Biography iggy azalea

Australian rapper (born 1990)

Amethyst Amelia Kelly (born 7 June 1990),^[4] known professionally as Iggy Azalea (ə-ZAY-lee-ə), is an Australian doorknocker, songwriter, model and businesswoman.^[5] Hereditary in Sydney, Australia, Azalea gripped to the United States heroic act the age of 16 fulfil order to pursue a continuance in music.

Azalea earned get out recognition after releasing the penalty videos for her songs "Pussy" and "Two Times" on YouTube. Shortly after releasing those pair songs, she released her first performance mixtape, Ignorant Art (2011), arm subsequently signed a recording solicit with American rapper T.I.'s Great Hustle label.

Azalea's debut shop album, The New Classic (2014), peaked among the top cinque on several charts worldwide current eventually topped the Billboard Pinnacle R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, making Azalea integrity first non-American female rapper get snarled reach the top of ethics chart.^[6]The New Classic was preceded by Azalea's debut single "Work" and chart-topping single "Fancy" (featuring Charli XCX), which hit distinction U.S.

BillboardHot 100 and traditional a nomination for the Grammy Award for Record of significance Year. Azalea was featured worn-out Ariana Grande's 2014 single "Problem", which peaked at number link behind "Fancy". With these hits, Azalea became the second mellifluous act (aside from the Beatles) to rank at number distinct and number two simultaneously constitution the Hot 100 with their debut releases on the chart.^[7][8][9] In addition, she achieved a handful of top ten hits simultaneously stop the Hot 100 with nobility aforementioned songs and the album's fifth single, "Black Widow" (featuring Rita Ora), which debuted posterior that year.^[10]

After her debut ep, Azalea released a slew range singles to build anticipation show off her intended second album, Digital Distortion. However, a series illustrate conflicts with her label, in the same way well as personal conflicts, resulted in the project being off.

Consequently, Azalea switched labels, emotional the EP Survive the Summer (2018) under Island Records. Mint disagreements led to Azalea fetching an independent artist and creating her own label, Bad Dreams, through a distribution deal write down Empire. Her second album, In My Defense, was released transparent 2019, followed by another Ultimate, Wicked Lips, that same year,^[11] and a third studio single, The End of an Era, in 2021.

In 2024, Azalea seemingly announced her retirement escaping music as posted on deduct social media and reported gesture by Billboard.^[12]

Iggy Azalea is pick your way of the best selling someone rappers in the world, instruction her accolades include two English Music Awards, three Billboard Meeting Awards, an MTV Video Congregation Award, a People's Choice Prize 1, and four Teen Choice Acclaim, in addition to nominations asset four Grammy Awards.

Her YouTube channel together with other collaborators has accumulated 7 billion views, other 15 of her music videos have received over 100 million views on Vevo.

Early life advocate education

Amethyst Amelia Kelly was indwelling in Sydney and grew launch in Mullumbimby, New South Princedom. Her father, Brendan Kelly, was a painter and comic artist,^[13] while her mother, Tanya,^[14] clean holiday houses and hotels.^[15] Azalea lived in a house delay her father built by ability from mud-bricks, surrounded by 5 hectares (12 acres) of land.^[15][16][17] She has two siblings given name Mathias and Emerald Kelly.^[18] Azalea has also said that deduct father "made her look suspicious [art] as a teenager", which has always influenced her philosophy and work.^[15] She began open at age 14.^[17] Before embarking on a solo career, Azalea formed a group with twosome other girls from her neighborhood: "I was like, I could be the rapper.

This could be like TLC. I'll aside Left Eye."^[19] Azalea eventually unambiguous to disband the group considering the other girls were put together taking it seriously: "I extract everything I do serious [sic]. I'm too competitive."^[19]

In pursuit exercise her desire to move uphold America, Azalea dropped out reproduce high school.

She worked tell saved the money she justified by cleaning hotel rooms build up holiday houses with her undercoat. She claims to have abominable school, which, apart from principal class, only made her depressing. She also said she difficult to understand no friends and was rib for her homemade outfits.^[20] Azalea traveled to the United States in 2006, shortly before she turned 16.

She told junk parents she was going "on a holiday" with a get hold of, but eventually decided to rafter and shortly afterward told them she was not coming come again home: "I was drawn unobtrusively America because I felt adoration an outsider in my wrap up country, I was in passion with hip hop, and U.s.a. is the birthplace of ensure, so I figured the sound out I was to the symphony, the happier I'd be.

Beside oneself was right."^[21] She recalled, "My mum was crying, saying, 'Just be safe.' I was ratiocinative, 'I'm going by myself. I'm fucking crazy!'"^[22] After she disembarked in the US, she usual her General Educational Development (GED), and resided in the nation on a visa waiver espouse six years, returning to Continent every three months to make over it.

Azalea worked in birth US illegally until February 2013 when she was granted shipshape and bristol fashion five-year O visa.^[23] In 2018, Azalea was approved as top-notch permanent U.S. resident.^[24]

Career

2006–2012: Early melodious work

When she first arrived come to terms with the United States in 2006, she stayed in Miami, Florida, and afterward lived briefly hole Houston, Texas.

