Iggy Azalea, Black Widow | Bangerz N Bopz 🔥

In the 79^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we highlight “Black Widow” performed by Iggy Azalea featuring Rita Ora.

Bring on the bold, fierce songs! Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 serves up background info and insight into songs of various styles, especially songs that raise eyebrows and/or stir the pot.  Featured records can be classic or brand new. In the 79^th edition of Bangerz N Bopz 🔥 (2025), we break down “Black Widow” performed by Iggy Azalea.

“I’m gonna love ya / Until you hate me / And I’m gonna show ya / What’s really crazy.” Woo! Noted, Rita Ora. Grammy-nominated Australian rapper Iggy Azalea (Amythest Amelia Kelly) tapped the pop singer for one of the biggest hits of her career, “Black Widow”.  Ora performs the biggest and best moment of the song, the chorus, excerpted above. She continues singing, “You should’ve known better / Than to mess with me, honey / I’m gonna love ya, I’m gonna love ya /… Like a black widow, baby.” “Black Widow” is the 10^th track from Azalea’s 2014 Grammy-nominated, double platinum debut album, The New Classic. The song peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot 100.  “Black Widow” was certified quintuple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2023. 

Iggy Azalea penned “Black Widow” with Katy Perry, Benny Blanco, Mikkel Storleer Eriksen, Tor Erik Hermansen, and Sarah Hudson. Stargate (Eriksen and Hermansen) produced it.  Set in a minor key (fitting given the subject matter), the musical backdrop is sleek.  The accompaniment consists of striking synths, clapping snares, and punchy kick drums.  With Ora’s fabulous vocal contributions well covered,  the star of the show, Iggy Azalea, can’t be left out.  After all, “‘Cause this here is fatal attraction, so I take it all or I don’t want.” Oh, snap! Iggy delivers plenty of aggressive, hard-nosed, gives no fucks rhymes. The cadence and flow are compelling. “This twisted cat-and-mouse game always starts the same / First we’re both down to play, then somehow you go astray,” she spits in the first verse, and concludes, “You were different from my last, but now you got ‘em mirrored / And as it all plays out, I see it couldn’t be clearer, now sing.” D-d-d-damn! “You ain’t ever met nobody that will do ya how I do ya,” she asserts in the second verse, and continues, “That’ll bring you to your knees, praise Jesus, hallelujah.” What a sick line! Giving Rita Ora one final shout-out, she eats in the sweet pre-chorus: “This is the web, web that you weave / So, baby, now rest in peace (It’s all over with now).” Iggy Azalea, with the help of Rita Ora, struck gold on “Black Widow”, an unforgettable gem from the 2010s. It still slaps!