Nicki Minaj Calls Out Iggy Azalea at BET Awards

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Music News: Kendrick Lamar on Ferguson, Leaving Iggy Azalea Alone

One highly debated rapper Lamar refuses to knock, even playfully: Iggy Azalea. "She's doing her thing," he says. "Let her. People have to go through trials and tribulations to get where they at. Do your thing, continue to rock it, because obviously God wants you here."


http://www.bgol.us/board/showthread.php?p=15091214#post15091214​

 

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Lil Kim doesn't get the credit she deserves. She fucked her face up but that broad got more talent as a rapper than any of them.. more than most of the dudes today too.





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Most of these chicks entire discography's

 

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Don’t Let Iggy Azalea Win the Best Rap Album Grammy

On Sunday night, there is a decent chance that Iggy Azalea will become the first solo female artist to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album. She is only the fifth woman ever nominated in the category. Missy Elliott has been nominated four times, while Eve and Nicki Minaj have each been nominated once. (Lauryn Hill is the only woman who has ever taken home a Rap Album statue, but for her work with the Fugees; the Grammys considered The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill an R&B album.) The Grammy rap categories are relatively new, and Best Rap Album dates back only to 1996 — but that’s still long enough for the category’s gender gap to become downright cavernous. Out of 102 total nominees in the category’s history, 94 have been men or all-male groups. To put it another way, there are as many Best Rap Album Grammys on Eminem’s mantle (he’s won five) as there are women who have even been nominated in the category.

These statistics are egregious, backwards-thinking, and infuriating. But not enough to make me root for Iggy.

It’s not that she’s white. The Beastie Boys were white. Eminem is white. Both garnered respect within the rap world partially because they never tried to hide that fact in their music — even when they risked sounding gawky, soulless, or square, they always seemed at peace with their identities. Their appeal hinged upon that sense of acceptance. Iggy is another story. A little while ago, a year-and-a-half-old clip of her appearance on "Sway in the Morning" went viral. Sway surprises her by laying down a beat and asking her to freestyle; for a second, before she’s composed herself, she makes a face like she’s just caught a whiff of stale milk. “I cannot give you a hot 16 to this hood-ass beat,” she says, looking around the studio nervously; she compromises by spitting a few rehearsed (and weak) a cappella bars of “New Bitch,” a song off her debut album The New Classic. This clip went viral not because Iggy Azalea can’t freestyle; plenty of other popular rappers would have refused in that context. (I can’t imagine someone putting Kanye on the spot like that and living to tell the tale.) The clip went viral because of how ill at ease she looked in her own skin, in that moment that she was asked to go off-script. It went viral because it starkly illustrates the difference between her speaking voice and her rapping voice. It’s not that she’s white — it’s that she’s a white girl turning her “blaccent” on and off with a disturbing ease.

So it’s especially troubling to think that the Grammys might honor this kind of “artistry” in a year when so much of our larger cultural conversations have concerned the erasure of black voices and the devaluing of black lives. Iggy is still young, and she didn’t grow up in America, but at every opportunity she’s had to redeem herself by owning up to her ignorance, she’s only dug herself into a deeper hole. When people ask her questions about race, she gets defensive, doesn’t want to listen. After Azealia Banks called her out for her silence over Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Iggy tweeted, “Now! rant, Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won’t make you likable.” Ironically, this tweet did not make Iggy any more likable either.

The main reason that The New Classic should not win a Grammy, though, is that it is a total slog. Listening to it bums me out. Iggy’s flow is joyless; her lyrics feel shapelessly one-size-fits-all, like inspirational quotes copied from a high-school guidance counselor’s bulletin board (“Impossible Is Nothing”), perhaps with an au courant “bitch” added on the end for good measure. There is something dour, empty, and unforgivably generic about this album. I can’t get a feel for the human at its center, but she also hasn’t crafted a persona intriguing enough to distract me from its lack.

