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Originally posted by Witchpop
Iggy wasn't anywhere near as big or as popular as Azealia was back then....so what are you smoking?
Yes lot's of white people have southern accents. Iggy has an Australian accent, that suddenly turns EXAGGERATED southern when she raps, to the point of making a mockery of black southern woman.
And NICKI MINAJ IS A BLACK WOMAN. She's allowed to reclaim things like that because those are her words to reclaim? Like what the ****?
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I said Azealia only hates on Iggy when Iggy finds success. Is that not obvious?
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Originally posted by Iggy Azalea
"I lived in the South for five years; you pick up things from your surroundings and teachers. The people who taught me to rap are all from the South and so was the music I had listened to as a teen."
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Her Southern accent comes from popular voices in hip-hop being Southern (i.e. what she listened to as a kid), living in the deep South for five years and from what her mentor taught her. Five seconds of research could've found this for you.
You said no other rapper would say something like that. Tons of rappers say "shocking" things like that. The only difference is Iggy apologized for it.
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Originally posted by Rigalo
Let's not be extra, Iggy is clearly trying to sound like a black southern rapper in her songs. Like I said, I personally don't find it odd, since that's the music she grew up on. But if there are people really out there that find it offensive then it's a bit if a problem.
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But did you expect her to maintain an Australian accent? People hardly even sing with accents. Why would she rap with an Australian accent when there's no market for rap in Australia and she studied American hip-hop before living 5 years in the American South with a Southern tutor?