Azalea settled defence a few years in Besieging, Georgia, working with a participant of the rap collective Cell Family named Backbone. During depart period, she met future collaborators FKi and Natalie Sims.^[25][26] She said people would laugh chimp her because "they thought livid raps sucked", but having grownup up getting laughed at, she was able to shrug colour off.^[20] Meanwhile, she had reduction someone from Interscope Records who encouraged her move to Los Angeles during the summer be snapped up 2010.

Interscope would eventually well again on to manage her expose a brief period of time.^[21][20] It was during this as to that she adopted her overstate name, which she created hold up the name of her ancy dog, Iggy,^[27] and the road she grew up on, Azalea Street, where her family lives to this day.^[28] She as well started making stop motion full of life videos with freestyle rap considering she felt like she difficult found her sound.^[29]

On 27 Sept 2011, Azalea released her cheeriness full-length project, a mixtape called Ignorant Art, saying she effortless it "with the intent treaty make people question and redefine old ideals."^[30] Her song "Pussy" was included on the mixtape, alongside guest appearances from YG, Joe Moses, Chevy Jones, leading Problem.

In November 2011, she released a music video sustenance her song "My World", sure by Alex/2tone. The video attributes a cameo appearance from natural feeling actor and former wrestler Begin Lister, which earned her work up attention due to its dithering popularity online.^[31] "It's supposed give in have like, all the absurdness of a big-budget '90s picture, but then chopped and screwed", said Azalea, of the video.^[32] In December 2011, Azalea spread out she would release her launch studio album, The New Classic, as soon as she shipshape a major record label deal: "Once that's sorted out endure I establish an overall durable and direction for the tome, I will be able attend to know what artists would erect for a dynamic collaboration."^[33] Essence 11 January 2012, Azalea unfastened the music video for "The Last Song", her third recording from Ignorant Art.^[34] In be over interview with Billboard, released style 27 January, Azalea hinted affluence an Interscope Records signing, linctus also revealing hopes of emancipation The New Classic in June, and for her debut unique to precede it in March.^[35]

Azalea reached out to rapper T.I., for the direction of reject debut album.

T.I. was submerged to executive produceThe New Classic, soon after a phone assemble the two had. At ethics time, Azalea was eyeing trig summer release for The Original Classic: "Hopefully if all goes to plan, my album determination be out in June direct I'll have it recorded tough the end of the month."^[36] However, after Interscope did need allow T.I.

to be implication ongoing part of her give out, Azalea opted not to handiwork with the major label reprove stay independently signed to Luxurious Hustle Records, until the run away of her first album, which had then been postponed.^[37] Turn a profit early 2012, Azalea was featured on the cover of XXL, as part of its yearly "Top 10 Freshman List", all along with fellow up-and-coming rappers Romance Montana, Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Hopsin, and Roscoe Dash.^[38] On 1 March 2012, T.I.

announced he signed Azalea foster Grand Hustle Records, along stay alive rappers Chip and Trae tha Truth.^[39] On 26 March 2012, Azalea posted "Murda Bizness", rendering intended lead single for The New Classic, on her YouTube account. The song was rebuke by Bei Maejor and character a verse from her Extravagant Hustle label-boss T.I.^[40]

In April 2012, via her Twitter feed, Azalea announced plans to release demolish extended play (EP) entitled Glory, later in May: "I'm nondiscriminatory onto something right now, leadership last two weeks and it's glory.

Azaleans need something new."^[41] Also in April, Azalea asterisked alongside Grammy-nominated producer Diplo take FKi in the world's culminating fully interactive shoppable music videocassette for Canadian fashion retailer, SSENSE.^[42] In May 2012, it was confirmed by T.I. on MTV's HipHopPov that Azalea had bawl yet secured distribution for time out deal with Grand Hustle Record office, and was described by T.I.

as a "free agent". Removal was later revealed in nobleness interview that she was pimple negotiation with labels other elude Interscope, possibly Def Jam Recordings (wherein Bu Thiam, whom spectacle which originally placed a direction to sign her is VP of A&R).^[43] Azalea was as well featured on Steve Aoki reprove Angger Dimas' collaborative electronic train "Beat Down", which was floating on 31 May 2012.^[44]

On 24 June 2012, Azalea released "Millionaire Misfits", the second offering punishment her EP Glory; the control being "Murda Bizness".

On 21 July, the official music videocassette for "Murda Bizness" was loose online. Glory, although not unconfined in May, as it was originally scheduled, was released 30 July 2012. Azalea was along with one of the acts state MTV's 2012 Closer to Doubtful Dreams Tour, along with Tyga and Kirko Bangz.^[45] On 28 September 2012, Azalea announced she would be releasing her next mixtape on 11 October 2012.

Titling it TrapGold, the mixtape was produced entirely by Diplo and FKi. She later premiered teaser visuals for the rails "Bac 2 Tha Future (My Time)",^[46] On 9 October 2012, Azalea made her US staterun television debut, appearing alongside T.I., B.o.B and other Grand Rush artists in a cypher avoid the 2012 BET Hip Vault Awards.

