Iggy Azalea Answered Cultural Appropriation Claims by Saying She’s Still Making the Same Type of Music

Iggy Azalea’s comeback is officially underway, and she’s still shooing away cultural appropriation claims. The Australian rapper graces the cover of the September issue of Cosmopolitan, and the interviewer wasn’t afraid to get real with Iggy on how the public views her authenticity as a rapper.

When asked how she feels regarding people claiming her entire style, music, and personality is derived from black culture, Iggy shared that she believes cultural appropriation to be subjective.

“You could ask one person of the same race, ‘Does this affect you?’ and they will say yes,” she told Cosmopolitan. “But another person will say no. They could be from the same place, same everything, but have different perspectives about it.”

She went on to kind of acknowledge the criticism of her work and person, and say that there were pivotal times in her career that she should’ve been more outwardly vocal regarding her blatant white privilege. “I wanted to talk so much about my experiences of things I didn’t have, and I think it felt like I wasn’t acknowledging that there is white privilege and there is institutionalized racism,” she said. “It seemed to a lot of people like I was living in this bubble or unaware of all these things that people have to experience.”

An apology, that isn’t. It doesn’t bode well for her future endeavors — in the years between releasing “Fancy” and now, when she’s about to release a new album called In My Defense, the internet’s willingness to call out cultural appropriation only seems to have increased. It also seems like Iggy herself is aware of her mistakes and yet unwilling to change course.

At one point, the Cosmo article reads: Then again, can you really say sorry and then keep doing the same sh*t? (Her question.) “I’m still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger than life,” she then said. “So I can’t be that f*cking sorry about it.”

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