Over the past couple of months, I’ve been seeing the name of a new K-pop girl group stirring up audiences and longtime adherents of the genre. They’ve got a lot of buzz, and for good reason; the rebellious sextet swerves hard from the “standard” sound you would normally expect from a K-pop band. I’ll put it this way: if Blackpink cribs liberally from Destiny’s Child, Katseye’s breakout song, “Gnarly,” is primarily influenced by Nine Inch Nails.
The abrasive song has gained plenty of traction thanks to this rebellious insistence on standing out, and today, Katseye added another ingredient to the intoxicating brew: A verse from one of rap’s viral rule breakers, Ice Spice . In her verse, she spits her usual flippant boasts, shouting out her endorsement deal with soda brand Starry, her sign