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Ice Spice and Cleotrapa, Baby Storme Friends Breakup: Explained

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When Ice Spice sat down with Rolling Stone in an interview for her cover story last month, she had a sort of jibe with her former friend: “Someone who I… called my friend, told me to open up and be honest with them,” Ice Spice told her at the time. “(She) totally used that to her advantage.”

She was referring to rapper and content creator Baby Storme, a longtime friend of Ice’s, who leaked text messages in which he expressed his disappointment with Nicki Minaj over their relationship negotiations. Barbie collab. That started all the drama between the two rappers. (Just ask the Barbz.) “That was honestly the saddest part,” Ice said. “Just feeling used, basically.”

A few weeks later, Ice Spice’s friendships were back in the spotlight for Storme (pun intended), but this time it involved another aspiring rapper, Cleotrap, who, in a six-part TikTok series, accused Ice Spice of humiliating and mistreating her while she was opening for Ice’s Y2K tour this summer.

@cleotrap

Ion wants to hear “I told you Cleo” because honestly, I really thought I had a friend, idc. You will not create false narratives! Because I will always clear my name and you have known that since 2018

♬ original sound – Cleotrapa 💋

“Understand that no matter the occasion, no one should make you feel inferior or suck because they gave you the opportunity,” Cleotrapa says in one of her videos. “That doesn’t give an open door to humiliate you or make you feel inferior.”

Although the drama started long before the tour, when Storme declared that Ice and Cleotrapa “false friends“and that Ice was using Cleo “so she could seem closer to black”, things became even more tense in early September when Ice and Cleotrap unfollowed her after the tour ended, and Cleo began to air her grievances.

“It’s hilarious to think I got paid. I got scammed, cheated on, and not paid,” Cleotrapa said on Sept. 2, claiming Ice Spice said her tour expenses would be covered. She also said Ice didn’t add her to the bill Y2K tour and never mentioned online that she would be joining her on the tour.

In her videos, Cleotrapa called Ice a “false friend” and described several incidents where she felt mistreated by Y2K rapper. In one instance, Cleotrapa claimed they were in the middle of Texas where there were no restaurants other than McDonald’s, but it was later revealed that Ice Spice and her band had gone to a steakhouse and she and another person had not been invited. She also claimed that she was denied a chicken salad because it was “out of budget.”

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At one point in the TikTok videos, Cleopatra shared screen recordings of exchanges between the pair, including a lengthy text message Cleo sent to Ice Spice near the end of the tour.

“I want to apologize to my fans who tried to say I was Token’s black friend,” Cleotrapa wrote. “It’s okay, you’ll never see me with that girl again. That’s it and I’m sooo relieved.”

@cleotrap

And I want to apologize to my fans who tried to say I was Token’s black friend. It’s okay, you’ll never see me with that girl again. That’s it and I’m sooo relieved phew 😭 now you can stop making up stories ❤️

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Shortly after, Ice Spice addressed Cleotrap’s accusations in Space X, where she stated that she had “noticed a pattern” that seemed to involve friends using her for influence, as she put it. Rolling Stone.

“I really tried to help her,” Ice said, later adding, “A last-minute freakout… I’m like, ‘Oh, I’ll see if Cleo wants to come with me so she can sing her songs and stuff.’ But that’s what the hell I get for trying to be a good person. Whatever, man.”

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Ice said that Cleotrap left out details about their experiences together, including that the two went to an amusement park and “screamed our vocal cords out” and that the two “had a good time,” including at an Italian restaurant and a movie theater. (Ice also shared her dislike for Cleo’s comments, calling Ice “heartless and dark.”)

Ice continued the mess by sharing a poll on X asking “what should I make for dinner,” with the options being “Steakhouse” or “chicken salad.” Ice’s manager, James Rosemond, also addressed the drama in a series of now-deleted tweets, writing that “this is what happens when an artist’s team doesn’t manage their expectations.”