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Woo  thanks Kworb!
Some more info in a new interview:
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So as you were recently signed to Island Def Jam, who are infamous their big name artists like Rihanna and Frank Ocean, is there any pressure to release comparable, grand-scale material?
I don’t know… I don’t ever feel pressure from them. They make me feel confident in my work, and thankfully for me by the time I was done that deal with Island Def Jam, my record was about 95 per cent complete and I only had two songs to fill. I came to them with a body of work and they loved it and that’s really why they signed me. I didn’t really feel the pressure to compete or sell because I believe I’m going to sell and I believe in the record. For me as an artist, my mission is never to “sell” but instead to connect, connect and connect (laughs).
Does that make sense? To just connect with as many people as I can. My mission is to have a thought or an idea and create a body of work, and as long as I’m not mad at the end of the day and I feel like I’ve explored my feelings or whatever it was that I was trying to get out, then that’s really the only mission. If it connects with as many people as it can, then ****! That’s ****ing awesome! And I mean hopefully that ends up translating into sales but if it doesn’t, I still know I released what I needed to release.
With The New Classic being both your Instagram name and the title of your debut album, what does that phrase mean to you?
It’s funny because yesterday when I saw the album artwork, I said I might want my album to be called Iggy Azalea’s New Classic because maybe it might make more sense to people. Classic to me is just something you can kind of think of in a time capsule. Like, Grace Kelly is a classic beauty, you know what I mean? For me, I also compare it to what embodies classic rap music. It has a certain sound or looks a certain way, and when I think of what a rapper is or supposed to be, you would tell me a couple of black men who wear baggy pants or their music sounds like this or whatever the ****. Now I just kind of feel like I’m from a generation who grew up listening to rap music.
Even touring with Nas, I realized it’s just this integrated mix of people. I’m not even just talking about me, even though I am a white rapper, but even seeing people like A$AP Rocky or anybody, there’s all these different characters now in hip hop. We’ve changed it so much and I’ve just wanted to make an album that represents what I think are the new elements and sounds of rap music.
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http://blaremagazine.com/2013/05/03/...w-iggy-azalea/
I guess it's basically done 
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& I wonder who she's opening for in Europe again 
