Ice Spice gave Cardi B her flowers throughout a latest 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 feel like Cardi B definitely brought back that hope [that] girls could rap. Because for a long time, Nicki [Minaj] seemed so unattainable,” Ice Spice mentioned on “Baby, This is Keke Palmer.” “You know, that’s part of the lore, too of why I was so obsessed because I’m like, ‘Only she could do it.’”

The 24-year-old rapper, who has collaborated with each girls, acknowledged the sophisticated area 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 joyful together with her supply.

Despite 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 ‘crazy, crazy, crazy,’” she mentioned. “I always wanted that to be the case, but when it happens, you’re like, ‘Whoa, is this real life?’ Two records with her, I was gassed. Of course, I still am.”

Ice Spice On Why Nicki Minaj Record Deal Fell Through

As for why she didn’t signal to Minaj’s Heavy On It Records, Ice Spice defined it got here all the way down to timing.

“I was already signed when she was trying to sign me,” she added. “So I think that’s where the hiccups were. It was really no room anymore, at that point, to make a new deal. I’m signed to two labels.”

Their relationship got here underneath scrutiny in 2023 after leaked texts appeared to point out Ice Spice calling Minaj “ungrateful and delusional.”

She later addressed the messages in Rolling Stone, saying they have been written “in a moment of frustration around contract negotiations” and admitted she “could have [chosen] different words.”

“Regardless of how I felt in that moment, [Nicki] is still somebody I respect as an artist,” she mentioned. “I’m always going to admire everything she’s done for me and the culture.”

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