Ice Spice and Central Cee Join Forces on “Did It First”

Ice Spice and Central Cee Join Forces on “Did It First”

A feat between two of the most talked about names of the new generation. Ice Spice, rapper and new Grammy-nominated icon (here is our in-depth analysis)joins forces with fellow UK Central chart king Cee on new single “Did It First”. In his verse Central EEC he does his best to hide one’s infidelitywhile Ice Spice plays with her voice, also on the wave of some unprejudiced and sexual bars: the result is a tight song, just over two minutes long. Last year, Central Cee has become the first British rapper to reach 2 billion streams on Spotify alone. With a career of mammoth growth, he has over 10 billion global streams.

But numbers are certainly not everything, you need qualityThe two began circulating snippets of the single early last week, fueling buzz and racking up more than 42 million views on TikTok, where users have created more than 10,000 clips using the song’s official sound. “Did It First” is part of “Y2K!”, the debut album by Ice Spice out on July 26 for 10K Projects/Capitol Records. The project will also include the recent “Think U The Shit (Fart),” “Gimmie A Light” and “Phatt Butt”defined by People with the term “braggadicious”, or “show-off”. Ice also recently performed at the BET Awards ’24 with “Think U The Shit (Fart)”.

The rapper’s debut EP “Like..?”, released in 2023, landed her on numerous year-end lists including Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and The New York Times. TTracks like “Munch (Feelin U)” and the platinum-selling “In Ha Mood” and “Princess Diana” have propelled her to the top and to receive several awards.such as two People’s Choice Awards, an MTV VMA, a BET Hip-Hop Award, and the Hitmaker Award at the 2024 Billboard Women In Music Awards. The fact remains that Ice Spice will have to prove that it is more than memes and TikTok, which are very useful and rightly exploited to the maximum.and she will have to do it regardless of the genre and musical world she decides to embrace. And if she will be a cosplayer or a new rap or pop star, we will soon understand it through the quality of the songs. It’s not a question of purism, but of identity and culture.