Rico Nasty Latest Celebrity News & Gossip

DEALSWarner Records has signed producer Pheelz. The announcement coincides with the release of the video for his new single, ‘Finesse’, featuring BNXN.————————————-RELEASESG-Eazy has released new single ‘Angel’, written and released to mark the birthday of his mother, who died last year. “Grief can be a difficult thing to navigate”, he says.

Kehlani was so impressed by a security guard’s singing backstage at this weekend’s Dreamville Festival that she brought him out to perform during her set.Kicking off yesterday (April 2), J. Cole’s second annual festival is currently taking place at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Denzel Curry has shared T-Pain collaboration ‘Troubles’, the third single to be lifted from the rapper’s forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ ahead of its arrival this Friday (March 25).‘Troubles’ features production from Kenny Beats, who Curry teamed up with back in 2020 for their ‘Unlocked’ EP (along with its remix project, ‘Unlocked 1.5’, the following year.) It arrives alongside a video directed by Adrian Villagomez, who also helmed the clips for the new album’s previous singles, ‘Walkin’ and ‘Zatoichi’.Check that out below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ back in January. The follow-up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’ features a wide assortment of producers, including JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat and Robert Glasper.

Arctic Monkeys, Lorde, Gorillaz and more are set to headline this year’s Life Is Beautiful festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. Check out the full line-up below.The three-day fest returns to Vegas’ downtown district between September 16-18 2022.

Sasha Urban editor“Life is Beautiful” has announced the lineup for its 2022 music festival. Headliners include Jack Harlow, Lorde, Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz and Calvin Harris, and additional performers announced include Charli XCX, Rico Nasty, Wet Leg and Alessia Cara.

J. Cole has announced the 2022 lineup of his annual Dreamville Festival in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single that features Slowthai – listen to ‘Zatoichi’ below.The song is the second release from his upcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’, which Curry announced earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the record would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more. A release date is yet to be confirmed.The latest song has been produced by Powers Pleasant and features Slowthai on the song’s chorus.The video for the song was filmed on location in Peru, ‘Zatoichi’ and follows on from the Sci-Fi Western visuals seen in the recently-released single ‘Walkin’.Watch the video here:Speaking about his upcoming album, Curry said: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and just being in my parents’ house.”The follow up to 2019’s ‘Zuu’, he added: “This album is made up of everything that I couldn’t give you on TA13OO or Imperial because I was going through depression anger issues.”Curry also announced details of North American, UK and European tour dates for 2022.

Denzel Curry has shared a new single, ‘Walkin’, the first to be lifted from his forthcoming album ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’.The new cut sees the Florida-raised rapper deliver a powerhouse vocal performance, spitting rapid-fire bars above an atmospheric, Kal Banx-produced beat.‘Walkin’ arrives alongside a sci-fi and western-themed video directed by Adrian Villagomez, in which Curry journeys across a desolate desert planet before a final confrontation with John Wayne. Watch that below:Curry announced ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ earlier this month with a teaser video, revealing the album would feature contributions from T-Pain, Slowthai, Rico Nasty, Kenny Beats, JPEGMAFIA, Thundercat, Robert Glasper and more.

On April 30, the 2022 edition of The Smoker's Club Fest will arrive at the Glen Helen Amphitheater in San Bernardino. The rap festival will be headlined by Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, and Playboi Carti.

Rico Nasty has spoken out about how she finds fans encouraging her to twerk on stage during a performance “disrespectful”.In a new interview with XXL, Rico discusses how fans often hold their phones up to her with the word “twerk” while she’s on stage performing.“This is probably the worst thing that you could put up while a female rapper is performing, even if she is gonna twerk, even if that’s what she does,” she said, before adding “this is so disrespectful.”She continued: “It’s pointing to this ever being why I’m on stage or pertaining to anything I’ve ever done in my career. That’s not what I do.

Rico Nasty has received vocal support from fellow artists after the difficulties she has faced on Playboi Carti’s King Vamp tour.After Saturday night’s (November 27) tour stop, Rico posted some concerning messages in multiple since-deleted Twitter posts, writing: “I dead ass need at least two hours out of each day. To just cry.

