A brewing battle between Iggy Azalea and fellow industry artists has found the Australian-born rapper in hot water, yet again.
Following a series of tweets responding to rapper Azealia Banks candid Hot 97 interview where she expressed her much-publicized issues with Iggy, "hacktavist" group Anonymous threatened to release “snapshots” from an alleged sex tape featuring the chart-topper if she didn’t issue an apology for her comments to Banks.
As if that wasn’t enough, veteran MC-musician Q-Tip took to his personal Twitter account on Saturday
to give Iggy, and his more than 700,000 followers, a history lesson on
the origins of Hip Hop and its connection to sociopolitical movements.
Here's what he wrote:
"HipHop 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!"
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