In a Jezebel piece brilliantly titled “Iggy Azalea: Dumb Or Evil? A Brief Investigation,” Kara Brown addressed the argument that it is un-feminist to criticize Iggy — after all, she’s a wildly successful woman in a genre where female voices have been all too rare. “t would be far less reasonable to give powerful women a pass on their behavior just because they are women,” she wrote. “Supporting women means taking them seriously enough to call out patterns of racism that draws from and influences an insidious, larger racism that still infects American culture.” We can’t grade Iggy on a curve just because the industry has been slow to honor the achievements of other, more talented women. It’s far more feminist to hold her to the same standards of artistry as her male peers.

I believe we’re finally on the cusp of a moment in which female rappers are commanding unprecedented respect, and I would love a Rap Album win that feels in step with this shift. But the thought of Iggy Azalea being the first woman to reap the rewards of this transformation fills me with the same kind of dread I had in the darker days of the 2008 presidential campaign; Iggy Azalea is basically the Sarah Palin of rap. Next year’s list of eligible nominees is already looking promising and more female-friendly: Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint and Azealia Banks’s Broke With Expensive Taste both deserve to be serious contenders — and how perfect would it be if Missy Elliott’s hopefully forthcoming comeback album nabbed the award? I’ve got my fingers crossed that a woman will finally win that golden shotglass soon. Just not this year.


http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/please-dont-let-iggy-azalea-win-best-rap-album.html

 

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Iggy Azalea: Dumb or Evil? A Brief Investigation

This is the first in a series called Sheroes & Zeroes, about the people who defined our year in culture in both terrific and terrible ways.

A few years ago, The Daily Show did a great segment about Fox News' coverage of the "Ground Zero Mosque," in which they debated whether or not the network was evil or stupid. Fox's coverage of the controversy had been so obviously absurd that, as The Daily Show pointed out, they'd have to be either hopelessly stupid or deliberately evil to push the narrative that they did. Neither explanation is preferable to the other, but either way, it's an explanation.

With Iggy Azalea, I find myself grappling with the same question. Is she a plumb asshole or is she dumb as hell? It could go either of both terrible ways. The list of sensible grievances against this woman is long, and there isn't much time left in 2014. We'll just hit the highlights.


I.

Iggy Azalea is from Australia. When she gives interviews or generally moves about her life, she talks like an Australian, yet somehow when she raps, she sounds like an extra from ATL. Iggy lived in the South for five whole years, and she claims that that influence and the fact that she was taught to rap by Southern rappers is the reason for this particular vocal discrepancy.

She also has repeatedly referred to herself as "ghetto," because, I dunno, kangaroos.

You might be thinking: That doesn't make any fucking sense, and you would be right. I myself lived in Boston for four years and somehow managed to walk away without sounding like a Wahlberg. However you may feel about him, Macklemore—a rapper often mentioned in the same breath as Iggy— has never done this. He's a white boy from the Pacific Northwest and he talks, raps and acts like one.

This is the correct way for a white person to enter a predominately black genre of music: to enter the genre as his or her (white) self. To do otherwise would be to actively utilize stereotypes of what you think a black person looks, sounds and acts like. To do so would be to wear blackness like some sort of costume for monetary gains.

I'll defer to Azealia Banks briefly:

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(For the record, Azealia Banks says a lot of things that give me pause, but her criticism of Iggy has always been on point.)

So the question remains: Is Iggy Azalea really clueless to the point where she gets on stage or steps in the recording booth and has no idea that suddenly she's rapping with an Southern accent? Has she been taken over by the ghost of Pimp C?

Or, does she know that it's more profitable for her to put on an accent that implies blackness because history has shown that white people much prefer their black music to be performed by white artists? (See: Elvis all the way through Sam Smith.)

II.

Iggy Azalea's music is bad.

III.

