Key Takeaways:

• Ice Spice credited Cardi B with giving girls in rap “hope” and making the style really feel extra accessible to girls.
• She mentioned her artistic chemistry with Nicki Minaj and why she finally selected to not signal together with her label.
• Ice defined that leaked texts about Nicki got here throughout a second of frustration over contract negotiations.

Ice Spice is a lady’s lady. On Tuesday (Sept. 15), the “Did It First” rapper stopped by “Baby, This is Keke Palmer,” the place she praised Cardi B for giving girls in rap “hope.”

“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 informed the present’s eponymous host. “You know, that’s part of the lore of why I was so obsessed because I’m like, ‘Only she could do it.’”

Although the web likes to pit her towards each, Ice Spice has technically collaborated with Minaj and Cardi. She teamed up with the previous on 2023’s “Princess Diana (Remix)” and once more on “Barbie World” the next 12 months. Meanwhile, Cardi hopped on a remix of the Y2K! artist’s “Munch (Feelin’ U)” however finally did not launch it as a result of she didn’t love how she sounded.

Being co-signed by Nicki Minaj, Ice Spice mentioned, felt “crazy, crazy, crazy.” She added, “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.”

On why she didn’t signal to Minaj’s Heavy On It Records, Ice defined, “I was already signed when she was trying to sign me, so I think that’s where the hiccups were. It was really no room anymore, at that point, to make a new deal.”

Their relationship appeared to hit a snag final 12 months when Baby Storme — who claimed to be Ice Spice’s greatest good friend — leaked screenshots of the “Deli” rapper allegedly calling Minaj “ungrateful and delusional.” Later, in her Rolling Stone cowl story, Ice admitted the texts got here “in a moment of frustration around contract negotiations” and that she “could have [chosen] different words.”

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