Matty Healy was recorded laughing at Ice Spice’s derogatory comments earlier this year, and the rapper has finally spoken out about the incident.
Lead singer and songwriter of rock band ‘1975’ Matty Healy was hit by a wave of controversy with netizens earlier this year when he laughed off derogatory comments made about rapper Ice Spice.
Since the two seemingly never crossed paths, fans felt his comments came out of nowhere and the conversation surrounding the issue took over social media.
Although Healy apologized, Ice Spice finally broke his silence on what Healy and his teammates had to say.
Instagram: IcespiceIce Spice addressed comments made about her on a podcast earlier this year.
Earlier this year in February, Matty Healy joined the ‘Adam Friedland Show’ podcast. During the episode, Friedland and the show’s producer, Nick Mullen, learned about Ice Spice and her appearance.
Both said comments like, “She’s like a Spice Girls rapper… she’s an ‘Inuit’ Spice Girl – like a chubby Chinese lady.”
As the comments continued, Healy could be heard mocking the Hawaiian and Chinese accents he implied were Ice Spice’s ethnicity.
After receiving backlash for doing this, Healy publicly apologized at a show in Auckland, New Zealand, saying, “Ice Spice, I’m sorry.”
Healy continued: “It wasn’t because I was upset that my joke was misinterpreted. That’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m an ad—k. I love you, Ice Spice. I’m so sorry. I don’t want it to be misconstrued as being mean.”
Fast forward about five months after Healy’s apology, Ice Spice opened up to Variety about what Healy had insinuated about her, saying, “When I heard that little podcast or whatever, I was so confused.”
Ice Spice continued: “Because I hear ‘chubby Chinese lady’ or something like that, and I’m like, ‘Huh? What does that mean?” First of all, I’m thick. Do you mean Chinese? What? But then they apologized or whatever. And all the while, I didn’t really care.”
She also expressed that Healy personally apologized to her at an event, and Ice Spice made sure he knew she didn’t take it personally.
As for what’s next for the ‘In Ha Mood’ rapper, she recently collaborated with Dunkin’ Donuts and recently dropped a Deluxe EP with plenty of bops to keep fans occupied until her next release according to.
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