You guys, I literally think I have a problem.
RuralJuror
RuralJuror
No, she doesn't. Her Queens accent is quite strong in most of her rap. When she plays characters, her voice changes. Beez in the Trap has no valley girl accent. Neither does her verse in Senile. Starships has some faux-British thing. Her voice changes all throughout her Monster verse. The thing is... she doesn't rap…
The fact of Iggy Azalea's popularity has demonstrated to me that I have no capacity to predict what will get a backlash. I remember when Kreayshawn got stamped out despite all the buzz. Yes, she did squander an opportunity by not releasing anything substantial for too long, but I'm sure her plummet back to obscurity…
I'm from Canada and we just started hearing of this new hippity hop music up here. Do you aussies get that all the way down where you are? And when you hear it, is it backwards? You know, cause of being upside down and stuff.
"...but the genre and culture is international and has reached all the way Down Under."
Fuck off, really? You Americans are all the fucking same. Ignorant isolated hillbillies, no fucking idea about the world outside. I bet you think Australia is all crocodile Dundee and African's all live in mud huts.
Right. On The Salad Bowl the other day, a commenter referred to her style as "vocal blackface". I find it spot-on.
I'm sorry...what? Clearly, you are ignorant of real hip hop and its origins. The very definition of hip hop is that it is the artistic expression of Blackness. Others can participate, but with a spirit of appreciation and respect. What is on the radio now is a joke and has nothing to do with real hip hip. The…
Yeah, no. White people and black people in the South have different accents. There are white people who speak in the southern version of AAV, but it's still considered a black accent originating in, coming out of, and largely still confined to black communities. As a white southerner living in a place where AAV is…
FL is accurate, too.
LOL, good point. She may have spent time with the Dungeon Family but she's no Andre3000 or Big Boi, that's for sure.
To be fair, would you want to lay claim to her "lyrics"? She makes Juvenile look like KRS-One. Or something. Whatever, I'm old!
No one said it is. We're saying that this AUSTRALIAN girl who decided that having an Atlanta accent, while adopting an aesthetic not particular to her Australian farm life, is inauthentic and akin to modern day minstrel. Macklemore may be wack but dude is very much a hipster from Seattle and doesn't act any other way.…
This bitch is bold as fuck.
... and this is what I struggle with. We are at the point in pop culture where, yes, black and brown folks created hip-hop but the genre and culture is international and has reached all the way Down Under. I don't dislike Iggy for being a white girl rapping, Eminem is white and he is a great MC, but her inauthenticity…
The thing I find most grating about Iggy is that she raps in a fake accent. I'm okay with her adopting some aspects of black culture based on her experiences in the US, but there is a difference between being influenced by something and mimicking it, and Azalea's faux-Black rapping is on the wrong side of that line.
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