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''Glory'' is the debut extended play (EP) by Australian rapper Iggy Azalea, released as a free digital download on 30 July 2012, by Grand Hustle Records. The EP serves as her first project with T.I.'s label since the announcement of her signing back in March 2012. The EP features guest appearances from T.I., who also serves as the project's executive producer, along with fellow rappers B.o.B and Pusha T, as well as singer-songwriter Mike Posner. The EP's production was handled by Bei Maejor, Lil' C, Mike Posner and more. The free-download EP premiered exclusively on online mixtape distribution platform DatPiff and has since then been downloaded over 100,000 times on the website earning a Gold certification status.〔(Iggy Azalea - Glory EP Hosted by Grand Hustle Mixtape - Dat Piff )〕 It was also featured on their annual Top Mixtapes list of 2012.〔(DatPiff Presents the Top 50 Mixtapes of 2012 )〕 ==Background and concept== Azalea's career took off in mid-2011, after several videos from her official YouTube account went viral, most notably her controversial music videos for her songs "Pu$$y" and "Two Times," the latter being a cover version of Gucci Mane's "Gucci Two Times." After releasing her first full-length project, a mixtape titled ''Ignorant Art'' in September 2011, Azalea aligned herself with Atlanta-based rapper T.I., eventually signing a recording contract with his record label Grand Hustle.〔 With plans to release her debut studio album under the label, she put those plans on hold and on 22 April 2012, announced she would be releasing an EP titled ''Glory''. In an exclusive interview with AllHipHop, Azalea revealed the tracks on the EP were originally slated for her debut album ''The New Classic'', and were recorded while she was in Atlanta and spending time with other artists on Grand Hustle: "Everything that got recorded for ''Glory'', for the most part, was intended for my album and I was doing this record while I was in Atlanta with everybody from Grand Hustle like Trae (Truth ) and all these other artists, and I was just around stuff that was so 'rap'." Her intent for the content on ''Glory'' was to satiate fans of more hard-rap records: "I like that 'rap' stuff as well, and I thought, 'I want to make some songs like this and put them on my album,' and other people weren't really into that idea. So I thought I could put them out on ''Glory'', because I still want to be able to give this to the world for everyone to be able to know that I can do these type of records."〔 She added that the EP was just a teaser for her upcoming debut full-length release, "I just want to take baby steps. It's a way for me to test the waters and see what people want to hear from me, so I don't give you an album you hate."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.fuse.tv/2012/05/iggy-azalea-unveils-glory-release-date )〕 While explaining the concept behind the project's title, Azalea stated, "I was in this weird place where it felt like everyone was shitting on me, like, "She didn't get that deal with Interscope. She got dropped! She won't get another project!" making it so much worse then any of it really was. I felt like they wanted me to fail and I thought, I'm not going to go anywhere. I'm going to get my glory. I'm going to get my shine. () It's to prove to myself that I can write songs. It's not easy to make a song that the whole world relates to, and to do it over and over again. When I got in the studio I realized this is really, really hard. It's easy to do whatever the hell you want to do but everybody can't connect to that. I was just trying to find a different way that I could do it with ''Glory''. I don't know if it's successful but I did learn a lot about songwriting while I was doing it."〔 She clarified in another interview her desire to try to "make more traditional-sounding records. () I am a songwriter and I wanted to be able to try and write songs that were more traditional and structured," as she felt it was challenging for her and harder than just to do whatever she felt like, "I wanted to try and make an EP where I had other people sing hooks, because I can’t sing. I wanted to see if I can make these kinds of records well."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Iggy Azalea Speaks About Not Being Your Typical Rapper, Hip Hop Influences, And Modeling )〕 She also defended her decision of wanting to release the project for free: "I just think that when you're doing albums and stuff like that, you have to be more considerate of the other people that you're working with or your label or A&R, and you have to appease these other people and for something like ''Glory''. When it's free, I get a pass to do whatever I like, and this is what I wanted to do, because of who I was around."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Glory (EP)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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