Ice Spice praised Nicki Minaj for the success of their collaboration “Princess Diana” in an interview with Billboard. The Capitol Records artist said “Princess Diana” was her favorite hit of 2023, noting how the Nicki-assisted remix helped bring more attention to a song that initially flew under the radar.
“’Princess Diana’ with Nicki because I felt like ‘Princess Diana’ was already my best song on [Like…?], but then it didn’t chart or anything until Nicki got on it,” Ice Spice said when asked about her favorite hit. “I was just so happy to have both of those worlds where I felt like it was culturally a great song, but also it charted. And then I had my dream collab fulfilled at the same time.”
Ice Spice also discussed what songs surprised her in terms of their commercial response. She named “Actin a Smoochie” and “Boy’s a liar, Pt. 2” as two tracks that did not perform the way she expected.
“I thought that ‘Actin a Smoochie’ would be a bigger song,” she admitted. “Every time I hear it, I’m just gagged that it’s not bigger. [But] ‘Boy’s a liar, Pt. 2,’ I never thought that song would be as big as it is. I knew it would be a big moment, but I didn’t think it would be triple-platinum.”
Ice Spice is working on her debut album Y2K, which is due out later this year. The hitmaker told Billboard she’s looking for “a really hard beat” in the creative process.
“If the beat doesn’t instantly move me — like if I don’t physically feel the beat of the speakers — then I’m just going to keep moving on to the next one,” she said. “But as soon as I know, I know I have that beat. It’s up from there.”
Revisit Ice Spice’s “Princess Diana” music video below.
