Around this time, Azalea's blossoming relationship with rising rapper A$AP Rocky earned her some headlines (she tattooed the title of his debut album on her knuckles), but her recording career stalled when plans to work with T.I. A video for her song "Pu$$y" was uploaded to the Internet and became a YouTube favorite due to its explicit nature. Moving from Miami to Houston to Atlanta, she absorbed the Southern-style drawl of her surroundings and released a trap-inspired mixtape titled Ignorant Art in 2011, shortly after relocating to Los Angeles. Influenced in her childhood by Missy Elliott, TLC, and Tupac Shakur, she moved to the States in 2006 at age 16, stating that she was drawn to the birthplace of rap. In one of the more unlikely crossover success stories, blonde Australian beauty Iggy Azalea (born Amethyst Amelia Kelly) segued from a high-profile modeling career to become a Southern hip-hop star. After a few years’ hiatus, she resumed her career, releasing less-commercial music that showcases her unceasing devotion to hip-hop.In one of the more unlikely crossover success stories, blonde Australian beauty Iggy Azalea (born Amethyst Amelia Kelly) segued from a high-profile modeling career to become a Southern hip-hop star. Azalea’s meteoric rise made her a lightning rod for debates over cultural appropriation, but she refused to let that stop her. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 while “Problem,” her collaboration with Ariana Grande, occupied the second spot. That song, with its Clueless-inspired video and an insanely catchy chorus (courtesy of Charlie XCX), rocketed up the charts it was sitting at No. The record was slow to catch fire until the single “Fancy” hit the airwaves. In 2012, she signed with T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records two years later she dropped her debut album, The New Classic. The release, with the singles “Pu$$y” and “My World,” set the template for her playfully pugnacious, sexually explicit lyrical personality. Her tour of the South was, in a way, a fact-finding mission: She perfected her imitation of a Southern Black drawl and began working with producers on her first mixtape, 2011’s Ignorant Art. She moved to the United States to pursue music when she was 16, bouncing between Houston, Miami, and Atlanta before settling in Los Angeles. Ostracized as a kid, she found solace and inspiration in American artists like Missy Elliot and Outkast. Born Amethyst Amelia Kelly in 1990 in Mullumbimby, New South Wales, the Australian singer/songwriter, rapper, and model-whose stage name combines her first dog’s name with her childhood street-grew up revering hip-hop.
Iggy Azalea became one of the most polarizing pop stars of the mid-2010s, a figure whose genuine talent has sometimes been overshadowed by her penchant for controversy.
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