Sally Walker

Iggy Azalea is Australian, which shouldn’t have worked for hip-hop. She moved to the US at sixteen anyway and built something real. ’Fancy’ went to number one in 2014. Then came ’Problem’ with Ariana Grande—the two of them hit #1 and #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 simultaneously, something that hadn’t happened since the Beatles. That’s not viral noise; that’s genuine, sustained success in a genre that doesn’t typically hand it to outsiders.

What made her interesting was the confidence. Didn’t hide the accent or try to be someone else. Just technically sharp and committed to the risk.

She’s got a new song out called ’Sally Walker.’ Interested to hear where she’s at with it.