BIA has been accused of stealing Ice Spice’s flow on a new song.
On Wednesday (February 15), the Massachusetts native shared a snippet of the track on TikTok, which finds her rhyming over a bubbly drill beat.
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In her caption, BIA asked fans to rate the song; however, most of them couldn’t help but point out how much she sounded like Ice Spice.
The 31-year-old used the low-toned flow she’s used throughout her career on songs such as “Whole Lotta Money”, “Can’t Touch This” and “Cover Girl,” but that didn’t stop the Ice Spice comparisons.
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“Bia trying to be Ice Spice son when she just came in the game,” one person tweeted, while another wrote: “Bia went from rapping like a foreign jaunt to ice spice lol.”
Someone else chimed in with: “It’s giving Ice Spice when it doesn’t have too. Bia needs to stick to her flows like the one on Bamba. She’s too talented to follow a fad.”
Despite the criticism, BIA also had many fans who came to her defense, claiming she’s been in the game longer than the “Munch” star and has used that flow numerous times.
“Y’all are weird,” one person wrote. “BIA been rapping like this before Ice spice even came to the scene. Ice spice been copying BIA.”
Another tweeted: “i love ice spice to death. but Bia been in the game way longer then her.”
BIA’s recent snippet is one of many she’s shared over the last few months. Her last project came in 2020 with For Certain, which debuted at No. 64 on the Billboard 200 chart.
The eight-track EP featured both “Whole Lotta Money” and the remix version with Nicki Minaj, which peaked at No. 16 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Ice Spice has been busy on the music front too, having dropped her debut EP Like..? in January. The six-track project included a sole appearance from fellow Bronx native Lil Tjay courtesy of the Diddy-sampling “Gangsta Boo.”
The 23-year-old confirmed in a recent interview with TMZ that she has yet more new music on the way.
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Adding to her surging career, Ice Spice was also recently named a 2023 HipHopDX Rising Star alongside the likes of GloRilla, Lola Brooke, redveil, Reuben Vincent, JELEEL! and Destroy Lonely.
