What happened to Iggy Azalea's Aussie accent? Rapper accepts award sounding American Hip-Hop sensation Iggy Azalea's Australian accent appears to be disappearing by the day as she becomes more and more American. Iggy Azalea accepts the Favourite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist award with IT. IT WAS the nights of nights for Aussie talent at the American Music Awards but one question hovered over fans down under: What happened to Iggy Azalea's true blue accent? The blonde rapper, known for her Australian lingo during interviews as early as last year, accepted the award for best rap/hip-hop of the year with a fairly prominent American accent. "OK now I have to awkwardly need to crouch on this," Azalea said in her new-found accent as she bent over a short microphone stand. She left for the US at the tender age of 16 to kick-off her hip hop career but managed to keep her Aussie jargon in tact until earlier this year, when Azalea was criticised by US singer K Michelle for daring to rap like an American despite being "from another country." Pat Monahan presents an award to Iggy Azalea. Iggy Azalea on stage at the AMAs. The 24-year-old jokingly said: "This award is the first award I've ever won in my entire life," as an A-list crowd erupted in laughter. It means so much to me that it's for best hip hop because that's what inspired me to move to America and pursue my dreams. After a public feud with rapper Eminem, who wrote a rape song which Azalea slammed on Twitter, she said it meant "so much" to be up against big guns like Eminem and Drake. Azalea is originally from the remote town of Mullumbimby in the Northern Rivers region of NSW. It has a population of about 3000 people. Originally published as What happened to Iggy's Aussie accent?