It’s an unlikely friendship but rapper Ice Spice now says she considers Taylor Swift to be her “closest celebrity friend.”
In a new interview for Rolling Stone, the star recalled how she felt when — while in her first apartment in New Jersey with her producer Riot — her manager called to tell her that Swift wanted to collaborate on a remix to “Karma,” a song from Swift’s album Midnights.
“He usually texts, but he called, and he’s like, ‘You ready for this one?’ And I’m thinking it’s going to be some bad news or something,” the “Princess Diana” rapper recounted to Rolling Stone. “He’s like, ‘Taylor Swift has a record for you to get on from her album.’ I’m playing it cool on the phone. I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s cool. Super cool.’ And then I hang up the phone, and I’m hysterically crying. I’m in my walk-in closet, and I’m like, ‘Bro, this is not real life.’ Riot definitely filmed it. That’ll probably be in a documentary one day.”
When the two worked together on the bonus track, many thought it was Swift’s attempt to drum up some talk since the rapper’s career was just taking off.
“Which is so rude to me, [because] why would she not want to be my friend?” Ice Spice said. “Taylor [expletive] with me. She’s so funny. I think our personalities mesh really well.”
As their friendship continued to blossom, it also continued to be scrutinized by others.
After Swift was romantically linked to The 1975 frontman Matty Healy in May 2023, Healy came under fire on social media for comments he made about Ice Spice. During a February 2023 interview on The Adam Friedland Show, there was a joke made about the rapper, saying she sounded like an “Inuit Spice Girl” and a “chubby Chinese lady.”
While Healy didn’t make the comments himself, he laughed and engaged with the host while the two mocked accents of people of Chinese and native descent.
A few months later, Healy apologized to Ice Spice during a concert in Auckland, New Zealand, but then later told The New Yorker that the whole thing “doesn’t actually matter.”
Reflecting on that experience, the rapper admitted that she “didn’t know about it until a month after or something like that.”
“He apologized multiple times, but I didn’t realize how big of a deal it was to other people. I feel like people just wanted something to be mad about, I guess. I wasn’t angry or sad or anything. I was just kind of confused. I never really cared about that,” she added.
—EmilyAnn Jackman, pennlive.com, (TNS)
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