- Scoundrel, S-P-I-C-E!
Say my name, that's me,
Queen of Dancehall,
you don't know your girl, Spice?
and it goes down in my DM.
(chill out music)
I respond to my fans all the time.
We have a good relationship,
especially on Instagram.
I'm very interactive with them,
and they kind of build that relationship with no worry.
Any good looking girl said in the DM world,
they comment my comments
and I answer them in the comments as well,
so I'm very, I'm very close to them.
So, I posted a picture on Instagram
where I had a lighter complexion,
and Amara La Negra slid into my DM and she was like,
"Girl, I love the song, I get your message,
I want you to know that I'm with you."
At a time when I needed someone,
she was right there, and she was like
"Black girl rocks, you're beautiful,
I love the song, I love your message",
and we exchanged our burden.
We cookin'.
You never know.
Okay, so when I released my single Black Hypocrisy
which is from my mixtape Captured,
the moment I put the picture out,
and the video went out like the entire --
It went viral, to the point where
I had to put my phone down.
A lot of people felt everything,
every single word that I was talking about,
because they know themselves that there's a lot
of, you know, "black hypocrisy" within the black community,
and my message that I was trying to bring across
was that I wanted people to appreciate black women,
love them just the same as the lighter skin,
no separation, no difference,
and a lot of people got that.
My DM was going off like people was really happy
for that message, I mean, it was really needed.
I would say a good opener,
if you're going to slide into a DM,
is to keep it cool, you know?
Don't "overdo it".
So, you know, for example, you start out like
something very friendly,
"Hey,"
you know,
"I like that dress you posted,
I think it suits you well,"
and then maybe you'll get a reply like,
"Thank you!",
and then you can move from there and say, you know,
"My name is that, I live in,"
something very calm and cool, not
"You look sexy, I would climb the moon
and go back to the end of the Earth for you, or ..."
Don't overdo it.
Like that's whack, and lame for me.
Okay, so for me, nudes in the DM that's a no.
That's like no, hell no, for me.
Like, I don't believe in nudes in a DM,
and I don't think that's the best way to start a DM,
or, you know, never exchange nudes even at the hotel.
So if I'm gonna give tips to someone for the DMs,
my top To-Dos, would be, One, like I said before,
keep it simple, give her a nice, you know, compliment.
My Don'ts in the DM would be the nudes, of course,
never just send a nude pic,
and my other Don'ts in the DM would be
don't boast too much, don't show what you have,
don't talk about what you have,
don't send pictures of what you have,
because at the end of the day
it's not about "what you have",
and everybody know what the Gram is about,
is a life that can be fake.
Let her try to get to know you
as a person first rather than boasting
and sending all this fake stuff,
'cause there's a lot of fake stuff going on the Gram.
Might not even be yours.
"Hey Spice, been watching you on the Gram,
I keep sending you DMs you're not answering.
To be straight-up, I think we would make a good couple,
we should start a relationship.
Here's a picture of my house, this is my dog."
(laughs)
He's just sending everything like,
"This is it, can we be in a relationship?"
The house, the doggy, the account, like everything.
"Here's my closet, here's my ..."
(laughs)
He was just sending it in my DMs,
like everything, his entire life.
I did respond, I'm not gonna lie.
I was like,
"Oh, that's cool, your dog is cute!"
To be honest, I don't really think
there's nothing wrong if you're on the Gram
and you see a girl and you like her.
If you're single and you feel like you wanna mingle,
then, I mean, you can always slid into the DMs
and, you know, you never know,
you'd maybe create a beautiful family
and live happily ever after,
so I really don't have a problem
if you're gonna slide into someone DM.
Just make sure it's not for games.
You know, to be honest, I think my spiciest DM would be
the one that came from Nicky Minaj
because I like her as an artist,
I look up to her, I've been rocking with her for years now,
I like her style, everything about her,
and then one day she got up on Instagram
and she posted me, she posted my video
and she tagged me, and she was like,
"Oh, @spiceofficial, DLC,"
She wrote this long speech about me,
that she thought I was very, very cool,
that she loved the song, and, you know,
just bringing me up and congratulating me,
and I sent her a DM that was like,
"Oh, thank you so much, dadadada,"
And she responded, and you know, very encouraging
and very nice and sweet,
and someone that you look up to just wakes up one day
and start posting you on the Gram,
and you know, showing you love,
so for me, that was spicy.
S-P-I-C-E, you say my name!
That's me, you don't know your girl Spice,
Queen of Dancehall!
It went down in my DMs.
(echoing percussion)