


put out a song called “Murda Bizness,” intended to be the lead single for The New Classic. Banks in particular called out XXL for Iggy’s inclusion. Banks’s album is now schedule for this summer.) Iggy was controversially featured on the XXL Top 10 Freshman List cover, alongside rappers like Danny Brown and French Montana. More important, so did whether it would come out before Azealia Banks released her own heavily pushed-back debut. The release date for The New Classic was repeatedly postponed, and whether it would come out at all became a running joke. She had hoped to put out The New Classic in summer of 2012 but was still contracted to Interscope. Round 3: Iggy signed again, this time with T.I.’s Grand Hustle Records. Minaj was newly in command of a personal empire and adjusting to her huge fame. She opened for Britney Spears on Britney’s Femme Fatale Tour and then had a huge hit from Pink Friday with “Super Bass,” which went platinum eight times over and sold four million copies. She was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live Pink Friday went to no.

In 2011, Nicki was now one of the biggest stars in the world in any genre. It’s no coincidence it was a video that set off Iggy’s career - much of her appeal stems from the fact that she raps in a voice influenced by black Southern female rappers but is a pretty blonde white girl herself. Round 2: In 2011, Iggy put out a mixtape called Ignorant Art whose lead video, “PU$$Y,” garnered her a lot of Internet music media coverage and led to her eventually signing with Interscope. At the end of the year, Nicki was riding the success of “Moment 4 Life,” her duet with Drake. 1, though, her own “Super Bass” peaking at no. By the end of 2010, Nicki had set a record by appearing on seven singles charting on the Hot 100 at once. The first official single, “Your Love,” went to no. In 2010, Nicki was promoting Pink Friday, her first studio album, which would eventually go platinum. Iggy was a relative nobody, taking shots on Twitter at rap’s latest reigning champion, its biggest female megastar in forever. if you say so girl.” Azalea, a then-20-year-girl from Mullumbimby, New South Wales, Australia, was living in Los Angeles, trying to get her rap career off the ground, having done brief tours of duty in the rap capitals of Miami, Houston, and Atlanta. Round 1: In July 2010, a not yet world-famous Iggy Azalea tweeted, “lmao at nikki saying she did the bet awards live.
