We're still waiting for Australian rap sensation Iggy Azalea to issue her debut LP, but the rhymer is starting the press cycle for the platter, tentatively titled "The New Classic," with a video for her autobiographical debut single, "Work" that's definitely impressive. Azalea has been on the come-up for a while now, and she consistently delivers captivating lyrics, ribcage-crushing beats and raps slicker than an oil spill.
The song is a little house-heavy, covers that same uplifting narrative built on resilience, as far as the beat is concerned, but with a closer listen, the ears reveal Azalea's story of how she running away from home at 16, moving from rural Australia to Miami, and finally, Hollywood as she pursues her dreams of becoming a rapper. The track starts off smooth and ballady, with Azalea running through lines about her background as she makes her way through a stretch of desert highway, but the song soon drops into club-minded claps and screeching synths by the time she surrounds herself.
For the video, the 22-year-old rapstress didn't hesitate in pulling ideas from various sources, drew inspiration, and combines influences from Australian musical, Tarantino film and OutKast's "Bombs Over Baghdad" clip, as she tells MTV News that "I really liked this film as a kid and always identified with it because it's [about] drag queens and they have to keep stopping in small rural towns and they're not accepted." The video shows quite a journey as one of the most enduring stories in hip hop and show off she truly knows how to work, work, work that body until she gets what she wants.
Just another day in the life, Azalea details her rags to almost-riches story in Jonas & François-directed clip which features the Aussie rhymer, who has swapped out the bustier and hot pants for skinny red jeans and a nude glittery crop top, turns heads as she makes her way from a tiny desert town Louboutins, where she rides a bike through a trailer park, and flicks her ponytail while tweaking in front of a truck stop, all leading up to a significantly sultry lap dance to another male before stealing his car keys, driving off into the sunset with her girls and leaving everything behind for the big city.
The song is a little house-heavy, covers that same uplifting narrative built on resilience, as far as the beat is concerned, but with a closer listen, the ears reveal Azalea's story of how she running away from home at 16, moving from rural Australia to Miami, and finally, Hollywood as she pursues her dreams of becoming a rapper. The track starts off smooth and ballady, with Azalea running through lines about her background as she makes her way through a stretch of desert highway, but the song soon drops into club-minded claps and screeching synths by the time she surrounds herself.
For the video, the 22-year-old rapstress didn't hesitate in pulling ideas from various sources, drew inspiration, and combines influences from Australian musical, Tarantino film and OutKast's "Bombs Over Baghdad" clip, as she tells MTV News that "I really liked this film as a kid and always identified with it because it's [about] drag queens and they have to keep stopping in small rural towns and they're not accepted." The video shows quite a journey as one of the most enduring stories in hip hop and show off she truly knows how to work, work, work that body until she gets what she wants.
Just another day in the life, Azalea details her rags to almost-riches story in Jonas & François-directed clip which features the Aussie rhymer, who has swapped out the bustier and hot pants for skinny red jeans and a nude glittery crop top, turns heads as she makes her way from a tiny desert town Louboutins, where she rides a bike through a trailer park, and flicks her ponytail while tweaking in front of a truck stop, all leading up to a significantly sultry lap dance to another male before stealing his car keys, driving off into the sunset with her girls and leaving everything behind for the big city.
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