Ice Spice’s eagerly awaited debut album, Y2K!, hits streaming services on July 26. Though she’s already shared singles like “Think U The S**t (Fart)” and “Gimmie A Light,” the Bronx native heightened anticipation by teasing a potential collaboration with Central Cee on Wednesday (July 10).
The British rapper uploaded two TikToks, each containing a soundbite of a track from Ice Spice’s forthcoming LP. The two artists even appeared together in one of them, with the Grammy Award nominee spitting bars like, “If he’s cheatin’, I’m doin’ him worse / No Uno, I hit the reverse / I ain’t trippin’, the grip in my purse / I don’t care, ’cause he did it first.”
The beat was punctuated with Cee’s trademark adlib, “Alright,” near the end of the chorus. The videos might be the first formal project the two have worked on together, even though a guest verse wasn’t revealed beforehand.
They had previously collaborated on a remix of “Munch (Feelin’ U),” Ice Spice’s breakthrough hit, but the album was never released. In October 2023, the up-and-coming artist stated to Complex, “We’ve become good friends over the past year.”
“[Ice Spice] makes me kind of think about myself. She is quite cool, don’t you think? In the same interview, Cee described herself as “humble, down to earth, don’t really care too much about the shiny stuff but knows how to play the game.” She’s really running with it right now, but there are some individuals who don’t really know what they’re doing and take things for granted or don’t seize opportunities like she does. You can hear that in the music and see that in the moves that she makes, and I love that.
Y2K!, the 10-song album that will be her first release since 2023’s Like..? (Deluxe), has been in the works for a while. The “Deli” hitmaker revealed that she finished recording the album in March, and since then, she has teased several covers and dropped off tracks like “Phat Butt,” which she performed at the 2024 BET Awards.
