Why Does Iggy Azalea get away with performing Vocal Blackface?

[Matt504]

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.

Drake is from Toronto but he spent lots of time in Tennessee (the south) growing up. he's not mimicking Black people, Iggy is.

 

[godkiller]

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.

I heard Drake talk a few years ago with a Jewish radio station and he sounded Canadian. He didn't sound Southern at all. He even played hockey. I've met legions of Canadians and none of them talk with a Southern inflection or use slang that isn't theirs.

 

[Matt504]

I heard Drake talk a few years ago with a Jewish radio station and he sounded Canadian. He didn't sound Southern at all. He even played hockey. I've met legions of Canadians and none of them talk with a Southern inflection or use slang that isn't theirs.

because he speaks differently depending on who he's in the company of, it's called CODE SWITCHING.

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.

 

[godkiller]

Drake is from Toronto but he spent lots of time in Tennessee (the south) growing up. he's not mimicking Black people, Iggy is.

He grew up in Canada, not Tennessee. There's no equivocation between the two accents. The difference between a Southern and Canadian accent is blatant and obvious to the extent that the former can't be hidden by the latter. When Drake isn't doing interviews with hip hop people, he reverts to his normal Canadian accent, which has no Southern inflection. If he had a true Southern accent there would be traces of it. Also, Drake's entire life was spent in Canada.

 

[godkiller]

because he speaks differently depending on who he's in the company of, it's called CODE SWITCHING.

How is this any different to what Azalea does? She "switches" between her "hip hop" Southern voice and her Australia voice? Drake's normal inflection is the Canadian one he uses with non-hip hop sources. The other voice is his hip hop Southern one, which is the same mimicry as Azalea's.

 

[Matt504]

He grew up in Canada, not Tennessee. There's no equivocation between the two accents. The difference bewteen a Southern and Canadian accent is blatant and obvious. When Drake isn't doing interviews with hip hop people, he reverts to his normal Canadian accent, which has no Southern inflection. Drake's entire life was spent in Toronto.

yes, it's called code switching, I have a very heavy New Orleans accent that you'd never be able to detect if you've ever heard me speaking in a business environment.

Drake lived with his father in Tennessee intermittently.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

This is what happens when you are powerless and the people with influence are selling their souls for $$$. Shame. And fukk outrage cuz nikkaz won't do shyt which is why we keep getting shytted on. You see folk shifting on Jews and gays? Nope. Would be career and financial suicide. Gotta start hitting these people where it hurts and show them that we won't put up with this shyt anymore.

Hip hop is a complete farce. You got folk fabricating "black"accents now...and folk still support them.

#inherently

When it's convenient though.

And you're right about Jews not giving up an inch. Had Gary Oldman backpedaling on his statement, basically only apologizing to Jews. Gays had Jonah Hill issuing statements after saying the word faq.

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

How is this any different to what Azalea does? She "switches" between her "hip hop" Southern voice and her Australia voice? Drake's normal inflection is the Canadian one he uses with non-hip hop sources. The other voice is his hip hop Southern one, which is the same mimicry as Azalea's.

You're comparing Drake's barely discernible Toronto accent to an Australian changing her accent into an ignorant southern accent?

 

[Matt504]

How is this any different to what Azalea does? She "switches" between her "hip hop" Southern voice and her Australia voice? Drake's normal inflection is the Canadian one he uses with non-hip hop sources. The other voice is his hip hop Southern one, which is the same mimicry as Azalea's.

her southern voice is false, it's not real, it's mimicry, Drake's "southern voice" is nothing more than a very relaxed, informal version of his normal speaking voice. he uses southern vernacular and colloquialisms, but it's not him
mimicking a southern voice.

 

[godkiller]

yes, it's called code switching, I have a very heavy New Orleans accent that you'd never be able to detect if you've ever heard me speaking in a business environment.

Drake lived with his father in Tennessee intermittently.

I have more experience with Canadians than you. The comparsion you make between yourself and Drake is invalid. Drake has a Canadian accent which makes sense since he was raised in Canada. There's no trace of Southern when he reverts to his Canadian accent. Meanwhile there is a trace of Canadian even when he does the Southern accent. This presupposes that 1) the Canadian accent is his natural one and 2) he grew up (primarily or wholly) in Canada and 3) he is putting on a contrived persona, which is encapsulated by the Southern accent.

 

[Matt504]

You're comparing Drake's barely discernible Toronto accent to an Australian changing her accent into an ignorant southern accent?

exactly!!!!

 

[godkiller]

You're comparing Drake's barely discernible Toronto accent to an Australian changing her accent into an ignorant southern accent?

They two behaviors are at base the same. What you are describing is a difference in degree, not type.

 

[Matt504]

I have more experience with Canadians than you. Drake has a Canadian accent which makes sense since he was raised in Canada. There's no trace of Southern when he reverts to his Canadian accent. Meanwhile there is a trace of Canadian even when he does the Southern accent. This presupposes that 1) the Canadian accent is his natural one and 2) he grew up (primarily or wholly) in Canada and 3) he is putting on a contrived persona.

your experience with Canadians is irrelevant.

you're still completely lost on what code switching means which is why you ignorantly think he's putting on a contrived persona.

 

[TELL ME YA CHEESIN FAM?]

that ho makes horrible music
fukk whoever supports her

 

[Rarely-Wrong Liggins]

They two behaviors are at base the same. What you are describing is a difference in degree, not type.

Breh, she's a white Australian mimicking not just a southern accent, the most ignorant, poverty stricken kind she can find. This is like T.I. rapping in Yiddish.