Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast Untold Stories of Ice Spice hosted by DJButterrock

Cx1DJs We Do Things Different Podcast "Untold Stories of Ice Spice" hosted by DJButterrock

Isis Naija Gaston (born January 1, 2000), known professionally as Ice Spice, is an American rapper and songwriter. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York City, she began her musical career during college in 2020, after meeting record producer RiotUSA. Her rapping style has been noted by music journalists, who have described her as a "breakout star".[3]

Ice Spice gained major recognition in late 2022 with her song "Munch (Feelin' U)", which went viral on TikTok. After signing with 10K Projects in a joint venture with Capitol Records, she released the singles "Bikini Bottom" and "In Ha Mood" to promote her debut extended play (EP), Like..? (2023). The EP spawned the Billboard Hot 100-top ten single "Princess Diana" (with Nicki Minaj), and peaked at number 15 on the Billboard 200. She saw continued success with her collaborative singles released that same year: "Boy's a Liar Pt. 2" (with PinkPantheress), "Karma" (with Taylor Swift), and "Barbie World" (with Nicki Minaj and Aqua), all of which peaked within the top-ten of the Billboard Hot 100. This made Ice Spice the only rapper to release four songs that achieved top-ten status in 2023. Her 2024 single, "Think U the Shit (Fart)" preceded the release of her debut studio album, Y2K! (2024).

She is the recipient of several accolades, including the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist, the People's Choice Award for New Artist of the Year, and the Impact Award from the BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards. She has received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best New Artist. Outside of music, she had roles in the films Highest 2 Lowest and The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (both 2025).

Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:00

Yon CX1 DJs. We do things different. Podcasts. Untold stories. I Spice. Yeah, maybe make sure my Instagram is working. Maybe make sure my Instagram's working. How y'all be everybody doing this Sunday Sunday uh evening? Doing good. I'm doing good. I'm doing good. And shout out to all my people that fucking with DJ Butter Rock, man. Shout out to all my platforms. I gotta make sure my sound is up correctly. I barely can hear it. There we go. Make sure it's loud. I like it loud. I like it loud. I like it loud. Let me move my mic over here. My mic stand. My roll away $300 mic stand. My man said, yo, why you keep bragging about your $300 mic stand when some of these DJs barely could buy them stay self and lunch and they kids lunch. I said, nigga, you are much. I could say what the fuck I want to say about my $300 mic stand. Go ahead and buy you one. Shit, nigga, you a much. What's my mic spy saying? Nigga, you a much.

