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Recently, the New York City MTA has been on a Hip-Hop fix, giving some of the biggest artists in the game their own MetroCards for New Yorkers to collect. After seeing the likes of The Notorious BIG, Cam'ron and more stuff their faces with plastic, the MTA decided to give the Big Apple's latest star her own train pass.
According MalaccaIce Spice will be the latest Hip-Hop artist to get her own limited edition MetroCard as she prepares to release her highly anticipated debut album, Y2K. Unfortunately for her millions of fans and followers, MetroCards will be limited to just 50,000 cards, and already, people are gobbling them up to resell them online for anywhere between $30 and $4,000 (yes, you read that right). While we're sure some fans will pony up a few bucks to get a MetroCard featuring their favorite artist, we doubt anyone will pay the price of a used car for one. Well, maybe Jordan Poole did. I am just saying'.
On why Ice Spice decided to name her album Y2K (All you young people don't know anything about this particular horror), Ice Spice was actually born on January 1, 2000, when computers were supposed to plunge the world back into the Stone Age and everyone would become cannibals. That didn't happen and people went vegan. Go figure.
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During a recent interview with Zane Lowe for Apple 1, the 24-year-old, whose birthday is January 1, 2000, discussed where she drew inspiration for the record's title and energy.
“Luckily, I had my mom, so growing up, I would see her really embody the Y2K aesthetic in its truest form,” he said. “It's duck claws. He's a stamp bum. It's brown lip liner, wherever you go. So luckily, I had her as my inspo growing up. And of course just like the internet, ya feel me? Just like anyone else.”
Drawing on the early 2000s Y2K aesthetic, Ice Spice expressed her penchant for minimalism and how that played into the thought process behind the project's name.
“I have a book full of pages of album names and different ideas,” he said. “I just really find beauty in simplicity and I said, 'You know what, I want it to be short.' I didn't want this to be a very long sentence.”
We wonder what kind of numbers her debut album will do when all is said and done.
Did you all go out and get an Ice Spice MetroCard? Would you pay $4,000 for one? What are your expectations for her debut album? Y2K? Let us know in the comments section below.
