- 1 year ago
Rico Nasty takes you through a day in her life and shares what you can expect from her new album, getting into Gundam, her experience going through her Saturn return, performing with Hayley Williams, what she wants with people on her team and more!
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00:00So I remember making a bunch of like moody emo ass shit and I finally got to
00:04that song and I was like, oh, she's risen! Thank you, God! Please, please, I don't
00:10want to be like making sad music anymore, but on this album there are a few sad
00:16songs, so bear with me, bear with me, I don't even know.
00:22Hello, Billboard. It's your girl, Rico Nasty. Come spend the day with me.
00:30There is no typical day. I'm like always doing something and if I'm not doing something
00:42then I'm doing a call and if I'm not doing a call, I am smoking weed.
00:50Rollout life is so different from regular life. Regular life, I'm literally doing what I'm about
00:55to go do right now, which is go buy a Gundam and try to see what they have at the store.
01:02But yeah, I'm trying to bring the world together. There's no reason for them to be separate.
01:07So even though I have to work, I still am trying to find time for fun stuff and things that
01:12I enjoy in my real life so that I'm not just giving my all to this music shit.
01:18The first song you made for this project, was it Teeth Sucker?
01:22It was Teeth Sucker and I didn't really, I didn't really understand that I was fully
01:28working on the album when I made that song either.
01:30I kind of just made it and I knew it belonged to something.
01:32I didn't know quite what, but I was like, okay, this is a good song.
01:36I like this song.
01:42It makes me feel happy and this should be something, I don't know what yet.
01:47I don't know that moment when you're like, oh, you still got it in here.
01:50You still got it in here, you still got it in here.
01:54I was really like a pat on the back type of song.
01:56So I remember making a bunch of like moody, emo-ass shit and I finally got to that song
02:01and I was like, oh, she's risen, thank you God, please, please.
02:06I don't want to be like making sad music anymore.
02:10But on this album, there are a few sad songs, so bear with me, bear with me out of here.
02:19We're at the store, we're at the Tamashii Nation store.
02:24And they, they don't have like builds that you can build, but there are builds here that were built by...
02:32What are you saying?
02:33Go, go, go, go, go.
02:35I'm excited to see what they have in here, honestly.
02:37Um, first things first, I started Godzilla though.
02:40Cause that's what my son loves.
02:44Um...
02:47Godzilla and King Kong are literally perfect ones.
02:51The best fight ever was Godzilla and King Kong.
02:55I love Godzilla versus King Kong.
02:57My son loves it.
02:59And this is kind of what got me into Gundam, just per se.
03:05My brother, he got me a Gundam, but he took my son to like the stores that have like shit like that.
03:10And, um, yeah, when he came on tour, he was like always like, oh, I need to find a store.
03:14I need to find a store. I need to find Gundam. I need to find Gundam.
03:16I'm like, okay, whatever.
03:17So, um, they bonded over that and then I slowly got into it.
03:23I'm still fairly new in it.
03:25So for all the people out there that are like Gunplug, Gundam, whatever the fuck.
03:31I like, my favorite brand is 30 Minute Sisters.
03:34And this one is really fucking insane, not gonna lie.
03:40These are the toys that my son likes, the SH Figure Arts.
03:43He says that those are the best toys ever.
03:45They're also the most fucking expensive.
03:47Like, I'm not paying $100 for an action figure, but he does have $100 action figures.
03:51That was his first word, by the way.
03:52It was Batman.
03:53But they do, like, um, every toy that you can think of, actually.
04:01They did, like, the Spider-Man, Miles Morales toys.
04:04Oh, wow, look.
04:05Where?
04:08Speaking of, guys, literally these are the ones that he has.
04:12Oh, yeah, these are the toys that he has.
04:14And hold on.
04:16Look at the price.
04:18I was not capping $100 for a fucking toy.
04:22I love the Spider-Pog.
04:24I'm about to buy him another one.
04:26He's into Deadpool right now.
04:28He's not supposed to be into Deadpool.
04:29So Gundam are, like, the original Transformers.
04:34So Transformers basically copied them.
04:37Okay.
04:38And Americanized them.
04:40But, um...
04:41But now they're getting their leg back.
04:43They are.
04:44And they're available in the U.S.
04:45They are.
04:46There's a movie that just came out, Transformers 1.
04:49And that kind of tells the story about Gundam and what they were before they got electricity.
04:56So once they got electricity, that's when they became Transformers.
05:02But before that, they were, like, miners and workers.
05:06And, like, they didn't have all the shit that Transformers have.
05:10And that movie tells the story about it.
05:11And it's a really good movie about friendship.
