![]() ![]() While she admits she felt "super out of place" in school, hip-hop allowed her to express the creative chaos that was consuming her brain. Rico, a self-described "weirdo" in school, started rapping in the 10th grade-right before she got expelled from high school for smoking weed. native had music on the brain from an early age. On her way up the hip-hop hierarchy, the Largo, Md. Add in the most important factor, her frenzied, sanguine-laced rhymes, and she's a rap rock star ready to roll. The newly minted 2019 XXL Freshman has created a world where painting geometric designs on her face, donning a leather harness with a pair of spiky Crocs to complete the ’fit and decorating her hair with a sea of neon beads is the norm. Welcome to the Sugar Trap, Rico Nasty's world of sublime rap and punk rock flair. When you hear the delivery on ‘iCarly’ and even ‘Hey Arnold’ versus ‘Key Lime OG’ and ‘Poppin.’ And then ‘Key Lime OG’ and ‘Poppin’ versus ‘Trust Issues’ and ‘Rage.’ It’s like, What the fuck?! What’s going on?” I would also say my lyricism got way better. I think the biggest part of my growth so far is being able to keep track of shit, for real, ’cause I’ve been traveling so much recently and it’s been so hard to keep track of my stuff. I don’t think they think I got ’cause I tweeted, ‘Vote for me.’ But at the same time, I don’t know what they expect of me anymore. They’re gonna be super, super, super happy. I love the fact that for real, for real, everybody got their own swag. It’s a certain type of culture and I’m just happy that I get to be part of it. I feel like we are making a force not just in a lane. Even last year with J.I.D, I watch the cyphers. I remember watching that and was like, Oh shit, this is fire. ![]() I remember Shy Glizzy made the cover, but of course the biggest one was when Lil Yachty made the cover. It means to me that greater things are ahead, you know? XXL means big so I feel like we just going bigger. I’m just really happy that my influence is acknowledged. I feel like I’m very happy for my hometown right now. Why did I cry? ’Cause I’m the first girl from the DMV to get XXL. I was looking in the mirror and was like, ‘Where is she? Where is she? Where is she?’ Then Malik was like, ‘She’s right here.’ And then I was like, ‘What? What do you want? I’m just trying to get dressed for a show.’ Then she told me. I was curling my hair and I had a sew-in. I was at a show at the University of Santa Barbara. TRUTH ON BEING AN XXL FRESHMAN: “My publicist told me on FaceTime. I was so excited and then I was a weirdo, but I feel like that’s how it is for everybody.” ![]() I feel like freshman year I super out of place. I got expelled, but I still kept going to school.
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