One of Iggy's early songs,"D.R.U.G.S.," features the following line:

Tire marks, tire marks, finish line with the fire marks/ When the relay starts I'm a runaway slave-master
Iggy later pointed out that the slave-master line is a reference to Kendrick Lamar's "Look Out For Detox." Transposing lyrics from one song to the next is a common practice in rap, so let's take a look at Kendrick's original lines.

Tire marks, tire marks, finish line with the fire marks/ When the relay starts I'm a runaway slave
Oh.

So, Kendrick Lamar—a black man whose ancestry puts him well in the territory of being able to reasonably and autobiographically reference slavery in America—raps about being a slave. Later, Iggy Azalea, a white Australian woman, decides to reference that line and change it so that she would be the slave-master.

Was she too stupid to pause for a minute and think: "Hmmm, perhaps that line won't go over quite as well as it did when Kendrick did it."

Or did she say: "Fuck it, I want to say I'm a slave-master and I don't care."

IV.

Iggy Azalea has a history of tweeting racist jokes that I'll go ahead and assume she also cracks in her daily life, because why else would you think that shit is funny? So know that it's not just (her idea of) black culture she makes light of; she makes jokes at everyone else's expense as well.


V.

Iggy Azalea is in a relationship with a black man, yet shows absolutely no awareness or solidarity with black causes. Frankly, that might not be much of a problem, largely because you know damn well she would have nothing helpful or intelligent to add. However, when her audience began to question why she—a white person with a large platform whose entire career has been built on a black genre of music—had remained silent about Ferguson, Iggy Azalea responded like a petulant child while completely deflecting the question. (Sidebar: Iggy is living proof that being in an interracial relationship or having mixed children or majoring in African-American studies does not vaccinate you against ignorance.)

To be sure, the question was posed by Azealia Banks, someone we all know she hates. But this is perhaps the worst thing about Iggy Azalea: the way she responds to criticism. Instead of taking a minute and actually listening to what is being said, she blindly responds with bullshit platitudes that make her sound tone-deaf and ambivalent. There's a pattern with her when it comes to issues or criticisms surrounding race. She often wants to remove race from the conversation entirely, particularly when it is suggested that the color of her skin has been a clear boon to her successes.

It's difficult for me to even wrap my mind around the audacity that it would take for a white woman to saunter her way through a culture rooted in blackness and then constantly try to push race aside. So which is it? Stupid or evil?

VI.

Objectively, Iggy Azalea sucks.

A common complaint leveraged against Jezebel writers who criticize the actions of influential female celebrities is something like "You're supposed to be feminists, why aren't you supporting women?" But it would be far less reasonable to give powerful women a pass on their behavior just because they are women. Supporting women means taking them seriously enough to call out patterns of racism that draw from and influence an insidious, larger racism that still infects American culture. Feminism allows for critical multivalency: I can call out Iggy Azalea's racist behavior and also think that Anonymous threatening to release her sex tape is sexist and gross. And I hope Iggy is paid the same amount as her male peers, and that she has access to the whatever method of birth control her heart desires.

All women deserve fundamental rights and equality. No woman deserves an enormous platform to erase, mock and hurt women of color (and expect a pass for doing so). So call the blind support of famous female Columbuses what you want, but don't call it feminism.

http://jezebel.com/iggy-azalea-dumb-or-evil-a-brief-investigation-1673869850

 

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CeeLo, Charli XCX, and Kenny G Weigh In on the Iggy Azalea Controversy

If the Internet's worst fears come true, Iggy Azalea will be called to the Grammy stage today to accept the award for Best Rap Album, after which the ground will open and Satan's armies will come charging out to fight the Battle of Armageddon. (Update: Disaster averted!) We canvassed the pre-Grammy parties this weekend and asked people like CeeLo Green, Beck, Charli XCX, Estelle, Ashanti, Allen Stone, Ciara, Recording Academy president Neil Portnow, Sony/ATV CEO Martin Bandier, Rosie O'Donnell, Paul Williams, Jess Glynne, Jordin Sparks, and Kenny G for their thoughts on the matter.

