Rico Nasty is the stage name of Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (born May 8, 1997) who is a rapper and songwriter, most known for gravelly voice, aggressive rap style, and punk fashion sense. Known for her songs "Poppin'" and "Smack a Bitch" which have became famous on TikTok. She also has other songs such as "iCarly" and "Hey Arnold" which were famous on SoundCloud. Her music is considered Alternative Hip Hop, Trap Music, hardcore Hip-Hop, and hip house, even veering into Hyper Pop.
Discography
Mixtapes- Tales Of Tacobella (2017)
- Sugar Trap 2 (2017)
- Nasty (2018)
- Anger Management w/ Kenny Beats (2019)
- Las Ruinas (2022)
- Nightmare Vacation (2020)
Tropes in Rico Nasty include:
- Alternative Hip Hop: Her music is multi genre and pop culture based.
- Animated Music Video: Has one for "Check Me Out," which is claymation.
- Animesque: The Sugar Trap 2 cover features Rico as an anime girl.
- Bitch Slap: "Smack a Bitch" is all about slapping people if they dislike her.
- Call-Back: On "OHFR?"Please don't make have to smack a bitch!
- Catchphrase: When Kenny Beats is on production."KEEEEEENNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYY!!!"
- Costume Porn: The video for "Own It" has Rico in a lot of wild outfits.
- Genre Shift: She often mixes rock and dance music with her Trap music.
- Genre Throwback: "Money" is a throwback to retro 80s hip-hop.
- Girlish Pigtails: Her song "Poppin'" mentions this.I was wearing wigs, I'm moving to braids now
- Gold Digger: "Money" embraces this trope.
- Gratuitous Spanish: The Las Ruinas mixtape. Means "the ruins" in Spanish.
- Hair-Trigger Temper: Parodied with the Anger Management mixtape, which is made up of entirely aggressive trap-rap songs.
- Large Ham: In "Money" with Flo Milli."SOMEBODY SAY HEEEEEEEEEEY WE WANT SOME MOOOOOONEEEEEEEEEEY!"
- Machine Monotone: The Computer Voice at the start of "Cold" on Anger Management. Comes with some Repetitive Audio Glitch.
- N-Word Privileges: In "iCarly" she refers to Carly from the show as her "bitch" in addition to this line.My bitches will fucking kill you my nigga.
- Ominous Obsidian Ooze: On the Las Ruinas cover.
- One-Word Title: Her songs "STFU", "iPhone", and "Loser."
- Panty Shot: A very intentional one of Flo Milli in the "Money" video.
- Parental Love Song: "Chicken Nugget," a heartfelt song about her son, Cameron, whom she had while still a teenager. Also is a Surprisingly Gentle Song from the same woman who made "Smack a Bitch."Eighteen years old when I had you, so they had so much to say
But we turned out good anyway, we turned out okay - Sampling: Her song "Money" with Flo Milli largely samples the beat of 2 Live Crew's "We Want Some Pussy".
- Shout-Out:
- Her songs "iCarly" and "Hey Arnold!".
- The "Money" video parodies Wheel Of Fortune and the yellow brick road from The Wizard of Oz.
- The "Check Me Out" video is a pastiche of animated Tim Burton films, with Rico starring as an Edward Scissorhands-type monster.
- A Wild Rapper Appears!: Is the wild rapper in question on her remix of Fred again's "Jungle."
