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Ice Spice Drills Down on Debut Full-Length ‘Y2K!,’ Leaving Little Room for Versatility: Album Review
Ice Spice drills down on her signature sound with her debut album 'Y2K!,' leaving little room for versatility.
Songs like “Deli” and “In Ha Mood” struck the right equilibrium between street and pop sensibility — just hard enough for rap purists, softened around the edges for broader appeal — and set the table for what was leaning toward a mainstream breakthrough with her debut album. You not even the fart,” she chants on the chorus — while “Gimme a Light” leans on the classic hip-hop trope of sampling decades-old hits (in this case, a Sean Paul single) to evoke an air of familiarity. Yet Spice’s versatility — she’s equally at home on a twinkling PinkPantheress single and on an X-rated Cash Cobain cut — takes a back seat to telling, not showing, that her roots are still intact.
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