Hungry For A Breakdown Of The Beef Between Ice Spice And Cleotrapa? Dinner Is Served

When Ice Spice said, “You thought I was feelin’ you?” I bet her tourmate and former bestie Cleotrapa didn’t think that message applied to her. But Ice Spice’s Y2k tour, which only began in July of 2024, has recently produced reports by early September that Cleo not feeling how she was treated on tour. The US leg of Ice Spice’s performances now has the friends (who depending on who you ask were never that close) at complete odds, with both sides setting their version of the record straight on social media. Cleo’s side of the story revolves around being seriously neglected during their musical summer jaunt around the country. Ice claims she was only helping a friend gain clout. You’d think someone who was besties with Taylor Swift would know how to make a fellow girl boss feel special for showing up to her tour but let’s thoroughly explore the drama between Ice Spice and Cleo, just to be sure.

What did Cleo say about Ice Spice?

In a six-part video series, Cleo decided to expose how she feels she was treated poorly on her short-lived tour with Ice Spice. She says misunderstandings between friends “doesn’t have to end everything” but being “jealous, intimidated, untrustworthy, fake, disloyal, ingenuine, manipulative, and calculated” is a dealbreaker for her. In the video, she also clarifies she and Ice were not childhood friends and “never chilled on some chill shit like that” though they bonded a few years ago when Cleo supported Ice’s quick rise to fame. Cleo then goes on to spill the story “fans deserve to know” about why they aren’t friends anymore despite how much everyone loved seeing their friendship.

According to Cleo, Ice Spice hit her up last minute to jump on her tour, though Cleo hadn’t even previously been brought out Ice on stage. She was excited about the gesture, but their first mishap allegedly came about when Cleo claimed Ice became upset that she didn’t know Ice was Nigerian. This is what Cleo says caused Ice to call her “jealous,” which Ice allegedly shrugged off as something she says often. Ironically, Cleo believes Ice only invited her to hang out when Ice needed a blog to write about spotting them together so she could use the buzz to drop a new song. Meanwhile “[Ice Spice] didn’t shine any light on [Cleo]” when it came to promoting Cleo’s appearance on the tour or her work, according to Cleo. She feels Ice Spice and her team intentionally decided to “give her crumbs” by not giving her a room backstage, a rider, travel accommodations, and making Cleo perform at 7:45PM when the show was advertised to start at 8PM or 9PM. Overall the artist felt her friend “wanted her to struggle.” Cleo also alleges that she was never paid.

How did Ice Spice respond to Cleotrapa?

In response to Cleo clocking a Boston Harbor’s worth of her tea, Ice Spice decided to host a Twitter Space (where all the best defense happens) to counter Cleo’s complaints. In the live, Ice said “crashing out is sad” and dealing with drama like this is “the crazy part of fame.” According to Ice Spice’s recollection, she was only helping Cleo out by allowing her to tag along on her tour which happened to have extra space. Ice says Cleo left out a lot of their positive moments, like screaming on a roller coaster, in her “whole essay” of problems with her experience, while choosing to focus on others (like “a fucking chicken salad”) that Ice wasn’t aware of. Now that she is aware, Ice Spice expresses that Cleo shouldn’t have an issue with how the tour went anyway, considering Ice Spice is sharing her “10,000 listeners” and “stage” with Cleo. Why should she also be entitled to use Ice Spice’s team along the way? Ice thought Cleo throwing out terms like “dark energy” and (in Ice’s words) comparing the tour bus to a slave ship was “fucking dumb.”

As Ice mused in what many may have perceived as a rather cold tone (holding for applause) the show will still go on in Europe regardless of Cleo’s “crash out” and “that’s the gag.” Fans seem to have some empathy for Cleo’s version of events considering Ice Spice has lost over 500K followers in a little more than 12 days.

Why did Ice Spice say Cleo ate a lot?

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As a part of her brief rant on X, Ice Spice made time to call Cleo “a fucking vacuum” who ate so quickly at an Italian restaurant that the was server confused about where the food went. Ummmm…. if slurping down carbs is a crime I should’ve been in jail three trips to France ago, officer, I’m hungry.