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SPEAKER_02 1:08

Don't worry about my motherfucking mic stand. It's here for a purpose. I'm in a shoot studio. I'm in a new studio. Don't worry. I went ahead and ordered another mic stand too, so I won't have to make so much noise. But this is an uncut show. We live. I'm gonna let everybody know. All my viewers, DJ ButterRock, CX1 DJs, all my shows is live. Most of these casts be pre-recording. No, we do live. All I'm recording is live recording. We on we on X, we on Spotify, YouTube, and shout to all my the new streaming platform we on now. We added Facebook. And I appreciate everybody on Facebook that's there. If you're watching this live on Facebook, I love all my Facebook followers. Let me talk to my Facebook followers real quick. If you on Facebook watching this, make sure you do me a favor. Support the CX1 DJs. This is not just a I'm the host, the CEO, the owner, the founder of the CX1 DJs. Stop being me, DJ Butter Rock. You know, I got the bit gotta have the best one in the crew hosting this shit. Um, been DJing over 35 years, been breaking artists since 1988. So I'm qualified to do the untold stories. I tell people, don't get jealous, because we doing what we're doing. Shout out to all other DJs and DJ crews trying to bite up what the fuck we are doing. We support all DJs, so we are not in competition. You go bite up what we're doing. Untold story. We bring it back to the culture. I've been breaking records since 1988, since I was 12 years old. So I've been doing this a long time. And we're gonna be we on our untold stories, we're gonna be paying homage and giving flowers to the old school rappers, the people I grew up on, as well as the new people, like Ice Spice. Now, so so so for some of the people that's not that's that's new to the untold stories. Untold stories, we don't, we don't, we don't trash the artists. Say if they have some controversy going out there or some shit going on. We don't do that. We give flowers. And we ever played your music, and my DJs played your music. I the fans voted on who they wanted. They wanted ice spice, we got ice spice. They want it, they want it, they you know, people want to vote on, and the we play ice spice music. Shout out to Universal Music Group, shout out to everybody in that system Universal. We rock with ice spice. I've been rocking with ice spice in the beginning. I've been playing ice spice music back when I was in a long time. Shout out to T Cap, shout out to the Vice President T Cap, shout out to President DJ Money. I've been rock, I've been putting DJ Money, all my DJs have been playing Ice Spice music since the beginning, since she came out in 2001. 2021, excuse me. 2021. I said it right. So we're gonna get into her story, but before we get into the story, I got to shout out every my whole team. Shout out to Julia Simmons, shout out to the PRs, shout out to every PR that allowed us to do this, shout out to University Music Group, shout out to Ice Spice people for not, you know, allowing us to do it because you you you know what I'm saying? Shout out to everybody understanding this is a positive reporting. We are not trasing ice spice, we're not no negativity with ice spice. We love ice spice. Let's get that out there real quick because a lot of people like you're doing untold stories, like a lot of the not only hurt people, people in general when we do an untold story. If they're not familiar with it, they want to know is it gonna be positive or negative. I need everybody to start watching our previous episodes. We might hit on some stuff that was in the media, but we do not cover, and this channel would not do an untold story, have your pictures flashing on the other side of the screen, have your your beautiful moments of your career and then try to tear you down. That ain't what CX1 DJs do. We give flowers, and I need all my beautiful people to start reading the posts underneath the posts underneath any promotion that you see and read it. You could tell that we are giving flowers and promotion. None of my DJs, none of my staff, nobody a part of CX1 DJs coalition LLC or CX1 DJs. We do things different. Podcast LLC or any of our affiliates will never, never trash or talk negative or promote anything negative by any artist that's on our untold stories. Boom, let's get that out there. And we will not allow no one other DJs to affiliate with us either. And this show is done by DJs, made by DJs, produced by DJs. So everything you see is done by the DJs. This ain't regular PRs or regular podcasters. We are DJs that turn into podcasters. This is some shit, it's just another avenue to promote our skills and our craft of breaking records. And every artist on here that we promote, we are still breaking their records by putting their name in the spotlight. It don't matter how big you are, who the hell is gonna turn down more promotion? I know I'm never gonna, I don't give a fuck who you are. If you want to promote me and my artists and my company in a in a good light, long as you're not tearing us down, you could you could do what you need to do. I don't give a fuck. You could take the logo long as it's positive. I'm gonna say this again. You could take my logo, promote it as long as it's positive. I do want to throw that out there. We're not gonna trip over somebody having a logo. Long as you're promoting it and you you're doing it in a positive light, and you're not scamming nobody, you're not doing nothing crazy, you you are free to use what you need to do to promote anybody in this industry as long as it's in good tent. I just want to put that out there. I will want to say everybody that's been supporting the CX1 DJs Coalition, LLC, and the CX1 DJs, we do things different podcasts. This podcast has been around since October 30th, and we accomplished a lot of things since October 30th, 2025. And the CX1 DJs been around since the 80s, all right. Uh, most of our members, we got over 10,000 members worldwide and uh affiliates over 20,000. So all together, we got over 30,000 DJs in this camp, in this group, in this club, DJ Club. So I want to let everybody know this part of CX1 DJs. I know everybody can't get on our lives, everybody can't make all the shows. We get it, but we ask everybody to understand this support and respect the CX1 DJs. Now, real quick, I got it's a lot of things I gotta I gotta talk about. I gotta move my mic. Excuse me, if y'all hear any noise. I'm trying not to make too much noise as I uh want to, right as I do this, but I gotta make sure this is right there. I'm trying to make too much noise. All right, yeah. So, so um, hold on one minute. Yeah, all right, I got the iHeart Media thing was tripping. All right, so shout out to IHERT Media Chad, uh, my coach and also the new director of the CX1 DJ podcast. He's the head director of the CX1 DJ podcast. And shout to Troy Wallace, he's been very active on Facebook. We got to get love to Troy Wallace because Troy Wallace has been more active than any of y'all. I'm not trying to shit on nobody, but Troy Wallace has been watching what people have been doing, and he's been on it. He's been seeing it. He's the project director for CX1 DJ's podcast and CX1 DJ's coalition LLC. And he's been on it. So I want to thank Troy Wallace for uh uh project director, and he's over everybody. He's over the president, he's over the vice president, he's over everybody but me. Troy Wallace is the man that could get rid of you. I I don't even gotta have