Iggy Azalea has received a lot of flak for her brand of hip-hop following her recent success. One person, however, is calling the Aussie femcee's song "Fancy" a "game-changer" for the genre: Questlove.
In a new interview with Time, The Roots drummer talks about the bad press Iggy got after her single went No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, specifically in regard to racism and her accent.
"I'm caught in between. And I defend it. I see false Instagram posts like, 'She said the N-word! She said the N-word!' I'll call people out - 'Yo, don't troll,'" he said, when asked if he was pro- or anti-Azalea. "I know you're ready to give your 42-page dissertation on theGrio about why this is culture vulture-ism."
He continued, "You know, we as black people have to come to grips that hip-hop is a contagious culture. If you love something, you gotta set it free. I will say that 'Fancy,' above any song that I've ever heard or dealt with, is a game-changer in that fact that we're truly going to have to come to grips with the fact that hip-hop has spread its wings."
Questlove says he is torn buy what he has seen of Iggy on the Internet, but he's resolved to "let Iggy be Iggy."
"It's not even politically correct dribble. The song is effective," he explained. "I'm in the middle of the approximation of the enunciation, I'll say. Part of me hopes she grows out of that and says it with her regular dialect -- I think that would be cooler. But, yeah, 'Fancy' is the song of the summer."
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