Iggy Azalea on Memes, OnlyFans, and Her Plans to Make MOTHER a Success
The Australian rapper tells the origin story of the $MOTHER token, explains the “beef” between her and Vitalik Buterin, and reveals that, so far, she has made no money from her celeb coin.
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Iggy Azalea joins Unchained to share the story of how the $MOTHER token got started (spoiler: there was a brush with a potential scammer), her stresses during the launch, and what she plans to do about the price slumping over 60% since the all-time high. A master of memes and OnlyFans, she talks about how she is using her experience in both realms to make MOTHER a success, even though she has yet to make any money from the token.
She also discusses her beef with Ethereum creator Vitalik Buterin, the allegations that there was insider trading of MOTHER, and how she plans to avoid regulatory action.
Show highlights:
- How Iggy got “onchain” and interested in crypto
- How Iggy's understanding of memes and the attention economy influenced her approach to music and now MOTHER
- How a brush with “scammer” Sahil Arora sparked the MOTHER launch
- How Iggy plans to integrate her token into her business ventures and what strategies she's using to achieve this
- Why she chose two market makers – DWF Labs and Wintermute – and why she decided to name the coin "Mother"
- The lessons she learned from her OnlyFans that she is applying to MOTHER
- Iggy’s response to Vitalik Buterin's criticisms of her coin
- What strategies Iggy believes will bring $MOTHER out of its current slump
- How Iggy responds to allegations of insider activity and dumping $2 million worth of her token
- Whether she is concerned about regulators coming after her and what she's doing to prevent that
- What Iggy thinks about the criticism regarding celebrities launching memecoins
- Whether Iggy has a preference between Solana and Ethereum
- How she’s trying to onboard other celebs into crypto, and her plans for integrating $MOTHER into mainstream culture and fan interactions
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Guest:
- Iggy Azalea, rapper, creator of $MOTHER
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HOST
Laura Shin is a crypto journalist, host of the Unchained podcast, and author of “The Cryptopians: Idealism, Greed, Lies, and the Making of the First Big Cryptocurrency Craze” (Public Affairs, 2022). Formerly a senior editor at Forbes, she was the first mainstream journalist to cover crypto full-time, and her podcasts and videos have had more than 15 million downloads and views. Shin has spoken about cryptocurrency at places such as TEDx San Francisco, the International Monetary Fund, Singularity University and the Oslo Freedom Forum.
She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with Honors from Stanford University and has a master of arts from Columbia University’s School of Journalism. She lives in New York City.

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