Iggy Azalea was featured on Ariana Grande's 2014 single "Problem", which peaked at number two behind "Fancy".
88 Facts About Iggy Azalea
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Consequently, Iggy Azalea switched labels, releasing the EP Survive the Summer under Island Records.
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Iggy Azalea's accolades include two American Music Awards, three Billboard Music Awards, an MTV Video Music Award, a People's Choice Award, four Teen Choice Awards and four Grammy Award nominations.
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Iggy Azalea's father, Brendan Kelly, was an Irish-Australian painter and comic artist, while her mother, Tanya, cleaned holiday houses and hotels.
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Iggy Azalea lived in a house that her father built by hand from mud-bricks, surrounded by 5 hectares of land.
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Iggy Azalea has two siblings named Mathias and Emerald Kelly.
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In pursuit of her desire to move to America, Iggy Azalea dropped out of high school.
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Iggy Azalea worked and saved the money she earned by cleaning hotel rooms and holiday houses with her mother.
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Iggy Azalea said she had no friends and was teased for her homemade outfits.
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Iggy Azalea traveled to the United States in 2006, shortly before she turned 16.
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Iggy Azalea worked in the US illegally until February 2013 when she was granted a five-year O visa.
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In 2018, Iggy Azalea was approved as a permanent US resident.
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Iggy Azalea settled for a few years in Atlanta, Georgia, working with a member of the rap collective Dungeon Family named Backbone.
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Iggy Azalea said people would laugh at her because "they thought my raps sucked", but having grown up getting laughed at, she was able to shrug it off.
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Iggy Azalea started making stop motion animated videos with freestyle rap because she felt like she had found her sound.
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In early 2012, Iggy Azalea was featured on the cover of XXL, as part of its annual "Top 10 Freshman List", along with fellow up-and-coming rappers French Montana, Machine Gun Kelly, Danny Brown, Hopsin, and Roscoe Dash.
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On 26 March 2012, Iggy Azalea posted "Murda Bizness", the intended lead single for The New Classic, on her YouTube account.
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Iggy Azalea was featured on Steve Aoki and Angger Dimas' collaborative electronic track "Beat Down", which was released on 31 May 2012.
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On 24 June 2012, Iggy Azalea released "Millionaire Misfits", the second offering from her EP Glory; the first being "Murda Bizness".
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Iggy Azalea was one of the acts on MTV's 2012 Closer to My Dreams Tour, along with Tyga and Kirko Bangz.
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On 28 September 2012, Iggy Azalea announced she would be releasing her second mixtape on 11 October 2012.
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Iggy Azalea then headlined a tour in Europe to support TrapGold.
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In January and February 2013, Iggy Azalea worked on tour while still working on her upcoming singles and summer release of The New Classic.
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Iggy Azalea was the opening act for Rita Ora's Radioactive Tour, in the United Kingdom.
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On 13 February 2013, it was announced Iggy Azalea had signed a record deal with Mercury Records.
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In March 2013, Iggy Azalea joined renowned rapper Nas, on the European leg of his Life Is Good Tour.
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On 16 March 2013, it was announced that Iggy Azalea would perform in the benefit concert "Chime for Change", scheduled to take place on 1 June in London, alongside Beyonce, Jennifer Lopez and others.
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On 23 April 2013, Iggy Azalea announced that she had signed a solo record deal with Island Def Jam.
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Iggy Azalea confirmed that she was not signed to Grand Hustle Records; however, heavily affiliated with the label.
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On 25 May 2013, Iggy Azalea performed an acclaimed carnival themed set on the In New Music We Trust stage as part of Radio 1's Big Weekend in Derry, Northern Ireland.
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In June 2013, Iggy Azalea confirmed that the album was nearly finished and that the release was expected in September 2013.
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On 29 July 2013, Iggy Azalea revealed she will be opening for Beyonce on the 17-date Australia leg of her Mrs Carter Show World Tour in October and November.
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On 5 December 2013, an unfinished song by Iggy Azalea titled "Leave It", allegedly produced by DJ Mustard, was leaked.
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Iggy Azalea later revealed the song was in fact produced by The Invisible Men and The Arcade, whom she collaborated with on the entire album.
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In February 2014, Iggy Azalea announced that she would be releasing a new single titled "Fancy", featuring English singer-songwriter Charli XCX.
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Iggy Azalea was then featured on American singer Ariana Grande's single "Problem", which was released on 28 April 2014.
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On 28 May 2014, The New Classics fourth single "Fancy", reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, with Iggy Azalea being the fourth solo female rapper ever to top the Hot 100.
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On 10 December 2014, when reflecting on the year she'd had and the struggles she faced in the years before, Iggy Azalea announced plans of an arena tour for 2015 and a second studio album via her Twitter account.
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Iggy Azalea stated that the name of the tour went along with the title of her upcoming second studio album, which would be promoted on the tour.
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Iggy Azalea declared she had started to work on her second studio album in January 2015.
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Iggy Azalea later clarified she "had a different creative change of heart" and would be taking a break to figure out the progression she wanted for her sound and visuals.
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On 30 August, Iggy Azalea performed "Cool for the Summer" with Demi Lovato at the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards, after a collaboration between the two was announced for Lovato's fifth studio album, Confident.
