{"id":208968,"date":"2025-12-01T02:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208968\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T02:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T02:50:08","slug":"iggy-azalea-doubles-down-on-rap-retirement-fk-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/208968\/","title":{"rendered":"Iggy Azalea Doubles Down on Rap Retirement: &#8216;F**k No&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 10 years ago, Iggy Azalea was on top of the world. \u201cFancy\u201d was a smash hit, a pompous, rich, mean girl anthem that boomed out of countless radios. Moreover, she had her big feature on one of Ariana Grande\u2019s biggest hits, the loud, chaotic \u201cProblem.\u201d It wasn\u2019t without controversy, though. Iggy was an Australian rapper, but rapped with a contrived Southern accent. Moreover, she didn\u2019t maintain her status on the Billboard charts. Eventually, she called it quits after her album The End Of An Era in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Nowadays, she\u2019s working in the world of cryptocurrency. Still, people flood her comments inquiring if she\u2019d ever make a comeback. But for Iggy Azalea, it\u2019s out of the question. Recently, she <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRjM-XoDRFV\/?igsh=MWJ2cHpvbGM5b2llbQ==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted<\/a> a series of selfies on Instagram with no caption, just another addition to her feed. One follower promptly entered the comments to inquire about more music from her. \u201cDid you [sign] the record deal or nah?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n<p>Immediately afterwards, she replied with an emphatic denial. However, she did at least ponder it for a little bit. \u201cF**k no,\u201d Iggy comments. \u201cBut I did consider signing it for weeks. I\u2019m very sure I don\u2019t want to come back to the music industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iggy Azalea Shuts The Door on Rap Comeback After retiring<\/p>\n<p>It makes sense why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/iggy-azalea-paid-dollar64-for-a-grilled-cheese-sandwich-and-shes-not-happy-about-it\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Azalea<\/a> would be jaded by the industry. Earlier this year, she went on a tirade via a series of posts on X (FKA Twitter), claiming Universal Music Group owes her a ton of international royalties. Naturally, she feels extremely burned considering the amount they allegedly owe her. \u201cCrazy how in my entire career I was never paid a single royalty by Universal Music for anything outside of the USA. They owe me millions of dollars in back pay, that they technically stole from me, as per my contract I am due payment. The amount owed is in the 8-figure range,\u201d Iggy Azalea <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/iggy-azalea-umg-1235923322\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">writes<\/a> (captured by Billboard).<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, back in August, Iggy <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/HGlHI--9kV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sp<\/a>oke with ABC News to talk about her pivot to crypto. There, she talks about how she felt amidst the myriad of fan allegations claiming she was an industry plant. Ultimately, she called the rap game a \u201cbattlefield,\u201d one she didn\u2019t feel like dealing with after a while. Azalea does admit there were some faults on her end, but the point still stood for her.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was stepping on landmines left and right, and I just couldn\u2019t survive it. It\u2019s not survivable,\u201d Iggy Azalea says. \u201cThere are also some things that I walked right into and deserve, or things that I could have done better, but I can\u2019t sit here all day long boohooing about that. It\u2019s just part of life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Over 10 years ago, Iggy Azalea was on top of the world. \u201cFancy\u201d was a smash hit, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":208969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[264],"tags":[18,117,2873,19,48493,17,337,10321],"class_list":{"0":"post-208968","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-hip-hop","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-iggy-azalea","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-music","15":"tag-noisey"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115642042253298050","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=208968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/208968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=208968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=208968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=208968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}