Ice Spice is dominating the music space, but she just might have another potential career waiting in the wings as a tattoo artist.
In a video that started doing the rounds on social media on Monday (November 13), the Grammy-nominated rapper can be seen giving a fan a tattoo on his hand that reads: “Ice was here.”
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The fan captioned the clip: “Not me getting tattooed by ice spice” with crying emojis.
Ice Spice then posted the finished tattoo to her own social media channels, urging people to get in touch if they’re interested in her ink skills, writing: “Book me.”
Check out her work below:
It’s been a whirlwind year for Ice Spice, who has already racked up her own custom item on Dunkin’s menu, an SNL performance, a Taylor Swift collaboration and the aforementioned Grammy nods since her breakout hit “Munch” last summer.
The pint-sized rapper is up for Best New Artist at the 2024 Grammy Awards, as well as Best Rap Song and Best Song Written for Visual for the Nicki Minaj-assisted “Barbie World,” and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for her feature on Taylor’s “Karma” single.
Despite the massive success, however, the Bronx native hasn’t been immune to criticism.
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While she “isn’t interested in” negative comments from keyboard warriors who hide behind usernames and avatars, the “Munch” hitmaker told Complex in her recent cover story that she does pay attention to what’s written about her by professional music critics.
“They actually study music and care about it, so I feel like I’d rather hear their opinion,” she said. “I’m more interested in that because at least it’ll be paragraphs explaining why they feel that way and I’ll be able to understand the person better versus just one little hateful ass comment from a private page. At least there’s an author and a face attached.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Ice Spice opened up about her songwriting process, admitting that while her music does contain bars, she purposely keeps her raps “super simple.”
“It’s funny because Hype [Williams] was just trying to call me a lyricist,” she said, referring to the legendary music video director who photographed her cover story. “I wouldn’t consider myself a lyricist. Obviously, lyrics go into music and I do think about them and I do be having bars in my music but they’re just super simple.
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“I want them to be digestible, I don’t want them to fly over people’s heads and they never catch it. I want people to hear it right away and be like, ‘OK, that was cute.’ But it’s also fun at the same time.”
Her go-to producer, RiotUSA, added that she doesn’t write down her lyrics. Instead, her approach involves her “freestyling line by line” in the studio.
