My real name is Amethyst. It sounds like a stage name. My mom is kind of crazy.
IGGY AZALEAWhenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.
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A lot of people heard ‘Murda Business’ and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it’s kind of silly and playful.
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I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you’re from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness.
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Whenever my country has something bad happening I feel guilty for not being there. It’s weird.
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First things first, I’m da realest.
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No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
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There’s a difference between being yourself and being your stereotype.
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I naturally want to be provocative.
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At the very worst, if I have a short-lived career, at least I could say I sparked a change – that I inspired some leniency in what people accept in hip-hop. And if I have a very long career and can be gyrating in a leotard at 35, that would be great.
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I’ve never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that’s not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone’s image is as an artist is what they’ve chosen to portray.
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My management team are all women. Most of the people at labels I liaise with are all women. It’s pretty much all women all the time.
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There’s an obligation to not lead people down the wrong path, but I hardly think me wearing short shorts on stage is creating monsters.
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Luxury lives in the finer details. It’s a cloth napkin at a dinner table. It’s a mint on your pillow before bed.
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Women in music have the bigger balls anyhow we endure much more harassment and critic.
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I found it to be kind of ironic, 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.
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Iggy’ was my dog – he was named after Iggy Pop – and ‘Azalea’ is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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