When Forbes declared
in May that "Hip-Hop Is Run by a White, Blonde, Australian Woman," they
quickly realized their mistake. Yet in the months since, that mistake
has come to seem like a sick prophesy: Iggy Azalea has, in fact, run the
rap game from a numerical perspective. She has made history by shattering records. She released a platinum single. She snagged fistfuls of Grammy nominations.
And this weekend, she lit a fuse on the powder keg of race
issues in hip-hop. The whole hip-hop community has finally taken Azalea
to task for building her career by stealing black musical sounds and
styles and using her whiteness to sell them to the masses. In the process, she has done little to actually give back to the hip-hop community except be flagrantly offensive. And black hip-hop artists aren't standing for it any longer.