05:15I mean, my son saw it.
05:16And they actually, yeah, they were selling Gundams in, like, in the movie theater.
05:20Okay.
05:21So I thought that was crazy, like, seeing model kids in the movie theater.
05:24But, yeah, there's levels.
05:26So there's, like, easy.
05:27Then there's medium.
05:28Then there's intermediate.
05:30Then there's, like, extremely hard.
05:31For the ones you put together.
05:32For the ones you put together.
05:33Let me show you guys, like, an extremely hard one.
05:37I would say it's really hard to build.
05:39These with the wings.
05:41And, well, this one's pretty, this is complicated because it has, like, a jet on the back.
05:48But these with the wings are pretty hard.
05:50And I would say these down here, oh, these are actually, like, the first type of Gundams.
05:56They look like, like, soldiers.
05:57I have the Hello Kitty version of this one.
05:59But, um, yeah, these are pretty easy to build.
06:03You are not kidding.
06:04Yeah, they're pretty easy to build.
06:06How many do you think you have?
06:08Um, probably 25.
06:12Okay.
06:13Do you like to display them in your house together?
06:15Yeah, I do.
06:16I don't think I could put them together.
06:18Yeah, that is bomb.
06:20You could.
06:21You would surprise yourself.
06:22That's why I like doing it.
06:23It surprises me.
06:25Do you feel like it's calming?
06:27Yeah, it's like bad bitch Legos.
06:30Is it?
06:31Who's the bad bitch one?
06:33Where?
06:34This one.
06:35Right?
06:36No, let me show you 30-Minute Sisters.
06:38Let me show you, bro.
06:3930-Minute Sisters is, like, you got the sword, you got the jetpack.
06:43I don't know.
06:44That's giving baddie to me.
06:46Bad bitch.
06:51I mean, they're thick.
06:53Bad bitch.
06:55Yeah, I see it.
06:57That one is wild.
07:00They are baddies.
07:03Okay, let me buy this toy.
07:07Have a good day.
07:09All right, guys, that was fun.
07:11Now let's go get ready for a clam.
07:13All right, I'm going to go into the hotel.
07:22Do you guys want to come?
07:23You have no choice.
07:24You have to come.
07:25Let's go.
07:26Get in here.
07:38This is what I got to play in the car.
07:40I'm ready for it.
07:41I'm serious.
07:42Look, I'm going to show you.
07:43Watch.
07:44Two times one is two.
07:49Two times two is four, type shit.
07:53You know what I mean?
07:54I don't know.
07:55Two times three is six.
07:58Y'all better know y'all fucking math.
08:00Bitch, I'm a mother.
08:01Come on.
08:02Where are you in your Saturn return?
08:04I'm in it.
08:05That's what they say.
08:06I'm talking about in it.
08:08I'm talking about in it.
08:10Before it started, before you started, what were you feeling like?
08:16Like, could you feel it coming?
08:18It was, it just, it started with the clothes.
08:21It started with the clothes first.
08:23It was like certain shit that I felt like was stuff that I loved just became like shit
08:29that I was like, I don't know if I play with this anymore.
08:33I don't know if I like this anymore.
08:34I don't know if this is me anymore.
08:36It's weird.
08:37It's like you kind of wake up and you kind of feel uncomfortable in your choices.
08:41That's a better word.
08:43You kind of look at your life and you're like, wait, are these the choices that I should
08:47be making or should I be doing something else?
08:52While Saturn is doing her thing, what is keeping you from like?
08:59Oh, well, there was a time where it was like, it was like, I'm about to be 28.
09:05So we're like literally the same, almost like I'm about to be 28.
09:08So it feels like I felt that way for months.
09:14Actually, it was a really long period of time where I was like, everything is fucked up.
09:19It felt like a year where everything was just like not making sense.
09:24I don't want to say fucked up because I'm very thankful for my life.
09:27Like people wouldn't even know that anything was fucked up if I don't say it, but it was fucked up.
09:33And I was like, what is happening?
09:35This cannot be what I worked so hard to like, I can't believe I worked so hard to get here
09:42and now I'm unhappy.
09:43Like that's so fucking lame.
09:45That got to be the lamest shit ever.
09:47Like that's not the way this book ends, bro.
09:49This is so lame, bro.
09:51No, please.
09:54You have what you wanted, but you're not the person who wanted those things originally, you know?
09:58Yeah, that's really what it was.
10:00It just felt like I had everything, but it wasn't really one line.
10:04It wasn't really things I wanted.
10:06It wasn't really things that mattered to me.
10:10And I didn't really know what mattered to me.