no say so. So that that's the guy that y'all need to be really DMing and asking for his phone number. He's up there in age and he's a real person. He will talk to you. He's my Mason brother. Troy Wallace is out there in New York City, he's been in the game forever, and he's um been off the he's been in this in the in the scene, but he's been off of social media, but he's back on he back on full-fledged with the CX1 DJ's podcast and everything that CX1 DJ's coalition is doing. And that is my Mason brother, and uh, I want to I want to salute Troy Wallace tonight for being very active and play and being behind the scenes when people think he's not there watching what everybody does. The word of Troy Wallace, you do what you want us to do to you. So if you want us to pay you, you need to do what you need to do to get paid. No one's getting paid when I work. This shit might take forever to see a real check in this podcast shit. But if you're here for money, this this is the time to chew the fuck out. We're not we don't care about no YouTube views, we don't care about no views nowhere. It's all about the process and doing these shows. As we have a schedule show, we asking the vice president and the president, your your your hell held by your position to be at every show. And we need everybody to constantly comment in the comment section. And um, I see that money and everybody commenting in there. Let me go here and um and uh do something real quick. Hold on. Something I didn't do before that I'm gonna start doing now. And I'm I'm gonna get I'm gonna buy some other stuff, everybody. So let me go here. Let's see, where can I do that at? All right, I don't think I could do it. Uh no, I can't do it. Nope. Butter I can't do it. I gotta get Julia Simmons or somebody to do that. All right, so um, I wanna I want to really thank everybody for tuning in and doing what you could do. And uh, we're gonna start the show in a little bit. I gotta continue to give out my my my announcements and check my board and everything. So my camera right here, I'm staying, I gotta stay in the view of the damn camera. And Icepice. Let's talk about Ice Spice real quick. I have nothing bad to say about Ice Spice. Usually I I won't what I mean by bad, like when we do a show, we gotta cover the good, the bad, and the ugly, but we got to do it in a certain kind of way. And tonight I don't have nothing negative to say. She didn't have too much drama. She had a little beef with um, I think I won't even call it beef, but I call it a misunderstanding with Cardi B. I don't know if that got that was to my knowledge and to my investigation, that was not solved. Okay, and they both was from the Bronx, so I'm like two Bronx female rappers. And I and I really love Cardi B. We just did an unto story in her last week. And I love uh Ice Spice. We're gonna get into Ice Spice. Ice Spice is a little younger artist than Cardi B, been around a little um just well, going on five years, uh Ice Spice has been around. So let's get into Ice Spice, all right. Ice Spice now is 26. She got in the game. We're gonna really say I gotta get by. I saw I've been playing Ice Spice music since 2019. So I had her music. It was more like the the, you know, that um I was playing actually I had some Ice Spice just in 2016 because I was playing Young and May, and Ice Spice was actually uh playing around with a lot of mixtapes and shit like that, and drill beats and stuff like that. So I've been I I was familiar with Ice Spice actually in 2016, early 2015 in the mixtape era. So I Spice started off Unto Story. So I'm butter, you gotta stop it, Unto the Story. She started as a dancer, she wasn't a rapper first, not no goddamn stripper or nothing, like like like like TikTok shit. She was doing the TikTok dancing off other people's beats, like shaking that little ass. Shit like that. Not no stripper shit, like popping that pussy, like getting reviews, like a tip, like a mouse. She was like video mixing for TikTok and Instagram. Took your research. A lot of people didn't know that. So she didn't start off as a rapper, but her team, like, yo, you you got to, you know, when you know when you got if you listen to Ice Spikes music, it's a bop. It's not lyrical, vertical, ain't no lyrical now, no, ain't no Queen Lot T play, ain't no goddamn, you know. The bar the the the her style is there for what she's doing. So I call it bop music. So Icepice has official bop world music. Like a lot of people don't have that bop music that goes global. Ice Spikes at a young age went global. So she's uh 26 years old. She's born in the Bronx, New York, very young, 2000. She's born in January in the 2000s. So that's 2026 years she's been on his earth. And to be 26, uh what I was doing in the 2020s. I was doing a whole bunch of shit in 2000s, but she came on the scene. Now, one thing about ice spice we gotta give her the TikTok was actually getting where it need to be at in 2022. Because I actually got on TikTok in 2021. I actually got my DJ account on there, started DJing. So I Spice got in that scene right when TikTok was booming. Alright. So she got known for her hit Bop. Alright, so that that that she already had she did Bop Underground, and then um it it did real good. She started dancing off and she started getting other people to dance off it. And um, no, I said it wrong. Uh munch, excuse me, munch. Bop Bop did good too, but we'll talk about Bop in a little bit. So Munch is the first song she she came out in 2000. I'm glad I caught that. So so Munch was the first song. She uh recorded that actually Munch was recorded in 2000. It didn't start picking legs until 2002. So two years later, this shit started pumping. And uh Munch Munch actually um was introduced to TikTok in 2000 and uh uh to one. It was recorded in 2000 and it hit uh hit the waves in 2002. That's when it actually picked up. And um it did real good in the UK. It did real good in the US, but it was that was underground, so it really didn't kick legs into um a super producer named Riot USA, which I know riot. I met Riot a couple times out here in Atlanta. Riot is a dope ass producer, he works in um multiple major studios here in Atlanta. Pat Swerv is one of them. So Riot USA. His name is Riot Riot, like a riot, riot, like a riot, like a cop's got a riot outside. USA actually discovered her. Riot USA didn't produce the record, he remixed the record, and when he once he remixed the record, he started sending it to all his industry friends. All his industry friends picked up the record from 2022. The shit they dropped the single munch, and that shit blew up. Multiple remixes, uh Billboard Hot 100s, the single actually went triple platinum. It was triple platinum at the end of 2023. Okay. So Munch was the record that actually put her where she at now. Came out a couple other hits and stuff like that. And you know, she had a bunch of other singles following up that I Spice was doing is doing a lot of singles, which I tell artists that's what you need to do now. We ain't gonna get into all that. We I don't want to really talk, I don't want I want to talk about what got her in a map. So she started doing a lot of stuff. She started doing a write, a lot of writing, writing on with Nicki Minaj. She did a lot of stuff on Pink Panther, which I didn't know that. And she uh did a lot of stuff with uh Izzo and Sweetie. So she'd been doing a lot of lot of things. I'm reading some stuff in my PR Summy. Nicki Minaj, pretty much, I would say, once she got