After the video for I Am The Stripclub dropped online, viewers noticed something off about the 31-year-old’s appearance — specifically her skin tone. Azalea, who normally has light blonde hair and is naturally quite fair-skinned, looked darker from head to toe. The look included long, sleek, straight black hair.Page Six has reached out to Azalea’s reps for comment.Needless to say, the response on social media to Azalea’s allegedly darker look was not a good one. It was a tweet from the clothing brand, boohoo, showing Azalea’s music video look and claiming that she was “serving” that really sent people.“Serving what? Appropriation and brown face?” one Twitter user responded. “Blackfish. That’s what she’s serving,” another wrote.The term “blackfish” suggests a non-POC is attempting to look or act like someone of Black or Arab descent.One viewer said, “But it just so happens she’s imitating a black female aesthetic surrounded by a bunch of black people in the background.”This will come as no surprise, but Azalea’s fans beg to differ. Many claim the “lighting” is to blame for Azalea’s appearance. One fan in particular suggested Azalea has just “gotten darker” over the years from things like “tanning.”The Fancy rapper responded to critics by calling their claims “ridiculous and baseless,” adding that she’s used the same shade of foundation for the last three years.“I can’t care about something that ridiculous and baseless. I’m wearing a shade 6 in armarni foundation, it’s the same shade I’ve worn for the last 3 years,” she tweeted.RELATED: Iggy Azalea exposes X-rated DMs from celebs“It’s the same shade in every music video since sally Walker. Suddenly I wear a black wig in a club scene & its an issue.”Unfortunately for the Aussie native, this isn’t the first time she’s burned through the internet with controversy.Back in 2015, Izalea released an apology online after a reporter discovered she had several homophobic tweets from her pre-fame days.In 2017, Azalea was called out for “cultural crimes,” as titled by the Daily Beast.Azalea has recently spoken out about her experience working with Britney Spears, making disturbing allegations about behaviour she claims to have witnessed from Spears’ father and conservator, Jamie.Azalea teamed up with Britney for the 2015 single Pretty Girls, and the pair promoted the song with a big budget music video and a performance at the Billboard Music Awards.In a statement posted to Twitter, Azalea supported Spears’ recent court claims that her conservatorship is an “abusive” situation.“It’s basic human decency to at the very least remove a person Britney has identified as abusive from her life. This should be illegal,” she wrote.“During the time we worked together in 2015, I personally witnessed the same behaviour Britney detailed in regards to her father last week and I just want to back her up and tell the world that: She is not exaggeration [sic] or lying.”This article originally appeared on the New York Post and was republished with permission.
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