The tension between Latto and Ice Spice has been brewing since fans first pitted the two against each other for having similar Y2K-inspired styles last year. With Ice often credited for bringing the trend back and Latto accused of hopping on her wave, comparisons quickly spiraled into an internet frenzy.
Before long, the chatter turned into lyrical jabs, subliminal tweets, and subtle shade across interviews between the two rap stars. From alleged copycat poses to lyrical jabs, what started as a fan-fueled rivalry snowballed into one of rap’s most buzzed-about feuds.
However, the two have called a truce through music with their first-ever collaboration, “Gyatt.” In the cover art for the track, the two appear to be in a wrestling ring as the song title is written in WWE-inspired lettering.
So far, many netizens have dubbed the song as some of Ice’s “best rapping” and have applauded the women for squashing their “beef” in a mature manner.
Listen to their track here and take a look at a timeline of their prior beef below.
The Spark
Image Credit: Anna Webber/Getty Images for Teen Vogue Latto teased her “Sunday Service” single online last year (February 2024) with a video of her rapping in a sprinter. Ice Spice noticed a clip of her “Pretty Girl” video with Rema playing in the background and felt shaded. She fired back on wax with “Think U The Sht (Fart),” rapping: “I got my foot on they necks, I can’t let up / She all on the floor, told her get up.” Fans read that as a direct jab at Latto’s “Put It On Da Floor,” where she rapped: “Do you rap or do you tweet/ Cause I can’t tell, get in the booth bi**h.”
Fans also began saying that Latto was copying Ice Spice’s signature bent-over pose. Latto responded on X at the time with, “Every time y’all accuse me of copying folks ima clear it up. Nun mo nun less. I don’t like how y’all take my tweets & make them fit ur weak a** narratives.”
The Confirmation
Image Credit: Getty Images During an X Spaces conversation that same month, Ice made it clear her “(Fart)” song was aimed at Latto:
“Seeing that I’m in the back of your weak a** snippet. So I was like, ‘Wait a second — that’s me?’ So I’m like, ‘Okay, since we’re talking about me, let’s talk about me,’ and I dropped that. I was like, ‘This has to be fake — this is AI,’ but bi**hes be bold, so I was like, ‘Alright, we’re being bold today.’”The Subliminal Jabs
Image Credit: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for The Recording Academy From there, both rappers released songs staking claim to being “the sh*t” or the “stankiest fart,” fueling a tit-for-tat exchange that kept fans speculating. In June 2024, Latto uploaded a picture of her team gifting her with a celebratory cake for her career milestone, with a jab at Spice. The picture showed a poop emoji cake with the statement, “Holy sh*t, you’re Headlining,” written underneath.
If the shot wasn’t obvious enough, Latto used the photo’s caption to drive the point home, typing, “Think I’m the s*t, bi**h?????,” which is a direct reference to Spice’s “Think U the Sh*t (Fart)” single.
The Interviews
Image Credit: Gilbert Carrasquillo/GC Images Ice Spice addressed the beef in her Rolling Stone September 2024 cover story, saying: “I feel like if we ever spoke and I asked her, ‘What’s the issue?’ it’d be like a blank stare. It’d really be no issue whatsoever. Especially from me.” She added, “I can understand a friendly competition, but I just feel like at this point it’s a joke that she’s just dragged out, and it’s just not even funny. Like, bro, ‘Think U the Sh*t’ is from January.”
Pointing to Latto’s birthday cake celebrating her becoming the first woman to headline Atlanta’s Birthday Bash, Ice said: “You’re going to post a piece of sh*t cake to announce something that’s good news for you? But it is kind of a compliment because you’re taking something that’s supposed to be a fun moment for you and you’re making it about me again.”*
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Meanwhile, Latto gave her perspective on Ice Spice in a Billboard cover story: “If I was to do [a battle], it would have to be with somebody I feel like Imma go tit for tat with. I really don’t mean it as shade. Would she even want to do that? I feel like she’s doing her in her lane. It’s two different types of vibes. I don’t even think she gives me like, ‘Oh, she wants to engage in an actual rap beef.’”
She continued, “Everybody gon’ take their lil jabs in the music, and it’s not even that serious to me; I feel like you should do that. Continue to! But as far as actual whole diss records to each other, I don’t think she would even want to do that. I feel like… would it even make sense? It wouldn’t.”
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The Shade
Image Credit: Kevin Winter/Getty Images; Paras Griffin/Getty Images for BET While appearing on Funny Marco’s Open Thoughts show last year (September 2024), Latto threw shade while critiquing aspiring rappers.
“It gives me like… Ice Spice. It was like, ‘I’m so cute, grah’” she said. Ice, however, brushed it off, clarifying that the feud started as a joke, “I feel like it was a joke, but it became a bigger thing when Latto dragged it out. If there is any real issue between us, it isn’t on my side.”
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The Reconciliation
Image Credit: Dimitrios Kambouris; Phillip Faraone/Getty Images Latto and Ice Spice shocked the world when they announced their first musical collab together. The two dropped their song, “Gyatt,” on Thursday (Sept. 4) with the music video to come at midnight (Sept. 5). In the cover art for the track, the two appear in a wrestling ring with WWE-inspired lettering above them.
Latto’s last project was Sugar Honey Iced Tea, as Ice Spice’s most recent project is Y2K!. Take a listen to the track below.
