Iggy Azalea And Island Records Part Ways

Author: Gary Suarez / Source: Forbes

Iggy Azalea may have survived the summer at Island Records, but the autumn is another story.

In the wee hours of Saturday morning, the pop-rapper

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there wouldn’t be any new music from her in 2018, promising to return in that capacity sometime early next year.

Now quite a few years since achieving tremendous success at Def Jam Records with her debut album The New Classic, Azalea’s newfound independence from the Universal Music Group family of labels comes after a prolonged series of efforts to reinvigorate her career, one marred by controversy and false starts. Following a lateral move to the less rap-centric Island imprint earlier this year, she released a single with Migos’ own Quavo called “Savior,” which failed to chart, and another one nearly 6 months later with Tyga entitled “Kream.” Taken from her Survive The Summer EP, that latter track managed to chart for a single week on the Hot 100 before disappearing from the ranking promptly thereafter. It proved to be the last gasp of her time at…

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