10:13So that took some time figuring out, too.
10:14But I mean, that shit, I feel like that's just life.
10:18Do you feel like back in control?
10:22I felt very much back in control.
10:24I felt almost too in control.
10:25I feel like a control freak sometimes.
10:28I feel like I'm like...
10:31Can you add more to the schedule?
10:33Feel it out.
10:34Every day.
10:35I want to be booked.
10:36I want to call.
10:37I want to do this.
10:38Like, I don't know what's wrong with me, but I love working.
10:39And so I feel like I'm pretty happy.
10:41I feel like I was just kind of talking to you about this, but like when you have a team
10:47that's fun, it just doesn't really feel like work.
10:51Like, when you're damn near working with your friends, it feels exactly like that.
10:56Like, the days just zoom past and I don't think I've fully taken any of it in yet.
11:04You definitely went through some big changes with your team.
11:08I feel like when I saw the news about Fueled by Ramen, I was like, okay.
11:15I'd love to hear a little bit more about how that partnership came about and when you realized
11:21it was going to be the right fit for you to make this project on your own terms.
11:25Well, it actually started off a hot-ass mess.
11:31I, like, went a little while where I didn't have management and, like, shit was, like,
11:37up in the air and I think that's really what I'm talking about when I say, like, life is
11:41kind of, like, what's happening because I hadn't not had a manager in my entire career.
11:46So, I didn't have any management.
11:49I was, like, working with people, but it wasn't really what I wanted to be.
11:54And Hailey Williams from Fairmore, she was on tour and she was like, you know, come out,
11:58do a mystery business, how she always does.
12:01And I was like, okay, of course, like, stop being.
12:06It's just, all you got to do is take the word.
12:08It's clean, clean, I'm coming, I'm coming.
12:10So, I go, I do it, it's an amazing experiment, experience, experiment, that's crazy.
12:17It was an amazing experience and I honestly felt like, I don't know, my inner child really
12:23jumped out and I hadn't seen her in a while.
12:25Like, I hadn't seen her in a while on stage, I hadn't seen her in a while backstage, like,
12:32amongst a team like that.
12:34So, I was like, wow, like, this, this feels nice.
12:38And then I got to talk to Hailey and then when the show was over, I remember going home
12:42and feeling like, I want a team like that.
12:47I want people who just support me and I'm not being forced to be anything that I'm not
12:54and it just goes with the flow.
12:55I don't know, I kind of had a long talk with myself and obviously the universe heard,
13:00because then management is calling like, hey, Rico, like, do you have a manager?
13:06And I'm like, no, I kind of do, I kind of don't figure it out.
13:12And they're like, all right, well, we want to like, like, let's, let's see if we can make
13:16some shake.
13:17Like, we're going to come to a show.
13:18Like, let's see, like, let's, let's not force it again.
13:21Let's just ease into this because we don't even know you, but like, we, we fuck with you
13:26and we like your music.
13:27And like, after the show, I guess they had listened to my music and we're like, wait,
13:33she got a little, she got a little kick to her.
13:35Okay.
13:36After that, it kind of just felt like, like, I barely even remember when I didn't have management.
13:42I barely even remember like what it was like with my own management.
13:45Cause it just feels like, I don't know.
13:48We, we're always making stuff happen.
13:50Everybody's in a good mood.
13:52Everybody gets their point across.
13:53Everybody gets heard.
13:54When we go into the meeting, it's straight business.
13:56It's no small talk.
13:57It's no being around the bush.
13:58And that overall helps that draining ice cloud of like, okay, well, what are we doing?
14:06Cause when you sign to a major, it just be starting to feel like, all right.
14:08So what are we, what are we doing?
14:10What are we doing?
14:11Are we doing a project?
14:12Are we doing singles?
14:13You can't drop the singles, you can't clear the singles, okay.
14:15So, so what are we doing?
14:16Like, what's the vibe?
14:20Yeah, we're about to go.
14:21It's not a show.
14:22Why do I keep calling it a show?
14:23Shout out to Lot Radio for having me.
14:24Um, yeah.
14:25So I don't think I'm going to wear this belt.
14:31We are headed to Lot Radio and I'm going to do somewhat of like a DJ set type of thing.
14:40Um, my DJ is going to mix in a couple of my songs, but this is a live stream.
14:46So, um, I'm a little nervous.
14:49I'm not going to lie.
14:50All right, guys.
14:51See you in a sec.
14:52Bye.
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15:19What's up, guys?
15:20I just finished my Lot Radio performance thing.
15:24It was lit.
15:25It was so much fun.
15:26Some of my homies came through and now we are on the way to On The Radar.
