Ice Spice Teases What Her Debut Album Will Sound Like: ‘I’m Bringing Drill to New Heights’

One part of the “Princess Diana” artist’s success is her pen, but elsewhere in the cover story she questioned how much of a “lyrical rapper” she really is.

“It’s funny because Hype [Williams] was just trying to call me a lyricist. 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,” she said. “I want them to be digestible, I don’t want them to fly over people’s heads and they never catch it.”

Ice Spice has persisted despite being on the receiving end of a lot of criticism amid her success. As anticipation builds for a full-length debut studio album, she admitted she does tune in to what professional music critics have to say about her work.

“They actually study music and care about it,” she said. “So I feel like I’d rather hear their opinion. 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.”

While there’s no street date for new Ice Spice music, fans can be held over by her latest cut “Pretty Girl” featuring Rema that dropped last week. The pair performed it on Saturday Night Live, where Taylor Swift was on site to make a surprise introduction.

Read Complex’s digital cover story with Ice Spice here.