Ice Spice is upset she was too busy to collaborate with Charli XCX.
The rapper was asked by the “360” hitmaker to add a new verse to an official “Deli” remix she’d worked on earlier this year. However, Spice was too busy with her own album Y2K! to work on the track, though she cleared the original sample and hopes to find time in the future to record with the British singer.
“I’m like, ‘Girl, that’s the vibe. That one. I’m going to clear it for you. Don’t worry about that,'” Spice told Rolling Stone. “She wanted a brand-new verse. I was like, ‘F—, I wish this was at a time when I had finished my album because then I could have did it for her.’
“I’ll catch her on the next one,” the rapper said
Elsewhere in the interview, the “Munch (Feelin’ U)” hitmaker also played down rumors of a feud with Nicki Minaj.
“We don’t have the closest relationship, you know? But we’re definitely good. We’re mutuals. We had smash records together. I love us together. I think the world does, too,” Spice said.
Earlier this year, a former friend of Spice leaked text messages in which the rapper expressed her frustration with the contract negotiations with Minaj for their collaboration “Barbie World.” Spice admitted she “felt used” by her old pal.
“I think that the saddest part of the whole situation [is] it’s somebody I knew for so many years and called my friend, had me open up and be vulnerable with them and then took complete advantage of that for her own benefit,” Spice reflected. “So, that was the saddest part, really: just feeling used, basically.”
The “Gimme a Light” artist insisted she was only expressing her frustration and that she still has a lot of respect for her collaborator, who hasn’t commented on the leaked messages.
“[Nicki is] busy as hell. I don’t really think she cares about s— like that coming from a random girl,” Spice said. “But what I said in those texts was just in a moment of frustration around contract negotiations. I could have chose different words.
“But at the end of the day — regardless of how I felt in that moment — [Nicki] is still somebody I respect as an artist, and I’m always going to admire everything she’s done for me and the culture,” she said.