into the Universal Records. Once she got signed to Universal, that that system right there, they actually put her with Nikki. And her look was not like how she looked now. She more had the curly hair, like um, you know, the curly hair kind of thing, yeah, the the yellowest hair and shit, like like she going towards that, the look that she was going towards. Um, and then she dyed her hair. It was actually dark, it was brown, then it went dark brown, then it went yellow on some Ronald McDonald shit, or whatever she she I know what I know the direction she was trying to go in. I ain't trying to get sued. But um people trying to find anything to sue you these days. So the direction she was going in, um, pretty much Nikki didn't like it. She told her to change her look, which Ice Spice did on Toast Stories. And pretty much Nikki behind closed doors, you heard this nowhere, told her, hey, you're getting too dick. The men like dick, but certain nationalities don't like dick. So you're gonna get dick just like all these other bitches. They got the big asses and shit. So icepice was dick as fuck. All right. No, no, no disrespect to icepice. Untold stories of icepice, CX1 DJs. So Nikki told her and a couple of her people, like, hey man, you gotta slam that shit down. Now, one thing I wanna say that I want to I want to clean the room of right now. Because a lot of people saying that I spice dick took a zip. Icepice actually went on a weight training journey, and she lost the weight, the healthy way. She did not take a zip it, she didn't take medformen, she didn't take no weight lost drugs. It was legitimate how she lost the weight. Everybody was saying that, oh, she cheated, she did that. I did my investigation. She she actually went to the gym, she had a trainer, she still got a trainer, and she lost the weight. But then um, here we go with the industry. Like, oh, you lost too much weight. So she had to go back and gain the weight back. Now, if you look at the ice spice today, she's coming back to the dickness that she was before they asked her to lose the weight. Ladies and gentlemen, one thing I say about this I a lot I ice spice look beautiful one way or another. She's a young lady, but once you tell a woman, hey man, you gotta lose this fucking weight, that will affect your self-esteem. And then you have one fan base that like you like this, and you have another fan base that wants you to be dick, it really depends on who's cutting the check. So if the labels tell you you gotta lose weight, and then you gotta lose weight. If they say you gotta gain weight, you gotta gain weight. It's like you you going for a movie set, you go in to get a get get a scene in a movie. So if you're getting a scene in a movie, you gotta follow whatever the hell the script is. You can't be skinny and then you come fat, and then you can't be fat and you come skinny. It's really what that fuck, that label. Damn, I'm sorry. It's really what that label's telling you to do. I'm tripping, y'all. It's really, it's really, I don't give a fuck. Fuck you niggas over there. That nigga makes some noise. Here, hit a nigga, change the mic, Sam. Nigga, I shut up. I got I got I got the $300 short mic stand, and I can move this motherfucking ass off, please, and I should. Let's get back to ice spikes. So, all you female rappers need to understand this. It's not about you, it's about the consumer. So if they say, hey man, you gotta change your change with how you look, unfortunately, you gotta change how you look. You it's it's whatever paying the bills. So if Slim say tomorrow, all right, man, your look is changing for you to be 120 pounds, you have to change that weight for 120 pounds. You can't, you can't, you gotta listen to them, and that's it. So she did a lot of songs with Bad Bunny. Um Ice Spice did his songs with everybody, Akon, Megan and Stallion. Only one person that she was about to do a song with, and this is a true story, was uh was um was Cardi B, but then it was like, oh, you trying to be like me? We from the Bronx, you're trying to be like me, was the beef, not the beef, the disagreement. Ice Spice did her songs, and people like, oh, he talking about first though she was talking about Nikki. They ain't like, nah, she ain't talking about Nikki because Nikki is one of her mentors. And you all we all know Nikki was beefing with Cardi, so it's like, if you with ISPIC, your beef is my beef. That's how the industry looked at it. I'm not saying that's what I Spice said, but you know, that's how Cardi B took it. Then uh I Spice Mason Records, Nikki Mason, no, not Nikki, uh Cardi B Mason Records, and that shit was going back and forth. Um, I don't I don't believe no one said their name, but everybody knows they were talking about each other. And what was what kills me in this industry is both females is from the same place, born and raised in the Bronx, New York. You assume that the oldest person in that pack would be more educated, educate the younger person. Nikki is older than Ice Spice. Nikki's older than Ice Spice. Cardi B is older than Ice Spice. So you think the elder, I don't matter if they 10 years, five years, whoever older, whoever been in the game longer will school, the young people, how to react to bullshit. So they said Ice Spice made the record first shitting on Cardi B. Cardi B said the bitch came after her. Cardi B said she was buying her business. These bitches want problems. That words came out of Cardi B's mouth. And we covered that on the Untold Stories of Cardi B. So let's cover Icepice. Icepice, like, yo, I ain't had no problem with Cardi B. She didn't want to work with me. She thought I was trying to be like her. And that's not the case. I'm in my own lane and I'm living my own life. And yeah, she states, she's like, yo, come growing up in the Bronx, it wasn't that good. Had to see a lot of crazy shit, but it wasn't that bad either. I lived my life in Bronx, New York at an early age. So I've been in the Bronx a bunch of fucking times. The Bronx ain't nothing to be fucking played with. But it also depends on what part of the Bronx. You got the bad part, you got South Bronx, you got North Bronx, you got some parts of the Bronx that's real fucking nice. So really I gotta get my shit over here. Hold on, let me get my let me get my my comments. Hold on, yeah. My water. So it really depends on what part of the Bronx, New York you at. Because some part of the Bronx is not bad. Now I had another person, someone email me when I was doing this show. Like, yo, why y'all doing ice spice? Icepice don't got that much damn, she don't got a big catalog. Only one album and a couple of singles. I like ice spice. And my friend, me and my friend uh uh Chad, my from our Heart Media, we agreed to do it. So I I like I like her music, man. I like her style, she looks good. She she owned up to be my daughter, so I'm gonna leave it there. A couple of my DJs love her in a beautiful way. So we're gonna cover this and we're gonna uh respect Ice Spice. And I I personally, some of the DJs, some some of the some of the people don't like her music. And I asked them, I said, all right, we're gonna have a question. That's the you know, y'all send me the questions and I read it out here live. I said, what is wrong with Ice Spice music? Like, she ain't lyrical, she sounds good to me. So I should I'm gonna shoot it down. I will be respectful and take any anybody, you know, with their opinion on ice spices. This is what I asked everybody. When you go, when