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Iggy Azalea: "I haven't got daddy issues!"

Ian Gittins, Virgin Media Music, 10 July 2013

IN 2004, A 14-year-old Australian white girl named Amethyst Kelly heard Tupac Shakur for the first time. Blown away by his poetic intensity, she resolved to become a rapper. At 16, she bought a one-way ticket to America, became Iggy Azalea and began uploading videos to YouTube. 

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