Iggy Azalea's Glad She Didn't Win Grammy: 'People Already Hate Me Enough'

For most musicians, winning a Grammy is the ultimate in career recognition. Unless you happen to be rapper Iggy Azalea, that is. She wanted no part of this year's Best Rap Album award for which she was nominated.

Although the rapper acknowledges she was happy to be "thought of" in the category (where she competed against an all-male slate of artists: Eminem, Childish Gambino, Common, Schoolboy Q, and Wiz Khalifa), she says she is glad she went home empty-handed.

"I'm glad I didn't win because people already hate me enough," Azalea told L.A.'s Power 106. "I do not need to be hated anymore."

The 24-year-old further revealed that she didn't even have an acceptance speech planned in case her debut, The New Classic, happened to take the prize.

"My speech would’ve been like, 'F--k this, I don't want it! Take it! Get it away from me,'" she asserted.

When asked about the actual winner of the award – Eminem, who scored with The Marshall Mathers LP 2 – Azalea pointed out his victory was yet more proof of widespread animosity towards her place in the rap world.

"I found it to be kind of ironic," she noted. "Because I'm white, therefore I'm appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it – who's white and won it many times – and they didn't seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me."

In addition to Best Rap Album, Azalea was also nominated for Record of the Year for "Fancy," Best New Artist, and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for "Fancy" with Charli XCX. She did not take home any of the awards.

Azalea, a protégé of rapper T.I., has faced considerable criticism from others in the genre, most notably led by rival Azealia Banks, who accused her of appropriating black culture for her own purposes.

Iggy also has been in the news recently for leaving Twitter due to body-shaming commentary after she posted a photo of herself on vacation in a bikini.