you want to go ahead and start uh uh giving your opinion on what you don't like about an artist, for one, what what did you do? Icepice had 15 number one singles on the billboard 200. Okay? How many of you motherfuckers that say you don't like ice spice had 15 songs on the billboard top 200s? So when you say you don't like something, apparently somebody likes it. Now, DJ Butter Rock, let's keep industry. Because I ain't gonna joke, I usually crack jokes. I'm gonna be serious today. It's a Sunday, all right? Ice Spice. So we're gonna talk about it. Butterrock, you know them labels could make anybody be on the top hundreds, the top all the charts. I'm gonna say this. Anybody could be on something, but you still gotta work to it. You gotta have something that if I'm gonna fake a number, or I'm gonna put you on some kind of charts, or say you something you're not, you still have to have the work effort and you gotta have to it factor factor. You don't no one gets to be on the top 200, hot 100 billboard charts, or the top 100s, or the you know, on uh getting plaques or going platinum or double platinum left lest they have the it factor. I'm sick of people saying the labels is faking the numbers all the time when this shit don't go in their favor. The labels ain't faking all the fucking numbers. The labels don't fake live nation tickets, they don't fake ticketmaster tickets, they don't fake the sales, man. So we can't keep saying the labels is is um playing with the numbers. Universal Records is one of the biggest, one of the biggest, one of the biggest global record labels distributors in the world. I doubt that Universal Records is faking any numbers. And I love everybody at the University of Warner Music Group. That whole system, I love everybody at Universal Records, have nothing but respect for everybody at Universal Records. And I we all know that some labels, we're not talking about Universal, we won't talk about none under the powerhouse labels because that's not my job to do. My job is to cover the artist that's on Untold Stories. But being uh, I got an email that I'm gonna read online that uh that a fan said that she don't have a good body of music and how you know how while while you're doing that untold story. So I'm gonna answer that. She earned her right. Anyone that gets on Untold Stories, number one, sold over 10 million records. You can't be qualified to be on an untold story show on CX1 DJs. I don't give a fuck about one and a half people watching. You have to be you have to be qualified. You don't have to have a bunch of records sold, I mean a bunch of records released. You can have one album that did 10 million. This young lady here is younger than some of our daughters, or at the same age as some of our daughters, some of our veteran DJs that's on here. And she sold more records than anybody we fucking know. Right now, Ice Spice sold over 30 million records. And we're not talking about the new shit she got out right now. The Spongebob shit. That's the new shit. The numbers ain't in for that yet. That shit just came out. They just doing a rollout over that. We talk about the early Ice Spice to 2022, 2023, when she first came out on the scene. So TikTok is the place to be if you're trying to roll your shit out. Everybody keeps saying, oh man, ain't like a you listen to me. The record game, I'm gonna tell y'all something. I wanted you want y'all to listen to this right now. On this untold story of Icepice, the beautiful queen, icepice. The way the record company is direct, the record, the recording business and the and and the retail business and the record shit right now is back to how it used to be. ISPICE, I'm gonna name all of them, icepice, and a bunch of other people. Physical copies, physical CDs, physical DVDs, physical vinyl. It's all about back to physical copies, soul. Autograph, physical. Now you might say, I don't have a CD player. You better go fucking get you a CD player. Because all the shit I've been doing, my artists, and people's looking at me crazy when I hand on a CD, autograph CD by my artist, punkin'foot the panty girl. Y'all go look her up. She's a dope ass artist. Her name is Punkin' Foot the Panty Girl. She's DJ Butter Rock artist, CX1 DJ's E entertainment artist. Go look up. Female artist, very, very talented. When I was still selling CDs last year, people looking at me, I don't got no CD motherfucker. It's coming back. Now everybody and their mama pressing up CDs, vinyl, cassette tapes, and I still got all my boxes of CDs at the office. Like, yo, this shit ain't never going out of style. You know why? iSpice, Cardi B, Nicki Minaj, uh uh J. Cole, Bus the Rhyme, who the fuck else? Everybody, uh the baby, everybody you could name right now that got anything out, is selling physical copies. So all you artists behind the scene want to know where the money is at. The money is in ticket sales shows that people coming to see your black ass podcasters that you gotta stick to it. Don't shit on everybody because you never know you mightn't be on that. Like everybody shit it on me, I can't wait for them to call me. Yo, man, how can I get on the CX1 DJ podcast? $5,000, bitch, and hang up on them. Bow. Don't call me back until you have $5,000. Because you niggas shit it on this shit. I don't stop. This shit roll. Only people get free runs if you gotta be a major. This is what I'm gonna tell you. Either you sell 10 million records or you give me $5,000. If you ain't sell 10 million 10 million records, you're not getting on this motherfucker for free. Show me why I should cover your story for free. Who the fuck do you think you are? I Spice sold 30 million records. I would take a ton of my day, my lunch, my dinner to do a story on a person that did 30 million records. In counting, probably more than that, damn it. We're talking about physical soul. I ain't talking about the streams. Her streams probably in a billion. We're not, we don't, I don't like covering the streams because I'm not a big fan of the streaming. But I do, I am a big fan of Spotify. Spotify, Apple Music, and all the other stream platforms. I'm I'm not knocking the streaming thing. Uh we like promoting physical copies and we like promoting uh concert sales, but we do encourage you to go to Spotify, Amazon Music, Apple Music to go get the music and streaming and doubly stream this podcast. But when we talk about making money, your ass better be a hell of a good artist. We're not gonna cap on this damn podcast and think that you're gonna drop an album tomorrow, drop a single, and you're gonna be doing good like Ice Spice in the streaming network. It won't happen. The machine has to push you. This is gonna be a more educated show tonight, y'all. Yeah, better get your get your pen and paper out. Learn something. Some of my shows I'm funny, I'm character jokes. This is the education show today. Because when a person, you know a couple of people email me, ask me why it has or why I'm doing a show Untold Stories on Ice Spice, I take them as a hater. And of course, I was an artist. A couple of them was artists. You're a hater. You just doing it because she looked good. Nah, this young lady is old enough to be my daughter. But this young lady out there hustling, when the labels, when when the labels and Kim, uh Nicki Minaj, and Little Kim, because little Kim fucks with her as well, gave her, gave her the tips on what to do in this industry. Ice Spice actually listened to everybody that was talking to her. She listened