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Ice Spice raps like she’s got better things to do than worry about how people perceive her. “Munch,” her 2022 breakthrough single, informs a paramour that he’s not the good time he believes he is. It’s N.W.A’s “A Bitch Iz a Bitch” or Slick Rick’s “Treat Her Like a Prostitute” read through the lingua franca of the deeply online: terse dismissiveness and a devilish delight in watching people get themselves worked up for no reason. Ice Spice dresses you down in as few words as possible, communicating the disdain she intends but also a newness on the job. Her jilted 2021 debut “Bully Freestyle” used the TikTok challenge inspired by Texas rapper Erica Banks’s “Buss It” and an ominous drill…
