Ice Spice has revealed the extent of her friendship with Taylor Swift, calling the pop titan her mentor who provides her “a lot recommendation”.
The Bronx native featured on the remix for Swift’s viral 2022 ‘Midnights’ monitor, ‘Karma’, again in Might this 12 months. On the identical day, Ice Spice joined the ‘Love Story’ singer on stage at her New Jersey gig to carry out their duet stay. Since then, the rapper has sung Swift’s praises, lately tweeting that Swift is “the sweetest particular person ever.”
In a brand new interview with The Guardian, Ice Spice was requested about her relationship with Swift forward of her UK pageant debut at Wi-fi right this moment (July 7). She informed the interviewer how “surreal” it was to search out out Taylor Swift listens to her debut EP ‘Like… ?’ in the course of the rehearsals for her ‘Eras’ tour.
“I used to be like: ‘You fuck with my mission? Like, what?’,” Ice Spice stated. “She’s so candy – I used to be so obsessive about how humble she was and prepared to work. She provides me a lot recommendation – we discuss on a regular basis and she or he’s so humorous… However I can’t say what she be telling me.”
Ice Spice joins Taylor Swift on stage for a 3rd night time at The Eras Tour 🧡#EastRuthTSTheErasTour pic.twitter.com/D1ADD5ykMX
— The Spice Room (@thespiceeroom) May 29, 2023
Taylor Swift stated that the collaboration between her and Ice Spice occurred as a result of her workforce reached out and stated, “Ice has been a giant fan of Taylor’s since she was a bit child, would like to collaborate if that was ever one thing that happened.”
It was reported and speculated that Swift invited Ice to look on ‘Karma’ because of the controversial statements made by then-boyfriend The 1975’s Matt Healy concerning the 23-year-old. The Guardian reported that they weren’t allowed to ask something about Healy’s remarks or the idea in any respect.
Ice Spice additionally spoke about her current collaborations with Nicki Minaj within the interview. The Queens rapper joined Ice for her remix of ‘Princess Diana’ and the 2’s rendition of Aqua’s ‘Barbie Lady’ – now known as ‘Barbie World’ – for the Barbie film soundtrack.
“[Minaj] be telling me to be taught from her errors – simply watching her basically,” Ice Spice stated. “When you pay shut sufficient consideration, you gonna see what it is best to do. I really like to speak to her about issues that I can’t discuss publicly – it simply means a lot to have the ability to have someone like her.”
In the present day, Ice Spice will carry out at Wi-fi Pageant the place Playboi Carti, Lancey Foux and extra are additionally set to look.
In the meantime, the BET Award-nominated rapper and fellow rising star Doechii have been introduced because the opening acts for Doja Cat‘s upcoming US tour. ‘The Scarlet Tour’ will cease at 24 cities, kicking in San Francisco on Halloween and ending in Chicago on December 13. You’ll find tickets right here.
