Ice Spice says she has her eyes set on a potential collaboration with Nicki Minaj somewhere down the line. The rapper, who landed her breakthrough with her song “Munch,” over the summer, recently sat down for an interview conducted by Erykah Badu and daughter Puma Curry for “Interview” magazine — and she certainly didn’t hold back. The 22-year-old touched on everything from the female rappers who’ve inspired her the most, to writing her own music and addressing allegations that her body isn’t natural.
When Erykah quizzed her about what she looks to for inspiration, Ice Spice said, “You definitely inspired me—my parents would play Baduizm top to bottom, like, all day. And Lil’ Kim, Nicki, Foxy, Remy, they’re all huge inspos for me.” Puma followed up, asking if she had to pick one person who she’d deem her dream collaboration, the Bronx native responded, “I have to say Nicki because that’s just like, duh.”
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“She would eat that s**t up, too. But another dream collab is Doja Cat.” Ice Spice shared that she didn’t start wearing her natural hair until late 2021 when she put out the music video for her song, “No Clarity.” She continued, “I noticed it was doing so much better than all my previous work. I don’t think my fan base was ready for me to be in heels and a lace front. As to the ongoing rumors that her body isn’t natural, Ice says the only thing fake about her “is my teeth, which I got to get redone.”
Speaking more of her decision to wear her hair naturally and finding her confidence in doing so, Ice Spice recalled her father always saying sentimental things to her that reminded her she was beautiful the way she was.
“I loved to straighten my hair and I loved to pretend it wasn’t curly. I would literally pray to god before I went to sleep, like, “Please let me wake up with straight hair.” Because at the school I went to, there were so many white girls and I was the only one with curly hair for a long time.”
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Ice Spice later told the mother-daughter duo that her parents worked a lot growing up, prompting her to spend a lot of her time with her grandparents, which became the go-to spot for all of her cousins after school. “We’d chill, eat, laugh, watch TV. I went to after-school a lot, too. Actually, I shot the ‘Munch’ video at the park that I went to after school.”
“Then when I finally went to Catholic school, things started changing. I didn’t go to church a lot at home growing up, I was never even baptized. But I’m still religious in the sense where I strictly pray every day, all the time.”
And when asked whether she plays a part in the writing process of her songs, Ice Spice gushed, “I wrote ‘Munch’ myself and ‘Bikini Bottom,’ the song that’s about to come out. I write all my music. My producer helps me when we’re in the studio together and we’re bouncing ideas back and forth. But I don’t like to accept references. If I’m going to work with a writer, I like for us to build it from scratch.