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Ice Spice at 2024 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards, Cardi B at 2025 ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Awards, and Nicki Minaj at Barbie film premiere
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Key Takeaways:
- Ice Spice credited Cardi B with giving ladies in rap “hope” and making the style really feel extra accessible to ladies.
- She mentioned her artistic chemistry with Nicki Minaj and why she in the end selected to not signal together with her label.
- Ice defined that leaked texts about Nicki got here throughout a second of frustration over contract negotiations.
Ice Spice is a woman’s woman. On Tuesday (Sept. 15), the “Did It First” rapper stopped by “Child, That is Keke Palmer,” the place she praised Cardi B for giving ladies in rap “hope.”
“I really feel like Cardi B undoubtedly introduced again that hope [that] ladies may rap, as a result of for a very long time, Nicki [Minaj] appeared so unattainable,” Ice Spice instructed the present’s eponymous host. “You understand, that’s a part of the lore of why I used to be so obsessed as a result of I’m like, ‘Solely she may do it.’”
Though the web likes to pit her in opposition to each, Ice Spice has technically collaborated with Minaj and Cardi. She teamed up with the previous on 2023’s “Princess Diana (Remix)” and once more on “Barbie World” the next 12 months. In the meantime, Cardi hopped on a remix of the Y2K! artist’s “Munch (Feelin’ U)” however in the end did not launch it as a result of she didn’t love how she sounded.
Being co-signed by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice mentioned, felt “loopy, loopy, loopy.” She added, “I all the time wished that to be the case, however when it occurs, you’re like, ‘Whoa, is that this actual life?’ Two information together with her, I used to be gassed. In fact, I nonetheless am.”
On why she didn’t signal to Minaj’s Heavy On It Data, Ice defined, “I used to be already signed when she was attempting to signal me, so I feel that’s the place the hiccups have been. It was actually no room anymore, at that time, to make a brand new deal.”
Their relationship appeared to hit a snag final 12 months when Child Storme — who claimed to be Ice Spice’s finest buddy — leaked screenshots of the “Deli” rapper allegedly calling Minaj “ungrateful and delusional.” Later, in her Rolling Stone cowl story, Ice admitted the texts got here “in a second of frustration round contract negotiations” and that she “may have [chosen] totally different phrases.”
“No matter how I felt in that second, [Nicki] continues to be any person I respect as an artist, and I’m all the time going to admire every thing she’s accomplished for me and the tradition,” the artist added.