KENNY G (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about the controversy over Iggy Azalea being nominated for Best Rap Album?
I don’t know her.

She’s up for Best New Artist, Best Rap Album.
No, I don’t listen to that crap. I listen to jazz. There’s plenty of jazz masters to listen to, I don’t need to listen to some of that other stuff.



CEELO GREEN (at the Primary Wave pre-Grammy party)

What do you think it means if Iggy Azalea wins at the Grammys? What do you make of the controversy surrounding her nominations?
To be honest, I'm not absolutely clear about what the concern or the conflict of interest is as far as her nomination. I do have a clue. I want to have an intelligent answer.

Some people see her as kind of an imposter.
I believe everyone should express and own their opinion, but an opinion is not necessarily action, an opinion is irony, you know what I'm saying? Because you have an opinion about what somebody's done, not about what they're doing. So it's reactionary. You can’t stop the evolution in progress. And in all honestly, it's not that complicated to rhyme "cat" and "hat." So the easier that is, the more accessible it becomes, but I really do wish to encourage all artists to take the leap and to challenge themselves, to not be stifled by public opinion.

Are you a fan of Iggy’s music?
I've seen Iggy work her way up. I remember Iggy having countless amounts of content prior to her being discovered by T.I. and Grand Hustle. I even met her on a few occasions. She's actually nimble as an MC. I think the songs that connected with people - first of all, you can't pretend that connection - if it works, it works, either by default or by design. It's, uh, it's out of your control, so let it be, let it serve its purpose, let it entertain the demographic that allows it, that enjoys it. Then you do your version, your interpretation, for another audience. I believe that many different interpretations can co-exist at one time. There's no one Holy Grail.



RECORDING ACADEMY PRESIDENT NEIL PORTNOW (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you think it means if Iggy Azalea wins at the Grammys? What do you make of the controversy surrounding her nomination for Best Rap Album?
For me, music is not based on geography, it’s not based on ethnicity — it’s based off art itself. Particularly in a world where music travels so easily and is so available that you can have somebody anywhere in the world that hears music from anywhere else in the world, and be influenced by it. So, to me, those arguments and those points of view really aren’t necessarily relevant to how we look at music from the Academy’s point of view.



SONY/ATV CEO MARTIN BANDIER (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you make of the controversy surrounding Iggy’s nominations?
I don’t know what controversies there are, but she is one terrific woman. She’s talented, bright, articulate — I love her. I just think she’s the greatest. Honest to goodness, I don’t read about controversies. It’s a lot of Page Six stuff. I would rather look at the bright side. I can only tell you that my experience with her has been professional. She’s a terrific writer. I think that her songwriting is very, very representative of today. It’s not passe, it’s who she is. What’s interesting is that she grew up in Australia, but here she is in America, her boyfriend plays for the Lakers, she has a great bulldog as a pet — so do I [laughs]. I think that she’s just a terrific gal.

It would be a bit of a coup if an Australian woman wins the Grammy for Best Rap Album, wouldn’t it?
It would be, but it wouldn’t be a surprise. We’re in a global music business. Think about the people that are up for Song of the Year, or Record of the Year. Sam Smith is from the U.K., Hozier is from [Ireland], and Iggy is from Australia, Sia is from Australia and the U.K. and now in the U.S. The toughest problem I faced all year was who to vote for. And we have every song in the Record of the Year [category], which is also a first. Again, thank God for blind voting, so no one knows who I’m voting for.



CIARA (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea?
You know, I am so happy for her. I spoke with her the other day, and I gave her a big congratulations. I mean, it’s awesome for any person to get nominated; you’ve already won. And I’m hoping that everyone has a successful night. But there’s a lot of artists in many categories, so hopefully the awards can spread out for everyone.



