Iggy Azalea says fellow rappers like Kanye West have no problem with her style
The Australian star has been criticised by some fans of the genre for not being authentic – her rhyming voice is different to her speaking one – but she insisted none of her contemporaries could have foreseen the abuse she has received.
She said: "It would have been hard for [Kanye West] to fathom that anyone would want to have such a conversation with me.
"He is embedded in this world, he is not looking in on it from the outside.
"You know, I just read the Keith Richards autobiography and I thought it was so interesting when he pointed out that no American blues musicians ever accused the Rolling Stones of "imitating" their sound – but people were writing that stuff about them back in England."
Iggy has come under similar criticism, and she has pointed out that – in the exact same way – it hasn’t been her fellow musicians who have been the ones attacking her.
She told The Observer newspaper’s New Review: "You know the funny thing, I have never had any musician tell me that I wasn’t authentic for being white and Australian. Not one.
"Even I had a warped perception of how I would be received in this business.
"What I’ve come to realise is that it’s the people who write about the music – or who are outside it in some way – who have a problem with what I am doing. The only true insiders are the musicians themselves."
Iggy Azalea has the support of fellow rappers
