Hip Hop Uncensored Podcast

You could say T.I. was ahead of the curve in looking for and promoting a female rapper during one of the more lean years in hip-hop gender parity. Unfortunately, that curve threw the King of the South for a curve in the form of the Mouth From the South—if the “South” was “Down Under”—problematic rapper Iggy Azalea. “I’m still actively looking for another female rapper who can undo the blunder of Iggy Azalea,” the Grand Hustle Records honcho admitted. “That is the tarnish of my legacy as far as [being] a [music] executive is concerned. To me,this is like when Michael Jordan went to play baseball.” And sports fans know how that turned out. To say that Iggy Azalea, the most prominent female rapper associated with T.I., didn’t turn out as he hoped is an understatement. Most recently, the Australian-raised Azalea, who miraculously rapped as if she had been raised in the South all her life, was Twitter-thugging again trying to low-key disparage Lizzo. Of course, one can’t forget rapper Azealia Banks’ colossal T