Azalea gets brownie points for the gutsy name, but simply calling your record a classic does not a classic make - rather, her debut is a paint-by-numbers exercise in what a modern rap album should be: a song name-dropping brands here, a chilled-out track asking for alone-time and admonishing hanger-ons there. I picked the outfit out myself, because I know it’s appropriate and I know how to pander.” As she warned on her trunk-rattling rags-to-riches tale “Work,” you can hate it or love it. “Do you think what I wore to the Chloé show would really be something that I would wear? No. Azalea defends her style as a technical necessity, but a New York Times story about her fashion career suggests a different philosophy at play: “I know how to play the game and get what I want,” Azalea told the paper. You can admire her studied dedication to artists she loves, or you can dismiss it as white privilege in action. mentee’s accent - not her sexual confidence - that’s ruffled the most feathers in the lead-up to her debut LP, The New Classic, out today.Īzalea, 23, raps in a geographically ambitious drawl she’s picked from her idols and stints in various American cities often it’s a deal-breaker. Australia’s platinum-blond rapstress Iggy Azalea swaggered onto the scene in 2011 with an aggressive ode to cunnilingus (whose title can’t be repeated here), but it’s been the T.I.
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