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Why Iggy Azalea can’t get any respect
– macleans.ca
Kevin Winter/Getty Images“First thing’s first I’m the realest.” That is the opening line of Fancy, 24-year-old Australian rapper Iggy Azalea’s Billboard 100 chart topper—a song harder to avoid in North America in 2014 than the bubonic plague was in 14th-century England. Azalea, blond and statuesque (she is the new face of Levi’s jeans) is up for four Grammys in February, including best rap album and best new artist. Her career, which supposedly began in squalor in Florida when she was a teenager (“No money / no family / 16 in the middle of Miami”) blew up last year; with Fancy, she topped the Billboard 100 longer than any female emcee in history.
Her meteoric rise to fame is controversial for many in the hip-hop world who contend that Azalea is not, as she claims, “the realest,” but a poser—a white outsider appropriating black culture for profit. Azealia Banks, a black American rapper critical of Azalea (the similarity of their names is coincidental) recently dubbed the Aussie rapper “Igloo Australia” on Twitter…
