Ice Spice is bringing new millennium freak out again. The “Assume U the S— (Fart)” rapper revealed on The As we speak Present on Tuesday (Jan. 30) that she’s planning to launch her full-length debut album, Y2K, “this 12 months.”
“Sure, there’s gonna be an album,” the MC instructed co-hosts Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager. “I’m so excited,” the Bronx spitter added concerning the album whose title is reference to her birthday, Jan. 1, 2000. Should you’re sufficiently old to recollect, within the years main as much as the calendar flip to the brand new millennium there was a world freakout over fears that the world’s computer systems and power grids would soften down catastrophically as a result of a glitch of their inside calendar programs that specialists feared would re-set them to 1900 as an alternative of 2000.
Spoiler: that didn’t occur.
However Ice Spice’s album is going on, although the rapper didn’t reveal a particular launch date for the document she mentioned is “virtually completed.” She additionally mentioned that she has “a loopy collaboration that simply acquired locked in, like two days in the past,” once more not divulging any specifics.
In November, Ice Spice posted a picture of her new decrease again tat with the caption “Y2K! ?/?/24.”
The debut album tease got here simply days after the 24-year-old rapper dropped the Miami-based video for her new single, “Assume U the S— (Fart).” Within the clip, Ice twerks and events throughout the town, flashing stacks of money whereas cruising in luxurious rides and hanging together with her buddies on luxurious car-shaped watercraft. “B—-es be fast, however I’m faster / B—-es be thick, however I’m thicker / She may very well be wealthy, however I’m richer,” she raps on the hook.
It’s been a busy few months for Ice, who dropped “Fairly Lady” with Afrobeats star Rema in October, which they carried out throughout her Saturday Evening Stay debut. She can be up for 4 Grammys on the 66th annual awards — greatest new artist, greatest pop duo/group efficiency for “Karma” with Taylor Swift, greatest rap tune and greatest tune written for visible media with “Barbie World” with Nicki Minaj — which happen this Sunday (Feb. 4).
Watch Ice Spice discuss her new album on The As we speak Present beneath.
