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Another blow for I-G-G-Y.

Iggy Azalea dropped out of the Pittsburgh Pride festival Monday after the LGBT community protested her inclusion based on homophobic comments Azalea has made in the past.

Although she canceled her Great Escape tour in late May, Azalea was still scheduled to headline the Pittsburgh Pride in the Street event on Saturday. When LGBT groups began to protest and even drop out of the festival, Azalea decided to cancel her appearance. "I feel my participation at this point would only serve to further distract from the true purpose of the event," she wrote in her tweet Monday.

The controversial comments in question mainly consist of tweets prior to the rapper's rise to stardom referencing "homos" and "dykes." The only remaining tweet with those terms was from 2010, when the rapper said, "When guys whisper in each other's ears I always think it's kind of homo." It has since been deleted.

This has not been the best year for Azalea, who made a splash in early 2014 with her hit single "Fancy" featuring Charli XCX. Within six months, Azalea's popularity began to decline as hacktivist group Anonymous threatened to release her sex tape and an old video resurfaced showing a failed freestyle in an interview.

Combine that with the announcement that she didn't actually write "Fancy" and her canceled tour, and it seems the only thing left is her engagament to the Lakers' Nick "Swaggy P" Young.

Azalea's website says she will be releasing a new album and touring in 2016 - hopefully this one will have a little less drama.

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