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SUMMARY:RICO NASTY: LETHAL NORTH AMERICA
DESCRIPTION:From the moment she arrived\, Rico Nasty stood out. Since her b
 reakthrough as a teenager from PG County\,  Maryland with her own signatu
 re blend of bubbly melodies\, rage raps\, and skull-rattling beats\, the a
 rtist  born Maria Kelly has been an iconoclastic presence in the rap game
 . She’s been drawn from the jump to  the juxtaposition of hard and soft
 \, countering her sweet-and-sour Sugar Trap sound with the kind of vocal 
  cord-shredding mosh-rap you hear everywhere today. Back then\, label exec
 utives called her weird for  songs like 2018’s paradigm-shifting “Sma
 ck A Bitch\,” which kicked open the doors to a dominant new era  of “
 rapper as rockstar.” At a time when female rappers dressed like WWE wres
 tlers\, Rico was serving Sex  Pistols meets Rainbow Brite. But for Rico\,
  the aesthetic wasn’t a costume or a phase. It’s one thing to dress  
 like a rockstar — to be a rockstar is another. \n\nScan your favorite n
 ew rap playlist and you’ll hear a generation of up-and-coming artists in
 spired by Rico’s  balance of high-femme trap-pop and nu-metal rage rap.
  But around the time of her last record\, 2022’s Las  Ruinas\, the inno
 vator felt trapped: “I was caught in the space of wanting to be understo
 od by the masses\,  but also recognizing that maybe I’m not supposed to
  be.” She’d started to feel pigeonholed by her own  outré persona\, 
 which hadn’t changed much since she’d stepped into the role of Rico Na
 sty as a teen. “I felt  like I was living in character\,” the 27-year
  old admits today. “And when I first started\, that was the whole  idea
  of it — but that gets exhausting.” Backstage at last year’s headlin
 ing tour\, she caught a glimpse of  herself in the mirror dressed as a te
 enage raver. “No shade\, but dude\, you’re 26\,” she recalls thinkin
 g.  “When are you going to grow up?” \n\nSo began Rico Nasty’s yea
 r of reckoning\, which began as a conscious free-fall. “I just completel
 y let life  take me: letting myself indulge in things that made me excite
 d\, living real life experiences\,” she says. She  cleared her closet o
 f the things that made her feel stuck at age 19\, ditching the Demonia boo
 ts for grown and-sexy heels. She dove deep into books\, deleted social med
 ia from her phone\, and started taking therapy  seriously. For years\, sh
 e’d withstood label pressure to give her songs more pop appeal or hop on
  passing  trends. Now\, working on the songs that would become LETHAL\, R
 ico felt like she had back in the Sugar  Trap days\, before she’d known
  how bittersweet the industry could be. In short\, she says: “I reconnec
 ted to  myself.” \n\nMeanwhile she’d parted ways with her entire man
 agement team\, flying solo until an opportunity to perform  with Paramore
  in summer 2023 introduced her to her new team. Rico had been signed to At
 lantic Records  since 2018\, but dreamed of being “somewhere a little b
 it more edgy\, where I had more space to grow and  be whoever I felt like
  being.” When her new team mentioned Fueled By Ramen\, the alternative l
 abel who  launched bands like Fall Out Boy and Panic! at the Disco into t
 he mainstream\, Rico panicked that she’d be  misunderstood: “I’m a 
 rapper\, and I want to be remembered as a rapper.” Instead\, the label i
 nstructed Rico  to stay true to no one but herself. \n\nLETHAL\, Rico’
 s third studio album and her first for Fueled By Ramen\, arrives this May 
 as the grown-up  evolution of the “sugar trap” sound. But where her e
 arly work was girly\, the 15-track LETHAL is all woman\,  presenting her 
 signature hard/soft duality at its sexiest\, coolest\, and most confident.
  Executive produced  by Imad Royal\, the Grammy-nominated producer known 
 for his work with The Chainsmokers and Panic! at  the Disco\, the album b
 alances playfully sophisticated songs that draw from the divine feminine (
 “Pink\,”  “Butterfly Kisses”) with tracks like “Teethsucker” 
 and “Soul Snatcher” that channel monster truck show  energy and estab
 lish Rico as a true originator of the rap-rock revival. “I’m putting m
 y flag on the moon: This  is my shit. This is what I do\,” she says wit
 h pride. “It’s not an act. It’s not a phase. It’s not something I
 ’m  doing to promote my album. This been the vibe.” \n\nGone are the
  days when being Rico Nasty felt like playing a character. With LETHAL\, R
 ico’s embodying  main character energy instead. “This album is about 
 being confident and saying fuck everybody else\,” she \n\nsays. “It
 ’s about getting doors slammed in your face and people telling you to tr
 y it their way again and  again\, and you stay true to yourself and it wo
 rks. That’s what this project is. It’s an ode to yourself.”
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CATEGORIES:All Ages,Concerts
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