![]() Kenny Beats remembered first meeting Nasty in the studio on one of her first big trips to Los Angeles, as a room full of producers were trying and failing to meet her standards the night the song was created. ![]() ![]() “If anything, it makes me want to open up more.” “To survive stan culture, you have to understand stan culture - you have to have been a stan,” she said. “I always ask, ‘Are you OK at home?’” she said with a shrug.īut Nasty’s proficiency with accepting extreme fandom and fostering connection has proved to be one her best marketing tactics, and it comes from the fact that she lived the other side as a self-professed teenage stan, or superfan, of artists like Rihanna and Nicki Minaj. “Then they started asking me to spit in their mouth,” Nasty shrugged, adding that she immortalized one such concert moment on a T-shirt. The relationship between Nasty and her most devoted followers has gotten so extreme that they frequently profess their love through requests for violence - “step on my neck, throw me through a wall,” she rattled off - culminating in her fielding (and fulfilling) constant demands that she smack them in the face. This is a group of people who are sick of taking crap, feeling different or feeling like they’re weird, and they come to a Rico concert and say, ‘I’m about to scream my face off.’” ![]() “It’s literally any type of person who identifies any type of way, who might not feel like they fit in at the average Spotify Rap Caviar, Jingle Ball concert. “Think about what the front row at a Rico Nasty concert looks like,” the producer Kenny Beats, a close collaborator, said in an interview. Combining her sugary, singsong side and the bruising, discordant, mosh-pit scream-rap that she’s made her signature on recent viral hits, the album seeks to take advantage of a path for female rappers - and Black pop stars - that’s never been wider or more for the taking, from Doja Cat and Tierra Whack to Lizzo, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. Six mixtapes and some years on, Rico Nasty is set to release her major label debut, “Nightmare Vacation,” on Dec. But Nasty used her final paycheck of about $300 to make a music video called “iCarly,” a bouncy nursery rhyme of illicit thrills named after a Nickelodeon show, and it was that three-minute bomb of magnetism that would prove to be her breakout.Ī year later, she sold out the very same Maryland venue that Lil Yachty had: “How crazy is that?” ![]() In fact, she was on her phone so much that she got fired from that job. She took a video of the crowd that night on her phone, and while at work as a receptionist at a hospital, she watched it over and over again, in between listening to beats and tapping out lyrics. ![]()
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