If rising Rap diva Ice Spice (born Isis Gaston) doesn’t walk away with the Best New Artist statuette at the 66th annual GRAMMYs next year, there’s somewhere she can already celebrate a comparable win: Billboard.
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As reiterated by the recently unveiled year-end charts, Ice Spice brought the heat all 2023.
From her inaugural Hot 100 appearance, ‘Gangsta Boo,’ to top 10 smashes ‘Karma‘ (with Taylor Swift), ‘Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2‘ (with PinkPantheress), and ‘Princess Diana‘ and ‘Barbie World‘ (with Nicki Minaj), Spice has been seasoning the all-genre chart all year-long with hits – more than any of her female newcomer contemporaries.
For the positions and longevity those tunes (and others from her Billboard 200 top 20-charting ‘Like..?’ EP) reached, Billboard crowned the Rap princess the year’s top new female artist.
Among all new acts, she ranks fourth behind Zach Bryan, Peso Pluma, and Bailey Zimmerman.
Does anybody even like Ice Spice. All these accolades just seem to get handed to her. Who is rigging things for her?