Jan. 22--Rapper Macklemore's controversial new song "White Privilege II," which touches on the Black Lives Matter movement and features Chicago poet-vocalist Jamila Woods, has drawn criticism from rapper Iggy Azalea.
The song, set to be included on Macklemore's upcoming album with DJ Ryan Lewis, calls out Iggy Azalea and other artists Macklemore believes have appropriated black culture.
"You've exploited and stolen the music, the moment," he raps. "The magic, the passion, the fashion, you toy with / The culture was never yours to make better."
"You're Miley, you're Elvis, you're Iggy Azalea. Fake and so plastic, you've heisted the magic/ You've taken the drums and the accent you rapped in/ You're branded 'hip-hop,' it's so fascist and backwards."
Woods, who is featured on Chicago band Donnie Trumpet and the Social Experiment's "Sunday Candy," drops in at the end of the nearly nine-minute track to sing: "Your silence is a luxury, hip-hop is not a luxury."
Iggy Azalea responded to the diss Friday on Twitter: "(Macklemore) shouldn't have spent the last 3 years having friendly convos and taking pictures together at events etc if those were his feelings."
The Macklemore-Lewis album, "This Unruly Mess I've Made," is slated to be released Feb. 26.
Woods also has a project coming out in the spring, Billboard magazine reports. This week she released the new track "blk girl soldier." She has also signed with the Chicago independent hip-hop label Closed Sessions.
