Iggy Azalea denies accusations of blackfishing in 'I Am The Stripclub' music video

Iggy Azalea has found herself in controversy after people on social media began accusing the Australian rapper of blackfishing in her new music video for "I Am The Stripclub."

Iggy released her video for the new song on Friday and in one of the scenes, she is in the back of an 18-wheeler truck wearing a long, black wig with dancers all around her.

People online shared screenshots of the scene on Twitter and many people pointed out that her skin complexion appears to be darker and accused the 31-year-old rapper of blackfishing, a term used to describe non-Black people adopting Black features through heavy makeup, tans, textured or artificial hair and photo filters.

In another tweet, Iggy, who usually rocks long blonde hair, said that people online are "trying to reach and create an issue because I wore a black wig."

"I'm the same color as I always am, just in a dimly lit room with red lights. It's the same makeup from every other part of the video just with a Smokey eye and different wig. Just ignore them, who cares? Let em talk," the "Sally Walker" rapper added.

After a half an hour break, Iggy returned to Twitter to call the blackfishing accusations "ridiculous and baseless."

"I'm wearing a shade 6 in armarni [sic] foundation, it's the same shade I've worn for the last 3 years. It's the same shade in every music video since sally Walker. Suddenly I wear a black wig in a club scene & its an issue," she added.

Some of Iggy's fans came to her defence, with one pointing out that everyone in the truck scene "is cast in shadow and Iggy herself is visibly much lighter than everyone else."

"Exactly. I’m the same color as the other white dancer in the room and not anywhere close to the color of the Black dancers," Iggy responded.

The controversy continued but by Sunday her new video had over 2.5 million views and the "Bounce" rapper took to Twitter to thank her supporters and haters.

"To everyone showing me love: Thankyou for dedicating your day to me & helping me promote, I love you! To everyone showing me hate: Thankyou for dedicating your day to me & helping me promote, I love you!" she tweeted.

This isn't the first time that the rapper has been called out for appropriating Black culture.

In 2017, Halsey told The Guardian that she wouldn't work with Iggy. "There's a lot of people I wouldn't put on my record," she revealed. "Iggy Azalea: absolutely not. She had a complete disregard for Black culture. F**king moron. I watched her career dissolve and it fascinated me."

Iggy addressed the criticism she's received during an August 2019 interview with Cosmopolitan. She said that she is "still going to make the same type of music and still be ridiculous and larger to life."

"So I can't be f**king sorry about it," the rapper added.

In the same interview, Iggy said that she used to be really defensive about the cultural appropriation accusations.

“I would hit back and say, ‘What about this that I had to go through?’ because I wanted to talk so much about my experiences of things I didn’t have, and I think it felt like I wasn’t acknowledging that there is white privilege and there is institutionalized racism,” she said.

“It seemed to a lot of people like I was living in this bubble or unaware of all these things that people have to experience," she added.

Well, if you check her Twitter feed since the release of her new video, it is very clear that the rapper is still hitting back and responding to a lot of people. 

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