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\n\tIn her Rolling Stone <\/em>cover story last summer, Ice Spice likened her hustle to none other than SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon crustacean whose eponymous animated series premiered in 1999, just a few months before Ice Spice was born on New Year\u2019s Day in 2000. \u201cI think I learned a lot from that show,\u201d Ice says. \u201cHe never wanted a day off, even when Mr. Krabs would tell him, \u2018Go the fuck home.\u2019 He\u2019d be like, \u2018No, I need to work.\u2019\u2009\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThat synergy might be what makes her contribution to the soundtrack for The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants<\/em> such a no-brainer. Last week, Ice Spice premiered the song and music video for \u201cBig Guy,\u201d an impossibly catchy bop infused with whatever potion she uses to make her songs nestle deep inside your subconscious. The track fits seamlessly into the brightly colored SpongeBob universe, and apparently is about a teenage SpongeBob finally being able to ride a roller coaster. Because he\u2019s a big guy. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201cSpongeBob, big guy pants, okay,\u201d Ice raps on the chorus. The words have been ping-ponging around my brain for the past four days. With all of the wholesomeness of a Bronx drill Cocomelon, Ice delivers lines cleverly adapted to the cartoon series (with no curse words) in her signature, spellbinding cadence. And while she\u2019s known for her, um, dancing, Ice switches registers here, opting for more family-friendly fun. Honestly, the whole thing is decidedly positive. \u201cBig things \u2019bout to happen today \/ I woke up feelin\u2019 a brand new way,\u201d she raps. \u201cFacin\u2019 the world in a brand new way.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n\tIn the lineage of recent children\u2019s song crossovers \u2014 think of Pharrell\u2019s inescapable 2013 hit \u201cHappy,\u201d or the briefly viral \u201cRich Minion\u201d by Yeat \u2013 \u201cBig Guy\u201d achieves something that only Ice Spice can. Despite her detractors\u2019 endless commitment to hating, Ice Spice is a fixture of the current era precisely because she embodies the times. Her lyrical efficiency and appreciation for more ambient space on tracks allow the songs to flow seamlessly on feeds burdened by the weight of everything all at once. In endlessly hypnotic Ice Spice songs like \u201cMunch,\u201d \u201cDeli,\u201d and now \u201cBig Guy,\u201d she offers a kind of sonic meditation. SpongeBob. Big guy. Pants. Okay.<\/p>\n \n\tIt makes sense that, in addition to being featured on the soundtrack, Ice is apparently voice-acting in the new SpongeBob movie; her character, a fish at Bikini Bottom High School, already has an iconic line: \u201cDon\u2019t make me call security,\u201d delivered in a perfectly exaggerated New York accent. Ice has been plotting her return this year, notably squashing her beef with Latto and dropping a string of tracks that showcase her melodic strengths and, like her breakout hit \u201cMunch,\u201d are quietly going from ridicule to repeat listens. She\u2019s started Twitch streaming, too, a move that\u2019ll only further entrench her with the generation currently coming of age. <\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n \n\tAll of which is to say, if you were praying for Ice Spice\u2019s downfall anytime soon, you\u2019re going to be sorely disappointed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In her Rolling Stone cover story last summer, Ice Spice likened her hustle to none other than SpongeBob SquarePants, the cartoon crustacean whose eponymous animated series premiered in 1999, just a few months before Ice Spice was born on New Year\u2019s Day in 2000. \u201cI think I learned a lot from that show,\u201d Ice says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[1285,9601,2466,7012,2778,9508,19549,415],"class_list":{"0":"post-34361","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-big","9":"tag-guy","10":"tag-ice","11":"tag-listening","12":"tag-song","13":"tag-spice","14":"tag-spongebob","15":"tag-stop"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n