efore dinner, I meet Ice Spice at a recording studio in downtown Manhattan to hear Y2K! — an album on which Ice proves, once and for all, that she’s more than a viral sensation. She arrives at the studio with her team, all of whom move with graceful precision. Bags and laptops shuffle around, and soon, RiotUSA, Ice’s longtime producer and friend, starts playing the album. Those initial singles, “Think U the Shit (Fart)” and “Gimme a Light,” are the only songs that resemble anything Ice has released so far. The rest of the record finds Ice exploring new territory. “I think I’m, like, 90 percent I’m going to do whatever I want, and then 10 percent I’ll give you something you want. But at the same time, I just really like making fun records because that’s what I like to hear most of the time,” she says.

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