"Big Guy" is a song by American rapper Ice Spice. It was released on November 14, 2025, by 10K Projects and Capitol Records. Produced by RiotUSA, it is featured in the 2025 animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, in which the rapper also makes a voice appearance. The song received praise from critics. The song's lyric "SpongeBob big guy pants okay" became a meme soon after the song's release, with several critics jokingly describing it as poetic yet simple.
"Big Guy" was recorded as part of the soundtrack to the 2025 animated film The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants, in which she also has a voice role as a ticket taker fish with somewhat of a resemblance to her.[1] She called appearing on the soundtrack "such a full circle moment" due to the SpongeBob SquarePants franchise being a part of her own childhood. The song was released on November 14, 2025.[2] She stated that she was required to include certain "SpongeBob-related words" in its lyrics.[3]
Composition
Lyrically, "Big Guy" includes puns about the ocean and references to SpongeBob SquarePants, such as in the lyrics "I blow bubbles so big like Mrs. Puff" and "Ain't a jellyfish, but I'm the catch". It features no profanities.[1] In its chorus, Ice Spice repeats the phrases "big guy" and "SpongeBob big guy pants okay", which references SpongeBob's attempted growth, both in height and in bravery, within the film.[4] On the song, Ice Spice raps in a "demure" monotone.[5][6]
Critical reception
Jeff Ihaza of Rolling Stone wrote that "Big Guy" was an "impossibly catchy bop" with "cleverly adapted" lyrics and the "wholesomeness of a Bronx drillCocomelon".[1] For Paper, Tobias Hess called the song "classic Spice" and "an exciting, if not a bit confounding return to form".[6]
The lyric "SpongeBob big guy pants okay" went viral online shortly after the song's release,[7] with some people attaching the song via a quote tweet whenever someone includes "big guy" in a post.[8] Mathew Rodriguez of Them wrote that the lyric was "so confident in its simplicity — and yet, confounding in its complexity", while Hess called it a "simple, yet effective line that [Ice Spice] chants like a political slogan" and a "poetic puzzle".[4][6] For Vulture, Fran Hoepfner wrote that the lyric was "so poetic yet so simple" and "struck [her] to [her] core", but that the question of if it was "a 'good' lyric" was "complicated".[5]
Music video
The music video was released on November 14, 2025.[9] It depicts the rapper riding an underwater roller coaster,[10] and also features her animated character and scenes from the film.[11] Rodriguez called it "a fairly standard, if not somewhat lackluster, visual".[4]
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