In 2012, she signed with T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records two years later she dropped her debut album, The New Classic. The release, with the singles “Pu$$y” and “My World”, set the template for her playfully pugnacious, sexually explicit lyrical personality. Her tour of the South was, in a way, a fact-finding mission: she perfected her imitation of a Southern Black drawl and began working with producers on her first mixtape, 2011’s Ignorant Art. She moved to the United States to pursue music when she was 16, bouncing between Houston, Miami and Atlanta before settling in Los Angeles. Ostracised as a kid, she found solace and inspiration in American artists like Missy Elliot and Outkast. Born Amethyst Amelia Kelly in 1990 in Mullumbimby, New South Wales, the Australian singer/songwriter, rapper and model-whose stage name combines her first dog’s name with her childhood street-grew up revering hip-hop. Iggy Azalea became one of the most polarising pop stars of the mid-2010s, a figure whose genuine talent has sometimes been overshadowed by her penchant for controversy.
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