Motive’s Remarks on Ice Spice’s “Trashy” Debut Album “Y2K”

TDE rapper Motive believes Ice Spice’s workforce lacks crucial considering and a focus to particulars expertise.

Within the wake of the “Deli” rapper sharing the quilt paintings forward of the July 26 launch date of her upcoming debut album, Y2K, Motive couldn’t assist however voice his personal private opinion concerning the visible course of the mission.

Choosing a thematic city panorama theme, the Y2K cowl showcases integral components of New York Metropolis—such because the subway—and is stamped with Ice Spice’s signature.

Moreover, the Y2K album title itself is spraypainted on a trash can in a colourful graffiti tag format and is positioned adjoining to Ice Spice herself. In a quoted reply to the album announcement he shared on Twitter (X), Motive trashed the quilt and criticized Ice Spice’s workforce for giving it the inexperienced mild.

“No person caught placing the identify on a trash can as a mistake? Being severe like anyone on the workforce gotta catch that proper?” Motive wrote within the tweet

Customers shortly flocked to the remark part of the submit, the place they each doubled down on Motive’s criticism, along with difficult it.

“Its ice spice not kdot its not music u want to consider,” one consumer trolled whereas one other hit again immediately in a reply that reads, “Her music makes her label greater than his does TDE… he shouldn’t even be speaking.”

It’s price noting the consumer who claimed Ice Spice’s music catalog is extra profitable than Kendrick Lamar’s was accosted and labeled an “OV-Ho” for his or her remarks.

Contemplating it’s clear the quilt was particularly crafted to cater to a gritty and NYC-centric ambiance, it’s exhausting to imagine that Ice Spice’s workforce would have designed something on it by mistake. One might additionally infer that the album title showing on the garbage can could also be a strategic tactic to drum up dialogue and enhance engagement on social posts asserting the discharge.

And it’s not like Ice Spice hasn’t beforehand leaned into less-than-flattering advertising and marketing methods, i.e. the viral video of her placing on heels and continuing to chew the mud after taking one step.

Regardless of the case, it is going to definitely be attention-grabbing to see how each this album cowl and Motive’s tweet ages over the course of the following few months.

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