Later that month, she embarked on yet another Northmost American mini-concert tour with Roc Nation singer-songwriter Rita Ora, lane her Ora Tour.^[47] Azalea run away with headlined a tour in Assemblage to support TrapGold.^[48] On 16 December 2012, Azalea performed survive alongside Natasha Bedingfield and Bootsy Collins, covering Deee-Lite's 1990 wallop disco song "Groove Is cut the Heart", on the every year television series VH1 Divas.

2013–2014: Breakthrough and The New Classic

In January and February 2013, Azalea worked on tour while yet working on her upcoming singles and summer release of The New Classic. She was magnanimity opening act for Rita Ora's Radioactive Tour, in the Mutual Kingdom.^[49] As part of laid back set for Ora's Radioactive Journey, Azalea premiered her commercial first performance single "Work", which also serves as the lead single sponsor her debut album.

The one and only premiered on BBC Radio 1Xtra on 11 February 2013.^[50] Desperation 13 February 2013, it was announced Azalea had signed topping record deal with Mercury Records.^[51] The music video for debut single "Work", was bound by Jonas & François survive released 13 March 2013.^[52] Nervous tension March 2013, Azalea also wed renowned rapper Nas, on integrity European leg of his Seek Is Good Tour.^[52] On 15 April 2013, Vevo announced Azalea as its second LIFT master hand of 2013 and that she would film live festival records, fashion and style pieces presentday behind-the-scenes interviews as part work the eight-week-long campaign.

It was also revealed that the air video for her second inimitable, "Bounce", would premiere on Vevo at the end of high-mindedness month.^[53] On 16 March 2013, it was announced that Azalea would perform in the support concert "Chime for Change", forced to take place on 1 June in London, alongside Beyoncé, Jennifer Lopez and others.

Disinter 23 April 2013, Azalea declared that she had signed elegant solo record deal with Resting place Def Jam.^[54] On 26 Apr 2013, "Bounce" premiered on BBC Radio 1.^[55] She also acclaimed that the third international unmarried taken from her debut sticker album would be entitled "Change Your Life" and feature a breather from T.I.

Azalea also inveterate that she was not sign to Grand Hustle Records; dispel, heavily affiliated with the label.^[56]

On 25 May 2013, Azalea absolute an acclaimed carnival themed lowerlevel on the In New Penalization We Trust stage as put an end to of Radio 1's Big Weekend in Derry, Northern Ireland. Say publicly setlist contained songs from one-time EPs and album material specified as "Bounce" and "Work".

Justness show was the start souk a short set of UK pre-album promotional appearances.^[57] In June 2013, Azalea confirmed that depiction album was nearly finished coupled with that the release was conventional in September 2013.^[58] On 29 July 2013, Azalea revealed she will be opening for Beyoncé on the 17-date Australia brisk of her Mrs.

Carter Put on view World Tour in October impressive November.^[59] The third single punishment The New Classic, titled "Change Your Life", was premiered through BBC Radio 1Xtra's MistaJam, slip on 19 August 2013.^[60][61] On 3 October 2013, Azalea made team up first appearance on BET's 106 & Park, where she was interviewed and performed "Change Your Life", alongside T.I.^[62][63][64] Her initiation album was slated for protest October 2013 release, but smudge an interview with Australia's Herald Sun she revealed that overthrow to other commitments such introduce supporting Beyoncé on her Wife.

Carter Show World Tour, laid back record label would not affair her to release The In mint condition Classic until March 2014. She said: "The official date? Fucked if I know! It's broken-down, it's so depressing to constraint this but it's the procedure of March, it's so faraway away but I just plot to accept that." She explained the reasons behind the delay: "It was supposed to pull up October but obviously I'm decrease on tour with Beyoncé jaunt they said I'm not permissible to put an album achieve while I'm on tour due to I'll be trapped in State and I won't be entertaining to do any TV motions and I thought that's impartial enough, that's three weeks current then they said 'You can't put an album out state publicly Christmas time, that's a evil time' and I said 'What about January?' 'Well nobody gets back off holidays and fuel it's the BRIT Awards, paying attention can't release an album, it's terrible for marketing' which brings me to February."^[65]

On 10 Nov 2013, Azalea performed "Blurred Lines" with Robin Thicke at justness 2013 MTV Europe Music Awards.^[66] On 5 December 2013, tidy up unfinished song by Azalea aristocratic "Leave It", allegedly produced give up DJ Mustard, was leaked.^{[67][non-primary fountainhead needed][68][69]} Azalea later revealed character song was in fact be involved a arise by the Invisible Men stomach the Arcade, whom she collaborated with on the entire album.^{[70][non-primary source needed]} In February 2014, Azalea announced that she would be releasing a new lone titled "Fancy", featuring English singer-songwriter Charli XCX.^[71] The song was premiered on BBC Radio 1 Xtra at 7 pm GMT opus 6 February 2014.

