Iggy Azalea drops Team video amid personal drama
Rapper Iggy Azalea is refusing to let her troubled personal life derail her music career after releasing the new video for Team.
The Australian star's relationship with her fiance, basketball player Nick Young, is under the spotlight after he was caught on camera appearing to confess to cheating on Iggy with a teenager last summer (15).
The footage was recorded in December (15) by Nick's Los Angeles
Lakers teammate, D'Angelo Russell, and leaked online this week
(begs28Mar16), prompting Iggy to thank the rookie for outing her
fiance's infidelity.
"Hmmm I see D'Angelo Russell is trending...," she tweeted on
Wednesday (30Mar16). "I actually liked his film. Thanks bro
(sic)."
D'Angelo has since apologised for documenting his private
conversation with Nick, who has vowed to deal with the situation
"in a private manner".
He has yet to address the status of his relationship with Iggy, but
she hinted at plans to dump Nick if there is any proof of his
indiscretion.
After a Twitter user claimed to have video evidence of the
encounter late on Wednesday, Iggy responded, "If there's proof of
cheating, she'd be doing me a favor to post it actually. I'm not
tryna marry a cheater (sic)."
Despite her love life hanging in the balance, the Fancy hitmaker is
trying to stay focused - her new promo for Team was released on
Thursday (31Mar16).
The video debuted on Vevo.com and fans were quick to praise the
rapper for the dance-filled footage - even though she hadn't
alerted followers to the release.
"Sorry guys, the one morning i sleep in and #TEAM video drops!" she
posted. "hahaha".
Iggy, 25, became engaged to Nick on his 30th birthday in June (15),
and she previously revealed they had decided to postpone their
wedding plans until after her upcoming tour.
Ironically, she recently defended her man against allegations of
infidelity.
"Hey, that's part of being a basketball player. There's always
something," she said on 92.3 AMP Radio's Shoboy In the Morning. "I
believe my man, and Nick is a super nice guy. It's just not really
the kind of thing he would do."