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.
IGGY AZALEAFor me, visuals are as important as the music. I just love escapism and giving people something to escape to. To me, that’s what art is.
More Iggy Azalea Quotes
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Anyone’s happier when they’re not being verbally abused all day long.
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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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I naturally want to be provocative.
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I’d known since about eleven that I wanted to live in America.
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Pledge allegiance to the struggle.
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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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T.I.’s my mentor; he’s a really close friend of mine. I call him my brother like we talk on the phone all the time. He’s helped me with my career.
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I think that music is still art, even if it’s commercialised.
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No money, no family, 16 in the middle of Miami.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It’s a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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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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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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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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Music is art to me, and you don’t censor art. You don’t go into a museum and censor things.
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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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