Ice Spice just dropped the official video for “Pretty Privilege,” the eagerly awaited track that had fans buzzing about a possible clash with Cardi B.
The self-directed clip finds the “Munch” rapper dancing and twerking outside a French chateau while she spits bars about haters, her glow-up, and — you guessed it — “pretty privilege.”
“Pretty Privilege, that’s a perk,” she raps in the RIOTUSA-produced cut. “Can’t help it, I’m a flirt / Fine shit, that’s a fact / From the front, you see the back.”
Ice Spice first teased the song back in September, not long after a leaked phone call between Cardi and Ice Spice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr., circulated. The recording allegedly captured Cardi yelling at Rosemond and threatening to “beat” up Ice Spice.
“I’ma show y’all, I’m not Latto,” the voice is heard saying in the clip. “I’ma beat her the fuck up. I’ma knock her the fuck out. All y’all. I’ma beat her ass. I’ma get Riot beat up by my n***as. Y’all gonna see what the fuck is up. Y’all think I’m fucking pussy-ass Latto?”
Not long after the phone call leaked online, Ice Spice dropped a snippet of “Pretty Privilege,” featuring a pointed line aimed at an unnamed rival: “She might talk shit on the ‘Gram, but she won’t talk it to my face,” she raps.
Fans quickly speculated that the lyric was aimed at Cardi B. The “Imaginary Playerz” rapper later took to X to clear the air, apologizing to Latto and implying that Ice Spice’s manager, James Rosemond Jr., was behind the leak of the call.
“James be foreal and be a man,” Cardi wrote. “It was only you, me, and [her manager] Tubby on the call. So you saying it was Tubby??.. Your artist put a laughing emoji then leaked the convo then posted a trash ass clip of her song in less than an hour…. This is why you been avoiding the CEO’s of 10K cause you know you did it and sound like a bitch.”
Still, not everyone believed “Pretty Privilege” was aimed at Cardi. Many fans speculated that the lyrics were actually about Stunna Sandy, a Brooklyn rapper frequently compared to Ice Spice. Talk of tension between the two started after Ice dropped “Baddie Baddie,” where she seemed to call out a fellow artist for copying her style.
“I know that she wanna be me / But she is not doing it well,” Ice Spice raps.
