Macklemore caused quite the stir earlier this year when he dropped "White Privilege II" off his now released This Unruly Mess I've Made and name dropped Iggy Azalea among other white artists who were accused of appropriating black artforms. While at first, Iggy was perturbed by the reference, writing on Twitter "he shouldn’t have spent the last 3 yrs having friendly convos and taking pictures together at events etc if those were his feelings,” she later told TMZ that she agreed with at least a portion of Mack's sentiment.

Now, in an interview for the latest issue of Billboard, Macklemore expresses some remorse for not alerting Iggy to the line earlier. “I don’t think people understood that I’m in my own head [saying], ‘You’re Miley, you’re Elvis, you’re Iggy Azalea’ -- I’m talking about myself," he says. “Iggy and I came up together. We were on the XXL ‘Freshman’ cover together. There’s enough of a relationship that I should have let her know beforehand. And I didn’t do that.” He then says, the reporter notes quietly, that he has yet to talk to Iggy personally since the song came out.

The line, for reference, is "You've exploited and stolen the music, the moment / The magic, the passion, the fashion, you toy with / The culture was never yours to make better / You're Miley, you're Elvis, you're Iggy Azalea." The fall out from the song has included conversations between Macklemore and Black Lives Matter activist DeRay Mckesson and a heated Twitter exchange between Iggy and Talib Kweli. The full Macklemore interview is available at Billboard now.

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