Taylor Swift announces collaboration with Ice Spice after her boyfriend mocked racist remarks about the rapper

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Taylor Swift announced on Wednesday that rapper Ice Spice will be featured on a new version of “Karma,” one of the songs from her latest album, “Midnights.” The announcement comes amid fans criticizing Swift for apparently dating singer Matty Healy of The 1975, whose history of offensive comments and actions includes racist laughs and jokes about Ice Spice.

In January, Healy appeared on an episode of “The Adam Friedland Show” podcast in which Friedland and his co-host Nick Mullen made racist remarks about Ice Spice, referring to her as “Inuit Spice Girl” and “that chubby Chinese lady”. Healy laughed as the two co-hosts continued to mock Chinese and Hawaiian accents.

The podcast was pulled from Spotify and Apple. In April, Healy apologized to Ice Spice during one of his concerts in Auckland, New Zealand.

“I just feel a little bad and I’m a little sorry if I offended you,” Healy said, according to Rolling Stone. “Ice Spice, I’m sorry. Just because I’m annoyed doesn’t mean my joke was misinterpreted. It’s because I don’t want Ice Spice to think I’m an asshole. I love you, Ice Spice. I am really sorry.”

Ice Spice never responded to Healy, but on Wednesday the rapper tweeted about her collaboration with Swift, calling her “the sweetest person ever.”

In early April, The Sun reported that Swift and Healy were dating, and Healy was later seen supporting Swift on several stops on her current stadium tour.

Swift told a crowd in Massachusetts last week that she had “never been happier in my life, in any aspect of my life. And I just want to thank you for being a part of that.

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