Y2K!

Her music career had a humble beginnings as she started rapping by releasing a few songs between 2020 and 2021. In September 2022, she signed a record deal with 10K Projects, in which serves as an imprint of Capitol Records. Ice Spice gained popularity during the release of her debut extended play, Like..? (2023). Ice Spice achieved four top 10 hits on the US Billboard Hot 100—"Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" (with PinkPantheress), "Karma" (with Taylor Swift), and "Princess Diana", and "Barbie World" (with Nicki Minaj). On January 31, 2024, Ice Spice announced that her-then upcoming debut studio album would arrive somewhere in that same year. The name of the album is a reference to her being born on January 1, 2000. She stated that it was almost finished, and a "crazy collaboration" had been "locked in" two days prior to the interview being conducted. On June 5, Ice Spice revealed the album cover artwork, along with the release date of July 26. According to Billboards Michael Saponara, the "NYC-themed cover art [...] finds her rocking revealing jean shorts along with green boots, her hands on a concrete wall as she stands outside a subway station next to a fire hydrant. "Y2K" is spray painted in hot pink on a trash can." On July 12, Ice Spice and Central Cee released "Did It First", described by Uproxx as a half-Jersey club, half-UK drill track that was "100% [Ice Spice's] own" with a distinctive "propulsive" sound. == Promotion ==

Tour On June 5, 2024, along with the album announcement, the rapper announced the Y2K! World Tour, with 25 dates across Europe and North America. The tour began with its European leg on July 4 at the Roskilde Festival in Denmark, it l ended on on January 5, 2025 In austrillia. The tour is set to be performed at Denmark, Poland, Austria, England, Switzerland, Romania, Belgium, The United States, Canada, Ireland, Scotland, The Netherlands, France, Germany, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand, and Australia. As of October 28, 2024, close to 80% of the tickets have been sold and $639,348 has been made off the tour. For every show in The United States and Canada, rappers Cash Cobain and Cleotrapa were the opening acts. Drama with Cleotrapa During the tour, Ice Spice gained controversy on TikTok after her friend, Cleotrapa, alleged that Ice Spice treated her like a slave on tour. In a six part series of TikTok's, Cleotrapa called Ice Spice a "fake friend," and reported she was given a days notice to prepare for the tour, was left to handle her own luggage, book her own room in a five star hotel, was denied food as she "wasn't part of the budget" for the tour, and wasn't given a changing room to prepare for shows and needed to change in gas station bathrooms. Ice Spice later responded to the controversy on Twitter, saying "You got less than 10,000 listeners and I'm sharing my stage with you and you feeling so entitled." The two are no longer friends. == Commercial performance ==

In the United States, Y2K! debuted at number 18 on the US Billboard 200, with 28,000 album-equivalent units, becoming her highest selling week, surpassing her debut extended play, Like..? (2023), which sold 15,000 units. In Europe, Y2K! entered only in the French, Lithuanian, and Poland albums charts, respectively at the numbers 124, 20 and 43. == Critical reception ==

Upon its release, the album received mixed reviews from critics. == Track listing ==

• Ice Spice – vocals • Mike Dean – mastering, mixing (tracks 1–3, 5–7, 10) • Colin Leonard – mastering (tracks 8, 9) • Sean Solymar – mixing (tracks 1–3, 5–7, 10) • Dayron "Slayron" Hammond – mixing, engineering (tracks 8, 9) • RiotUSA – engineering (tracks 2, 8, 9), programming (8) • Tommy Rush – immersive mix engineering, mixing assistance (tracks 1–7, 10) • Kaleb "KQuick" Rollins – immersive mix engineering (tracks 8, 9) • Augusto Sanchez – immersive mix engineering (track 8) == Charts ==