The Iggy Azalea controversy rumbles on, with a former collaborator hinting that he had made a significant contribution to her breakthrough hit, Fancy. Skeme, a rapper from Compton, California, said “we put trust funds up for that song”.
Rumours have long floated that Azalea has employed ghostwriters, forcing her mentor TI into a denial when it was suggested he had written verses for her: “Iggy got her own ideas and thoughts that she presents to the world in her own way. I couldn’t write a lot of the shit she say, you know? I couldn’t put her thoughts into words as articulate as she does. You know what I’m saying? She just has a different way of presenting herself and her art.”
Now Billboard reports that Skeme appeared on the satellite radio station Sirius XM, where he was asked about his ghostwriting work. At first he refused to engage with the questioning, but when asked directly if he had written the verses for Fancy, he replied: “We had something to do with it, a lot of vibe, a lot of push … We put trust funds up for that song.”
He said Charli XCX had written the song’s hook, “so a shout-out to her. She’s amazing.”
Skeme and Iggy Azalea have worked together before. She appeared on the track High Level from his 2013 album Inglewood.
