The white-skin with blonde hair has a striking, Eminem shock of the new to it, topped with a trademark ponytail that swings like a mace, recalling Madonna’s Blonde Ambition with a smattering of Gaga meets Mira Sorvino. It’s what the word ‘bombshell’ was made for, arresting before she’s even opened her mouth. But even in rap’s multi-storey car park of cultural complexity, she’s not hip-hop. The modelling contract she’s secured as a “happy accident” is more of a given, but a rapper?
Iggy Azalea is hip-hop’s current taboo breaker, and you know she’s not gonna hold back.