Ice Spice Addresses Comments That She Owes Her Fame to Her Light Skin
The New York rapper opens up to 'Teen Vogue' about her seemingly instant rise to fame.
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However, everybody isn't necessarily a fan of the rapper's rapid rise to the top of the charts. While Ice has the approval of her predecessors and her music -- like her iconic February collab with British It girl PinkPantheress, "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2," which reached the number three spot on the Billboard Hot 100 -- are undeniable earworms, there's been controversial commentary that her speedy climb to notoriety has been aided by the hip-hop world's propensity for colorism.
Hip-hop's legacy of fetishization of lighter-toned women has been long-documented, and Ice is only the newest hitmaker to get pulled into the crosshairs of the longstanding conversation.
"I have seen those opinions," Ice tells Teen Vogue. "I feel like that's not something personal to me. I feel like that's been the conversation for generations and forever since the beginning of time. I try not to feed into negativity because I also see that when people are trying to make that point, it's not out of a good place. [They end up putting] somebody else down."
The rapper shares that she "blocks" out most rumors and misconceptions she reads about herself because there's the possibility "anything hurtful could potentially hurt my feelings. Potentially."
"If I do read the comments and see something negative, I'll leave. I'm not torturing myself," she adds. "A lot of the time I know what they're going to say, because the public is mad predictable.... I expect them to just be on my d**k, to be picking at dumb s**t. Like, they didn't need to bring that up."