ASHANTI (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about the Iggy Azalea controversy?
Me personally, I don’t knock anybody. I think her being a female, having a love for hip-hop, is super-cool. The controversy? I don’t know. For me, I like to support people doing what they love. It’s not that serious to me. She still works hard and puts the time in.



ALLEN STONE (at the Billboard VIP Power 100 pre-Grammy party)

Iggy Azalea is nominated for best rap album. What are your feelings on that?
Art is art. The canvas that you decided to paint your art upon…has nothing to do with the art itself. I’m sure she’s not the only one nominated for best rap album. She made a big impact on the music industry this year, and she happens to be a hip-hop artist. So her getting nominated doesn’t surprise me. But she’s not the only one of that list.

She seems to be the only one that anyone is talking about.
Because she’s from Australia and she’s a chick and she’s white. And also people enjoy gossiping. I come from Seattle, Washington, and I sing R&B and soul music. That is not the birthplace of soul and R&B. I sing African American music. I love it and it’s my art, and it’s authentic.

Does anyone ever give you a hard time about that?
I’m not cool enough to be given a hard time. If I were as big as Macklemore, then I would get a hard time.



PAUL WILLIAMS (at the Billboard VIP Power 100 party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea?
White Australian women have been making great music for years. Last year, I was one of the co-winners of the Album of the Year Grammy — I sang on Daft Punk’s record and wrote two of the songs. I think the world of music encompasses all of us, from a 74-year-old songwriter from the seventies to a white rapper chick from Australia.



JESS GLYNNE (at the Billboard VIP Power 100 party)

What do you think of Iggy Azalea being nominated for Best Rap Album?
I think it’s amazing. Doesn’t matter if you’re white or black or from India, Turkey, or America. If you rap, you rap. That’s what music’s about. It’s about music. It’s not about where you’re from. I think it’s wicked. I did a song with her and I hope she uses it because it’s a wicked tune. She’s cool. Really cool. She really has taken off.



CHARLI XCX (at the Delta pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea's chances to win best rap album?
I feel like it's a strong category, so who knows. Good luck. [She’s the only woman nominated], so good for her. She's doing it for pussy power. I love that.



LIFEHOUSE (at the Delta Airlines Pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea's chances winning the Best Rap Album category?
Bryce Soderberg: She's really talented. Best of luck to her. She does what she does and she does it well.

Rick Woolstenhulme: She's got booty and that might win. Booty is hot right now.

Soderberg: If they had a booty Grammy, she would win. Oh wait, Kim Kardashian would.



ESTELLE (at the Delta Air Lines Pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea's chances winning the Best Rap Album category?
I have no idea. It's a crap shoot, so good luck, girl.

What do you think about her getting nominated in the category?
I don't get into any of that conversation



JORDIN SPARKS (at the Delta Airlines Pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea's chances winning the Best Rap Album category?
I mean, hey, girl power, let's go. But I don't know, it's always a toss-up every year. But I think her music is great. There's room for all of us, that's my philosophy, so I am happy that everybody gets to do their thing, because everyone has something different to offer. I like her.



ROSIE O’DONNELL (at the Athena Film Festival)

What do you think about the controversy over Iggy Azalea being nominated for Best Rap Album?
How bad is this? Who else is nominated? I have to say that as a 52-year-old woman, I'm not up on my Iggy Azalea controversies. But I have seen it on Huffington Post. I see a lot of people are mad at Iggy for reasons I'm not sure of — but I think she's pretty good. My daughter, my kid loves her, she's knows every single word to all of her songs. [sings: “First thing first, I’m the coolest.”] My daughter knows every word, so I don't know.



BECK (at Clive Davis's pre-Grammy party)

What do you think about Iggy Azalea, do you like her music?
Uh, yeah, I’m sure it’s good.

