If a black woman rapped as badly as Iggy, she would be told to go wait tables.

Yeah, it wasn’t a decade of people holding her back. It was a decade of people saying “Hmm, she’s hot... maybe we can pull this off.” and then realizing she just didn’t have the chops. And then another person saying “Hmm, she’s hot... maybe we can pull this off.” etc.

I think to true abomination is her voice, the fact that she raps like that. I mean, you want to be a rapper, be one, but be one in the UK or AU with your normal voice is all I’m saying. To come here and be like this, it’s odd for sure.

The simple fact you compulsively come here to bleat about your supposed “white upper middle class”-ness is all anyone needs to see. :) But self-awareness is clearly not a strength of yours.

Pop radio doesn’t fuck with Bey, tho. Bey is relegated to “urban contemporary radio”. The only one holding the torch for us is Rihanna, maybe Nicki. But Bey gave up on chasing mainstream pop radio success back in 2011, and pop radio stopped messing with her.

White people can rap. What people object to is her trying to pretend she is black while rapping. Its not really a difficult distinction. Macklemore, Aesop Rock, there are other white rappers that people dont have a problem with. Hell, Eminem sounds hood as fuck but people dont care because he is actually hood as…

I think it was the ‘white girl with an ass’ that made her exotic to people like Polow  

i know this isn’t the point, but can someone explain to me exactly how it is that iggy is “exotic” or even beautiful? she looks like a plain vanilla white chick to me. i think she is kind of fugly.

“Being white isn’t the reason she can’t rap.

“It doesn’t matter how hard you work at something if you’re bad at it.”

She.Literally.Can’t.RAP.

You are ignoring the many, many times that Ms. Hope makes the case that ultimately the problem with Iggy is that the raps are not good. The contrast with Eminem is instructive; his raps are technically great with clever, meaningful rhymes and a grace and ease to the flow; more importantly his voice feels authentic and…

Uhhh, black women are told they are not welcome constantly, from all different sources in all corners of American society. Including in hip hop.

I don’t think she needed to go in a Valley Girl direction. Just embrace being Australian! There’s plenty of entertainment value in that. Hailing from Australia is probably the most interesting thing about Iggy Azalea and this piece chronicles all the ways she’s tried rooting that aspect out of her persona.

Listen, I’m black, but if I ever wanted to get into rap, I sure as hell would not be trying to push the idea that I’m a hood chick, because I don’t have that background. That would be a sham even from me. It’s an even bigger sham coming from her. I don’t understand why she thought anyone would buy that as…

Are you fucking kidding me? What clueless white nonsense is this?

The streets are lined with black female rappers who have way more talent than Iggy but get no where because they aren’t pretty white girls

“If you can convince black women though, watch your career go to stratosphere.”

The last paragraph of your comment is everything! “...black men are not the gatekeepers of black culture, black women are.”

Can we also talk about the fact that a lot of people were more interested in the chorus of that one song than the actual verses? Like, sure, there are definitely specific parts of her verses that I sing and get a little hype on, but what I’m mostly singing along with is... “I’m so fancy / you already know....”