Rico Nasty made music for a crashout long before the phrase became a popular Gen-Z mantra. Since her ascent in the late 2010’s, she has always brought rage and angst to rap—becoming one of the genre’s ...

Hip-hop these days is as adventurous as it’s ever been, and even in this creative space, recent Sound Check guest Rico Nasty stands out as a special innovator. Case in point: Her upcoming album Lethal ...

The ever-evolving Rico Nasty has entered a new era. Today (February 20), the “Arintintin” rapper announced a new album, Lethal, that finds her reflecting on — and reckoning with — the rage-rap persona ...

SUMMERS: Hip-hop, punk rock and a lot of unabashed feminine confidence. These are the ingredients that have turned Rico Nasty into a genre-bending force of nature over the course of a decade.

For the past few years, the Maryland rapper Rico Nasty has been slowly building out the kind of fervent word-of-mouth cult audience that rappers are supposed to build up before they get famous.