A petition claiming Iggy Azalea’s Billboard Award for Top Rap song should be retracted has garnered more than 18,000 signatures via Change.org.
Azalea nabbed the award for “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX at last week’s 2015 Billboard Music Awards. According to the petition, Iggy should not have been eligible to even receive a nomination. Christian Ferguson, the petition’s organizer, has pointed out that Billboard’s eligibility time period for nominations is March 10th, 2014 through March 2015. “Fancy” was released February 17, 2014, nearly a month before the eligibility started.
“This is unfair to the other nominees in these category, especially to ‘Anaconda’ by Nicki Minaj, who most likely would’ve won,” Ferguson explained within the petition. “Billboard did not follow their own guidelines and should have to recalculate these nominations without ‘Fancy’ as a nominee.”
Within the first 24 hours, 5,000 people signed the petition. An additional 13,000 have signed since.
Iggy received two nominations in the category: “Fancy” and “Black Widow.” She beat out Big Sean’s “IDFWU,” Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” and Bobby Shmurda’s “Hot Boy.”
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these nig-s cry about fucking everything man. grow the fuck up already.
um i bet most names on that list are white. Black ppl fux wit iggy. 99.9 percent of iggy haters and muthafuckers who cry about shit in general are white now stfu and stop making white ppl look racist, you bitch
cosign white folk need to start calling out their own for racism it’s long overdue.
all a sham
Bit all those songs wacky tho beside big Sean idfwu
exactly what I was thinking
people be bored. Iggy won fair and square as Billboard already pointed out, Nicki fans be dumb af
You can’t beat the white Machine.
Nothing to beat here. Iggy won and it’s time to move on and prepare for next year awards, OR setup an award show that only black people are allowed to compete and boycott Billboards awards, I’m sure they have enough white artists and white fans not worry.
end of the day they didn’t have to cheat for her. she could have had her music out and it sell and she could exist, but they straight bold-face cheated for her. and I think that’s why many people are outspoken about her “career”.
I would be embarrassed if my name appeared on this list of idiots.
But on the other hand Kanye did that to Tylor Swift and it made her even more famous and she sold more albums than ever, so this could mean a financial sales bump for Iggy.
Black people are more racist than white people. Fact. I’m the only young white person in my neighborhood. You are so so so more racist than white people. Please, where is this white privilege. Please sjow me it. Y’all are hating on a white girl for no reason. No one told you to like her. Its billboard awards. She dominated the charts. Get over it.
White privilege is in corporate America, if no where else. If you can’t see that then you’re truly not paying attention. There’s also no “hating” going on, as the article states Iggy is ineligible according to Billboard’s own rules to win an award….please learn how to read AND comprehend.
Good thing you pointed that out. Black widow still out sold anaconda. Can’t believe I’m arguing female pop-rappers right now
The B*tch is Whack
The Billboard Awards are based on sells, everyone knows who’s winning way before they even announce the nominees, the billboard awards are based on numbers not votes or judges, if this was some other award show i could understand. I’m not a super fan of Nicki or Iggy like that, I have to chart sells for artist and even with those weeks this petition is talking about, Nicki wasn’t even close with Anaconda, Fancy was a monster song in terms of sells, downloads, streams etc.
We are so concerned as black people about these award shows but won’t start our on, the true is that every time we do start and have major backing, its marred in violence that’s why we don’t have any and if i’m lying simply google every known hip hop awards show. Can this person who started this petition be concerned with stopping violence, drugs, police brutality, education reform, no they are worried about some award that was won by a white person, yes if we can get that changed then everything will be ok. #GTFOH
if you actually knew what goes on when it comes to awards you would quickly stfu with all of that. fancy wasn’t no monster, it was a song that was played and played until you thought u liked it….anyway you one of those followers so imma let you have at it, ain’t no telling you because you know it all…..#clown
Look around my niqqa white people have snatched us now
Ha white ppl snatched u? Your dumb as fuck man, white ppl led the success of most big rap artists from nwa to dmx to tupac and biggie , if u look up a concert of there’s in there mid career you’ll see 90 percent white. Top rap artists currently are all black, iggy ain’t rap and nicki sucks too
^subliminal white supremacy, meanwhile many of hiphop fans from the beginning will tell you wasn’t nary a white fan around when we were buying all those millions of albums and attending them shows. For instance, wasn’t no majority whites at The Freshfest, Run’s House, Paid In Full, RapMania, How Can I Be Down, The Tunnel, Speed, Harlem World, The Bank, Rendevous, Bentley’s California Club, Fever, Elks Lounge, Central Park, Tower Records, Bleecker St, Fat Beats, and that’s in NYC with many more I ain’t name. y’all gonna stop repeating this lie, especially when the pictures of history start circulating.
Where’s the petition? It goes to the Ice T story. Please, for the love of god, post the petition.
Where is the petition to stop the Federal Reserve,IRS or any tyrannical From of government SMH
Man for real let her have the award now if she win a b.e.t hiphop award then I can see the petition but it’s the billboard awards all commercial all the time so let her have that she can’t keep it up for to long obviously that trying to push wackiness on us anyway and turn the culture into their own like they did rock
Big Sean is Wacky……
Imagine if D12 consisted of Eminem, Royce da 5’9″, Proof, Guilty Simpson, Obie Trice & Mr. Porter. That shit would’ve been crazy.
i don’t get it can you let this girl live her life, like what fancy was a hit hate it or love it that’s what it is !!!
I like Nicki but she had some bad song too and for me Anaconda is one of it, i don’t like it at all it’s just my personal opinion. Now doing a petition for that are you kidging me save your time for something more important.
And stop the hate you’are making yourself look racist too !!
Let it go….
the haters are the ones who manufactured her success instead of letting it come naturally, not the people speaking up about the blatant tricks. if you cannot see that then you are not the progressive mind you thought you were, but on the wrong side of history and a serious part of the problem.
So many racist whiners on the planet
and you’re one of them….many of us are speaking on how the system is using racism to play on gullible ones like you……..because the absolute truth ones like you won’t admit is if she wasn’t white……she wouldn’t be a topic because she woulda got ignored…..when the last time y’all even paid attention to an aussie rapper….or even a brit rapper…EXACTLY…..but you stay ignorant I’m good
good!!!
stupid australian white bitch! gtf outta my holierthanthou hip hop!
with some much civil unrest and all the other issues in the world today, I’m glad we found time to address this nonsense. It’s a Billboard award, who cares. really tho
3 words: PAY-O-LA.
Why are you going crazy about a white owned award? There was a time when only whites could compete and get awards, then they grew a conscience and decided to “allow” blacks. So why so crazy?
Blacks are starting petition to take away Iggy’s awards and not to be out done whites in Glastonbury started a 133,000 petition to kick Kanye out of the Glastonbury festival – Soon only blacks will buy black music and only whites will buy white music, and white owned radio stations will begin getting petition to only play white music and same for black stations….I love this new world.
What a dumb comment. It’s about color? No it’s about following the rules. End of story.
Fucking pussy
And sally there are no rules to follow. They make good music and if people like it then they like it if not then oh well. But to say you dont like someone based on color is racist. Obviously white people can do this look at mgk and mac miller
so, do you call the white people that signed the petition black?
Why is everyone hating on iggy. She worked hard and got what she deserved. How bout you raise money get studio time and make a better song. Then go out advertise it go do the concerts make t shirts and sign the cds. Then maybe just maybe you could beat iggy but untill then shut the fuck up and respect her she works hard for her shit.
why are the rules bent in her favor?