Consumer Guide Album

Ice Spice: Like . . ? [10K Projects/Capitol EP, 2023]
The keyword on this charmingly lubricious soft-rap EP is "smoochie," a nice and indeed affectionate way to say "ho" that benefits from the innocent sexuality of the word "smooch" and as it happens has its sonic congruities with SUNY Purchase, the dropout alma mater of a 23-year-old Bronx-born self-promoter christened-or-was-she Isis Naija Gaston. One song here allows as how good old "boo" is also OK with her. Then again, another one claims the title "Princess Diana." A-