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Iggy Azalea was the guest on LA radio station Power 106 this week, during which she said of her recent Grammy nomination: “I did not want to win that award. People hate me enough.”
The singer has received a significant amount of backlash over her short career, and has been accused of cultural appropriation by a number of her peers - most notably Azealia Banks.
As such, her Grammy nomination for best rap album was a contentious issue. The singer told Power 106’s presenters, "I did not want to win that award. My speech would have been like, ‘Fuck this. I don’t want it, take it. Get it away from me’…People already hate me enough. I do not need to be hated anymore.”
The award was eventually won by Eminem for The Marshall Mathers LP 2 - and Azalea admitted she found the muted reaction surprising: “I found it to be kind of ironic. It was because I’m white, therefore I’m appropriating culture, but then Eminem won it - who’s white and won it many times - and they didn’t seem to say anything about that. I suspect it was just because they dislike me.”
Watch Iggy Azalea on LA Power 106 below
The singer recently quit Twitter after coming back from holiday and discovering that “it’s shocking and unheard of to be a woman and have cellulite.” She added that the internet “is the ugliest reflection of mankind there is."
