Iggy Azalea hopped on X, formerly Twitter, to reveal that Universal Music Group allegedly owes her millions of dollars in royalties and that she’s willing to take them to court for her money.
The rapper signed with UMG’s Island Def Jam umbrella in 2013. She then moved to Island Records before exiting the record label in 2018.
“Crazy how in my entire career I was never paid a single royalty by universal music for anything outside of the USA,” she wrote.
Iggy says they owes her millions of dollars and that the monies owes is at least eight figures. She says that the record label’s attorney contacted her earlier this month but only offered to pay her $18,000.
“I’m told this is a normal response from their lawyers and after appearing in court they end up paying millions as they’re supposed to. Thankfully I’m well off and can and will pursue this issue until they pay me what they owe,” she continued.
Iggy went on to call Universal Music “criminals who actively take advantage of ALL of their artists in perpetuity for their own gain.”
She continued, “They are the scummiest company and they do this to SO MANY artists who unfortunately can’t afford to fight for what they’re owed thus they get away with this behavior. Universal music really needs to do better in their treatment of the artists who quite literally earn them millions via intellectual property they had zero part in creating. Yuck.”