Iggy Azalea is speaking out about a problem and what can be done about it.
The 31-year-old “Black Widow” singer expressed her dissatisfaction with the lack of psychiatrists supplied to musicians by their record labels in a Twitter thread.
“I REALLY WISH record labels would all agree to make it mandatory to hire at least ONE psychologist per label,” she tweeted on 15th August. “Almost EVERY artist in recent times has expressed struggling with the level of hate & pressure. Sports teams do it for their athletes, why not music labels?”
She also foresaw potential backlash to her request and suppressed it: “Also yes it may seem like ‘but there’s so many labels!’ There’s actually only about 4 guys running the entire music business so it would be pretty easy to hold them accountable and make them implement a change across their businesses.”
Iggy mentioned Lucian Grainge, Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group, and Rob Stringer, Chairman of Sony Music Group, as people in control who may make this decision. Both Lucian and Rob’s teams were contacted for comment on Iggy’s tweets. We have yet to hear back from Rob’s camp, and we have yet to hear back from Lucian’s camp.
“Between these two guys that’s literally like 85% coverage across the labels,” she claimed. “See what I’m saying? It’s not hard to actually do this.”
“Why aren’t the powers-that-be contemplating applying this criteria for their artists,” the rapper wondered?
Iggy’s appeal for stronger mental health protections for musicians came only weeks after she faced backlash for photos of her 1-year-old son Onyx on social media.
As a result of the backlash she received after posting a son’s photo, Iggy commented, “imaging being so miserable that you bully a one-year-old child for picking his own outfit” after Onyx wore a green dinosaur costume. “Y’all so corny and bored and it’s really a damn shame.”
She gave birth to her first child in April with ex-boyfriend Playboi Carti, 24, but the couple split up in October. Currently, the proud mother refuses to get involved in Carti’s fandom conflict.
“My child is not a sub-brand for his father’s fans to obsess over or clown on because the reality is that y’all don’t like his mom so you think it’s cute to be rude about a baby and what funny stuff he wears,” Iggy commented on a follow-up. Know that I will smack you in person, and so will his dad.”
“Originality is taught, by encouraging independent thinking, my baby will never be weighed down thinking he HAS to have anything because the next mfr says so. He’s gonna be confident enough to do HIM and that lesson begins now & never ends.”