Rico Nasty has teamed up with Flo Milli for a new collaborative single, ‘Money’ – check it out below.The song, which samples 2 Live Crew’s 1986 single ‘We Want Some Pussy’ and Tone Loc’s 1988 track ‘Wild Thing’, has been teased by Rico Nasty and Flo Milli for a few weeks now.Last month, Rico took to her TikTok to share a snippet of the track alongside the caption “POV: they play your song with Flo Milli in Squid Games”.

Rico Nasty retaliating after a bottle was thrown at her during a performance has emerged, showing the singer jumping into the crowd.The incident occurred at the Portland, Oregon show of Playboi Carti‘s King Vamp tour – formerly known as the Narcissist tour – on Saturday night (November 13), which Rico has been supporting.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorFor the first time in 10 years, Red Bull’s long-running SoundClash is back with a line-up in four cities that includes Rico Nasty, Danny Brown, Shelley (formerly known as Dram), Tang and the Bangas and more. The four shows will take place from November 30 – December 15 in Atlanta, Houston, Nashville and Chicago, and feature two artists competing across two opposite stages, with the audience deciding the winner.Red Bull SoundClash 2021 U.S.

Music creation platform Splice has announced its first Artist in Residence program with Kenny Beats, which will see the producer host a six-part series for their on-demand education vertical, Skills.

Rico Nasty has teased a collaborative track with fellow rapper Flo Milli.On Rico’s TikTok account, the rapper posted a clip where she pretends to play Red Light Green Light, the childhood game from Netflix show Squid Game.The caption reads “POV: they play your song with Flo Milli in Squid Games”, with Rico pretending to play the deadly game.

On the first season of The FADER Uncovered, host Mark Ronson spoke with some of the of world's most pioneering and legendary artists — David Byrne, Questlove, HAIM, Rico Nasty, Tame Impala, Erykah Badu, Damon Albarn, and Santigold — about their lives, careers, and creative processes. Now the Grammy- and Oscar-winning producer is back for Season 2.

RELEASESRadiohead have released a previously unreleased track from their ‘Kid A’ and ‘Amnesiac’ sessions, called ‘If You Say The Word’. Why? Because they’re releasing a new 21st anniversary compilation, pulling together those two albums plus another album’s worth of unreleased stuff from those sessions.

Last week, Rico Nasty dropped off a performance for NPR's Tiny Desk (Home) Concert. It was a metal-themed revisiting of some of the more aggressive songs in her catalogue, earlier hits that made her a star as well as more recent tracks that maintain her status as a Gen Z icon.

Rico Nasty has surprised fans this week by dropping five brand new songs without warning on SoundCloud.Announcing the release of the songs on Instagram, Rico – real name Maria Kelly – posted a photo of a close-up of her face, and wrote “secrets on Soundcloud”.She linked to a playlist titled ‘Rico’s Archives’ containing five songs, including ‘Switch Places’, ‘Grow Up’, ‘Cotton Candy’, ‘Show Me Your Love’, produced by Take a Daytrip, and ‘How Ya Feel’, produced by Jetsonmade.Listen to the playlist

Rico Nasty is the latest artist to take on NPR’s Tiny Desk online concert series, performing a string of tracks from throughout her catalogue.Performing with an all-female band on a poolside set, Rico – real name Maria Kelly – opens the set with a bouncing rendition of her most recent single, ‘Magic’.She then performed her 2018 track ‘Rage’, backed with searing electric guitar riffs and telling viewers “you better break some shit”, before playing last year’s ‘OHFR’, which appeared on her debut

Rico Nasty has shared a new video for her recent single ‘Magic‘ – watch it below.‘Magic’ was released in June as a preview of the rapper’s upcoming mixtape.

Rico Nasty has shared a fiery new single called ‘Buss’ – scroll down the page to listen to it now.The rapper previewed the new track, which follows June’s ‘Magic’, at Lollapalooza in Chicago last weekend (August 1).‘Buss’ is produced by Menoh Beats and finds Nasty rapping: “You can try that shit with them but not with us/ Came through looking like a buss.”Later, she adds: “This Sugar Trap shit, I invented it/ You lil bitches really just rented it.” Listen to the track below now.The artist is

Rico Nasty has shared new song “Buss.” The Menoh Beats-produced track follows recent single "Magic," released in June. Check out "Buss" above.

