|
Celeb News: Iggy: "Why Eminem Didn’t Get The Same Grammys Backlash"
Member Since: 10/14/2010
Posts: 6,781
|
Quote:
Originally posted by TikiMiss
Nicki received backlash from the HIP HOP crowd for jumping to Pop. She was originally a hip hop artist.
Iggy is receiving backlash from the Hip Hop crowd for being in Hip Hop at ALL.
That's the difference. And the main reason, again, goes back to stereotypes and close-mindedness. We aren't talking about country/rock, etc, though if we were, I would probably be equally critical about them if they were so vehemently against Taylor Swift.
Thing is, the main criticism for Iggy isn't that her music ISN'T Hip Hop, but that she's white, from australia, etc and shouldn't have so much success. That's just stupid. Quality is subjective. And you can't blackball people from your genre because music and musical style isn't owned by anyone.
|
Nothing but the damn truth.
This is the same old thing about Iggy "being wack" or "faking her accent". It's boring, get better excuses to hate her because she's white. There's actually a lot of people that enjoy her, that's why she had 3 top 3 hits last year, move on.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/31/2012
Posts: 13,110
|
Quote:
Originally posted by Toya
Nope more like because she's not good at it and apparently seems to think she deserves a lot more respect and praise than she actually does + the accent + her old tweets. She's an easy target for those reasons and doing interviews where she says "durrrr why dey mad at me and not Eminem durrrrr " isn't helping because it makes her look like just another entitled white girl. I don't think I've read a single article that said Iggy shouldn't rap because she's white and the majority of the time when I see criticism of her on social media it has to do with her lack of talent. It's "ew her accent" or simply "Iggy can't rap". Most people do not have a problem with Iggy being white and in hip hop, they have a problem with Iggy being a white woman in hip hop who was being put on a pedestal just because she's something we haven't seen before even though what she was showing us wasn't anything spectacular, and because she was easier to digest. People simply don't get the hype, hip hop fans especially since they ARE fans of the genre she wants respect from.
|
If you listen to the J.Cole interview with Angie Martinez, he talks about how Iggy is a symptom/evidence of white people taking over something that was historically black. He doesn't mention quality more than saying it's gone down 'cuz of commercialization, but that's just one example of someone "in the industry" who has a problem with her success because of her skin tone.
If you listen to A. Banks, she says basically the same thing. And that Iggy isn't Hip Hop, even though Iggy sings less and uses more hip hop beats and productions in her album than Azalea herself
Almost all the think pieces on blogs and news media were about how Iggy was white, and how it was the whitewashing of hip hop
Yes, people will drag her for her quality as they do for all the mainstream artists, be they Beyonce or Lady Gaga. But rarely rarely has the dragging been SO much about "she doesn't fit in" or "she SHOULDN'T sound like that" Not a single soul minded when Nicki or Gaga put on accents for their art. Adele sings in an American accent. Yet people seem to have a problem with Iggy (who was never a part of the American Jim Crow culture in any way, mind you, given that she's Australian) adopts a southern american accent. It's just baffling.
The "Slavemaster" lyrics, she has apologized for. Some of those "racist tweets" aren't even real and they are still being passed around as if they came from her mouth. Same with the rumors about her being a transvestite.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/13/2012
Posts: 32,832
|
I detect no lies from the good sis Iggy
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 33,614
|
Quote:
Originally posted by TikiMiss
Nicki received backlash from the HIP HOP crowd for jumping to Pop. She was originally a hip hop artist.
Iggy is receiving backlash from the Hip Hop crowd for being in Hip Hop at ALL.
That's the difference. And the main reason, again, goes back to stereotypes and close-mindedness. We aren't talking about country/rock, etc, though if we were, I would probably be equally critical about them if they were so vehemently against Taylor Swift.
Thing is, the main criticism for Iggy isn't that her music ISN'T Hip Hop, but that she's white, from australia, etc and shouldn't have so much success. That's just stupid. Quality is subjective. And you can't blackball people from your genre because music and musical style isn't owned by anyone.
|
As much as you were wrong with some of your arguments in the beginning of the thread, you completely hit the nail on the head with this one.
Genre should never be a race issue, and we should all just let people do what they want with their music and move on
|
|
|
Member Since: 7/16/2012
Posts: 2,909
|
wait, as if she's talented, though...
|
|
|
Member Since: 4/7/2009
Posts: 34,961
|
I always wondered about some of the Iggy stans... Why do some of you think that black people are the only ones that don't use this girl? You actually think that only white people like and support her? There's Black fans that have contributed to her success, you do know that she would not be where she's at without the contribution of black people too, right? You do know that not all white people like her and that there's white people that are apart of the Hip-Hop community and "black twitter" feeling the same way about her as anyone else.
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 5,910
|
Because Em is actually talented. Now that she is fading, she's just trolling for attention. smh
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/19/2013
Posts: 15,736
|
Nice to see y'all still checking for ha
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 37,384
|
Am I the only one that loves her IDGAF attitude here?
|
|
|
Member Since: 8/10/2010
Posts: 14,634
|
Quote:
Originally posted by GotSkill
Am I the only one that loves her IDGAF attitude here?
|
Why would that even be admirable? It's ignorant.
