Ice Spice sends a strong message to the Taylor Swift haters in the audience

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Ice Spice didn’t mince her words when she defended Taylor Swift during a performance of her hit “Karma” over the weekend. In fact, she didn’t have to say anything at all to get her point across.

The 24-year-old “Princess Diana” rapper was in the middle of her performance of “Karma” – the remix – on stage at the Rolling Loud Europe music festival on Sunday, July 7, when the crowd began booing, jeering, and making thumbs-down gestures. The clip from the livestream, uploaded by one of Ice Spice’s fan accounts on X (formerly known as Twitter), not only clearly showed the audience’s negative reaction, but also Ice Spice’s own reaction loud and clear: She blew the crowd a kiss before flipping her hair back and turning in the opposite direction.

The Swifties were here for this.

Ice Spice was immediately called “MOTHER” – all in capital letters – for her response.

“MOTHERRR,” one fan posted about X, as a choir of others sang along.

“OH MOTHER WE LOVE TO SEE IT,” wrote another.

“Mother spice,” commented a third person.

Others knew that the “Think You the S*** (Fart)” artist would reap a lot of “Taykarma” for standing up for the 14-time Grammy winner.

“Taykarma will always bless you, Ice,” one fan shared.

“This is why we love Ice Spice, she’s Taywarrior,” added another.

“Number 1, Taywarrior,” someone else interjected.

Others were just here to praise Ice Spice himself.

“I love this woman so much,” gushed one X-user, while another was angry at her.

“These scum have the nerve to treat such a sweet woman like that,” they argued. “They don’t even deserve to breathe the same air as Ice Spice.”

Ice Spice and Swift collaborated on “Karma” for the Until Dawn Edition of Swift’s Grammy-winning album of the year, midnight. The Department for Tortured Poets The artist, for her part, brought the rapper on stage for the first time Epoch Tour Shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in May 2023 – where they presented the music video for “Karma” and Ice Spice performed the collaboration with Swift live.

The couple has also continually shown love and respect for each other, with Swift telling diversity in 2023 that it was “the dedication and focus of the ‘Munch’ artist that blew me away from the start,” adding that Ice Spice “impressed the hell out of her” by forging “her own definitive, original path” in the music industry.

Ice Spice, for her part, gets “so much advice” from Swift, with whom she “talks all the time,” she said The guard last year, adding that when they teamed up for “Karma,” “I was so obsessed with how humble (Taylor) was and how willing he was to work.”