100 gecs have announced a North American tour, kicking off later this year.Dubbed the 10,000 gecs Tour, the duo’s 34-stop circuit includes shows in Portland, Seattle, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles and their hometown of St. Louis, Missouri.

Rico Nasty shared a new song, "Magic," on Wednesday. Set to appear on her forthcoming mixtape Rx, the rapper said in a statement that she wants the song “to bring out another side of you and almost feel like you’re being taken over by Magic.” The single serves as her first release since her major-label debut Nightmare Vacation, which dropped back in 2020.

DEALSB2B streaming platform Tuned Global has signed a licensing deal with Hong Kong-based social media app Lyka. “By integrating a music feature into the Lyka app our goal is to drive community engagement and stickiness”, says Lyka CEO Ryan Baird.

Rico Nasty has released a new single, ‘Magic’, after teasing the release last week.Compared to the tracks on her debut album, last year’s ‘Nightmare Vacation’, the new single is far more melodic, with a lightly strummed guitar foregrounding the rapper’s vocals throughout.In a statement seen by Pitchfork, the rapper – real name Maria Kelly – said she wants the song “to bring out another side of you and almost feel like you’re being taken over by magic”.Listen to the single below:‘Magic’ is lifted

Rico Nasty has announced that she will release a new solo track called ‘Magic’ next week.The US artist, whose debut album ‘Nightmare Vacation’ arrived in December, teased last month that she would be returning with a mysterious project called ‘Rx’ at some point this summer.Taking to social media this week, Nasty – real name Maria Kelly – shared the official artwork to a single titled ‘Magic’.

Rico Nasty has teased a mysterious new project that appears set to arrive this summer called ‘Rx’.Posting on Instagram, the musician shared a cryptic post which showed an image of some glowing pills spilled out from a jar labelled ‘Rx Pharmacy’ with Rico’s name underneath.Nasty captioned the post” “Rx. This summer”, and tagged the artist Karli Fetz in the post, who also later shared it on their account.There is no news yet on whether the project is an album or single.

The second episode of The FADER Uncovered, a new podcast series in which host Mark Ronson talks with the world’s most impactful musicians, is coming on Monday, May 17. This time around Mark is joined by Rico Nasty for a conversation about the highs and lows of her life on tour, merging rap and rock in new ways, and how she learned to trust herself as she rose to global fame.

Mark Ronson is set to host a new podcast series featuring interviews with artists such as Tame Impala, Haim and David Byrne.The producer, songwriter and DJ has partnered with The Fader to host the FADER Uncovered podcast.Billed as “a series of in-depth conversations with the world’s most impactful musicians”, FADER Uncovered will see Ronson speaking to the likes of Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Haim and Byrne, with each episode being rooted in the respective artist’s Fader cover story.The

Mark Ronson has written and produced records for many of the world’s most impactful artists, picked up countless awards including seven Grammys and an Oscar, and been in the room for some of the most important moments in contemporary music history. Now he’s teaming up with The FADER for a new podcast.

The slasher movie-stalking piano notes and hushed flexing of Kali's "Do A Bitch" is everywhere on TikTok. For the song's remix, Kali has enlisted Rico Nasty, another rapper who found success on the platform with her songs "Smack A Bitch" and "Pussy Poppin." Yes, Rico is known for her nu-metal adjacent yells and rambunctious presence, but she's actually a sensible choice for the "Do A Bitch" remix.

Rico Nasty has shared the music video for ‘Pussy Poppin’, the latest single from her debut album ‘Nightmare Vacation’.The Emma Westenberg-directed clip uses sexualised Adam and Eve references and reimagines Nasty as something of an anthropomorphised penis amid bold colour saturation.

Rico Nasty has never been one to cut corners from her music videos. Even in her early, low-budget days, the rapper knew how to put on a show.