Do you think she’s bad for hip-hop?
You know, I don’t know. I hate to admit it.

http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/ceelo-charli-xcx-and-kenny-g-on-iggy-azalea.html

 

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Don’t Let Iggy Azalea Win the Best Rap Album Grammy

On Sunday night, there is a decent chance that Iggy Azalea will become the first solo female artist to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album. She is only the fifth woman ever nominated in the category. Missy Elliott has been nominated four times, while Eve and Nicki Minaj have each been nominated once. (Lauryn Hill is the only woman who has ever taken home a Rap Album statue, but for her work with the Fugees; the Grammys considered The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill an R&B album.) The Grammy rap categories are relatively new, and Best Rap Album dates back only to 1996 — but that’s still long enough for the category’s gender gap to become downright cavernous. Out of 102 total nominees in the category’s history, 94 have been men or all-male groups. To put it another way, there are as many Best Rap Album Grammys on Eminem’s mantle (he’s won five) as there are women who have even been nominated in the category.

These statistics are egregious, backwards-thinking, and infuriating. But not enough to make me root for Iggy.

It’s not that she’s white. The Beastie Boys were white. Eminem is white. Both garnered respect within the rap world partially because they never tried to hide that fact in their music — even when they risked sounding gawky, soulless, or square, they always seemed at peace with their identities. Their appeal hinged upon that sense of acceptance. Iggy is another story. A little while ago, a year-and-a-half-old clip of her appearance on "Sway in the Morning" went viral. Sway surprises her by laying down a beat and asking her to freestyle; for a second, before she’s composed herself, she makes a face like she’s just caught a whiff of stale milk. “I cannot give you a hot 16 to this hood-ass beat,” she says, looking around the studio nervously; she compromises by spitting a few rehearsed (and weak) a cappella bars of “New Bitch,” a song off her debut album The New Classic. This clip went viral not because Iggy Azalea can’t freestyle; plenty of other popular rappers would have refused in that context. (I can’t imagine someone putting Kanye on the spot like that and living to tell the tale.) The clip went viral because of how ill at ease she looked in her own skin, in that moment that she was asked to go off-script. It went viral because it starkly illustrates the difference between her speaking voice and her rapping voice. It’s not that she’s white — it’s that she’s a white girl turning her “blaccent” on and off with a disturbing ease.

So it’s especially troubling to think that the Grammys might honor this kind of “artistry” in a year when so much of our larger cultural conversations have concerned the erasure of black voices and the devaluing of black lives. Iggy is still young, and she didn’t grow up in America, but at every opportunity she’s had to redeem herself by owning up to her ignorance, she’s only dug herself into a deeper hole. When people ask her questions about race, she gets defensive, doesn’t want to listen. After Azealia Banks called her out for her silence over Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, Iggy tweeted, “Now! rant, Make it racial! make it political! Make it whatever but I guarantee it won’t make you likable.” Ironically, this tweet did not make Iggy any more likable either.

The main reason that The New Classic should not win a Grammy, though, is that it is a total slog. Listening to it bums me out. Iggy’s flow is joyless; her lyrics feel shapelessly one-size-fits-all, like inspirational quotes copied from a high-school guidance counselor’s bulletin board (“Impossible Is Nothing”), perhaps with an au courant “bitch” added on the end for good measure. There is something dour, empty, and unforgivably generic about this album. I can’t get a feel for the human at its center, but she also hasn’t crafted a persona intriguing enough to distract me from its lack.

In a Jezebel piece brilliantly titled “Iggy Azalea: Dumb Or Evil? A Brief Investigation,” Kara Brown addressed the argument that it is un-feminist to criticize Iggy — after all, she’s a wildly successful woman in a genre where female voices have been all too rare. “t would be far less reasonable to give powerful women a pass on their behavior just because they are women,” she wrote. “Supporting women means taking them seriously enough to call out patterns of racism that draws from and influences an insidious, larger racism that still infects American culture.” We can’t grade Iggy on a curve just because the industry has been slow to honor the achievements of other, more talented women. It’s far more feminist to hold her to the same standards of artistry as her male peers.

