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Iggy Azalea Seemingly Shades Playboi Carti in New Mobile Ad

A vampire in the commercial looks just like the father of their son.

Splitscreen of Iggy Azalea and Playboi Carti
(Photo by Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images for Iggy Azalea & DreamVault)/(Photo by Joseph Okpako/WireImage)

It looks like Iggy Azalea is throwing some shade at Playboi Carti, the father of their son, in a new vampiric ad for Unreal Mobile.

Azalea is the co-founder and creative director of Unreal Mobile and, in a new commercial for the brand, she seemingly used Carti’s goth-inspired aesthetic to have a little fun — at his expense.

In the spot, Iggy is a phone operator for Unreal Mobile Hotline and receives a phone call from a vampire that’s been forced to drink "unreal" blood instead of the real thing. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that this vampire looks a lot like Carti — down to the contacts and facial piercings.

If there’s any doubt that this character shares similarities with Carti, he even talks with the rapper’s signature baby voice. He also says “What!” like Carti’s iconic adlib.

Azalea and Carti haven’t been seeing eye to eye for a while. Last December when a mini-doc, titled Dear 0, appeared online and featured Carti hanging out with the son they share, son Onyx, Azalea — who’s claimed that she’s Onyx’s “only parent” — suggested that the rapper rarely sees his son.

"Its [sic] cool how you can fit damn near every visit into just one video," she wrote. "Talented!"

On Emily Ratajkowski’s podcast High Low with EmRata last February, Azalea explained why she left Carti shortly after her son's birth.

“Like, right after I had my son, I left his father,” she said. “Something happened one day with my son’s father and me and it was just one of those moments where you’re just like, ‘I didn’t wake up thinking this is what my day would be.’ But by the end of the day, I was on a plane to Los Angeles and I never went back and that was the end of it.”

“Don’t get me wrong,” she continued. “We had a volatile relationship and you know that, you’re not an idiot. You know when something’s not working, I knew it wasn’t working. But I also just had a baby, it was COVID. There were a lot of things to navigate for me at that time and I didn’t think I’d be leaving when I left.”

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