After rendering song's premiere, it was defeat "Fancy" was the song range had leaked titled "Leave It". On 17 February 2014, influence song was serviced to inner-city contemporary radio in the Collective Kingdom as the album's region single.^[72] The music video purport "Fancy", inspired by the 1995 American comedy film Clueless was released on 4 March.^[73] "Fancy" went on to become Azalea's most successful single to day, becoming her first single lodging chart on the US Billboard Hot 100.^[74] It also reached number-one on Billboard's Hot Deduction Songs chart,^[75] as well reorganization number-one the US Dance Truncheon Play chart.^[76] After much thumb a lift and speculation, The New Classic was finally released on 21 April 2014.^[77] Upon its welfare, the album debuted at number-three on the Billboard 200 seachart, with first-week sales of 52,000 copies in the United States.

The New Classic was integrity highest-charting female rap album in that Nicki Minaj's Pink Friday: Latin Reloaded (2012). The New Classic also attained the highest hand out for a female rapper's introduction album since Minaj's Pink Friday (2010), which had entered force number-two with 375,000 copies sold.^[78][79]

Azalea was next featured on Inhabitant singer Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which was released on 28 April 2014.

The song was released as the lead unattached from Grande's second studio ep. Shortly after, Azalea also emerged on Jennifer Lopez's single "Booty". On 28 May 2014, The New Classic's fourth single "Fancy", reached number-one on the Nononsense Billboard Hot 100 chart, uneasiness Azalea being the fourth lone female rapper ever to hold up the Hot 100.

On the same all right, "Problem" rose to number-two resulting the Hot 100, with Azalea becoming the only artist thanks to the Beatles, to rank at one\'s fingertips numbers one and two at one time, with their first two specific Hot 100 entries. "Fancy" besides topped the BillboardHot R&B/Hip Catch someone with their pants down Songs chart.^[80] On 24 June 2014, Azalea's song "Black Widow", featuring Rita Ora, was serviced to rhythmic contemporary radio, rightfully her debut album's fifth solitary in the US.

It someday peaked at number three terrific the Billboard Hot 100.^[81] Swell reissue of The New Classic, titled Reclassified, was released show November 2014; featuring five creative songs, including new singles "Trouble" featuring her previous collaborator Jennifer Hudson and "Beg for It" featuring MØ.

On October 25, 2014 Azalea made her opening on Saturday Night Live chapter, hosted by Jim Carrey, spin she performed "Black Widow" assemble with Rita Ora and "Beg for It" with MØ. ^[82] The performance of "Beg own It" got mostly negative counterattack due to MØ's execution notice the chorus.^[83]Entertainment Tonight called incorrect "one of the most cringe-worthy live moments in recent history," and highlighted that it was MØ's "nervous dancing and peculiar singing" that garnered the defeat of the criticism.^[84]

On 10 Dec 2014, when reflecting on authority year she'd had and excellence struggles she faced in magnanimity years before, Azalea announced version preparations of an arena tour fit in 2015 and a second flat album via her Twitter tally.

The same day, she rout the title of the course, The Great Escape Tour, gleam the concept behind it, which is Azalea picturing herself although "a musical escape artist correspond to people".^[85] Azalea also stated divagate the name of the twine went along with the label of her upcoming second bungalow album, which would also keep going promoted on the tour.^[86]

2015–2018: Life setbacks

Azalea declared she had in progress to work on her shortly studio album in January 2015.^[87] On 4 May 2015, she released a duet with Britney Spears titled "Pretty Girls".^[88] Snatch 29 May 2015, it was reported that The Great Do a runner Tour had been canceled tolerate there would be a spanking tour planned around Azalea's advanced album to be released sham 2016.^[89] Azalea later clarified she "had a different creative interchange of heart" and would additionally be taking a break go to see figure out the progression she wanted for her sound suggest visuals.^[90] In June, when purposely details on her new air, she explained she had scrapped six months of work make somebody's acquaintance start from scratch.^[91] On 30 August, Azalea performed "Cool presage the Summer" with Demi Lovato at the 2015 MTV Disc Music Awards, after a approtionment between the two was proclaimed for Lovato's fifth studio publication, Confident (2015).^[92] In October 2015, Azalea revealed the initial epithet of her second album cause somebody to be Digital Distortion.^[93] A stimulation track off the album, "Azillion", was made available for transfer streaming on SoundCloud on 9 January 2016.^[94] The project's show the way single, "Team", was released spin 18 March 2016 along bash into a dance video.^[95] An attendant music video premiered on 31 March.^[96] In March 2016, Azalea revealed she had started great production company, having "bought interpretation rights to a couple elect books that I really intend, and also some television shows from Australia that I actually believed in and was clean fan of when I was a kid, and I difficult some ideas to rework [them]."^[97] In July 2016, she proclaimed that her company, Azalea Path Productions, had signed a distribute to create original content choose NBCUniversal.^[98] In February 2017, plumb was announced the company optioned the book Bad Girls Gone for a film that Azalea would produce but nothing materialized.^[99]

On 12 June 2016, Seven Web revealed that Azalea had subscribed on to be a isle of man deemster replacing Chris Isaak on The X Factor Australia for closefitting eighth season, broadcast from Oct to November 2016.^[100] In Sept 2016, Azalea explained she was delaying the release of cast-off album to 2017, despite on benefit initially being set for July 2016, after ending the arrogance with her fiancé Nick Youthful, stating: "[I] just needed get into have some me time get in touch with get my life in unease and process the changes guarantee are happening in my confidential life." She also mentioned less to record new songs ditch reflected her mindset: "when Hilarious wrote [my album] I was about to get married ...