to her team. She didn't argue with her team. She went ahead and did everything she had to do to be a mega superstar. Do you guys know what it takes to be a mega superstar? A lot of you people don't know what the fuck it takes. It takes discipline, it takes listening. It takes shutting the fuck up. It takes doing shit that you don't want to do. Oh shit. What the fuck you mean? Getting up in the morning. Let me let me clarify. What you mean by doing something you don't want to do? You ain't talking no puffy shit. No, we ain't talking no puffy shit, nigga. Getting up in the morning. Six o'clock in the morning. Shit, 4 30 in the morning. Washing your ass, going to the studio. How many of you motherfuckers? You probably just got in from doing the show, but you got to get right back up. Because you're recording an album. You think a person like I Spice is always recording? She's always recording. She's always creating music, always making sure the image is there for the next big thing. Everybody is waiting for who the next big thing is. Now I was talking to TCAP and a couple other my uh DJs and a couple of my record of Zach's friends about is nobody been released in the second quarter. No, none of the major labels, nobody came out with the who's the next person in the second quarter. All we're hearing is the shit that was done last year in the fourth quarter. You don't usually hear all the fourth quarter shit going to the second quarter. I'm hearing everything that was in the fourth quarter. They still promoting and playing. And some of that shit is dying out. So that's why you're getting a lot of. So this one I'm telling all you motherfuckers that want to do TikTok shit, Instagram, YouTube, Snapchat. This is the time to get your songs out there. Because there's nobody trending right now. Nobody knew. It's people trending. It's people. No, that's old shit. That's old people shit. I'm I'm I'm a new, I'm a DJ slash independent record promoter. I know damn well what's new, what's not new. ISPI, the new song she got right now, this the the the the Spongebob joint. That shit is old. But it ain't that old. But they've been working on that from last year. But they rolled it out. They did a good rollout. Now, go ahead and do your research. That came out. I had that record fourth quarter. But they didn't do a rollout. So you gotta understand this shit takes time. It could come out fourth quarter, like November, October of 2025, and then you don't really start hearing the shit to now. That's a good that's a rollout. Because you got to see how what record, because Ice Spice got a bunch of records, and they just testing which one. This one she got out now is working. She got a couple of joints out that's that's kind of dope. And um, she was she just did a promo tour. And uh we look at the promoter, she gained weight, she lost the weight, she looked like she gained the weight again. But it's she's not how she was, but uh, you could tell that she got weight on her. CX1 DJ's podcast. So um everybody uh just take a look at that. The weight fluctuates. Yeah, I had to email somebody. Somebody was emailing me over here on my board here. Yeah, so we want to keep that in mind. When when you're doing your thing, you gotta make sure you stay you stay in tune on which what the labels tell you to do. Now, another question I gotta read another thing. So, who you what artist do you think is better than Ice Spice? Um, I'm gonna answer that question because it's on my email here. So I don't think we talk about female rappers, they're saying, um I don't, I'm not gonna say another female's rapper is better than another. Everybody's different. Everybody got their own style. So when you have your own style, you can't lyrically everybody is not the same artist. It's like you can't say, well, I think this one, because I I would I would do it right there on Ice Spice Dirk. Like, yo, Ice Spice needs to get to this level right here to be like this. We're not doing that because her music is different. I think it's world music, I think it's music that you can pretty much um kids can listen to it. It depends on what song, but it depends on what environment. So she got music for all different ages. So I I'm gonna I'm gonna say she's in the class by herself, man. So I ain't I'm not gonna uh say that because someone trying to say who you think better heard, Cardi. So maybe ask that question. Cardi B, I'm gonna answer that question because I'm gonna do it because I'm not fake. Cardi B, I love Cardi B. I love Cardi B. But Cardi B will tell you herself she got writers. And she'll write some of her shit, and and she don't write some of her shit. So she has writers. Ice Spice write her own shit. She'll collaborate with separate people, but for the most part, she writes her own shit. So how can you give it to a writer that's not writing? Like I can't say Cardi B's corny because she not, but she knows Cardi B know if I write something and I give it to Cardi B, she knows how to bring it to life. So Ice Spice write most of her shit. I'm gonna tell you what we'll make a hit record. We'll make a hit record as simple. When everybody trying to be so difficult and and don't get it twisted, I love Cardi B music. Now she wrote, she she co-writes some shit, but we're not talking about a co-writer, we're talking about a straight up writer, a songwriter that I don't give a fuck. It's one, two, three. I wrote one, two, fucking three, so I should get all the credit. So to ask a question of who's better than the other, I don't think nobody should ever give a hundred percent credit to one person if they didn't write all the music. It don't matter if you're a fan of that artist. This is my opinion as a record exec, as a DJ and an independent record promoter, and a record breaker, because I've been breaking. I broke Cardi B records, I broke Ice Bice, Nikki Bernards, Lil' Kim, Foxy Brown, Megan Estallion, uh, MC Light. Uh back shit. Going back to the 80s when I was DJing in 1988, I was breaking all records, male and females. So I'm certified to say this. This is what we used to do back in the day. The first thing we used to do. We used to get the CD or a cassette tape or vinyl. We used to turn that motherfucker to the back. Save this. This this is the album, right? We used to turn it over. And we used to read who the fuck was the producer. I'm gonna tell you who the fuck at an early age I was doing this shit. Especially if the song is fucking dope. We used to read who's the producer, who's the songwriter, where they recorded the fucking album at. Who designed the album cover? Who directed, who was the executive producer? A lot of you niggas don't know what the fuck executive producer is. Who was a co executive producer? Who did arrangements on a record like the music, the background music? Who made and who produced and who wrote the music? That's what we used to do. So when you you have a say you had a Tina Marie and you read that Rick James wrote all of her shit, but you hear Tina Marie singing that shit so eloquently, you're like, damn, Tina did her damn thing. No, Rick James did his damn thing. He's the song fucking writer, he's the composer, he's the he's the artist developer. He says, Tina, you gotta sing her like this, you gotta sing her like that. So who you supposed to get a credit to, Rick James or Tina Marie? I'm taking y'all to school right now. Hope everybody got their goddamn, got their learning airs on. You give it to the person that wrote the fucking record.

