them three, like a triple chocolate milkshake on a hot summer’s day. Mmm, tasty.

      2. when they start commenting on your topics , it’s a clear indicator that you made it, iggy i love you never change tell them the truth , if i hate blacks , i will say so , blacks are so dumb

    2. I can’t believe people give her a platform. She has the guts to call her trash “the new classic”.

      First of all, thats for the hip hop fans to decide what is and isn’t a classic, and you sure as hell dont name your album “Classic” in order to achieve that status, you have to earn it.

      You are not good, you are actually horrible. Your lyrics are super wack and make no statements whatsoever.

      1. Well believe it bruh! You can sit there bitch and complaint about her all you want. At the end of the day, she is making it and caking herself up. Everyone keeps gassing themselves up about this chick don’t need to be here and all this bullspit. Yet, y’all sit there and support acts like, French Montana, Rick Ross, everyone at MMG and Cash money except for an old school Wayne and all that 90% of whack music that’s out there. Anyway you get my drift. So stop the bitching and tell me what have contributed to hip-hop/rap that gives you the right to say who belongs here and who doesn’t?

      2. Respect to WeakSauce, he makes a good point. I’m a huge fan of all types of Hip-Hop from Gucci, Rae Sremmurd and Migos to Kendrick, J. Cole and Drake to AZ, Doom, Lupe, and Elzhi, but I digress. We don’t have the right to decide her place in Hip-Hop, especially if she is legitimately carving her own niche of Hip-Hop fans out for herself. However, when that bitch starts running around calling herself a “runaway slave master,” and commenting that protesters of police brutality are “trolling” her show, as if they give a fuck bout her weak ass rhymes, phony southern accent, or ok pop music, I feel we have a right to say go fuck yourself to that ignant Aussie hoe. She didn’t start the negativity that surrounds her career, but whether she realizes it or not, she has contributed to it one way or another.

      3. “and commenting that protesters of police brutality are “trolling” her show,”…. WELL THEY WERE, Why the hell would anyone looking for justice in the deaths of black men by the hands of police choose to set up shop outside an Australian white girls concert????

    3. IMO shes not worse than soulja boy migos frend or keef..shes equal to them..the only difference is they use their real voices and stories not some made up persona..

      id actually rather listen 2 those 4..iggys egos too big for her own good..not 1 person thinks shes nice

    4. You goat hearder’s are the worse. Pizza hut gang is wack juice on fire, and nuc is a head dummy.

      New Classic is a hip hop staple for us white girls. G’d up all day snitches

    5. Ugh, white folks just need to stay out of the game. She has no artistic or street value, she’s worthless to us.

      1. so the qualification for being a musician in usa u need to have a certificate of drug dealing (street credibility) or street thug, blacks are so dumb i am really ashamed i’m a black.

    6. People resent Iggy because she makes Pop music but masquerades as if she makes Hip Hop. It isn’t Hip Hop no matter how you phrase it.

      1. What is this , music is music as long as it sounds good, i love it, analyse things so much, even if you like it you want to criticize it still ohh mayne what a shame , so what if they are two different things. who is even doing hiphop nowadays, JAYZ? HAH, hiphop is so washed out Lil wayne, drake nicki riri, everybody is doing something different from hiphop, please let the lady be her self , anything she can sing i like it as long as it is good,

    7. she look like her stank pussy would smell like the creature from the black lagoon’s asshole………

      1. i doubt that , because she is not black , only black women have stinking pussy , whites are blessed blacks are the people making this world going backwards, what do we know how to do, just music, who makes the mics, cars everything we use the whites it’s a shame we still bite the fingers that feeds us

    8. shes Australian, but raps with a dirty south accent? That’s the stupidest fucking thing Ive ever heard of… She is the epitome of wackness. She should be repping her own sound. Dumbass!!!

      1. Haha talking bout repping where u come from, dude go and do some research and find out where most of these rappers really come from, idiot who is born in American? so who is repping where they come from, it’s a disappointment that when you hate somebody, you become dumb too.

    9. yo diz bitch again???? this bitch literally makes me sick to my stomach how the hell she gonnna speak on rappers having it hard when she came from Australia never been thru no real nigga shit nd started gettin all this American and world wide rap money. she studied the culture and imitated it until she became a part of it and now she has platform to say wreckless shit like this.. SHES GETTIN PAID!! FCK SHE TALKIN ABOUT HAVING IT HARD> WE HAVE IT HARD CUZ OF TRASH LIKE YOU GETTING ALL THE EXPOSURE YOU SNOWFLAKE ASS BITCH

      1. I couldn’t even finish reading your comment, but i already found so many childishness in it, do you know the countries most of this rappers come from? try and find out then you will know who is repping and who is not repping where they come from

      1. no, u are, she is not the one commenting , you are, she is teaching you are learning , that means she is a teacher and u a student, just cuz you don’t understand the lesson u say the subject is difficult

    10. I am black but , black people wil never change, it’s so disappointing to hear people still talking bout street credibility in music, do i have to be a drug dealer, or a street thug in order for me to be a musician? mayne blacks are dumb. i thought music is all about creativity.

    11. I agree with her 110%. I’m not really a fan of Iggy, “fancy” isn’t my cup of tea but I know a lot of chicks who do like it. First things first, She won awards and she was white so black people are going have something to say. You can be white in hip hop but you can’t be successful without black people being upset. They say it’s the white privilege but what they don’t understand is that white people are pretty much the ONLY reason why ANY of them sell records despite the fact they talk mega shit about us. NO BLACK PEOPLE BUY RECORDS, PERIOD! so if you are a white artist and white people support you more than some black artist who will make records about “fuck white people this and fuck white people that” (their biggest supporters) then too fuckin bad… they did the same thing to Eminem, it was white privilege, he wasn’t as good as cannabis (LMFAO), yet NO ONE wants it with him and they openly admit that. Black people are mad at white people/artists because their own people don’t support them and buy their records? I’m tired of most black rappers, rap went from being strickly for poor people, Tupac use to rap about trying to make a dollar out of 15 cents and now rappers talk about how much more money they have than you and how when they come to your city, they’re going to fuck your bitch and shit all over you because your broke ( yeah, piece a shit cuz I went out and bought your album for that ONE song that was ok) and their shining lol IGGY DON”T STOP, DON”T EVER STOP and I also want T.I to know that by standing by her he has made one more fan out of me and his records will be bought by me at the store and I think he is real, period.

    12. I’m sorry Iggy,but the problem isn’t that your a white female artist, its that your an white female artist from Australia who uses a fake accent and can’t rap for ish. If she was good people would actually accept you. People a lot of them genuinely accept Eminem, before Macklemore robbed Kendrick of his well deserved Grammy people didn
      t have a problem with him. You aren’t good but still get attention for being white that’s why everyone hates you. Your album got a horrible rating wake up.

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