Why Does Iggy Azalea get away with performing Vocal Blackface?

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I don't know fam. During that whole Moulin Rouge era she was acting ignorant trying to sound hood. It made me sick truthfully. I remember an interview with her & Lil Kim & she had a dog named fuker & was acting ignorant.

No.... @LovelyDay is right. I wanna say L.A Reid was the one who basically forced her into the urban R&B direction, which was red hot at the time, because of her "black sounding voice" and the fact that Reid didnt know how to market white girl pop. She wanted nothing to do with R&B, but it was either that or back to the trailer parks, because an artist coming in isnt going to be able to call shots to a powerful mogul. After the success of her first album she had more creative control, and slowly started to shed the "wiggette" image from the first album.
 

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No.... @LovelyDay is right. I wanna say L.A Reid was the one who basically forced her into the urban R&B direction, which was red hot at the time, because of her "black sounding voice" and the fact that Reid didnt know how to market white girl pop. She wanted nothing to do with R&B, but it was either that or back to the trailer parks, because an artist coming in isnt going to be able to call shots to a powerful mogul. After the success of her first album she had more creative control, and slowly started to shed the "wiggette" image from the first album.

Even if that's true she created that image dating Treach (and other Black artists) & acting ignorant. She could've sang R&B & acted like Robin Thicke but it seems she went out of her way to act a certain way at first.
 

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She's basically saying fukk you nikkas :mjpls:

http://sofurious.com/2013/09/16/iggy-azalea-covers-complex-magazine-talks-race-rocky-rap-music/

In a country where “speaking black” has been a hindrance in almost every profession but rap, do you see how a white person making money in rap by adopting this accent could ruffle feathers?
If you’re mad about it and you’re a black person then start a rap career and give it a go, too. I’m not taking anyone’s spot, so make yourself a mixtape. Or maybe if you’re black, start singing like a country singer and be a white person. I don’t know. Why is it such a big deal? This is the entertainment industry. It’s not politics. You should be more concerned about the message, not the voices saying it.

 

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Well it's because, y'know...

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But yeah she's terrible
 

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Stay away from popular music and say you never knew it existed brehs:snoop:

It would be like me saying I never hear Ms. Jackson in 00s:snoop:

Just because y'all listen to the latest music doesn't mean I do. I don't listen to the reg radio. I don't have cable. Anytime I listen to music it's from what's on my iPad, already downloaded or I listen to my playlist through spotify which is mostly old school stuff. When someone new comes out I'm always late as hell to find out who it is. And even if I seen her shyt come up on any playlist I would have skipped it and not payed her any mind mr know it all Ninjas
 

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Never knew who she was until I kept seeing threads about her :snoop:

Me neither. I seen the name on some thread titles, never clicked on any of them since they never looked like they were worth clicking. I saw her on the t on Good Morning America about 2 months back. I was completely confused as to why some foreign white woman wanted to rap like Eve and why it was on tv in the first place. :what:
 
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