Ice Spice gave Cardi B her flowers throughout a current sit-down with Keke Palmer, saying the Bronx famous person revived perception in girls’s place in Hip-Hop at a time when Nicki Minaj felt like an unreachable customary.
“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 mentioned on “Child, That is Keke Palmer.” “You already know, that’s a part of the lore, too of why I used to be so obsessed as a result of I’m like, ‘Solely she may do it.’”
The 24-year-old rapper, who has collaborated with each girls, acknowledged the sophisticated house she occupies between two of the largest names within the style.
She and Minaj teamed up on 2023’s “Princess Diana (Remix)” and once more in 2024 on “Barbie World.” Cardi B, in the meantime, recorded a remix of Ice Spice’s breakout hit “Munch (Feelin’ U)” however in the end shelved it, saying she wasn’t completely satisfied along with her supply.
Regardless of previous rumors of friction with Minaj, Ice Spice mentioned she nonetheless holds the Queens rapper in excessive regard.
“Being co-signed by Nicki Minaj felt ‘loopy, loopy, loopy,’” she mentioned. “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 along with her, I used to be gassed. In fact, I nonetheless am.”
Ice Spice On Why Nicki Minaj File Deal Fell By way of
As for why she didn’t signal to Minaj’s Heavy On It Information, Ice Spice defined it got here right down to timing.
“I used to be already signed when she was attempting to signal me,” she added. “So I believe that’s the place the hiccups had been. It was actually no room anymore, at that time, to make a brand new deal. I’m signed to 2 labels.”
Their relationship got here underneath scrutiny in 2023 after leaked texts appeared to indicate Ice Spice calling Minaj “ungrateful and delusional.”
She later addressed the messages in Rolling Stone, saying they had been written “in a second of frustration round contract negotiations” and admitted she “may have [chosen] totally different phrases.”
“No matter how I felt in that second, [Nicki] remains to be any individual I respect as an artist,” she mentioned. “I’m all the time going to admire all the pieces she’s completed for me and the tradition.”
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