Ice Spice might be on a hot streak when it comes to her scorching music career, but she couldn’t handle the spice that came with the wings on Hot Ones.
The Bronx native boasted about “always eating” spicy food, but called it quits with a pair of wings left during her Hot Ones appearance on Thursday (March 28).
“This is so bad,” she said minutes before throwing in the towel. “It looks like I’m crying, but I’m not.”
The 24-year-old — who was honored as Billboard Women in Music’s 2024 Hitmaker — took a sniff of the Matasanos Hot Sauce and decided her time in the torture chamber was over. “No … I’m not gonna do that to myself,” she said when clinching herself a spot next to DJ Khaled on the wall of shame.
While Ice Spice couldn’t cross the finish line, she still managed to spill some tea on her upcoming y2k debut album, which is set to arrive in the coming months.
“I’ve been playing the album fully through in the car volume all the way up and it passed,” she said of the project passing the car test. “I usually work on the hook first I feel like, and then the verses come after. [But] there is a track on the album I just went straight into a verse and there’s not really a hook. I’m excited to see what the fans think about that one.”
Ice Spice takes her bubbly music videos seriously down to every detail, and she gushed about working with Nicki Minaj on the “Princess Diana (Remix)” visual, which she’s crowned as the favorite of her career thus far.
The luxe pink-tinted clip from the rappers has earned more than 135 million views on YouTube, while the track reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100.
“I love shooting them because at that point, the song’s complete and you’re satisfied with it,” she said. “‘Princess Diana (Remix)’ with Nicki was my favorite video to shoot because I was just so excited. Oh my God, I’ve never been that excited on scene. And the bedroom scene, that was so fun. Being on the bed bouncing around with Nicki — who does that?”
Earlier in March, Ice Spice revealed that she finished recording for y2k. “I finished recording y2k the album ^.^,” she wrote to her social media accounts on March 5. The LP’s title is inspired by her birthday landing on Jan. 1, 2000.
“I think this is some of my best work,” she confidently told Billboard while hinting that the album’s “not going to be too long — it’s going to be sweet and to the point.”
Watch the episode of Hot Ones below.