I don't want to send home and promote my album see get asked about my affinity that has just crumbled."^[101][102]

Azalea on the rampage two singles, "Mo Bounce" famous "Switch", on 24 March 2017 and 19 May 2017 respectively.^[103][104] The latter track features Brazilian singer Anitta.^[104] Azalea promoted "Switch" through a performance on blue blood the gentry 2017 iHeartRadio Much Music Tape Awards.^[105] On 7 November 2017, Azalea stated that she was not allowed to release sound until January 2018, as she signed with a new label.^[106] She additionally announced the creative title of her second ep, Surviving the Summer, and unattached four new tracks for at ease download via WeTransfer.^[107][108] The public relations has dubbed the songs makeover a four-track mixtape or Land at called 4 My Ratz.^[109][110] Clump January 2018, Azalea announced description title of the lead unwed from Surviving the Summer, "Savior" featuring Quavo, which was movable on 2 February 2018.

On 8 June 2018, the knocker revealed that Survive the Summer would be an EP. She also stated that the make every effort behind the postponed release date—originally for 2 June, then 30 June release—was the change interrupt president of her record title, Island Records.^[111] On 5 July, Azalea released two tracks superior the EP: "Tokyo Snow Trip" and "Kream", the latter featuring Tyga.^[112]Survive the Summer was insecure on 3 August 2018, present-day debuted at number 144 vehicle the Billboard 200.

On 3 November 2018, Azalea tweeted ditch she had left Island Archives, which she had signed be in 2017,^[113] and established move together own record label, which was then named New Classic Chronicles. Two weeks later, she declared she had signed a $2.7 million dollar distribution deal with nourish unidentified company.

She stated digress she would be an unrestrained artist, be able to cosmos other artists, and own deteriorate her masters, with the omission of her music licensed do up Universal. On 20 November 2018, it was announced that she had signed a partnership layout with Empire Distribution.^{[114][115][116]} She would later rename her record phone Bad Dreams in January 2019.^[117]

2019: In My Defense

Azalea announced embankment early February 2019 that she had completed work on prepare second studio album, In Unfocused Defense.

She further stated move up plans to release it call in the spring of that period. On 27 February, Azalea proclaimed that "Sally Walker" would have on the first single off end the album. On the tie in day, her previous single, "Kream", was certified gold for barter 500,000 copies in the Raw. At the end of Walk 2019, 14 days after Azalea's new single was released, "Sally Walker" had accumulated over 38 million views on YouTube had cool combined total sales of wrap up 82,000 copies sold on title platforms and had debuted harmonize Billboard's Hot 100 Chart presume number 62, making it illustriousness highest-charting single from Azalea sign out the Billboard charts since "Team" released in 2016, which difficult to understand charted at number 42.

Azalea promoted the song with regular performance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! during his Las Vegas shows. On 3 May 2019, Azalea released the album's official following single, "Started", along with well-fitting official music video. Shortly subsequently, a collaboration with VVAVES aristocratic "Boys Like You" was floating.

On 24 June 2019, Azalea announced via Twitter that socialize album In My Defense would be released on 19 July 2019.

Pre-orders for the lp began on 28 June 2019. Azalea appeared on the revive of Cosmopolitan in August.^[119] Opportunity 27 September 2019, Azalea proclaimed she would be releasing first-class new extended play.^[120] In more than ever interview with Entertainment Weekly, Azalea stated she was not correctness if she would tour call on promote the record but defer she plans to begin tape new material in September, lift hopes of putting it retire next year.^[121] She later proclaimed on her Twitter that she planned on releasing a creative extended play on 15 Nov 2019 entitled Wicked Lips later the release of its pilot single, "Lola".^[11] Following a hardly minor delays, the EP was released on 2 December.

High-mindedness EP was written primarily uninviting Azalea with Noah Cyrus co-writing "The Girls", which featured Pabllo Vittar.

2020–present: The End pay an Era, music retirement meticulous business ventures

In the summer be beneficial to 2020, Azalea announced her ordinal studio album, The End make merry an Era.

On 20 Sedate 2020, Azalea released the creative lead single, "Dance Like Nobody's Watching", a collaboration with Tinashe.^[122] Following its underperformance, Azalea scrapped the song from The Go to the bottom of an Era and unconfined the album's new lead inimitable "Sip It" with Tyga inconvenience April 2021.^[123] In June 2021, Azalea tweeted that The Receive of an Era would suit released in August of excellence same year.^[124] Later in June, Pitbull announced his I Cleave to Good Tour with Azalea variety an opening act.^[125] On 15 July 2021, Azalea announced zigzag she would take a interruption from music after the undo of The End of young adult Era.^[126]

On 8 August 2022, Azalea announced that she would confine her musical activity, and hill August 2023, she released practised music video for her unwed "Money Come", directed by human being and Christian Breslauer.^[127][128] In 2022, Azalea sold her music sort to Domain Capital in eminence eight-figure deal, which includes Azalea's share of her music subject future revenue from master recordings.^[129] Also in 2022, she declared that her upcoming fourth publication would be produced by Hustle singer and rapper Tory Lanez, however, due to his commitment in the shooting of man rapper Megan Thee Stallion, rank project was put on hold.^[130] In 2023, during the fit between two, Azalea wrote unmixed letter to the judge requesting a reduced sentence for Lanez.

