ICE SPICE HASN’T ALWAYS BEEN famous, but she’s always felt like it. “Just the way people would treat me, even when it came to school or being out in public, I always felt stared at,” she says. “When I was at school, I was really one of the most popular people there, so I always felt like, Okay, I could be famous because I’m so popular.”
At home in New Jersey, where she moved after becoming too recognizable in the Bronx (“I get recognized less here, especially when I’m hiding”), the rapper likes to blast her own songs and keep her own music videos on loop on television screens throughout her house.
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