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/18/2010
Posts: 10,698
|
Lmao she will never get it apparently
|
|
|
Member Since: 2/20/2012
Posts: 2,735
|
As much as i find her untalented and problematic, what do y'all expect her to say on the topic? There is pretty much no way to not piss people off at this point.
However she should just not play into these traps and just work on ha music
|
|
|
Member Since: 12/15/2011
Posts: 4,771
|
TikiMiss made my day
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/12/2011
Posts: 3,834
|
I bet Azealia was low key happy that eminem won the Grammy
|
|
|
Member Since: 3/12/2011
Posts: 3,834
|
Quote:
Originally posted by GotSkill
Am I the only one that loves her IDGAF attitude here?
|
It's ********. First she says she'll be happy to win a Grammy for anything (there was even a thread on here saying that, look it up!) but now that she loses she acts like this? Kanye teas. She didn't even deserve the nominations, i hope the academy finds out and pays her dust from now on. Also, the one with an IDGAF attitude is Rihanna. Iggy is a whiny little bitch who ran from Twitter because she couldn't take the heat. If she didn't care she wouldn't be acting this way.
|
|
|
Member Since: 2/1/2010
Posts: 20,340
|
can King & Legend Eminem destroy this soon to be irrelevant pop artist already
I need some new dragging from him
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/3/2014
Posts: 15,909
|
Quote:
Originally posted by TikiMiss
Nicki received backlash from the HIP HOP crowd for jumping to Pop. She was originally a hip hop artist.
Iggy is receiving backlash from the Hip Hop crowd for being in Hip Hop at ALL.
That's the difference. And the main reason, again, goes back to stereotypes and close-mindedness. We aren't talking about country/rock, etc, though if we were, I would probably be equally critical about them if they were so vehemently against Taylor Swift.
Thing is, the main criticism for Iggy isn't that her music ISN'T Hip Hop, but that she's white, from australia, etc and shouldn't have so much success. That's just stupid. Quality is subjective. And you can't blackball people from your genre because music and musical style isn't owned by anyone.
No one minded Nicki dressing weirdly, but they would laugh rightfully so when she dressed weirdly AND badly, just as they mocked Lady Gaga and Katy for their mistakes too.
|
Quote:
Originally posted by TikiMiss
If you listen to the J.Cole interview with Angie Martinez, he talks about how Iggy is a symptom/evidence of white people taking over something that was historically black. He doesn't mention quality more than saying it's gone down 'cuz of commercialization, but that's just one example of someone "in the industry" who has a problem with her success because of her skin tone.
If you listen to A. Banks, she says basically the same thing. And that Iggy isn't Hip Hop, even though Iggy sings less and uses more hip hop beats and productions in her album than Azalea herself
Almost all the think pieces on blogs and news media were about how Iggy was white, and how it was the whitewashing of hip hop
Yes, people will drag her for her quality as they do for all the mainstream artists, be they Beyonce or Lady Gaga. But rarely rarely has the dragging been SO much about "she doesn't fit in" or "she SHOULDN'T sound like that" Not a single soul minded when Nicki or Gaga put on accents for their art. Adele sings in an American accent. Yet people seem to have a problem with Iggy (who was never a part of the American Jim Crow culture in any way, mind you, given that she's Australian) adopts a southern american accent. It's just baffling.
The "Slavemaster" lyrics, she has apologized for. Some of those "racist tweets" aren't even real and they are still being passed around as if they came from her mouth. Same with the rumors about her being a transvestite.
|
Knocked it out the park.
And it is annoying with people saying that she is not talented when she is. You can't get a number 1 record and 2 top tens with no semblance of talent. She is improving with every guest feature she does (I kind of want her to use her male hip-hop connections, sans T.I. and do more more male collabs).
Also most of the people that came for her, came for her because she was white and they were claiming whitewashing. Lets not forget that there was people outside her shows trying to protest her doing rap. So lets cut the ******** and not act like this wasn't a race issue for most and she is right in this case.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/3/2014
Posts: 15,909
|
Quote:
Originally posted by gueranegra
It's ********. First she says she'll be happy to win a Grammy for anything (there was even a thread on here saying that, look it up!) but now that she loses she acts like this? Kanye teas. She didn't even deserve the nominations, i hope the academy finds out and pays her dust from now on. Also, the one with an IDGAF attitude is Rihanna. Iggy is a whiny little bitch who ran from Twitter because she couldn't take the heat. If she didn't care she wouldn't be acting this way.
|
She was talking about Best New Artist. She has never acknowledge her Rap album Grammy nomination what so ever until now.
|
|
|
Member Since: 9/30/2009
Posts: 2,295
|
The ignorance in this thread James Brown, Motown anyone? Rapper's Delight, the first hip hop hit ever, is sampled directly from Good Times, a disco hit by Chic, a black group. You don't even have to be american to know that.
|
|
|
Member Since: 1/1/2014
Posts: 1,153
|
SMH at everyone at ATRL jumping on the Iggy-hating bandwagon.
|
|
|
|
|