Iggy Azalea responds to cultural appropriation accusations after backlash

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Iggy Azalea has responded to accusations that she appropriates black culture in her music and image, saying: “I’m still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger than life. So I can’t be that f***ing sorry about it.”

The rapper has been accused of building her career on cultural appropriation but, in a recent interview with Cosmopolitan, she said she believes that not everyone interprets her music that way.

“You could ask one person of the same race, ‘Does this affect you?’ and they will say yes,” she said. ”But another person will say no. They could be from the same place, same everything, but have different perspectives about it.”

She also spoke about how she has responded to accusations of cultural in the past.

“I would hit back and say, ‘What about this that I had to go through?’ because I wanted to talk so much about my experiences of things I didn’t have, and I think it felt like I wasn’t acknowledging that there is white privilege and there is institutionalised racism,” she said.

“It seemed to a lot of people like I was living in this bubble or unaware of all these things that people have to experience.”