I believe we’re finally on the cusp of a moment in which female rappers are commanding unprecedented respect, and I would love a Rap Album win that feels in step with this shift. But the thought of Iggy Azalea being the first woman to reap the rewards of this transformation fills me with the same kind of dread I had in the darker days of the 2008 presidential campaign; Iggy Azalea is basically the Sarah Palin of rap. Next year’s list of eligible nominees is already looking promising and more female-friendly: Nicki Minaj’s Pinkprint and Azealia Banks’s Broke With Expensive Taste both deserve to be serious contenders — and how perfect would it be if Missy Elliott’s hopefully forthcoming comeback album nabbed the award? I’ve got my fingers crossed that a woman will finally win that golden shotglass soon. Just not this year.


http://www.vulture.com/2015/02/please-dont-let-iggy-azalea-win-best-rap-album.html

Pretty much.

“Supporting women means taking them seriously enough to call out patterns of racism that draws from and influences an insidious, larger racism that still infects American culture.” We can’t grade Iggy on a curve just because the industry has been slow to honor the achievements of other, more talented women.[/QUOTE ]

 

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Lil Kim doesn't get the credit she deserves. She fucked her face up but that broad got more talent as a rapper than any of them.. more than most of the dudes today too.





>>>>>>>>>>


Most of these chicks entire discography's

naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

 

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Pretty much.

“Supporting women means taking them seriously enough to call out patterns of racism that draws from and influences an insidious, larger racism that still infects American culture.” We can’t grade Iggy on a curve just because the industry has been slow to honor the achievements of other, more talented women.[/QUOTE ]

hell this goes for that female ref too....

 

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I stopped reading when Nicki said she writes metaphor that make you think

I know right.

 

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I stopped reading when Nicki said she writes metaphor that make you think

BGOL Coldest Posts - It's so cold in these streets...

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Britney Spears Fires Back at Iggy Azalea With Dig About Her Canceled Tour

After joining forces for “Pretty Girls,” Britney Spears and Iggy Azalea are now at each other’s throats — on social media at least.

The pair have exchanged a string of bitchy tweets after Azalea blamed Spears for the pop song’s failure.

During a Twitter Q&A Sunday night, a fan asked the Australian rapper why the single had “flopped a little bit,” and Azalea pointed the finger of blame at Spears: “its difficult to send a song up the charts without addition promo and tv performances etc. unforfunately im just featured…” she replied.

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She went on to have an even cruder response to Britney’s fans when they stuck up for their idol. “My comment is factual, it applies to any song. I dont have to suck the womans asshole 24/7 to be her friend, do i? bye girls,” Azalea wrote, later claiming that she wasn’t meaning to be bitchy or give “shade.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Genuine friends have genuine opinions. Its possible &amp; healthy to have a differing thought without it being bitchy or shade.</p>&mdash; IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) <a href="https://twitter.com/IGGYAZALEA/status/615611395766288384">June 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Not surprisingly, Spears didn’t appreciate the dig either — and got her own back with an underhanded comment about Azalea’s tour, which was canceled earlier this year. As icing on the cake, she added an aggressive hashtag related to her song title, “Piece of Me.”

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Can’t wait to get back to Vegas. So thankful I have shows for the rest of the year to look forward to... <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/YouWantAPieceOfMe?src=hash">#YouWantAPieceOfMe</a></p>&mdash; Britney Spears (@britneyspears) <a href="https://twitter.com/britneyspears/status/615666740295532544">June 29, 2015</a></blockquote>
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Spears signed a two-year residency at Planet Hollywood in Las Vegas in 2012, which pays her a reported $15 million a year. Meanwhile, Azalea pulled out of her world tour in May citing “a different creative change of heart” and the need for a break, but many believe it was due to poor ticket sales.

It’s easy to see who is having the last laugh between the two.