2/20/2012 12:16 AM ET
(RTTNews) - T.I. is set to produce the debut album from Iggy Azalea, a female rapper from Australia. The Atlanta rap star told MTV News that he will man the controls for Azalea's debut album, The New Classic, which is set to come out on Interscope records sometime in the near future.
"I just recently got a call from a white girl from Australia, and she just expressed such extreme, enormous amounts of eagerness and wanting me to just spearhead and oversee her project," T.I. told MTV News in Atlanta.
"She crazy as a mother----er and that fits right in over here," he said. "That's just the kind of egos we need around us, so I'm looking forward to that."
Azalea explains that "T.I.'s gonna be helping me with it, kind of A&R'ing, kind of executive producing."
"In terms of writing the record, that's not the part that really worries me — that's easy. It's finding the production and finding something cohesive that is right for the direction of the album," she said.
T.I. claims that Azalea will not regret her desire to work with him. "She ain't half as good as she gonna be when I get through with her though."
Azalea first broke through last year with her Ignorant Art mixtape that featured the singles "My World" and "The Last Song."
by RTT Staff Writer
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