NEW YORK (1010 WINS/WCBS 880) — Gimme a MetroCard! Following Friday’s release of Bronx-bred rapper Ice Spice’s new single “Gimme a Light,” the latest piece of her anticipated debut album “Y2K,” the MTA announced that it will celebrate the upcoming LP with commemorative MetroCards picturing the New York City rapper.
Beginning at midnight on Monday, 50,000 Ice Spice MetroCards will be available at four subway stations in the Bronx and Manhattan as part of the MTA’s collaboration with Capitol Records, the label behind the project.
With “Gimme a Light,” which dropped on alongside an accompanying music video, Ice Spice producer and friend RiotUSA pulls from Sean Paul’s 2001 “Gimme the Light” and flips it into a drill beat.
The newest single is the latest jolt of momentum the rapper, a 2022 breakout star, will use to promote her album following a successful 2023 that kept her at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Collaborations with artists like Nicki Minaj, Taylor Swift and Pink Panthress on “Barbie World,” “Karma” and “Boy’s a Liar Pt. 2,” respectively, has left fans wanting more from the artist.
Joining the promotional wave, the MTA is using these new MetroCards to put one of the city’s stars right in front of New Yorkers.
Ice Spice cards can be purchased at select MetroCard vending machines—which accept debit cards, credit cards and cash—at the following stations: Fordham Road (at Jerome Avenue), Fordham Road (at Grand Concourse), 34th Street–Penn Station and Times Square–42nd Street.