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In October 2015, Iggy Azalea revealed the initial title of her second album to be Digital Distortion.
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In February 2017, it was announced the company optioned the book Bad Girls Gone for a film that Iggy Azalea would produce but nothing materialized.
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On 12 June 2016, Seven Network revealed that Iggy Azalea had signed on to be a judge replacing Chris Isaak on The X Factor Australia for its eighth season, broadcast from October to November 2016.
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Iggy Azalea promoted "Switch" through a performance on the 2017 iHeartRadio Much Music Video Awards.
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On 7 November 2017, Iggy Azalea stated that she was not allowed to release music until January 2018, as she signed with a new label.
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Iggy Azalea additionally announced the new title of her second album, Surviving the Summer, and released four new tracks for free download via WeTransfer.
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In January 2018, Iggy Azalea announced the title of the lead single from Surviving the Summer, "Savior" featuring Quavo, which was released on 2 February 2018.
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On 3 November 2018, Iggy Azalea tweeted that she had left Island Records, which she had signed to in 2017, and established her own record label, which was then named New Classic Records.
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Iggy Azalea stated that she would be an independent artist, be able to sign other artists, and own all her masters, with the exception of her music licensed under Universal.
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Iggy Azalea announced in early February 2019 that she had completed work on her second studio album, In My Defense.
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Iggy Azalea further stated her plans to release it in the spring of that year.
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On 3 May 2019, Iggy Azalea released the album's official second single, "Started", along with its official music video.
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On 24 June 2019, Iggy Azalea announced via Twitter that her album In My Defense would be released on 19 July 2019.
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On 27 September 2019, Iggy Azalea announced she would be releasing a new extended play.
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Iggy Azalea later announced on her Twitter that she planned on releasing a new extended play on 15 November 2019 entitled Wicked Lips following the release of its lead single, "Lola".
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On 20 August 2020, Iggy Azalea released the original lead single, "Dance Like Nobody's Watching", a collaboration with Tinashe.
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In June 2021, Iggy Azalea tweeted that The End of an Era would be released in August of the same year.
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On 15 July 2021, Iggy Azalea announced that she would take a hiatus from music after the release of The End of an Era.
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One year later, on 8 August 2022, Iggy Azalea announced that she would resume her musical activity.
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Outside of music, her fashion sense is influenced by Grace Kelly, Lil' Kim, Gwen Stefani, Fran Drescher, Eve, Trina, Fergie, Christina Aguilera, and the Spice Girls, with Iggy Azalea stating that Mel B and Victoria Beckham are her favorite Spice Girls.
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Iggy Azalea is often noted for her cinema-quality music videos which are often comedic and contain satire.
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Also in 2012, Iggy Azalea was the face of Levi's "Go Forth" campaign.
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Iggy Azalea appeared in House of Holland's first eyewear collection campaign.
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In July 2014, MTV announced that Iggy Azalea would be the host of the revived House of Style.
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Iggy Azalea appeared in the seventh installment of The Fast and the Furious film series, Furious 7, released in 2015.
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In 2018, Iggy Azalea was announced as Monster Products's new spokesperson and starred in their Super Bowl LII commercial.
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Iggy Azalea has developed a mixed accent as a result of her traveling around.
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In March 2018, Iggy Azalea was approved for permanent residence in the United States.
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In late 2011, Azalea began dating American rapper A$AP Rocky, whom she met through American record producer Chase N Cashe.
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Iggy Azalea confirmed that they were dating in a January 2012 interview with Vibe and, around this time, got the title of Rocky's breakout mixtape Live.
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Iggy Azalea claimed she and Rocky both had tattoos dedicated to the relationship, but his tattoos were not visible.
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In July 2012, Rocky stated they were no longer dating, with Iggy Azalea later removing her tattoo after years with the word A$AP crossed out.
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In November 2013, Iggy Azalea began a relationship with Los Angeles Lakers basketball player Nick Young.
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On 19 June 2016, Iggy Azalea announced that she and Young had split after a video leaked on the internet showing Young bragging about cheating on Iggy Azalea.
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In late 2018, Iggy Azalea began dating American rapper Playboi Carti.
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However, in June 2020, Iggy Azalea announced she had given birth to a son with Carti.
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Iggy Azalea later refused to sign their son's birth certificate.
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Iggy Azalea has been nominated for numerous major music awards.
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Iggy Azalea was the first female and first non-American rapper to be featured on XXL's "Top 10 Freshman List".
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Iggy Azalea has won three Teen Choice Awards and one MTV Europe Music Award.
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Iggy Azalea won the 2014 ARIA Award for Breakthrough Artist and the 2015 People's Choice Award for Favorite Hip-Hop Artist.
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Iggy Azalea joined the list of the 9th Annual Billboard Women in Music honorees as a chart-topper.
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In 2015, Iggy Azalea led the 2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards nominations with five.
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Iggy Azalea received twelve nominations at the 2015 Billboard Music Awards.
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In 2016, Iggy Azalea was presented with the Woman of the Year award by GQ Australia.
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In 2020, Iggy Azalea was listed at number 50 in Rolling Stone Australias "50 Greatest Australian Artists of All Time" issue.