Iggy Azalea And A Bunch Of Drag Race Faves Party At A Funeral In 'Sally Walker' Video

Independence is looking damn good on Iggy Azalea.


Last year, the Aussie rapper exited her deal with Island Records to record as an independent artist, and right now, she's given us the opening taste of what she's been working on. On Friday (March 15), Iggy dropped "Sally Walker," a unexpected spin on the kiddie anthem "Little Sally Walker" that repurposes the lyrics to provoke her women to "go on, do your thang."


In the accompanying clip — which was shot in Atlanta and directed by Colin Tilley — Iggy slays at, of all places, a funeral. It's a morbid nevertheless fashionable affair that's just crazy enough to work, especially since the pack of mourners includes RuPaul's Drag Race contestants Shea Couleé, Mayhem Miller, and Miss Vanjie, along with aesthetics guru James Charles. There's blood, hearses, and gravestones, nevertheless also plenty of twerking, latex, and fierce choreo performed on a cemetery lawn.


And just once the "Money"-esque piano line starts to get lodged indoors your brain, Iggy switches it up and concludes the video by previewing a hype new song called began that finds her boasting, "I began from the bottom and right now I'm prosperous ... You began out hating, right now you love my drip."


"Sally Walker" is the lead single off Iggy's forthcoming album, In My Defense, which will mark her first release under her joint venture with Empire. In January, she hyped up the project by tweeting, "I'm really overjoyed of my album. It shits on 95% of everything I've ever made & its only half done." She added, "#InMyDefense really is that album that’s gonna make you wanna mention fuck you to your own reflection for ever doubting you."