Ice Spice addresses the critics who say she has only gotten this far in her career because she’s light-skinned: “I have seen those opinions. I feel like that's not something personal to me. I feel like that's been the conversation for generations and forever, since the beginning…

@PopCrave Why ask her this? Wtf is she supposed to say?

@marfmellow @PopCrave They don’t even care or know what the issue is. They use hot button issues to make clickbait headlines like that. They should have interviews with record execs where they ask that. Not ask her and diminish her and her work.

@weekend3warrior @PopCrave Her work isn’t diminished by asking her but I will give you that they wanted a soundbite - asking anyone privileged what they think about it…kind of a waste of time when the most marginalized is out here sharing their experiences with colorism…her team clearly ain’t reading

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave Look how easy that was!

@RashadEst85 @weekend3warrior @PopCrave let me not gatekeep or act as if I have always been listening to deep dark skin folks - here’s folks who are saying what needs to be said ❤️

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@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave She did say this is a conversation that has been had for generations. She knows it exists but chose not to get involved in the dialog because people will only take whatever she says and turn it into something negative.

@MiBonitaIsla @weekend3warrior @PopCrave or! when she said it’s not personal for her she was leaning into the privilege us lightskin mixed folks wield to 1. deny our involvement when it’s a visual privilege that cannot be divorced from our lives experiences and 2. maintain the privilege!!! once you say anything as a…

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave How would have that addressed her critics that specifically alleged that SHE made it only bc she's lightskin.

@jitsguy24 @weekend3warrior @PopCrave there’s no way to divorce our privilege from our experiences & this is something that at first I didn’t want to hear - I didn’t want to believe that there was a way I was being held that was privileged - I was too zoomed in on antiblackness - I failed to listen for a while.

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave can we please get rid of the term “deep dark skin” ☠️

@eetoiless @weekend3warrior @PopCrave I mean, I hear you! I believe the term was created to acknowledge the brown skin girlies who still have someeeee privilege in the space / are often theeee darkest shade despite brown skin being a colorist term to differentiate between deeper tones

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave shes been doing this tho, she literally brought out 3 darkskin women during her recent performance (flo milli, kali, kenzo b) and all that sparked was talk about how “flo milli is sm better than ice spice and deserves her success, ice spice is only more successful bc of colorism”

@aper6014 @weekend3warrior @PopCrave Flo Milli deserves so much more than she’s being offered & I think that’s something we can talk about without including ice but!!! by including 🧊 we are able to contextualize the disparity between buzz and status

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave She doesn’t need to say that. She does support and uplift them. She brought FLO milli out at summer jam for Christ’s sakes. Y’all need to be spoon fed everything.

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave But she does tho. Her actions speak louder than words. She SINGS Flo Milli’s praise. Something even the other top girls aren’t even doing.

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave What if she don’t feel like that Lmao y’all need to get over it and move on to artists who do share y’all same views

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave That's not really her responsibility to begin with but idk how she isn't uplifting dark skin women with the way she works with Flo Milli

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave What if she doesn’t tho like what if she just wants to make her money and go home.

@marfmellow @weekend3warrior @PopCrave Her actions by bringing out other female rappers, who are obviously darker than her proves that she is using her 15 minutes to support those who might not get a second. Y’all stay wanting people to “say something”, but then wont hold them accountable by action.