Quotes from Rico Nasty

Earl Sweatshirt is very wise.

Tierra Whack is very wise.

Yachty is very wise.

Some women can probably be Nicki Minaj and Cardi B, but some of us can't.

I think my sound is very loud. I want other people to describe it as a form of therapy - therapeutic music, a form of release to them.

I thought I'd be famous for being cute.

Why still be pretty and all that when there's so many girly female rappers already? You can be a rock star instead.

When I started rapping, I was like, I'ma change my name before I become famous. And that didn't happen. I didn't have time.

I've been Rico since 10th grade.

I don't know, whenever someone was like, 'Yeah, I'm going to the studio,' I just went with them. And I started recording.

Whenever comparisons get too crazy I just think about my goals, and what I want from myself. I don't look at any references.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

I feel like being a 2019 XXL Freshman is just, it's important for me because not too many women can say they've... gotten anything like this, not too many people from where I come from can say that they've gotten anything like this.

I've been imagining spikes in my head since I was 13 years old.

When I first knew that I wanted to rap I was seven years old and I lost the talent show. It was like spoken word or something. My mom made me do it. It was a Langston Hughes poem. The girl that came on after me, she wound up winning. She was a singer.

I used to play Joan Jett all the time. Then, the movie 'The Runaways' came out. It was a wrap from there.

I don't want people to expect the hard tracks to continue my whole career. When I started making music, I wasn't making music like that.

I grew up listening to Bob Marley, Jill Scott, Floetry, Nas, Jay-Z, Beyonce.

I describe my sound as sugar trap, that's not really a description that's really who I am, that's my swag, that's how I talk and walk.

I plan to break the barriers that people try to trap female rappers in. This isn't about 'Oh she sounds good for a female rapper,' it's about 'Yo, she sounds really good on this and can really rap!'

When I made 'Tales of Tacobella,' and I made 'Sugar Trap,' it was like people literally trying to say that like, either that they made it, or that they helped make it, and then they continued to try to steal the flow, try to steal the aesthetic of everything I tried to build.

A lot of people tend to get intimidated by looking at a place where they're from as empty. I look at it like a clean slate.

I feel like what motivates me is what would motivate the regular average person.

I've always wanted to dress like this, and I've always wanted my music to have the edge, the twist to it.