With four Hot100 top 10s and two collaborations with her idol (plus one with taylorswift13), 'People's Princess' icespicee_ has her eye on the rap game's throne. Read her feature as Billboard's R&B/Hip-Hop Rookie of the Year. ✔️
“The People’s Princess,” as her legion of fans has dubbed her, is on fire. And this month, she’ll add another accolade to her fast-growing résumé, when, on Aug. 8,. “I have put in so much hard work, and it means a lot to be recognized for it and have more than just plaques to show for it,” she says.
“I would always be on Google as a kid, looking up ‘how to be rich’ and ‘careers that pay the most.’ I was like, ‘OK, should I be a doctor? Or should I be a lawyer?’ I just wanted to make all the money,” she said in April, when she sat down withThe seeds for Ice’s career were first planted when her father, an underground rapper, schooled her on hip-hop heavyweights like Jay-Z and Wu-Tang Clan. Then, in her teens, she witnessed the late Pop Smoke shed new light on New York’s drill scene.
Before that happens, she has a few more goals for the year — like releasing the deluxe edition of her debut EP,, which dropped July 21 — before she gets to work on her first album. “We want to build a strong foundation for her and not fly over any necessary steps that a new artist should take, nor have her quickly change her music to sound a certain way due to the big crossover success,” Rosemond says.
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