I don’t know
At this point I legit have no clue what success is attributed to colorism or gender or just good music lol. Not that it’s not important it is but even if I knew idk what I can do to change it since the covert colorists would deny it till they die anyway
All I can do is like and promote who I like

I mean— if she was dark skinned and shaking ass while rapping about being a treesh she’d definitely be getting far less support in the industry. Then again, I’m sure it also has something to do with her being an industry plant

Either way, it has nothing to do with her talent and rap ability

Did anyone listen to that trash in op? Cmon man ice makes good songs.

So what about artists like Meg, City Girls, Flo Milli, Kaliii, etc.?

She’s a ten tryna rap, it’s good on mute

Why are ppl saying it’s trash I think it sounds good

I don't think colorism is a non factor in ice Spice's success because part of it is her attractiveness and colorism plays a role in that

However chalking up her success to colorism alone is dumb. She is talented and was able to learn how to navigate stardom very quickly

Meg has been everywhere from Dua Lipa songs to Marvel shows and she’s darker skinned

Use your words bruh I’m trying to understand. It’s clearly whip banger rap they aren’t trying to say anything deep and the flow/bars are whitty and catchy

I mean Sexyy Red is dark skin she doing fine with way worse songs

And it each took how long for them to pop off? Ice Spice shows up and blows up in a year. All those artists you mentioned been making music for like 4-5 years prior to them blowing up.

Turn Ice Spice darkskin real quick. Do you think she would have that same amount of rapid success?

ah but ice spice’s definitely does

nice job hiding your agenda i guess

This is also hilarious when people try to discredit it when Ice Spice herself has said she has benefitted from being lightskin and that she doesn't like that lmao and here y'all are tryna say that isn't the case give it a f***in rest

ABSOLUTELY NOT

This entire thread is predicated on what ifs and gut-feeling proposals

If Ice Spice was dark skin no one would listen to her music

Within the black community being light skin is seen as the holy grail. All the dudes in My high school wanted the light skin girls and they were considered the beauty standard.

Sexxy red dont got pull like ice spice tho

so your anecdote singlehandedly proves that ice spice is only successful because she’s light skinned?

Even Meg the stallion didn’t blow up like ice spice come on stop it just look at her marketing

It definitely has. And he plays into it as well.

The nigga literally made a song with Romeo Santos (and it's a slapper) come on man

Then he gotta verse where he randomly breaks into Arabic

And it won't be long until he goes full afrobeat too

Drake knows exactly what he's doing with his racial ambiguity. He uses it to break into the international music world.

meg the stallion’s music is hot garbage.

If it was trash she wouldn’t be supported by Jay Z. You saying Jay got a bad ear for artists?