SPEAKER_00 41:31

Cost the performer will get credit for performing.

SPEAKER_02 41:39

That's how that shit go. That's the music business, y'all. Icepice write her shit. She co-writes with another couple of writers. I'm not sitting on this CX1 DJ's untold stories of ISPIC saying she writes all her shit. She writes most of her shit and she has co-writers. Cardi B tells you and is in writing that she got writers. She the status that Cardi B is in, and I'm not shitting because I love Cardi B, she's in the status, she can sit there with a writer. Hey, motherfucker, I don't want to say it like that. Write that and put that in there. So she's actually, you could say, assisting, helping her writer. Like a and in most standards, when you're doing your split sheets, you're gonna say, all right, I wrote it, but Cardi B said, do A, B, C, One, Two, Goddamn, 3. Why I wrote it the whole rest of the fucking alphabet. Alphabet. So you have to still give Cardi B some of the writers. I don't care if it's 1%, 2%. But when you go down to who's the best artist, people taking the lyrical, derical, irrical shit is like, all right, being that motherfucker right there, wrap their ass off, like pin ass to belt, butt to ass, all that shit Cardi B was saying. I'm pitting butt to ass and belt to ass. I love that. I love that lyric. But did Cardi B write that sign? That lyric.

SPEAKER_00 43:14

I'm pitting belt to ass. Well, she said it, no.

SPEAKER_02 43:21

You should you out here shitting on Cardi B on the ice? No, I love Cardi B. You never gonna hear me. I just did a show on Cardi B. No. What I'm saying is when that fan, a fan emailed me that question to ask tonight, who I think is better, iSpice or Cardi B. And I email that fan back and said, You gotta specify what you mean, you mean ask him performance wise, lyrical wise, or songwriting wise. She said on all, it was a girl too, on all levels. Alright. On songwriting wise, we gotta give it to Ice Bice.

SPEAKER_00 44:04

Period. I don't care if she wrote she wrote one, two, three, three, six, six, three, sixty.

SPEAKER_02 44:13

On performance wise, we gotta give it to Cardi B. Period. On record sales wise, we gotta give it to both of them. Because both of them is selling the same amount of records. But if we want to pit, this shit when it gets sticky, it's gonna get sticky right now. Who been in the game longer?

