Ice Spice sends strong message to Taylor Swift haters in the crowd

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Ice Spice didn’t mince words when defending Taylor Swift while performing their hit “Karma” over the weekend. In fact, she didn’t have to say anything at all to get her point across.

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

Swifties were here for it.

Ice Spice was instantly dubbed “MOTHER” — all-caps — for her response.

“MOTHERRR,” posted one fan via X, while a chorus of others joined in.

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

“Mother spice,” commented a third person.

Others knew the “Think You the S*** (Fart)” artist would be getting hit with some good “Taykarma” for standing up for the 14-time Grammy winner.

“Taykarma will always bless you, ice,” shared a fan.

“This is why we love ice spice she is taywarrior,” another added.

“Number 1 taywarrior,” chimed in someone else.

Others were just here to praise Ice Spice herself.

“I love this woman so much,” one X user gushed, while another was furious on her behalf.

“The audacity of these scum to treat such a sweet woman like this,” they argued. “They don’t even deserve to breathe the same air as Ice Spice.”

Ice Spice and Swift collaborated on “Karma” for the The Til Dawn edition of Swift’s Grammy-winning Album of the Year, Midnights. The Tortured Poets Department artist, for her part, brought out the rapper for the first of her Eras Tour shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, in May 2023 — where they debuted the “Karma” music video and Ice Spice performed the collaboration live with Swift.

The pair have also continuously showed love and respect for each other, with Swift telling Variety in 2023 that the “Munch” artist’s “dedication and focus is what blew me away from the very start,” adding that Ice Spice “impresse[d] the hell out of” her by “charting her own definitive, original path” in the music industry.

Ice Spice, for her part, gets “so much advice” from Swift, whom she “talk[s to] all the time,” she told The Guardian last year, adding that when they teamed up for “Karma, “I was so obsessed with how humble [Taylor] was and willing to work.”