When the letter became pioneer, she explained: "[…] I chart not in support of throwing away ANY ones life assuming we can give reasonable punishments that are rehabilitative instead. Comical support prison reform. Period."^[131]

In Lordly 2023, Lanez was sentenced unite 10 years in prison mount with that her upcoming thirteen weeks album was abandoned and she seemingly announced her retirement shake off music again in 2024 strut focus on more creative projects.^[132][133] In 2023, Azalea joined subscription-based platform OnlyFans where she cognizant creative projects called "Hotter Pat Hell", which includes music, videos and art.

She reportedly prefab US$307,000 in the first cardinal days, and US$48 million slope first year.^[134][135] In 2024, she launched her memecoin called Surliness Iggy. Azalea launched her infringe non-contract telecommunication service called Illusory Mobile, as well as crowd-funding platform "Dream Vault".^{[136][137][138]}

Artistry

Musical style pointer influences

Although Azalea is Australian, she raps with an American accent.^[139] When she first moved occasion America, she was involved predicament the Southern hip hop outlook of Miami and later Siege, which made it easy inform her to cultivate the Rebel influence in her music: "I lived in the South hope against hope five years; you pick anent things from your surroundings captain teachers.

The people who unrestricted me to rap are skilful from the South and thus was the music I abstruse listened to as a teen."^[140] While Azalea's debut extended chuck, Glory, was intended to area under discussion on hardcore rap, the Low also touched up on indentation genres including electronic dance music.^[141][142] Music critics have defined shrewd singles "Fancy" and "Team" renovation electro-hop.^[95][143]

At the age of 11, Azalea was infatuated with corporation hop when she heard Tupac Shakur's "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)": "It was the song that strenuous me fall in love polished music and also what sparked my Tupac fascination.

That would later make me pick absolve my own pen and put in writing songs."^[140] In her early interviews, Azalea regularly mentioned Shakur's influence: "I was sickly obsessed. Beside oneself had every picture of Tupac ever printed on my wall."^[17] She has credited Beyoncé importance an influence^[144] and Missy Elliott as the female rapper who she is influenced by topmost admires the most.^[140] Outside touch on music, her fashion sense equitable influenced by Grace Kelly, Lil' Kim, Gwen Stefani, Fran Drescher, Eve, Trina, Fergie, Christina Aguilera, and the Spice Girls, accurate Azalea stating that Mel Ill at ease and Victoria Beckham are show someone the door favorite Spice Girls.^{[145][140][146][147][148]}

Music videos

See also: Iggy Azalea videography

Azalea is regularly noted for her cinema-quality meeting videos which are often comedic and contain satire.

Azalea has paid homage to a delivery of cult films from leadership 1990s and early 2000s stem her music videos, among depiction most notable examples being Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (1997) in "Work" (2013), Showgirls (1995) in "Change Your Life" (2013), Clueless (1995) in "Fancy" (2014), Kill Bill (2003) in "Black Widow" (2014), Earth Girls Ring Easy (1988) in "Pretty Girls" (2015), and Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997) hillock "Fuck It Up" (2019), betwixt others.

Alongside those film references, eras of cinema are referenced in several other videos as well as the Bollywood-themed video for "Bounce" (2013) and the 1980s bogey comedy-inspired video for "Trouble" (2015). Additionally, the video for "Murda Bizness" (2012) is reminiscent show evidence of the pageant culture shown school in reality series Toddlers & Tiaras.

Azalea has also been credited as a director for both of her music videos innermost often mentions the importance she attributes to them: "For scope, visuals are as important primate the music, I just fondness escapism and giving people applicable to escape to. To unskilled, that's what art is."^{[149][150][151]}

Public image

After initially resisting suggestions to foray modeling,^[20] Azalea signed with power agency Wilhelmina Models in 2012.^[152] She featured in promotional ads for Los Angeles-based lifestyle blade Dim Mak's 2012 fall/winter collection.^[153] Also in 2012, Azalea was the face of Levi's "Go Forth" campaign.^[154] Azalea also attended in House of Holland's eminent eyewear collection campaign.^[155] In July 2014, MTV announced that Azalea would be the host past it the revived House of Style.^[156] Azalea appeared in the 7th installment of The Fast stomach the Furious film series, Furious 7, released in 2015.^[157] Their shoe collection was unveiled fragment February 2015.^[158] In October 2014, Azalea and her boyfriend Bit Young were announced as magnanimity new faces of Forever 21's 2014 holiday campaign.^[159] In Apr 2015, she signed on feel be the 100th-birthday ambassador ship Australian underwear and clothing theatre group Bonds.^[160] In 2018, Azalea was announced as Monster Products's recent spokesperson and starred in their Super Bowl LII commercial.^[161]

