A Ton Of People Want To Take Away Iggy Azalea’s “Top Rap Song” Award

Change.org is pulling a total Kanye West move – essentially, “Imma let you finish, Iggy, but Nicki Minaj had the best rap song of this year. OF THIS YEAR.”
Sorry, let’s backtrack.
Earlier this month, Australian rapper Iggy Azalea took home the awards for Top Rap Song, Top Rap Artist, and Top Streaming Artist at the Billboard Music Awards. It’s no secret that a lot of people
seriously don’t get what the big deal is with Iggy, but one Christian Ferguson from Mount Juliet, TN decided to create a petition to take away Iggy’s Top Rap Song prize for her hit “Fancy” featuring Charli XCX. And it’s actually not because he’s mad at Miss Azalea for contributing to Britney Spears‘ worst song of her career.   
The petition on Change.org reads, “Iggy Azalea’s 2015 Billboard Award for Best Song has been proven invalid. The eligibility time period for nominations is March 10th, 2014 through March 2015. “Fancy” was released on February 17th, 2014, nearly a month before the eligibility starting. This is unfair to the other nominees in these category, especially to “Anaconda” by Nicki Minaj, who most likely would’ve won. Billboard did not follow their own guidelines and should have to recalculate these nominations without “Fancy” as a nominee.”
Hey, rules are rules. “Fancy” was a staple on my pregame playlist for more months than I’ll admit, but looks like they have a point. The fight to retract the award received over 5,000 signatures within 24 hours, and on Wednesday morning, had nearly 17,000.
So what channel is Nicki Minaj going to televise her acceptance speech on?…oh wait, they’re not. Dick Clark Productions, which is in charge of the Billboard Music Awards, said the song was definitely eligible to meet the requirement. Huh? Here’s what they had to say:
“Unlike most other major awards, the Billboard Music Awards are based on Nielsen sales data and chart performance, not the song’s release date. The 2015 awards used a “reporting period” of March 10, 2014, through March 8, 2015, not a release date.”
Yeah, we’re all confused.
A quick look at the comment section on the petition shows the majority of people are #TeamNicki.