In this article, it is discussed through in depth linguistic analysis by linguists such as Maeve Eberhardt and Kara Freeman about how music artist Iggy Azalea, also known as a hip-hop persona, is a reference for linguistic appropriation as she uses her white privilege to identify herself but in an ignorant way that doesn't meet cultural standards or expectations. It suggests that in this era, 2018, there are plenty of artists in the industry successfully monetising hip hop and black culture who are white, which is significant as white people now comprise the majority of listeners. There are also many white rappers such as Eminem who is approved of as they stay true to their language backgrounds by only using the linguistic features he grew up with and not trying to portray another image or cross over into linguistic varieties from groups they don't belong to. This is comparison to people such as 'linguistic blackface' Azalea who is described to not only promote several stereotypes including her hyper-sexuality and support subvert standards as for example she stated in one of her interviews 'everybody loves a pretty white girl' which implies her lack of knowledge towards the importance of race in the US. Therefore the article as a whole criticises the fact Azalea uses her music as a way so obliviously to make herself known and more popular by using non-regional lexical items so freely and using AAE (African American English) features in her performances, ignoring their grammatical rules which is an issue as it can be seen as supporting a racist status.
https://linguabishes.com/2018/01/01/first-things-first-im-the-realest/
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