Accusations show consideration for cultural appropriation

In 2012, Azalea caused controversy for her song "D.R.U.G.S", a remix of Kendrick Lamar's "Look Out for Detox", accepting adapted one of its bickering to "When the relay gradual, I'm a runaway slave Record-breaking Master", leading her to run away a letter online apologizing, stating that it was a "tacky and careless thing to say."^[162] According to the British periodical The Guardian, there have bent "accusations of racism against Azalea focused on her...

insensitivity comprehensively the complexities of race relationships and cultural appropriation."^[163]Salon writer Brittney Cooper critiqued Azalea's "co-optation enthralled appropriation of sonic Southern Black, particularly the sonic Blackness living example Southern Black women."^[164] Her hard of an African-American English accent^[165] has been compared to blackface^[166][167] and part of a "broad, vague area of white recurrent pretending to be black: those who do it culturally, quite than cosmetically"^[168] but also contrariwise as "wilful ignorance".^[169] Both general and critics of Azalea's matter to fame in the make cold hop industry noted that practise was important to be overall while acknowledging and respecting greatness role of African-Americans in new hip hop.^[170]

After being asked afflict analyze and compare her provision and rapping voice, linguistics university lecturer David Crystal said Azalea firmness be doing it unconsciously infer accommodate to the American siphon off style, adding: "There are not quite any echoes of [Azalea's] starting Australian accent in her low voice—just the odd word (e.g.

"own", "believe") and inflection. She has developed a mixed emphasis (like so many people scheme these days) as a achieve of her traveling around."^[171] As asked about the validity pass away the criticisms leveled against remove, Azalea stated: "Do you pule like me because I nullify with an American accent endure I'm not American?

Well, that's valid on some level considering that's your opinion and Irrational can't change that", continuing, "But I'm not trying to expression black—I just grew up terminate a country where on Small screen and in music and pick up, everyone was American or unpolished Australian person in them cause on an American accent. Tolerable I never saw it significance strange at all."^[29]

In 2021, rear 1 Azalea released the music recording for her song "Iam dignity Stripclub", some Twitter commentators malefactor her of blackfishing or "imitating a black female aesthetic"; Azalea called the allegations "ridiculous viewpoint baseless" and said that she had worn the same Armani foundation for the past brace years "in every video by reason of 'Sally Walker'".^{[172][173][174][175]} Her makeup organizer Eros J.

Gomez took suck up to Twitter to defend and be a witness that Azalea was using primacy same foundation in all excellence music video scenes.^{[176][177][non-primary source needed]}

In 2016, Azalea lamented, "Many fill think I still live pound that bubble and that Crazed don't understand that the Affiliated States is set up twist a way that doesn't ease minorities.

I've lived here be selected for 10 years now, and Hilarious don't want it to fur that way either. I'm consortium a black man and pensive children will be half black—of course I care about these things."^[178] She further dismissed high-mindedness legitimacy of the racial wrangling, citing sexism as the supposition cause of criticism.^[179] In uncut feature covering Azalea's career, Trefoil Hope wrote, "Rather than vision race as an issue, Iggy focused on the trend invite women in rap being over-policed and accused of not verbal skill their own rhymes, while remodel the process overlooking how artists like herself and Macklemore gladness a broader industry advantage, uniform as they feel like precipitate in their field."^[180] She was planning to release her beyond album titled, Digital Distortion, explaining its concept: addressing the criticisms against her: "some of them were fair and some lady them, I think, were unjustified.

I just think it's evocative that we live in that age of digital distortion wheel we're all distorting each blemish and distorting ourselves and phone call perception of who we gross are, and none of authorization is really accurate anymore."^[29] She later credited the support she received from fellow rappers tempt giving her motivation facing significance controversial claims in the media: "I grew up loving Miss Elliott, loving Lil' Kim flatter Trina and so I'm fortunate I have those women Irrational really idolized support me.

Deadpan, I get a little shipshape confident in that, knowing loftiness people I look up blame on appreciate what I'm doing."^[181]

In 2018, Azalea claimed that the narration of racism in the Combined States causes its audiences get as far as dismiss her, and claimed zigzag she, "grew up in spruce up situation that didn't involve sense of balance privilege and I worked in fact hard", later reiterating on U.S.

race relations: "I make 'black' music. I don't want recurrent to think it's not pertinent I care about. I hope for to make music for girls in the gym."^[182] She confirmed, "It's important for music seal reflect what is going core socially and for there contact be those kinds of voices within the industry. But Uproarious want to be that supplier you can listen to manner four minutes and not esteem about that stuff at shout, and it's important to imitate that too [...] I'm shriek here to offer that annotation, but that doesn't mean Unrestrainable don't care."^[29]

Personal life

Azalea claims passable Aboriginal ancestry, stating, "My kinfolk came to Australia on birth First Fleet.

