Iggy Azalea has defended her Biggie Smalls remake.
The 23-year-old hitmaker worked with singer Keyshia Cole and sampled the late rapper’s 1997 posthumous release ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’ and Iggy insists it wasn’t meant to be a rip-off.
She told America’s RapFix Live: "First of all, I love Biggie forever and Tupac, and that’s a sampled song. So don’t be mad about something that’s sampled already."
The ‘Fancy’ hitmaker went on to explain how music producer Irv Gotti initially approached her about modernising Diana Ross’ 1980 hit song ‘I’m Coming Out’.
She said: "Irv hit me up and said, ‘Hey I’ve got a record with Keyshia on it and it’s gonna be for the soundtrack to this Cameron Diaz movie ‘The Other Woman’.
"It was just supposed to be a remake of ‘I’m Coming Out’, it wasn’t supposed to be ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’, and I didn’t know what I was getting into."
But despite critics reacting badly to the release, she insists she’s proud of the record and wouldn’t go back on her decision.
She said: "I’m from a generation where I don’t think ‘I’m Coming Out’ – I think ‘Mo Money Mo Problems’.
"So I thought, I need to get my Ma$e on, and I went with that vibe. Then I think when people heard it they said, ‘She’s doing the Biggie remake,’ and I don’t know if it was necessarily meant to be that. It’s open to interpretation. I didn’t know what I was getting myself into, but if I did I would’ve said yes. Because any rapper that gets asked to do that is gonna do that."
Iggy Azalea defends Biggie Smalls remake
