Ice Spice is opening up about her friendship with Taylor Swift, whom the rapper considers her “closest celeb pal.”
In a canopy story for Rolling Stone, Ice Spice recalled how she felt when her supervisor referred to as her and stated Swift needed to collaborate together with her on a remix to “Karma,” a track on her album Midnights. She shared that she was in her first condo in New Jersey together with her producer Riot, who was there recording her when her supervisor reached out.
“He often texts, however he referred to as, and he’s like, ‘You prepared for this one?’ And I’m considering it’s going to be some unhealthy information or one thing,” the rapper recounted to the publication. “He’s like, ‘Taylor Swift has a file so that you can get on from her album.’ I’m enjoying it cool on the telephone. I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s cool. Tremendous cool.’ After which I dangle up the telephone, and I’m hysterically crying. I’m in my walk-in closet, and I’m like, ‘Bro, this isn’t actual life.’ Riot positively filmed it. That’ll most likely be in a documentary in the future.”
When Ice Spice and Swift labored collectively on the bonus observe, some folks thought it was the “Fortnight” singer’s try at clout as a result of the rapper had simply began blowing up. “Which is so impolite to me, [because] why would she not need to be my pal?” Ice Spice stated. “Taylor fucks with me. She’s so humorous. I feel our personalities mesh very well.”
Shortly after Swift was romantically linked to The 1975 frontman Matty Healy in Could 2023, the Grammy-winning artists’ friendship got here additional below the microscope when feedback Healy made concerning the rapper resurfaced. He confronted backlash on social media for a February 2023 interview on The Adam Friedland Present, throughout which the host introduced up that she was a fan of the rock band however when on to make jokes about her, saying she appeared like an “Inuit Spice Lady” and a “chubby Chinese language girl.”
Whereas Healy didn’t make the feedback himself, he laughed and engaged with the host as they mocked accents of individuals of Chinese language and native descent. The musician reportedly apologized to Ice Spice throughout a live performance cease in Auckland, New Zealand, a number of months later however then later instructed The New Yorker the controversy “doesn’t really matter.”
In her dialog with Rolling Stone, Ice Spice admitted she was late to the scenario when it occurred, saying that she “didn’t learn about it till like a month after or one thing like that. He apologized a number of occasions, however I didn’t notice how massive of a deal it was to different folks. I really feel like folks simply needed one thing to be mad about, I suppose. I wasn’t offended or unhappy or something. I used to be simply sort of confused. I by no means actually cared about that.”
