Iggy Azalea: What went wrong?

[RichAssPiss 4,921]

100% the underrated fall from grace was people making jokes about (and getting traction from it) MØ's dancing during her SNL "Beg for It" performance and then it just seemed to break a spell and people started coming for all he obvious appropriation baggage and questionable rap skills. But I really remember that being the moment it became internet trendy to laugh at Iggy.

[LateToCult 40,896]

28 minutes ago, ARTFAP said:

u wrong. if you wanna have a longevity hiphop career you need to impressed..THE BLACK COMMUNITY..if the black community doesn't fuuk witchu the way they fuuk with nicki minaj and supported nicki..even if you have number 1 hit..ur career is not gonna lasts.

because black people is THE foundation of a successful hip/hop career in the music industry.

 

and the black community doesn't respect iggy. pewriodt!

ya'll white gays no nothing about hiphop!! stick to ur white female popstars!

First off, not a white gay. 
 

Her failure was a direct result of her ignorance and talent level. She said some pretty racist sh*t about multiple races and killed any chance of forming a proper following. The white girl from Australia shtick made people side eye her but once she opened her mouth and showed how dumb she was and how bad she sounded, that’s when her career ended.

[SimonBaetens 8,526]

The music she released was subpar and people stopped caring.

[hardcore1996 1,618]

I forgot all about that tire monks performance 

I looked it up and the “freestyle” is actually the song with the slave master lyrics that she was also getting cancelled for but no one could even tell

[StrawberryBlond 14,822]

Females have a hard enough time getting respected in rap as it is but she was always going to have a much harder job getting respect being white and Australian in addition. Australian rappers may exist but they don't have a hip hop culture and no Australian rapper had ever broke through until her so there was a sense of her being a bit of a weird gimmick at first. There were many accusations of her appropriating a black accent when she rapped as well. Thing is, I feel like when it came to her rap accent, she was never going to win. As she had lived in America for years by that point, it would've been natural for her to have an American twang and she probably felt that she wouldn't have been taken seriously if she rapped with an Australian accent. The only rappers who have hit the big time are American, so she perhaps felt it was the only route. Guaranteed that anyone saying she should have been authentic by rapping with an Aussie accent would've laughed at her for doing so. Then there was some things she wrote on her Twitter (most of it photoshopped) that was deemed racist and that really was the end at that point. Things like her having no freestyling abilities became a meme and there's even a radio interview she did where she was asked to freestyle and she passed off a verse from an existing song like it was a freestyle, which was quite embarrassing. Couple that with a lack of promo by her label who ended up shelving her planned second album, Digital Distortion (which had album cover art and everything, so had already cost the label money) just because the lead single wasn't taking off and she was done.

It's sad because, ok, she may not be the best rapper but she certainly isn't the worst. While her material could be hit and miss, when she's on, she's on. The music she released after leaving T.I.'s management was good (not everyone was impressed with In My Defense but I thought it was her best work) and her EP, Survive The Summer, was amazing, it wasn't pop at all, it was for the true hip hop fans. And I watched reaction videos of people listening to it, they were impressed. Sadly, barely anyone bought it. She really doesn't have much of a fanbase. Her last album wasn't good enough for an apparent final release before retirement, so I'm glad she's coming back. I'm sure that if anyone else had released her material, it would have been accepted a whole lot more, I've certainly heard much worse come from other much more successful and respected rappers. She's always been really nice and never started drama either, which is so rare these days. I appreciate that she's at least stayed on the hip hop route even when she's not successful with it. I think that proves that she is genuine in her love for the genre. If she just saw it as a moneymaker, she would've dropped it like a hot potato the second it stopped being lucrative and would either have switched to pop or gone into a completely different career choice. But she stuck to her guns and said, no, hip hop is what I do. You have to respect that.

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,299]

10 hours ago, Not Chrissy Teigen said:

leaved her label

Leaving her label was the best decision she could have made. She was getting absolutely no push and all her music ended up getting shelved. She had a 5 year halt on releases and then came back independent with 2 LPs and 2 EPs. 

[Monstermilo 4,477]

i dont think shes that talented and her music started to decrease in quality 

shes very likeable except for some questionable things 

but i wonder why she got cancelled but someone like eminem is praised, especially by white men who hate black rappers but like eminem 

 

[Enigma 7,182]

45 minutes ago, Monstermilo said:

i dont think shes that talented and her music started to decrease in quality 

shes very likeable except for some questionable things 

but i wonder why she got cancelled but someone like eminem is praised, especially by white men who hate black rappers but like eminem 

 

Males in general get a pass for doing and saying the most horrible **** you’ve ever heard. Women are under the scrutiny of both misogynistic men who want to see them fail and don’t take them seriously as well as queer people who hold them to way higher standards of behaviour. 

[Not Chrissy Teigen 59]

1 hour ago, TortureMeOnReplay said:

Leaving her label was the best decision she could have made. She was getting absolutely no push and all her music ended up getting shelved. She had a 5 year halt on releases and then came back independent with 2 LPs and 2 EPs. 

and all of them flopped so thanks for proving me right i guess

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,299]

3 hours ago, Not Chrissy Teigen said:

and all of them flopped so thanks for proving me right i guess

Flopped but she probably made more off of them than she did when she was signed. And she probably still wouldn't have an album out. Her last singles under the label didn't chart at all while I believe the lead off her most recent album did. 

[tyler k 5,330]

 

[hardcore1996 1,618]

7 hours ago, Monstermilo said:

but i wonder why she got cancelled but someone like eminem is praised, especially by white men who hate black rappers but like eminem 

 

i kinda? get where you’re coming from but i have never heard of anyone, especially anyone who is a fan of hip hop, that hates black rappers when that’s the majority of the genre 

[Yaaaas Gaga 926]

I don't think she was ever going to have prolonged success. Sure she had some good hits back in 2014 but most of those featured other artists as well to help gain momentum.

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Shes not really a rapper… what do u mean what happened

[Not Chrissy Teigen 59]

11 hours ago, TortureMeOnReplay said:

Flopped but she probably made more off of them than she did when she was signed. And she probably still wouldn't have an album out. Her last singles under the label didn't chart at all while I believe the lead off her most recent album did. 

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