Iggy Azalea Calls Out DJ Akademiks, Alleges Playboi Carti Was Violent and Still ‘An Addict’

Iggy Azalea exchanged words with DJ Akademiks in a fiery back and forth over Playboi Carti.

On Tuesday (Sept. 16), Azalea confronted Akademiks on X to push back against him for portraying her as “some obsessed jealous ex” based on out-of-context clips from a recent livestream with Twitch star N3on.

“Yes @Akademiks I DMd you! 24hrs later, you had zero response… Because you don’t want to report factual information or stand corrected in a public forum. That’s the truth,” Azalea wrote in a lengthy tweet. “I listened to your monologue trying to paint me as some obsessed jealous ex because you watch rage bait clips on social media instead of doing your job as a ‘reporter’ (watching interviews in full context before commenting).”

“If you had bothered to do YOUR JOB you’d have realized it’s beyond clear I haven’t alluded to, or mentioned any famous exes,” she added. “Why didn’t you want to retract what you said after watching neon & myself in conversation and realizing your favorite rapper wasn’t the subject of any conversation? In so many ways you’re a detriment to the person very you’re trying to help.”

In a separate tweet, she clarified that she doesn’t want to be “part of any playboi Carti narratives” but that the media often drags her into them via clickbait clips.

While the “Fancy” rapper insists she’s “not campaigning for anyone’s demise,” Azalea adds, “At the same time – I don’t think it’s a huge secret my experience involved a man who was violent & is (still) an addict – Im sorry, but that’s my reality & it does affect my life years later of course… because there’s a child involved.”

She continued, “I don’t appreciate @Akademiks attempt to paint me as some scorned lover bird brain simply because he has a relationship with the artist/artists team & works as a mouthpiece on their behalf.”

“​​Just know if I ever tell it all… it’ll be to a judge in court – not social media. Pray the day never arrives & leave it at that,” she wrote in a separate tweet with a heart emoji. “Stop poking the very very very large bear.”

Akademiks responded dismissively with “Whoopty Doo!” before launching a series of personal attacks, calling Azalea a “single baby mama,” an “industry pass around,” and telling her to “eat a dick.”

“Hoe was paying Tory lanez employees and legal fees thirsty as jumping from rapper dick to rapper dick. Take care of ur f*cking kid u scallywag & keep selling feet pics on onlyfans. Glad ur rap career ended after that horrible bullshit u tried to finesse,” he continued.

“I tried to give dis hoe a pass,” he wrote. “She keep telling me bout the damn trauma of Playboi Carti pumping and dumping her ass like a meme coin.. bitch u picked that n***a not me!”

Azalea countered by questioning why he was so eager to connect her comments to Carti, writing, “That’s all you can say when your wrong I guess. The real question is why did you WANT it to be about that man’s asshole soooo bad? A question to ponder. Enjoy!”

“Tell her ass to stay outta my DMs at 4 AM I don’t give a f*ck bout her or her baby daddy that much,” he wrote. “Writing me 30 paragraphs telling me pregnancy stories n shit. Shordy make a tik tok n eat a dick!! @IGGYAZALEA”

Amid the drama, another user accused Azalea of being an “attention seeker” when mentioning an ex.

She clarified, “Firstly. I didn’t. I said someone I went on a date with ten years ago, and haven’t spoken to since. How does that equate to a man I have a child with? It’s okay to be a fan of someone and try and make everything related to them but that doesn’t make it reality my love. Bless you.”

The conflict stemmed from Azalea’s recent appearance on N3on’s livestream, where she joked about men asking her for sexual acts she wasn’t interested in and used a diaper-changing motion as an example, according to HotNewHipHop.

Fans interpreted this as a jab at Carti, which Akademiks later discussed on his own stream by claiming Azalea sent him lengthy DMs with serious allegations about Carti before blocking him.

“You’re trying to use me to try to get this man canceled because you told me very criminal things about him,” Akademiks said, as seen in a clip circulating online. “You told me very evil things about him, you made allegations about him that I’ve never heard you say online, and I don’t know why you would tell me because the things you would tell me, I don’t think you should tell a blogger, you should tell the police.”

Iggy Azalea, 35, and Playboi Carti, 30, began dating in September 2018 and went on to have a son, Onyx, in June 2020. The couple called it quits just four months later. On several occasions, Azalea has insisted that she is not in a co-parenting situation and is “very much a single mother.”

In 2023, Playboi Carti was arrested in Georgia after being alleged to have choked a woman described as his pregnant girlfriend.