Ice Spice is breaking her silence on Matty Healy‘s racist “chubby Chinese lady” comments he made on his podcast a few months ago. Responding, the Bronx femcee admits, “I had heard his little podcast or whatever.”
As we shared back in late May, fans began criticizing Ice Spice and Taylor Swift‘s joint track “Karma (Remix),” being that T-Swift’s rumored boo at the time was Matty Healy, the frontman of the Indie Pop Rock band The 1975. Fans started bashing the song while pointing out, with resurfaced clips, that he had previously made racist comments about Ice Spice.
Social media users began circulating clips from a February episode of ‘The Adam Friedland Show,’ which has since been deleted. On the show, Healy admitted that he tried to slide in Ice Spice’s DMs after learning she was a fan of his band. Healy’s co-hosts, Adam Friedland and Nick Mullen then began making derogatory comments about the Bronx rapper.
One of the hosts joked, “This chubby Chinese lady. ‘Yeah, I rap and [make] music.’ Do they talk like that? Do Inuits talk like that?” Healy added, “Yeah, that’s what Ice Spice is like.”
After the backlash, Healy spoke out and apologized. At a concert in April, he said, “I just feel a bit bad, and I’m kind of a bit sorry if I’ve offended you. Ice Spice, I’m sorry.” He addressed the backlash again in an interview with The New Yorker, and said that he might have baited his fans “a little bit,” but said the whole situation “doesn’t actually matter,” further noting that whoever felt offended, they’re “deluded.”
Then in June, it was reported that T-Swift and Healy had reportedly broken up after he allegedly kissed another man on the lips, on top of all the Ice Spice drama. Things have been relatively quiet since then, until now.
Ice Spice finally responded to the Matty Healy controversy in an extensive cover feature for Variety. The “Princess Diana” rapper said, “When I had heard that little podcast or whatever, I was so confused. Because I heard ‘chubby Chinese lady’ or some shit like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that even mean?’ First of all, I’m thick. What do you mean Chinese? What?”
The rapper added, “They apologized or whatever. And the whole time, I didn’t really care. But that’s funny because I saw him at the Jean Paul Gaultier party a couple days ago, and he was like, ‘Hey, you OK?’ and I’m like, ‘Of course.’ He apologized to me a bunch of times. We’re good.” She says she is still a fan of The 1975.
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