Ice Spice responded to criticism of her debut album Y2K’s cowl artwork on Thursday (June 6). The Capitol Data artist insisted the album’s title was deliberately positioned on a trash can for the quilt.
“David LaChapelle is #Y2K!” she wrote on X (previously often known as Twitter). “soooo candy + legendary he didn’t even cost me c## he f#### wit an actual b####. thank U for all of the unbelievable artwork you’ve put out by the years this cowl means every thing to me & sure Y2K was positioned on the trash can on function can u guess why?”
High Dawg Leisure’s Purpose was among the many many individuals questioning Ice Spice’s Y2K cowl artwork on social media. He believed the title’s placement on a trash can was a mistake.
“No one caught placing the identify on a trash can as a mistake?” he wrote. “Being severe like any person on the staff gotta catch that proper?”
Ice Spice’s Y2K is scheduled to drop on July 26. She stated her mother impressed the album in an interview with Apple Music.
“Fortunately, I had my mother, so rising up I’d see her actually embody the ‘Y2K’ aesthetic in its truest kind,” she defined. “It’s duck nails. It’s a tramp stamp. It’s brown lip liner regardless of the place you go. So, fortunately I had her as my inspo rising up. And naturally, identical to the web, you’re feeling me? Similar to anybody else.”
She continued, “The loopy factor is it wasn’t only a definitive second, it was simply this ongoing technique of, ‘What ought to we identify the album?’ After which I’ve a e-book stuffed with pages of album names and totally different concepts, and I simply actually discover the wonder and ease and I used to be identical to, ‘You realize what? I would like it to be quick. I don’t need it to be this tremendous lengthy phrase.’ It was going to go both method. It was going to be tremendous lengthy phrase or one phrase. There was no in between for me.”
Y2K will characteristic 10 songs. Ice Spice’s debut album contains her singles “Suppose U the S### (Fart)” and “Gimme a Mild.”