15:32So quick fit change.
15:35And I just had really good matcha vulva.
15:39And yeah, let's fucking go.
15:46Okay guys, I'm here.
15:47Outfit change, we're at On The Radar.
15:50And I will see you guys when I'm done.
15:52Bye.
15:53I know you like my outfit though.
15:54I know you like the outfit though.
15:55Look at the outfit check, look at the boots, period.
15:57Love you, Alexander Wang.
16:00She always made it corny.
16:02Okay, Ms. Dory, I was making new page to watch my story.
16:05Do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it, do it.
16:12Okay guys, that was so much fun.
16:16Shout out to On The Radar for that one.
16:20They really, really ate that one.
16:21All right, so next, I'm done.
16:23I'm literally done with work, like work is done.
16:26That was like a whole busy ass day, low key.
16:28I got a show tomorrow, but right now we're gonna do
16:30one of my favorite things to do after a long day
16:34when I still have my voice.
16:36Karaoke.
16:38Little by little, I've been like practicing things.
16:40Like I've been taking vocal lessons.
16:42And when I get back home,
16:44I'm gonna take professional guitar lessons,
16:47even though it's like, I kinda like learn how to play guitar
16:49on YouTube with my homie Jade.
16:52But like, I wanna learn actually how to play
16:55and not just like playing from YouTube.
16:58I don't know if it's even a difference.
16:59I don't know if I'm wasting my time,
17:00but I feel like, you know, things like that,
17:03I wanna incorporate into my show.
17:05I mean like, I've already incorporated so many live
17:07instruments on the album.
17:09So I just wanna bring that to the stage
17:11and have fun with that.
17:14Hell yeah.
17:16I feel like the last time we kicked it,
17:19you were coming off a not so great tour experience,
17:21opening for Cardi.
17:22Yeah.
17:23And the reason I bring that up is cause I feel like
17:26that definitely seemed like a moment where you said,
17:30they're mad, but I'm not.
17:31Cause I know what I'm doing is sick.
17:33I feel like it's kinda weird sometimes being a girl
17:36and I kinda touched on that in the album,
17:39kinda just like said I'm too violent, I rock out.
17:42Like I've been told before,
17:45I can't do certain stuff at shows,
17:47but like I see other people be able to do it
17:50and I still do what I wanna do.
17:52And I feel like, you know what I mean?
17:55Um, that like goes the longest way,
17:58longer than anything, longer than conforming.
18:00Cause I could get a bunch of dancers
18:03and I could learn how to dance, you know?
18:05And I feel like your performance should be
18:10what you wanna do right now and always,
18:13through my career, I've always loved instruments
18:15and the beauty of live performances.
18:17So why not elevate that in my way?
18:20And I think it was so hard to find that,
18:22especially during that tour,
18:23cause so much masculine energy online
18:26being thrown at me, I questioned like,
18:28should I be being more sexy?
18:30Like, should I be, you know what I'm saying?
18:32Like, should I be dancing up here?
18:34But I don't make music like that.
18:36I make music to rage to.
18:37So why am I up there trying to be something I'm not?
18:40And it's not like I ever,
18:42I've had dancers a couple of times
18:43and it's no shade to people that have dancers.
18:45Like if you can dance, have dancers.
18:47Like, I know y'all see me do a little two step,
18:49but I don't know if I'm like the best dancer around.
18:50Like, I don't think,
18:53I don't think I want to be having to remember that
18:57and remember the words and engaging with the crowd.
19:00I'd rather remember notes and keys,
19:03playing the guitar, my cues with the band
19:05and shit like that, but to each his own.
19:08And I feel like women are often boxed into like,
19:11I say it all the time, leotards and dancers.
19:13And that's, that's always been the most feminine,
19:16cool thing to do.
19:17And I just, I want to reinvent that.
19:19I don't, I don't think that should be all
19:21that we can do on stage.
19:25Hey guys, we're here, about to be karaoke.
19:29And I'm excited to see what songs they're about to pick.
19:31Cause I'm energized.
19:33I'm going straight to the honor.
19:43My father, the sun is drowning in the blood.
19:51Got a couple bottles, but a couple in it up.
19:54Bottoms up, bottoms up.
19:56Throw your hands up.
19:57Tell security we about to tennis club up.
20:00Bottoms up, bottoms up.
20:02We're done here.
20:03Good night, motherfucker.
20:06Yeah.
20:08Stream lethal.
20:09Kiss my ass, get a drink or two.
20:11Bottoms up, bitch.
20:13Hey, hey.
20:14All right, y'all, for real.
20:16Bye.
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