Publications

Publication details [#60385]

Eberhardt, Maeve and Kara Freeman. 2015. First things first, I'm the realest’: Linguistic appropriation, white privilege, and the hip-hop persona of Iggy Azalea. Journal of Sociolinguistics 19 (3) : 303–327.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language and culture | language use | rapping | style | subculture

Language as a subject

English, African American

Place, Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell

Journal WWW

www.ingenta.com/journals/browse/bpl/josl

Annotation

This variationist analysis reveals high copula absence, a hallmark feature of hip-hop affiliated African American English (AAE) in the lyrics of white Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, allowing a success based on the appropriation of African American language and culture and on white privilege.