Apple Music: Ice Spice dishes on 'Gimme A Light' and promises big tings on her new album

Need to turn up with the weekend goals on deck? Look no further than what hip-hop artist Ice Spice is serving up lately from her ‘Gimme A Light’ anthem to promising big things brewing for her upcoming studio album. Needless to say, she had plenty to dish on with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe on the New Music Daily.

Ice Spice dishes on everything with Zane Lowe in their New Music Daily Q&A

From talking about making audio gems with longtime pal and producer Riot to the genius behind her newest single, Spice kept things 100 on all things Ice.

Ice Spice on continuing to work with her producer Riot and the success and confidence they’ve achieved together…

It does feel really different in the best way possible. I'm so grateful to have this comfort and bond that we have. You know what I mean? Because recording was a challenge in the beginning, and now I'm just so much more comfortable and I'm just willing to say anything that comes to mind without feeling any type of way. You know what I mean? Even when it came to Think You the, I just said it and I didn't have to think twice. If it was two years ago, I probably would've been like, "No, no." I probably would've never even let it come out my mouth.

Ice Spice on her new single ‘Gimmie A Light’ …

I was really nervous because we really wanted to have a very authentic Y2K sample in there, and Sean Paul, he's legendary. And that song alone, his "Gimme the Light," is so iconic that I was so nervous to sample it, because I'm like, "This isn't going to get cleared, so what's the point?" But thankfully we got it cleared. Shouts to Sean Paul. He's so real.

Ice Spice on her forthcoming album, ‘Y2K' and how she approached the concept as somebody who wasn’t born into that era …

Thankfully, I had my mom, so growing up I'd see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form. [To me, the aesthetic is…] It's duck nails. It's a tramp stamp. It's brown lip liner no matter where you go. So thankfully I had her [my mom] as my inspo growing up. And of course just like the internet, you feel me? Just like anyone else. 

The crazy thing is it wasn't just a definitive moment, it was just this ongoing process of, "What should we name the album?" And then I have a book full of pages of album names and different ideas, and I just really find the beauty and simplicity and I was just like, "You know what? I want it to be short. I don't want it to be this super long phrase." It was going to go either way. It was going to be super long phrase or one word. There was no in between for me.

Actually a lot of the time, well, either one of us [Ice and Riot] will have an idea, or just anybody else on the team will have an idea and we'll add it and sit on it for a couple days and then be like, "Now, let's bring it back to where it was at.”

Ice Spice on her recent Coachella moment…

Coachella was so fun. Definitely my most fun time on stage ever in my career up until this point. And I was just so amazed because I was looking up acts that have done the same slot and stage just because, you know, you want to prep, and I'm like, "What do I expect?" whatever, and I did not expect that. I swear I didn't know that that stage goes that far back. I really did not expect that. They showed so much love. I was overwhelmed by the love, for real.