More bad news for Iggy Azalea. This weekend, hacker group Anonymous threatened to expose an alleged sex tape of the rapper, unless she apologizes to fellow rapper Azealia Banks (which whom she’s having a nasty racially charged feud via Twitter) and protesters in the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Then rapper Q-Tip took to twitter to amazingly, compassionately and patiently school Iggy (and anyone else) on the socio-political history behind Hip-Hop, recognizing how affected she is by the spirit, but calling her to “take into account the HISTORY as you move underneath the banner of hiphop”.
Via @TheAnonMessage (account now suspended), they wrote in a string of tweets (as reported by Vulture and Jezebel) on December 20th:
We apologize for our followers with regards to this following statement: Fuck you, @IGGYAZALEA. #ICantBreathe.
Trashy bitch.
We have so much shit on you, your scandal would be bigger than Bill Cosby’s.
How are we “alienating our feminist supporters” by calling out a woman that completely degrades and trashes the word?
If you call yourself a feminist and end up displaying a racist character, you are not a feminist.
Okay, how about this, we understand insults are going to get us nowhere. So let’s try this…
MESSAGE: @IGGYAZALEA, you have exactly 48 hours from now to release a statement apologizing to @AzealiaBanks and the protesters in NYC…
MESSAGE:@IGGYAZALEA if you do not do so, the memory of you will burn from the public faster than the moment you surfaced. We’re not kidding.
You are guilty of misappropriating black culture, insulting peaceful protesters, and making light of Eric Garner’s death. @IGGYAZALEA
There’s an X rated tape of you, we bet you’d certainly don’t want public, are we right? @IGGYAZALEA….and this is nothing. Comply or else.
All we ask from you is that you comply with our demands. Failing to do so will grant you a one-way ticket to a life of suffering @IGGYAZALEA
#Anonymous is committed to standing with the people, combatting fakery and lawlessness by the upper class…
…who believe that just because they can “sing” and “dance” that they have owned our complete allegiance.
Now about that sex tape. We wont release the actual video. We have values to live by.
However, we will release various snapshots of her face to confirm. The idea is not about releasing nudes. This shows nothing.
Meanwhile on Twitter…in an around 40 tweets long history lesson, Q-Tip laid it out hip-hop for Iggy (some of which can be read below, all of which can be read on his twitter @QtipTheAbstract) also on December 20th:
@IGGYAZALEAHipHop is a artistic and socio-political movement/culture that sprang from the disparate ghettos of NY in the early 70′s Coming off the heels of the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT and approaching the end of the Vietnam war it was a crossroads 4 America specially for blacks in the US our neighborhoods were PROLIFERATED w/a rush of HEROINE.
Our school systems here in NY dungeon traps with light for learning… blk men some of whom didn’t return from tours of duty n the ones who did came w/war baggage (agent orange, addiction, ect..)… these men had families but due to these events and throw into the mix the public emasculation… they proved to be handicapped parents. The surrogate parents? The STREETS… the streets of gangs, crimes, and the hustlers coddled us and swept us up.
But! Being a spirited, rhythmic & expressive people music art dance outlined our existence… it proved a way for us to exhault to scream to dance to laugh and find OUR VOICE… we weren’t at the time skilled musicians as kids. We had records, turntables, ideas and INGENUITY being natural chemist we took from whatever was availed to us and we created something mighty and special.
We cut breakbeats back n forth we took a hybrid of Jamaican toasting along w/ radio jock rap( hank Spann, Gary Byrd, ect.) and we put our rap down.. it was a neighborhood thing really. Black and Latino Kids were carving out their space and it became infectious… eventually Keith Cowboy coined the phrase hiphop . Yrs later the first rap record was recorded and now we r moving.
But during these strides this country still had the monster of racism and racial insensitivity breathing and ruling… believe it or not young black n Latino lives specifically weren’t acknowledged in mainstream American culture unless Of course.. the convo was abt gangs , being criminals or uneducated. And hey! Like I stated early our families were rushed our schools sucked and we were left to put devices to survive… but HIPHOP showed that we had DEPTH, fire, and BRILLANCE… the music was undeniable! It moved from NY N became national and even GLOBAL.
Hiphop now was FOR EVERYBODY!! All of those who cld relate to the roots, the spirit, the history, the energy.. It reached YOU… it touched your spirit n took u up. We magnetized you! That’s what BRILLANCE does… now u are fulfilling your dreams … BUT! you have to take into account the HISTORY as you move underneath the banner of hiphop. As I said before… hiphop is fun it’s vile it’s dance it’s traditional it’s light hearted but 1 thing it can never detach itself from is being a SOCIO-Political movement.
U may ask why … Well once you are born black your existence I believe is joined with socio-political epitaph and philos based on the tangled and treacherous history SLAVERY alone this is the case it never leaves our conversation… Ever. WeAther in our universities our dinner tables our studios or jail cells… the effects still resononates with us. It hurts… We get emotional and angry and melancholy… did u know president Clinton was the ONLY PRESIDENT to apologize for it? did u know that remnants of slavery exist today thru white privilege? When certain “niceties” r extended your way because of how u look? Isn’t that crazy?
I say this 2 say u are a hiphop artist who has the right 2 express herself however she wishes… this is not a chastisement this is not admonishment at ALL this is just one artist reaching to another hoping to spark insight into the field you r in. I say this in the spirit of a hopeful healthy dialogue that maybe one day we can continue… I’ve been on twitter a long time and this will probably be my last series of tweets pretty much but I’m Kool with it as long as I got to share this w u. Zzzzzzz’s up! Peace!
Iggy hasn’t directly responded to either of these events, but she is looking ahead to her tour, tweeting out on December 20th:
Seeing everyone tweet me what dates they are going to on the tour makes me way too excited for next year. @Tinashe @nickjonas slay me.
— IGGY AZALEA (@IGGYAZALEA) December 20, 2014
