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Iggy Azalea f/ Trey Songz - "Waste It All"
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Iggy also revealed that she will be releasing a second single in June and “hopefully, end of July, we’ll put my album [The New Classic] out and I’ll be touring.”
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http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2012/04/i...l-drop-in-may/
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What other songs off The New Classic can you give me the scoop on?
It's hard to give specific details for what's going on the album. I really haven't picked what will go on the album and what I might just put out, but I did do a song with Trey Songz ["Waste It All"] that's kind of unexpected. The beat, and the way he sings, it's kind of different [from] his regular style. I'm going to put that out, probably before the album. I met with Cee Lo [Green] the other day; I love his voice. I really want to find something that he can be involved with, probably for the album. [There are] a few other people that are in the works, but I'm not sure if they'll make the album or what we'll do with it. It's really hard to say when you don't have all the elements of a record done. I don't know what's going to keep the storyline of the record, and what I can keep.
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http://www.theboombox.com/2012/04/16...lshare_twitter
The rest of the interview is also pretty great, some excerpts:
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Do you feel like the "slave master" lyric being misconstrued affected the way you felt about the media?
Yeah, it affected it a lot. It was just a big arrow in my heart. There have been a few things, not just that. There have been a few things, as well as personal stuff, that annoys you the most, because those are the things that are closest to your heart. I felt wronged by the media because I always did my [best] to befriend you guys. Everybody would always say, "Be careful of them," and I would say, "They're not all bad." Then things like that [the "slave master" controversy] would happen, and it made me feel so burnt by them.
When the XXL cover came out I saw how everything changed for you, in one day. I can only imagine how it was for you to go through that.
It was frustrating because I felt like that was supposed to be a poignant moment for me and it got taken away. I kind of felt like Taylor Swift and Kanye West and I was Taylor Swift. I felt like this is supposed to be my moment, this is my great achievement, it's great for me and it's great for my country, it's great for women, and I felt like it got stolen from me in a sense. It was supposed to be a happy day and it got twisted around, and it disappointed me, and annoyed me because I had been anticipating that [cover] coming out as a celebration, and it really turned into the opposite. It was just mudslinging, and I felt disappointed by the whole thing. But I'll have other moments, and they will be mine. I'll make sure of it.
Being that you were the first woman to get that cover, who are some of the female rappers you look up to?
I love Missy Elliott. I say it all the time. She's my No. 1 female. She's a writer, she has the crazy videos, she just does her own thing. She pulls her own as a singer, a rapper, everything. She's one of the greatest girls ever, and I love her.
What do have to say about the lack of unity among female rappers?
I don't know because I don't think I'm the one that does it. I can't help what other people say. I think it sucks because a lot of times these girls, I like [their] music, but I feel like a lot of times [with] stuff like that it's going to be both of the people that are getting a bad rap. But I'm not the one starting this stuff. I'll never understand it.
Me and [Interscope Records artist] Rye Rye, we're doing a record together. She hit me up and was like, "Hey what do you think?" and I was like, "You know what? I would love to do this record with you." It's not enough records like that, it just doesn't happen. I just think there's a lack of respect in general. You don't even have to do collaborations [with other female rappers, but] I don't understand why it's so hard to keep your mouth closed about things.
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The XXL one is good too, specially the answer to the Azealia Banks question when she says "I’m the only one that can be me and they’re the only ones who can be them". And there's another new interview at CNN: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2012/04/17/iggy-azalea/ She comes off as a very classy and clever person to me.
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