Iggy Azalea Announces Split With Nick Young: "I Have Tried and Tried to Rebuild My Trust in Him"

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Iggy Azalea and her NBA-pro fiance, Nick "Swaggy P" Young, have called it quits after two and a half years together.

The "Team" rapper announced the split on Instagram on Sunday with a message that touched upon cheating rumors that surfaced earlier in the year.

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"Unfortunately although I love Nick and have tried and tried to rebuild my trust in him, it"s become apparent in the last few weeks I am unable to," the 25-year-old Australian wrote. "I genuinely wish Nick the best. It"s never easy to part ways with the person you planned you"re [sic] entire future with, but futures can be rewritten and as of today mine is a blank page."

Young, a shooting guard for the Los Angeles Lakers, issued a more succinct statement on Twitter.

"Single" he wrote.

The duo announced their engagement in June 2015 but the relationship publicly hit the rocks in March when Young, 30, was implicated in a cheating scandal after one of his Lakers teammates, D"Angelo Russell, posted a video to social media where Young talked about being unfaithful.

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The scandal hit just two weeks after news of the couple"s postponed wedding, which was originally scheduled for the end of the year. Azalea said at the time that touring commitments had forced them to push the wedding off until after the end of the next NBA season.

In April, Azalea opened up about the relationship on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, confirming that the engagement was still on -- flashing her diamond ring -- and telling the daytime host that there was no drama between the two.

"We"re good," Azalea said. "There isn"t [controversy] at home, just on the internet."

I-G-G-Y also sported the engagement ring on her solo outing on the iHeartRadio Awards red carpet -- but days later, she began ditching the sparkler and rumors swirled again. Azalea addressed those rumors with some seeming uncertainty.

"Ya, I guess I"m still engaged, I think so," she told 103.7 KVILat the time. "I know [that] I haven"t called it off, I have to have a talk with him and see how the talk goes. We"re not unengaged yet."

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"But he doesn"t deserve for me to be wearing his ring right now," she continued. "We"re not not engaged, but you have to, like, do some work for me to put the ring back on."

For more of Iggy"s thoughts on the alleged infidelities, check out the video below.

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Iggy Azalea responds to TI: "I"m chillin"

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Iggy Azalea has responded T.I.s commentsthat he has ended their business partnership. Heres the deal, I am still signed to @tip and do business with him, Azalea wrote on Twitter Thursday afternoon. The first Ive heard of us having an issue is via a radio interview. Personally, I dont think the radio is the place to talk about your personal issues with someone thats part of your team

Azalea added that while T.I. seems to think theres nothing wrong with what he said, everybody else seems to disagree.

On Wednesdays edition of Hot 97s Ebro In The Morning, T.I. said that his relationship with Azaleawho was at one point considered his protgcame under duress when she publicly feuded with Q-Tip after the MC alleged she had appropriated black culture.

She had a lot thrown at her in one time, any human being anywhere is going to have a hard time, T.I. explained. Its very difficult to be the new kid and to be the b**t of the jokes and to be directed, like, be the direction of all the negativity, you know what I mean? [Iggy] came at a time when culturally, this nation shes not from here we were actually looking for a source for somewhere to place some pent-up aggression.

For now, Azalea appears to be giving her former mentor the benefit of the doubt. Im sure tip will publicly clarify what he meant when he feel he has the right platform to do so and other than that, Im chillin, she wrote in conclusion. Have a great day guys.

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Iggy Azalea reinforces identity as redundant, recycled failure on rerelease

We all know how it goes: First things first, Im the realest. Fancy, released back in February 2014, is an empowering electro hop anthem flush with jagged synths, hip-hop chants and an undeniably commanding and memorable chorus.

I really wanted to like Fancy. It was a worthy addition to a burgeoning female-dominated pop landscape and neutral enough to please both genders. On Fancy, Azalea holds her own with an impressive performance while Charli XCXs chorus necessitates collective drunken chants atop bar tabletops.

But it all seems phony. Maybe its just me, but theres something about an Aussie white girl rapping in vocal blackface that feels deceptive and tasteless.

Still, many would disagree never underestimate the culture of White America. Its popularity unwavering, Fancy broke records by holding the number-one spot on Billboards Hot 100 for seven consecutive weeks.

But Azalea couldnt quite replicate that success. Two months later, she released her debut album, The New Classic, polarizing critics and listeners based on her questionable authenticity. And here we are seven months later with Reclassified, a trimmed re-release of The New Classic with five newly-recorded tracks.

Reclassified is just as nebulous as its predecessor. Azalea relinquishes her artistic agency to musical engineers and fails to highlight her strengths as a rap artist. In a way, Reclassified does exactly what its title articulates it reclassifies Azalea as a directionless, manufactured product whose success has not yet been legitimized.

Theres nothing new here on Reclassified, nothing characteristically Iggy Azalea to latch on to. Her vocal performances bastardize 90s rap flow and evoke a scratchy, feline tone. And what she lacks in originality and wordplay, Azalea overcompensates for with insipid lyricism and a feigned American accent.

Its like I loved you so much and now I just hate you/Feeling stupid for all the time that I gave you, Azalea raps on Black Widow. Azaleas trite lyricism communicates a lack of novelty and recycles exhausted hip-hop tropes of money, fame and s*x appeal. If I told you what Im worth, you would throw up/So have my money on time fore I show up, she continues on Iggy SZN.

But its on Heavy Crown, in a candid moment of irony, where Azalea is most telling. Get rid of the makeup let us just see who you is, she raps. For an Australian-born rapper who denies her roots and sits comfortably in American culture, Azalea seems to forget how much proverbial makeup she cakes on herself. Her lipstick is the illusion of originality and her eye shadow is the emphasis of fame. Azalea hides her true character. And with Reclassified, I still dont know who Iggy Azalea really is.

Perhaps that uncertainty is what makes her appealing; shes a cog in the music industry machine. On Reclassified, Azalea is placed into multiple genres to see what sticks: on Dont Need Yall, shes Drake; on Trouble, shes Motown; on Black Widow, shes Katy Perry; and on Change Your Life, shes Avicii. Besides Fancy, which reappears on Reclassified, Azalea has few ideas that she can truly call her own. Even Beg for It steals its chorus directly from Fancy. Azalea is trying to do too much, extending herself so much that theres nothing really there.

However, album opener, We In This b***h, deserves considerable praise. Here Azalea truly showcases her lyrical abilities. Unpolished product of my environment/Trying to get the same type of love and respect as the peers I be rhyming with, she raps. Its muffled beat, funky wah-wah guitar lick and spacey synth chorus gives Azalea ample space for lyrical play. The production is crisp and juxtaposes effectively with Azaleas corrosive performance that invokes early 2000s Eminem. Whats a world with no I-G-G in this b***h? she asks. On We In This b***h, she gives us a solid something to chew on.

But when the rest of the albums supposed highlights come from the featured artists (Charli XCX, Ellie Goulding, Jennifer Hudson, etc.), Reclassified starts to sound like an album by Various Artists, with Azalea rapping on the sidelines. And that says something.

In an interview with The Guardian, Azalea said, I dont think of other people when Im writing my songsSometimes a feature feels like asking for help. In the context of Reclassified, Azalea starts to look like a rapper made of contradictions.

And with all of Azaleas fame and fortune, First things first, Im the realest, sounds more like a coping mechanism rather than an actual declaration of success and originality.

Reclassified is composed of myriad re- words: redundant, rehashed, and recycled. And contrary to Iggy Azaleas boasts, real is not one of them.

2.0/5

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