Forward of her 2024 Billboard Ladies in Music Hitmaker ceremony on Wednesday (March 6), “Munch” hitmaker Ice Spice talked about a few of her largest musical inspirations, one in every of which could shock you.
In a latest chat with Billboard, Spice was requested to call a few of her favourite hit-makers of all time. After shouting out previous Hitmakers honorees together with Charli XCX and Dolly Parton (“they’re iconic, every in their very own approach”), Spice particularly known as out Lana Del Rey as her musical north star.
“I’m obsessed together with her, and I really feel like all of her songs are hits, even those that aren’t as huge because the others,” Ice Spice, 24, mentioned of the sad-eyed singer who joined her and Taylor Swift in a skybox in February for Tremendous Bowl LVIII to root on champs the Kansas Metropolis Chiefs. The unlikely Spice/Del Rey duo obtained to hold at a pre-Grammys gala honoring Jon Platt final month on the Beverley Hilton and Spice advised Advanced final 12 months that on the time the one album she needed to take heed to was Del Rey’s 2014 album Ultraviolence.
“Rihanna, too. I’ve each [her and Del Rey’s] vinyls. Taylor Swift. After all, Nicki Minaj. Drake. The listing is lengthy!” Spice added in her Billboard chat.
It’s been a wild 12 months for the Bronx MC, who has stormed the charts with a sequence of Jersey-club contaminated songs created together with her longtime collaborator, RIOTUSA. Beginning together with her first solo Sizzling 100 entry with “In Ha Temper” final February, Ice Spice ended 2023 with 4 Sizzling 100 high 10s, a excessive level that tied her with Nicki Minaj (2012) and Cardi B (2018) for essentially the most by a feminine rapper in a calendar 12 months.
The 2024 Billboard Ladies in Music Awards introduced by Marriott Bonvoy will happen on Wednesday on the YouTube Theater at Hollywood Park in Los Angeles and stream on Thursday (March 7).
