Iggy Azalea has opened up about the backlash she faced over her alleged ‘Blaccent” during the height of her rap career, and realizes where she may have gone wrong.
“I said things that I shouldn’t have said in retrospect. It was just a bad perfect storm. I think sometimes I just regret having an opinion at all because it wasn’t necessarily my place to have an opinion,” she revealed during her sitdown with ABC News.
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Back in 2016, Azalea defended her Blaccent in an interview with Elle, saying:
“Do you not like me because I rap with an American accent and I’m not American? Well, that’s valid on some level because that’s your opinion and I can’t change that. But I’m not trying to sound black — I just grew up in a country where on TV and in music and film, everyone was American or any Australian person in them put on an American accent. So I never saw it as strange at all.”
The backlash Azealea faced became so great that she eventually retired from the music industry altogether.
“I think the hardest part about it was seeing how the other artists would distance themselves from me publicly, that I was only welcomed in secret,” she recalled.
Following the birth of her son, Onyx, whom she shares with Atlanta rapper Playboi Carti, Azalea says she knew she had to walk away from music.
“I don’t want to be a slave to that cycle… It’s one thing to sacrifice those things up when it’s just you. But I’d also be signing my son up to sacrifice his life,” she added.