Tuesday, February 3, 2015

Iggy Azalea rise tests music industry on race, gender

Iggy Azalea is up for four Grammy awards, including the prestigious Record of the Year for her smash hit "Fancy" Iggy Azalea has soared to stardom as a rare white woman in hip-hop, but her meteoric rise has triggered a backlash that reveals much about the music business's fault-lines on race and gender. Her most vociferous critic has been fellow rapper Azealia Banks, a black woman who has accused Azalea of mocking African Americans.








via Entertainment News Headlines — Yahoo! News

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