
In September 2022, Ice Spice appeared as a featured artist on the song "One Time" by B-Lovee. It subsequently went viral on Twitter and TikTok, and charted on Billboard 's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Bubbling Under Hot 100 charts. Her song " Munch (Feelin' U)", released on August 10, 2022, with a video, and also produced by RiotUSA and distributed by WorldStarHipHop, gained popularity after getting support from Drake, who played the song on his Sirius XM radio station, Sound 42. Her song "Name of Love" gained traction on SoundCloud, which led to her becoming popular on Instagram. He produced her debut song, "Bully Freestyle", released in March 2021 after a video of Ice Spice doing the " Buss It" challenge went viral on Twitter. Ice Spice started rapping in 2021 after meeting with a record producer, RiotUSA, while they were attending State University of New York at Purchase. She identifies as queer, as explained in an interview with Genius about her song "Bikini Bottom". She supported herself as a cashier at Wendy's and The Gap. Ice Spice is the eldest sister to five siblings, and told The Cut she was their self-appointed protector. "I left because I felt like I was in the wrong place." Ice Spice also attributed her "strenuous commute" for leaving college.

Ice Spice dropped out of SUNY Purchase around her sophomore year. Ice Spice attended State University of New York at Purchase, where she played back row on the school's volleyball team and studied communications. And ever since then, I was kinda set on what I wanted to be." She chose Ice Spice as her stage name while she was a freshman in high school. "She's the first female rapper that I seen. "When I saw Nicki, I was so mesmerized," Ice Spice explained. She would type out lyrics in the Notes app of her iPhone, listening to hip-hop instrumentals and rapping out loud to them. In an interview with Billboard, Ice explained that she grew up listening to the likes of Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Wu-Tang Clan because her father's rap background. At age seven, she took a liking to hip hop after listening to rappers like Lil' Kim, Nicki Minaj, and others and wrote poetry and freestyle raps from elementary school to high school. She went to school in the Bronx until she was sent to Sacred Heart High School, a Catholic high school in Yonkers. īecause her parents were frequently busy working, she spent much of her time with her grandparents and cousins growing up. The two first met at a McDonald's and divorced when Gaston was two years old. Her father, a former underground rapper, is African-American, while her mother, who gave birth to Gaston at age 17, is Dominican.


Isis Gaston was born on January 1, 2000, in the Bronx, New York City, where she was raised in the Fordham Road neighborhood. Ice Spice was hailed by Jon Caramanica of The New York Times and Billboard magazine as " rap's new princess", and was named a "breakout star" by Time magazine. 2" (with PinkPantheress) and " Princess Diana" (with Nicki Minaj) reached the top five. In 2023, she achieved her first US Billboard Hot 100 chart entry with the Lil Tjay collaboration " Gangsta Boo" and her remix singles " Boy's a Liar Pt. The release of her singles " Bikini Bottom" and " In Ha Mood", preceded her debut extended play Like.? (2023). She rose to prominence in late 2022 with her song " Munch (Feelin' U)". She grew up in the Bronx, New York City, and began her career in 2021 after meeting record producer RiotUSA while attending State University of New York at Purchase.

Original text at lyrnow.Isis Naija Gaston (born January 1, 2000), better known professionally as Ice Spice, is an American rapper.
