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The problem with this isn’t that anyone expects The Slave Master Chanteuse to go out and protest or become a voice of the movement. People just find it strange that for someone who has said rap music saved her from feeling like an outsider, a genre heavily influenced by social issues, she couldn’t even retweet an article or a petition of support. This may be a controversial subject but so many random (white) celebrities have shown their support for the general cause that you have to wonder why she would be so aggressive about not doing so. There are many ways to be a part of the movement no matter how small, without talking over black people. When someone asked her about it on instagram, she implied that people talking about this on the internet aren’t getting anything done when that couldn’t be any further from the truth. In fact, the internet is the main reason we all know about this. And after she said all of this on instagram days ago she did not do any of what she told that person to do that wasn’t helping. She didn’t sign a petition she didn’t mention it at all until all of twitter called her Igloo Australia and told her to ride her kangaroo across the pacific back home to her middle class life. The hypocrisy. And when she did speak about the injustices, she used it as an opportunity to promote her music and her upcoming tour. She doesn’t give a **** about black people unless she’s swiper no swiping their culture. She doesn’t get a pass just because she sucks Swaggless P’s black penis while texting Texas Instruments to yell at whatever rapper (J Cole) is dissing her this week.
***Just to note, the article Iggy linked in her tweets supposedly to help the situation in Ferguson is ancient and included a gofundme that’s not even up and running anymore. She clearly didn’t read what she linked. This 4:30 am skimming a book she has a test on the next day mess.
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There’s a clear difference between how Azalea speaks off-stage and the way she raps. Although she communicates with an Australian accent in interviews, she raps in a voice that imitates how many black Southerners speak and also employs African-American Vernacular English. It’s been dubbed a “blaccent,” and can be heard on every Azalea track. As a talented performer, she could just as easily rap without it and use her natural voice instead.
But in a June interview with the Guardian, she dismissed claims of cultural appropriation, saying she thought it was “hilarious, ironic and cool” that she doesn’t rap the way she speaks. Azalea still seems unaware that the way she performs is the way many black people authentically express themselves. For them, it comes with the brunt of racial discrimination and stigma. That’s an experience she’ll never have. Instead, rapping in such a manner has allowed Azalea to continue profiting from her appropriation of the dialect of black femcees from the South, and some in the industry have been complicit from the start.
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Whether she sampled it or lifted it, the fact that Igloo Australia had the nerve to add “master” to the original “runaway slave” is all the evidence you should need to validate everything Azealia Banks was saying yesterday.
Iggy Azalea is garbage. She’s ignorant, unapologetic, and collecting stacks of cash putting on her Blackface voice and satiating the public’s need for Black culture though the lens of acceptable whiteness.
Never forget this is how Iggy Azalea made her debut in hip hop; by calling herself a slave master in a genre full of artists of color. Around the same time she wrote this freestyle she was tweeting about how mexican women have “box bodies” and “asian women abuse false eyelashes.” Since the start of this blog two years ago Iggy has really showed her ass and proved the point even further; Iggy Azalea should not be a part of hip hop not because of her race, but because of her lack of self awareness and bigotry.
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