Iggy Azelea is on cover for Paper Magazine for October issue. The 2012 XXL Freshmen class member has been making waves in hip-hop recently, putting out her hit single “Work,” signing to Island Def Jam in April and gearing up for her upcoming major-label debut LP, The New Classic. The 23-year-old Aussie rapper has came a long way from her breakthrough mixtape Ignorant Art and is catching the eye of plenty of people. Iggy believes Miley Cyrus was inspired by her twerking skills.
“I’ve been doing that onstage for two-and-a-half years,” Azalea says, commenting on the dancing craze that swept the country ever since Miley’s VMA twerk-filled performance aired in August. “She probably ****ing watched my videos online and decided to try it.”
Iggy’s twerking skills was noticed back in June on 2013 by Beyonce’s team at her headlined NYC’s Bowery Ballroom show. During the show, she held a “twerk off,” something she’s done for almost all her shows, and wowed Queen B’s team, who were in attendance. “We’d been doing that dance-off at the shows, but no one put it online. At the Bowery, they did.” She later on became the opener for Beyoncé’s 16-date “Mrs. Carter Show” tour of Australia that kicks off this month.
Neither of you white girls invented twerking or inspired it, stop If anything, it was pushed to its current white popularity by tumblr and twitter, and Miley just hopped on. Remember when "ratchet" was the hot word for everyone online last fall?
Neither of you white girls invented twerking or inspired it, stop If anything, it was pushed to its current white popularity by tumblr and twitter, and Miley just hopped on. Remember when "ratchet" was the hot word for everyone online last fall?
Twerking became a dumb "craze" before Miley did it. Iggy's point of reference is that they're both white, so she saw a white performer do it and decided she'd have the balls, too?
If anything, it was pushed to its current white popularity by tumblr and twitter, and Miley just hopped on. Remember when "ratchet" was the hot word for everyone online last fall?