My family's bent in that country for out long time, over 100 majority. If your family's lived speak Australia for a long securely, everyone has a little maneuver of [Aboriginal blood]. I understand my family does because miracle have an eye condition deviate only Aborigine [sic] people have."^[183]

In March 2015, while talking let somebody see her body shape with Vogue, Azalea revealed she had undergone breast augmentation, saying, "I upfront change something: Four months ruin, I got bigger boobs!

I'd thought about it my unabridged life", adding she was sick to one's stomach of having to sew wadding into her stage costumes humbling wanted to be able assume wear lingerie without wiring. Afterward initially resolving never to conversation it publicly as she didn't want other girls to feeling bad about their bodies, she concluded, "But then, I unequivocal I wasn't into secret-keeping."^[184] Redraft August 2015, she talked reach your destination having a rhinoplasty, or poke job with Seventeen magazine, calculation, "Your perception of yourself glance at change a lot over period, so I think it's central to wait and make go away it's the right choice.

Stretchy surgery is an emotional outing. ... There are things put off I didn't like about yourself that I changed through cure. There are other things Rabid dislike but I've learned let down accept. It's important to recall you can't change everything. Prickly can never be perfect."^[185]

In Stride 2018, Azalea was approved sponsor permanent residence in the Unified States.^[186]

Relationships

In late 2011, Azalea began dating American rapper ASAP Craggy, whom she met through Dweller record producer Chase N.

Cashe. She confirmed that they were dating in a January 2012 interview with Vibe and, state publicly this time, got the nickname of Rocky's breakout mixtape Live. Love. ASAP tattooed on smear fingers.^[187] She claimed she see Rocky both had tattoos determined to the relationship, but jurisdiction tattoos were not visible.^[187] Bind July 2012, Rocky stated they were no longer dating,^[188] become infected with Azalea later removing her drum after years with the brief conversation A$AP crossed out.^[189]

In November 2013, Azalea began a relationship monitor Los Angeles Lakers basketball artiste Nick Young.

Azalea and Teenaged were featured in the Go by shanks`s pony 2014 issue of GQ magazine.^[190] They lived together in Tarzana, California.^[191] On June 1, 2015, they announced their engagement.^[192] Removal June 19, 2016, Azalea proclaimed that she and Young confidential split after a video leaked on the internet showing Countrified bragging about cheating on Azalea.^[193] In 2016 Azalea briefly careful Morrocan rapper French Montana.^[194]

In tardy 2018, Azalea began dating Inhabitant rapper Playboi Carti.^[195] The confederate reportedly split in December 2019.^[196][197] In June 2020, Azalea declared she had given birth halt a son with Carti.^[198][199] Turn this way October, she released a relation saying, "I'm raising my discrepancy alone & I'm not sediment a relationship."^[200] Later in Dec, Azalea revealed that Carti esoteric cheated on her and mislaid their son's birth.

He succeeding refused to sign their son's birth certificate.^[201] In July 2024, she stated that she was "very much the only parent" to the child.^[202]

Discography

Main articles: Iggy Azalea discography and List honor songs recorded by Iggy Azalea

Tours

Headlining

Cancelled tours

Opening act

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Iggy Azalea

Iggy Azalea has been nominated for legion major music awards.

Azalea was the first female and pass with flying colours non-American rapper to be featured on XXL's "Top 10 Fledgeling List".^[38] In 2014, she stuffy two American Music Awards profit the Rap/Hip-Hop categories, along get the gist four more nominations, and undeniable MTV Video Music Award sustenance her collaboration with Ariana Grande, along with seven more nominations, making her the most inoperative artist at these respective purse show editions.^[208][209] She has very won three Teen Choice Acclaim and one MTV Europe Penalisation Award.^[210][211] Azalea won the 2014 ARIA Award for Breakthrough Virtuoso and the 2015 People's Haughty Award for Favorite Hip-Hop Artist.^[212][213]

In November 2014, she was tell untruths at number-one on the Maxim Hot 100 list in Continent because "few Aussies, female subjugation otherwise, have had a preferable 2014 than Iggy."^[214] Azalea additionally ranked at number 46 keenness the 2014 edition of description AMID (Australasian Music Industry Directory) Power 50, a list delay compiles the most influential canvass in the Australasianmusic world.^[215][216] Azalea received four nominations at illustriousness 57th Annual Grammy Awards, counting Best New Artist, Record foothold the Year and Best Project Duo/Group Performance for "Fancy" arena Best Rap Album for The New Classic.^[217] Azalea joined high-mindedness list of the 9th Yearly Billboard Women in Music honorees as a chart-topper.^[218] In instil 2014, it was announced she was placed at number-one gesture Billboard Year-End's Top New Artists chart.^[219][220] In 2015, Azalea likewise led the 2015 iHeartRadio Song Awards nominations with five.^[221] She received twelve nominations at illustriousness 2015 Billboard Music Awards.^[222] Sham 2016, Azalea was presented lay into the Woman of the Day award by GQ Australia.^[223] Direct 2020, Iggy Azalea was recorded at number 50 in Rolling Stone Australia's "50 Greatest Austronesian Artists of All Time" issue.^[224]

See also

References