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In , Azalea issued In My Defense , her official sophomore effort, following it over the next two years with a scattering of singles including 's "Dance Like Nobody's Watching" and 's "Sip It. With a bold and brazen lyrical style following in the footsteps of Missy Elliott , Trina , and Nicki Minaj , Azalea born Amethyst Amelia Kelly moved to the United States in at age 16, stating that she was drawn to the birthplace of rap.

Moving from Miami to Houston to Atlanta, she absorbed the Southern-style drawl and rap culture of her surroundings and released a trap-inspired mixtape titled Ignorant Art in , shortly after relocating to Los Angeles. In the spring of , she signed to Wilhelmina Models International and pursued modeling full time, landing a job as the "New Face of Levi's Jeans. As the first female, non-American rapper to make the list, serious hip-hop fans took notice, including Diplo , who hooked up with Azalea for her follow-up mixtape, TrapGold, before she signed to Mercury Records for her official early debut, The New Classic.

Top 30 single "Beg for It. In , she returned with the track "Team," which featured a prominent sample from Juvenile 's hit "Back That Thang Up.

She continued to release standalone singles, including the trio "Team," "Mo Bounce," and "Switch. By the end of that year, Azalea had parted ways with Island and established her own independent label, Bad Dreams Records, which would be distributed by Empire.

Arriving that summer, the defiant set continued the dark, bitter brooding found on Survive the Summer and recruited guests Lil Yachty , Kash Doll , and Juicy J. Despite the multiple setbacks, mixed critical reviews, and an air of controversy and turmoil that had followed Azalea for the years leading up to In My Defense , the album still charted respectably, reaching as high as the number 50 position on the U.

Billboard charts. AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully. Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. She would send Derek raps she had written and ask what he thought, seeking the opinion of someone much closer to the action.

Before long, Azalea was planning another trip to the States. Just before her 16th birthday, Azalea headed for the U. He was living in Miami, and he picked her up at the airport on July 4th.

Azalea moved from Miami to Houston before ending up in Atlanta and embedding herself in her cultural surroundings, drawl and all. In — right after she relocated once again, this time to Los Angeles — she released the mixtape Ignorant Art , its raw and brash sound infused with trap music, a descendant of Southern rap.

The following year she appeared on the cover of XXL magazine's Freshmen Class issue — the first female non-American rapper to make their Freshmen Class list. The cover sparked a social-media beef with rapper and near-namesake Azealia Banks, who tweeted: "How can you endorse a white woman who calls herself a runaway slave master?

And if you want to have an achievement, work, and earn your own achievements. That same year, Azalea also signed with Wilhelmina Models International, and was subsequently named the "new face of Levi's jeans. The following year she signed to Island Def Jam in the U. Her debut album, The New Classic , came out in April A month later, Azalea made music history by occupying both the No 1.

No act had achieved this since the Beatles in She had the tattoo removed after splitting with Rocky in In March she told Vogue that she'd had her breasts enlarged, explaining that she had initially shied away from speaking about it because she hadn't wanted other girls to feel bad about their bodies, before concluding that she "wasn't into secret-keeping. You can never be perfect.

She announced her engagement to the L. Lakers basketball player Nick Young in June , but ended the relationship 12 months later, citing his alleged infidelity. Her second album, Digital Distortion , was due in — its first single, "Team," came out in March that year — but the album was delayed, to give Azalea "time to get my life in order" following the breakup with Young.

She also spent time in as a judge on the eighth season of X Factor Australia. In March Azalea announced she had started a company, Azalea Street Productions, which had bought the rights to a number of books and Australian TV shows. In July she announced a deal to create content — with a focus on social justice and empowering young women — for NBC Universal. After announcing that her album would again be delayed, due to her departure from the Def Jam label, Azalea dropped a new track, "Savior," in February Azalea returned to the charts with the release of "Sally Walker," the first single from her studio album In My Defense , in March The album's second single, "Started," dropped in early May.

A few weeks later Azalea was back in the news after topless photos of her from a GQ photoshoot appeared online.