All eyes have been trained on Ice Spice the moment she shot into hip-hop music stardom, and now the question on everyone's mind is: can she keep the momentum going?
Ice Spice has been releasing hit song after hit song, with almost all her songs topping music charts left and right; however, she is yet to release new music.
Now she is about to show everyone what she has been hiding under her sleeve: a deluxe version of "Like..?"
According to reports, "Like..?" is the rapper's debut EP, it was initially released back inJanuary of this year, featuring several singles like "Much (Feelin' U)," "Bikini Bottom," "In Ha Mood," and "Princess Diana."
The highly anticipated deluxe version will, of course, still feature those songs, as well as "Gangsta Boo" with Lil Tjay and Actin a Smoochie."
However, it will also have four new songs that have never been released before: "How High?" "Butterfly Ku," "Deli," and "On The Radar."
Ice Spice Learns to Hustle From Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift
Ice Spice has been famously taken under the wing of two of the most successful and popular artists of the generation: Nicki Minaj, aka the Queen of Rap, and Taylor Swift, the music industry.
These titles are, of course, given by their fans, however, there is also a reason why they are dubbed as such.
It seems like their superpower of making hit after hit is rubbing off on Ice Spice, who looks up to these two artists for support, inspiration, and advice.
"I feel like I am absorbing advice from [Minaj] and learning from her and stuff," Ice Spice said in an interview with Zane Lowe of Apple Music One.
"And she'll tell me, 'Learn from my mistake, do this or don't do that,' or whatever. And I just really pay attention to what she's saying. Because if there's anyone I'm going to listen to, it's the queen."
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Ice Spice the Future of Rap?
It is known that not a lot of rappers collaborate with Swift. The "Anti-Hero" singer has expressed her love for the genre on multiple occasions, however, she has only really collaborated with rappers a handful of times.
She worked with Kendrick Lamar on "Bad Blood," and Future in "End Game," which also featured Ed Sheeran.
Her latest collaboration with an artist is with Ice Spice for "Karma," and apparently, it was not all business between them.
Ice Spice revealed in an interview that she and Swift have grown to become good friends, and she sees the "Love Story" singer as a mentor.
Swift, herself, thinks that Ice Spice could very well be the future: "What she didn't know at the time is that when I was training for the tour, I was listening to pretty much exclusively just her music every single day,
"So we immediately went into the studio and I just not only fell in love with her, but just decided she's the entire future."
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