Ice Spice Describes Parents’ Reaction to ‘Like..?’ EP Cover
Written by SOURCE on January 27, 2023
Fresh off the release of the Like..? EP, Ice Spice opened up about her personal life, creative process, and the arrival of her debut album with Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1.
The Bronx native tapped Lil Tjay to be the lone feature on the six-track project, explaining that the decision was rooted in her desire to have a “real genuine collab,” and considering their year-long friendship and ties to the Bronx, she couldn’t think of anyone else better suited to hop on “Gangsta Boo.”
As for the title, which also happens to be the name of the recently deceased hip-hop icon, Ice Spice said, “I made the song before she passed. Right before, actually. So, yeah. That was real sad, very exact coincidence.”
When asked about her dating life, she admitted to not even having time for herself, let alone someone else. “I just want to play…I be even having to struggle to find time for myself really,” she explained. “So, how I’m going to find time for somebody else? Even for family and friends, and myself, I’m still like that little bit of time that I be having on the side is for them and me. N***as come last.”
While she may not have time to spend with her family, Ice Spice knows her parents are supportive of her career, though her father had a few reservations about the Like..? cover. “You couldn’t do a different pose?” she recalls her dad asking, to which she responded, “But that’s my pose, like, for me.” Spice said her mother, on the other hand, was supportive of the cover, being—as the “In Ha Mood” rapper puts it—a baddie herself.
Even though we’re only a week removed from Like..?, there is already anticipation for Ice Spice’s debut album, which she has tentatively marked down for later this year. “Most likely this year. since I’m going to have 10 songs, something like that or whatever, definitely going to be different vibes in there, for sure,” she told Ebro. “I don’t want to talk too much on it because, you feel me? But got to keep the secret sauce a secret.”
