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GRAMMY-NOMINATED rapper Ice Spice’s debut album Y2K! is set to release tomorrow.
The American artist, whose music is distinguished by the drill beats and her signature rap flow, says that the ten-track LP will follow suit, but also feature sounds she hasn’t experimented with before.
“I’m excited for those more than anything. I really want to know what my fans think about these new-sounding songs,” she said in an interview.
Drill is a subgenre of hip hop music that originated in Chicago in the early 2010s, sonically features synth drum sounds and electronic beats, and tends to be lyrically adversarial and aggressive.
Named Isis Naija Gaston, the Bronx-raised rapper’s stage name comes from a social media account she made at the age of 14. The musician stated in an interview that she does not consider herself a lyricist, but rather more focused on making accessible music.
“I do be having bars in my music but they’re just super simple, 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, ‘okay, that was cute’, but it’s also fun at the same time.”
