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In May 2024, Ice Spice, the Bronx-born rapper, found herself at the center of an unexpected controversy. The situation unfolded when a former friend of Ice Spice, Baby Storme, posted screenshots of private text messages, claiming the rapper sent them.
Ice Spice allegedly mentioned in the messages that Minaj was “ungrateful and delusional.” This claim has caused much debate and speculation on the state of their working relationship.
The texts seemed to indicate that Ice Spice felt she played a pivotal role in making the 2023 Barbie World collaboration with Minaj, which was initially connected to the Barbie film soundtrack. The leaked messages reveal that Ice Spice claimed the producers first approached her directly. Later, she invited Minaj to join the project due to her longstanding association with the Barbie brand.
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The scandal intensified when the messages suggested that Ice Spice believed that her role had been underestimated and that Minaj failed to acknowledge her properly. In addition to personal remarks, label agreements and publishing rights were also mentioned in the texts, foreshadowing even greater frustrations linked to business negotiations and creative credit.
Ice Spice addresses the leaked texts and betrayal of trust
Following the leak, the rapper took a step to address it in press conferences and interviews. On July 25, 2024, in an interview with Rolling Stone, she claimed the leaked messages were hers, but she was severely under stress when she had written them, and that was related to contractual negotiations and publishing disputes.
However, the controversy extended beyond the words themselves. The rapper explained how she was betrayed when she discovered that somebody she had trusted, Baby Storme, had made private exchanges public. She described the release of the texts as a betrayal of trust, adding to the consequences of her remarks.
"I think that the saddest part of the whole situation, it’s somebody I knew for so many years and called my friend had me open up and be vulnerable with them and then took complete advantage of that for her own benefit. So that was the saddest part really, just feeling used, basically," stated Ice.
Recently, Ice explained that one of the reasons why she and Nicki Minaj were never as close as they could have been was due to the messy contract talks. In her September 16, 2025, episode of Keke Palmer’s podcast Baby, This Is Keke Palmer, she explained that the timing of Minaj’s interest in signing her created challenges that could not be resolved.
"I really tried to let our lawyers handle everything and our managers. But I was already signed when she was trying to sign me, so I think that's where the hiccups were 'cause it was really like no room anymore at that point to make a deal. I'm signed to two labels, so that was already a thing," explained Spice.
Even so, Ice also emphasized that she did not have anything against Minaj. She said:
"It's all love like always. I still look up to her she's mother."
Ice Spice and Nicki Minaj’s past collaborations
The leak-text scandal was especially notable as Ice and Nicki Minaj had already had several high-profile releases together. Their initial collaborative effort was in April 2023, when Minaj remixed Ice Spice’s breakout hit Princess Diana.
That track has rapidly risen the charts, making its debut at the Top 5 of the Billboard Hot 100. A few months later, in June 2023, the duo reunited in the single Barbie World, which appears on the soundtrack of the film Barbie. The song peaked at No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was nominated for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 2024 Grammy Awards.
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