Back at Def Jam, she’s rolling her eyes, frustrated by rap purists’ apprehension toward someone that “looks like me and is from where I’m from.”
When it’s noted that some criticism toward her might be rooted in the often-troubling intersection of race and music throughout U.S. history — with jazz and rock ‘n; roll, in particular — Azalea seems unfazed. “Why is it that you can have the Rolling Stones, but a white rapper is weird? The Rolling Stones were originally doing blues. This is not weird, this is like history repeating itself. When people say stuff like that about race, I just think you don’t really love music because you don’t know about music.”
“But get used to this,” she adds. “Because if it’s not me, it’s going to be somebody else.”
This article originally appeared on Billboard.com.
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