Music Stars Who Have Shown Support for Iggy Azalea

Aussie MC and JHud have "Trouble" for the haters.

National Treasure - Iggy Azalea has been feeling the heat lately with all the cultural appropriation discussions. Despite the hate, several prominent artists have defended her artistic expression from online comments to jumping on a track with her. Read on.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)
Jennifer Hudson - Jennifer Hudson had no problem standing tall next to Iggy Azalea when they performed their collaboration "Trouble" Wednesday (Feb. 5) on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. JHud even played cop and put the cuffs on the Hustle gang rapper for the new video, which was shot last weekend.(Photo: Douglas Gorenstein/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)
Raekwon - The Chef had no problem saluting Iggy when he sat down with Peter Bailey and explained, “She’s doing what she wants to do. She was able to take it from somewhere so far away where she was at to here ... So I look at it like, music is for whoever knows how to it make it, man. We have to say to ourselves, 'If you're talented, you're talented.'"(Photo: Larry Busacca/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival)Questlove - With all the cultural appropriation talk surrounding Iggy, The Roots frontman said, "You know, we as Black people have to come to grips that hip hop is a contagious culture... If you love something, you gotta set it free. I will say that 'Fancy,' above any song that I’ve ever heard or dealt with, is a game-changer in that fact that we’re truly going to have to come to grips with the fact that hip hop has spread its wings." (Photo: Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)

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National Treasure - Iggy Azalea has been feeling the heat lately with all the cultural appropriation discussions. Despite the hate, several prominent artists have defended her artistic expression from online comments to jumping on a track with her. Read on.— Michael Harris (@IceBlueVa)

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