Rico Nasty - LETHAL (Album)

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Today, Rico Nasty has released her highly anticipated album LETHAL, out now via Fueled by Ramen (Parlophone). Alongside the release, she’s shared a video for “CRASH,” a buoyant and radiant album highlight that pits a driving rhythm section against cascading vocal hooks.

On the release, Rico shares “It feels so good to be releasing LETHAL finally. I started working on this album well over a year ago and so much has changed for me since then. All things I’m proud of. I’ve been in singing lessons, voice therapy, acting lessons, dancing lessons, parent teacher conferences, on planes, on stages (though more to come there 😝) on set FILMING A TV SHOW… all in the midst of creating and releasing an album I’m really proud of. It’s one that showcases all sides of myself, sides the fans may not have seen yet. And somehow it still feels like my most cohesive (and authentic) body of work to date. I hope you guys love it. I know I do 😍”.

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. Purchase the album HERE.

Alongside the new record, Rico will make her acting debut in Apple TV+ & A24’s Margo’s Got Money Troubles, 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.