Iggy Azalea Says She’s ‘Very Much the Only Parent’ to Her Son With Playboi Carti
Iggy Azalea is speaking out about her co-parenting relationship to her son, Onyx, with Playboi Carti — or lack thereof for that matter.
The “Fancy” rapper joined the Dinner’s On Me podcast hosted by actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson on Wednesday (July 24), and part of their 44-minute interview found Azalea reflecting on being a “single mother” to her only child, Onyx, whom she welcomed with Playboi Carti in 2020.
“I’m very much a single mother, I’m very much the only parent. No disrespect, but I am not co-parenting, really. That’s just the reality of it. It’s 24/7,” she candidly admitted to the Modern Family star around the 25-minute mark.
Iggy and Carti publicly split later in 2020 just four months after Onyx was born. She dished further on braving the parenthood journey without much of an alleged presence from the Whole Lotta Red artist.
“I owe my success in large part to my mother because she spent so much time with me and she just really gassed me up and made me think I was a superwoman genius, dancer extraordinaire, painter extraordinaire, chef, whatever it was,” Azalea said.
Iggy continued about what she felt was her duty as a mother to the four-year-old: “And it’s important to me, even when my son’s only four, that I know I’m there, instilling that confidence in him and just helping guide him. It’s my job as a parent. I think if you’re going to have a child, you should be prepared to do that and engage in that way. And I really want to. I toured two years with my son on a bus and it was time for that to end.”
Azalea went on to detail that Onyx enjoys some of her work like “Black Widow” with Rita Ora — which reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 — and he’s even starting to write some of his own songs while following in his parents’ footsteps.
“He’s been writing songs lately, which terrifies me,” the 34-year-old revealed. “I’m like ‘It’s fine, it’s fine, he’s four. I really don’t want you to be an artist, don’t go in the industry, no.’ But you know I have to support whatever he wants to do and he is four, it’ll change a million times over.”
Azalea previously spoke about her split from Carti during an appearance on model Emily Ratajkowski’s High Low With EmRata podcast in February 2023. Iggy referred to their relationship as “volatile” and she had enough of the “toxic cycle.”
“I had something happen one day with my son’s father and me and it was just like one of those moments where you’re just like, I didn’t wake up thinking this is what my day would be. But by the end of the day, I was on a plane to Los Angeles and I never went back. And that was the end of it,” she said.
The retired rapper added at the time: “I decided in that moment, I have to be more accountable for myself into what I’m doing with my child and even if there are days where I wanna go back to this… I just never would do it. I will never do it. I’m leaving.”
Listen to the full episode with Iggy Azalea below.
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