Ice Spice is carrying a $50,000 piece of jewelry in her mouth.
“Biggest tongue ring in the world made for @icespice,” designer Benny the Jeweler wrote via Instagram on Wednesday, July 8, alongside a video of the bling. “Flawless diamond made with 18k gold!👅👅.”
In addition to showcasing a close-up look at the tongue ring, the video featured a selfie of Ice, 26, sticking her tongue out as she debuted the jewelry.
Benny the Jeweler, who has also worked with Usher, Saquon Barkley, Jake Paul and Nicki Minaj, has created custom pieces for Ice in the past, including a diamond-encrusted Richie watch reportedly worth $250,000. He also made the rapper a custom cartoon necklace in 2023.
“CLOSE UP OF THE BIG @icespice PIECE WITH THE AFRO IN ROSE GOLD 💎💎 OVER 80 CTS IN DIAMONDS!!” the designer wrote alongside photos of the necklace at the time.
Ice showed off the necklace during a 2023 appearance on Capital Radio, calling it her “baby.”
“This is fan art. I’m obsessed with that,” she added. “Shout out Benny. He made this.”
Ice’s new jewelry piece came days after she attended Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s wedding at Madison Square Garden in New York City on July 3, along with several other celebrity guests. The singers have been pals since they collaborated on the remix of Swift’s song “Karma” in 2023.
“What I took away from Taylor’s [Miss Americana] documentary is you really do need to work hard, and not everything is going to be as easy as it seems,” Ice told Variety in 2023. “My manager heard me talking about that and had reached out to her team, and then they had a song for me.”
Swift, 36, gushed to the outlet, “I relate to Ice in many ways, but I think her dedication and focus is what blew me away from the very start. She’s extremely professional without being cold. Playful and fun without ever taking her eye off the prize.”
“She knows what is and isn’t ‘her’ and sets those boundaries with grace,” the singer added. “She studies the industry and other artists’ careers but is very clear about charting her own definitive, original path. It’s her ability to carefully find that balance that impresses the hell out of me.”
Ice also revealed that she and Swift “talk all the time.”
“I was like, ‘You f*** with my project? Like, what?’” she told The Guardian in 2023. “She’s so sweet — I was so obsessed with how humble she was and willing to work. She gives me so much advice. We talk all the time and she’s so funny.”
