Rico Nasty - ON THE LOW (Single)
Today, Rico Nasty shares a new song from her forthcoming studio album, LETHAL due out May 16th on Fueled by Ramen / Parlophone. “ON THE LOW” is a playfully sophisticated slice of trap-pop which Rico shares "I wrote ON THE LOW for the girls. It’s been one of my favorite songs on the record, and shows a different side to the album than TEETHSUCKER I think. She’s sweeter and cuter but just as LETHAL!!" Listen to “ON THE LOW” HERE.
Announced last week, Rico will be making her acting debut in A24’s Margo’s Got Money Problems, created by David E. Kelley and based on the 2024 novel by Rufi Thorpe. Rico will star alongside Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfieffer, Nicole Kidman, Nick Offerman, Lindsey Normington & more.
Always the rap world’s biggest rock star, Rico Nasty is known for her own particular brand of rage-rap and for her outrageous on-stage, online, volume-up persona. But as she grew up, she started to feel trapped by the character she created. LETHAL is a reckoning of who Rico is at 27 with the trap-pop teen persona she created more than a decade ago. Executive produced by GRAMMY nominated producer Imad Royal, the album still features all the hallmarks of a Rico Nasty record - female rage, heavy guitars, humor - but there are also notes of femininity, introspection and a more complex framing of all the angles of Rico - the performer, the mother, the adult. Watch the video for “ON THE LOW” below, and pre-orders for the album are live HERE.
NEW ERA LOADING____ Last month Rico Nasty announced LETHAL with the potent rap rock banger “TEETHSUCKER (YEA3X)”- a headturning statement of intent that Billboard praised, writing “Rico Nasty has always felt a bit ahead of the times, and this could be the moment the mainstream finally syncs up with her.” Read more about LETHAL in her interview with Rolling Stone.
From the moment she arrived, Rico Nasty stood out. Since her breakthrough as a teenager from PG County, Maryland with her own signature blend of bubbly melodies, rage raps, and skull-rattling beats, the artist 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 executives called her weird for songs like 2018’s paradigm-shifting “Smack 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 wrestlers, 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.