SPEAKER_00 44:41

Let me take a sip of my water.

SPEAKER_02 44:46

Damn, this shit tastes good. Who been in the game longer? We both know. Everybody on this motherfucker knows Cardi B been in this shit longer than I Spice. Shit ain't the same. Cardi B been in here since loving hip hop. Cardi B been in this game since 2016, 2015, 2014. Getting that bag in the music industry. ISPIC signed her first deal with University Records in 2022. It's 2026, y'all.

SPEAKER_00 45:21

So Cardi B been in the game longer, but how the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 45:29

Cardi B got one two albums out working on the third album. I think she got three albums out. Don't give me don't one I say one to three albums. Working on the fourth one. So if you got three albums out working on the fourth album, and then we went in and looked at all the record sales, all the platinum, all the wards, and you have a young lady named ISPES that sold the same amount of copies, got the same amount of wards, same amount of tour revenue. You guys know I'm going with it. Because both of their numbers is the same. And iSpice only been here not even five years. Cardi been Cardi B been here since 20, signed her deal with Atlantic in 2016. So since 2016 to now, Cardi B been in the bill, in the business, music business. We're not talking about the love and hip hop shit.

SPEAKER_00 46:33

We're talking about the music business. What y'all think?

SPEAKER_02 46:44

Just think about it. So the person that emailed me that, they watching on Roku, so you see. So I want you to think about it. I'm I love Cardi B. And I thought I'd say this maybe because she saw my other show. Maybe she's trying to start some beef with me and trying to pit, you know, act like I'm talking bad about both of these people. I love Cardi B. I love Ice Spice, but it's the known fact that both of these people got people that helped them write. But Ice Spice write most of her shit. So everybody needs help, right? Everybody you to be Michael Jackson had writers. He didn't have a lot of writers because Michael wrote a lot of his shit. Let's get that um let's get make that abundantly clear because we're doing a special on Michael Jackson on the 26th of April. And I'm breaking some shit down. That Michael untold stories gonna be off the fucking chain. All my all my untold stories never gonna be the same, y'all. You never know what you're gonna get with DJ Butterack. You're never. You're not gonna get you're not gonna get you're not gonna get the same shit on any of my untold stories. If I'm giving you the same shit, it's something I'm doing wrong. You're not you're never gonna get the same shit with any of my untold stories. Because if I if I'm if I'm doing the same thing, hold on for a minute, y'all. Hold on, hold on. If I'm doing the same motherfucking thing, then I need to I need to retire. Move my mic over here, y'all. I need to retire if I'm doing the same thing on each show. And I will retire, god damn it. I like nigga, I retire. Shit, I retire. Um, some shows might be more educational. Like I I I choose, I choose the ones that I choose the ones that um is more like if you don't got that much body at work, but you sold a whole bunch of records like Ice Spice, like she got she don't got that much body at work, then I make it educational. But I won't like I won't turn it down. And I type the wrong shit. I'm sorry, y'all. I don't got my I need to pin my board right here. I will never turn down doing something. Like somebody asked me to do something, and this was this was a for a favor. I do love ice spice music. And um, I would never ever ever turn down a person, say, hey, do this, because a person just got into the music industry. Because she did definitely definitely sold way more records than some of these haters that's saying I shouldn't have done it on ice spice. And um, you know, the you know, because we got a lot of female people that hate that that be hating on rappers only. She got a lot of fans that hates on ice spice that I that I don't get it. So we're gonna get into the video part of this, and um, I wanted to thank everybody for that join that is watching on Facebook. I appreciate y'all, and everybody that's um tuned in on Roku, Apple Music, and X and Instagram. So let me uh put this, load this video up. Shout out to TCap, my vice president, and shout out to DJ Money and uh my president, and shout out to Punkinfoot, shout out to everybody that that helps me do what I need to do, man. And um definitely shout out to everybody on Facebook. Uh Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, but YouTube numbers ain't never right. So I'm shout to YouTube anyway. There they email me and say their numbers is not right. I've been having problems with their live numbers, so I feel good about that. Like people was watching, but don't show it. I'm cool with that. I ain't tripping. I told them I ain't tripping. They apologize. YouTube apologizing me, y'all. And uh when you upload videos, it don't give you the views. It's like delayed like two weeks, they said. This shit's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 50:37

My name's Ice. I'm from the Bronx, New York. Being uh born and raised in New York shaped me. I think the environment I grew up in made me very aware. It wasn't like super, like super sweet and easy every day, but it also wasn't the worst.

SPEAKER_02 50:58

Look at her getting this award.

SPEAKER_01 51:08

I'm super hot.

SPEAKER_02 51:57

God damn it. CX1 DJs, baby. Ice Spice. Woo! Oh no, be my daughter, baby. Thank you for everybody coming to CX1 DJs Podcast. Uh tomorrow we got Run DM C untold story, run DMC. Peace and love, y'all. I love them all, y'all. Peace and love. See y'all tomorrow. Run DMC 8 p.m. 8 p.m. Run DMC, March 30th. Run run DMC tomorrow. You go back and watch it. You missed a little, you missed a lot. Peace.