Why Does Iggy Azalea get away with performing Vocal Blackface?

[HookersandIceCream]

Blackvoice

 

[DekalbTheDon]

yall still die at 25

meanwhite us "bytches" are still kicking


we win.

see? i can play this game too.

I would rather be dead than wake up everyday hating the skin I'm in and going to great lengths to hide the natural texture of my hair. How does it feel to still basically be the last option for men who are at the bottom of the totem pole? You're still kicking but being dead while alive is nothing to celebrate.

 

[Lord Beasley]

Drill

they'll imitate anything....

 

[BrothaZay]

I do see where yall coming from. Its the pop/hip hop fans that really like her. My girlfreind is likethat, shes blacc but from the burbs. She and her sister like Iggy, talking about "she actually can rap tho"
Im just like

 

[Steve Piffler]

wait....this broad was signed to Grand Hustle?!

 

[christinasade]

I would rather be dead than wake up everyday hating the skin I'm in and going to great lengths to hide the natural texture of my hair. How does it feel to still basically be the last option for men who are at the bottom of the totem pole? You're still kicking but being dead while alive is nothing to celebrate.

wow, thats how you feel about your wife

okay.

 

[aboveclouds]

video makes me want to watch clueless, a young stacey dash

 

[mr.africa]

FIRST THING FIRST I'M THE REALIST!!!

never got past that part. i mean if i'm across the room, i throw shyt at my system to switch it off. no joke!!!

 

[godkiller]

what Drake does is code-switch, totally different from what Iggy does.

I'm from the Boston area thereabouts. I grew up near the Canadian border. I know Canadians. Drake is acting just like Azalea. He has adopted slang, mannerisms, etc he saw on TV.

 

[DekalbTheDon]

wow, thats how you feel about your wife

okay.

My wife is nothing like the majority of you black women and i'm not lazy lol.

 

[Robert California]

This chick swerved right into Nicki Minaj's lane after she went pop.
Now Nicki's is re-branding herself to get back to her hip-hop roots and win her fans back.
Can't wait until she's caught on tape using the n-word

 

[godkiller]

I wouldn't exactly call it vocal blackface, thats over the top, way over the top

Also, when Azealia Banks said this, you guys called her a hater and a bunch of other things

 

[Matt504]

I'm from the Boston area thereabouts. I grew up near the Canadian border. I know Canadians. Drake is acting just like Azalea. He has adopted slang, mannerisms, etc he saw on TV.

Drake isn't mimicking the way Black people speak, that's the way he actually speaks.

Azalea mimics stereotypical Black people speaking, she's admitted it herself.

Code-switching is a form of bilingualism. It is a skill that is used to traverse different environments through language (or codes). As a Black woman in America, it’s something I know all too well. I have learned to speak in the codes of Standard American English (SAE), African American Vernacular English (AAVE), and the heavily accented code my Honduran-born family speaks in. Weaving through all three codes is something I do almost daily, most times without giving it a second thought.

Put simply, code switching happens when the way you speak amongst your friends over dinner is different than how you’d converse with your co-workers in the boardroom at your corporate office.

In Drake’s case, the way he spoke to Jimmy Fallon is worlds apart from the way he raps in his songs. Different environment, different language – but both equally true to who he is.

http://www.forharriet.com/2014/01/drakes-snl-performance-reveals-secret.html?m=1

 

[godkiller]

Drake isn't mimicking the way Black people speak, that's the way he actually speaks.

Azalea mimics stereotypical Black people speaking, she's admitted it herself.

http://www.forharriet.com/2014/01/drakes-snl-performance-reveals-secret.html?m=1

That's not how Torontonians speak. Big Canadian cities are basically full of immigrants who sometimes listen to rap music. They don't live the same life Americans do though.

I agree that Azalea does the same thing. I ignore both of them.

 

[RTF]

I don't really hear it when people say Drake tries to sound like he's from the South. He largely raps the way he talks although some of the slang is bitten. Plus Drake does have Southern lineage.

Izzy sounds like a caricature of a black Southern woman. She lays it on THICK. It's unbearably corny. She sounds like she's trying to imitate TI/Wayne and it's horrible.