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Nardos Haile

INSANE: How ice spice became music s it girl | Vintage Vibes

Ice Spice is on everybody's mind even if you don't know who she is. The 23-year-old Bronx native is a drill rapper who has captivated the chronically online Gen-Z audience with a presence that even we Zoomers and offline people can't escape.

So how did a girl from The Bronx – who was attending SUNY Purchase and working as a cashier at Wendy's and The Gap, relatively unknown to most at the beginning of the year – win four VMAs, secure a Billboard No. 3 hit with another TikTok pop singer PinkPanthress, co-rap with Nicki Minaj on this summer's hottest Barbie anthem "Barbie World," feature on "Karma" with Taylor Swift, star in her own Dunkin commercial with uber Dunkin stan Ben Affleck and snag herself a "Saturday Night Live" opening season gig alongside everybody's rumored boyfriend Pete Davidson?

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