Kyann-Sian Williams of NME described the mixtape as 'otherworldly and synth-heavy' and noted that the mixtape proved Rico's singing abilities. In May 2017, Rico Nasty released her fourth mixtape, Tales of Tacobella, which is her earliest commercially available release as of September 2020. The duo would later link again in 2017 for the single 'Mamacita' as part of The Fate of the Furious: The Album soundtrack. She also released the single 'Hey Arnold,' which was later remixed featuring Atlanta rapper Lil Yachty. Rico Nasty gained some prominence with her 2016 single 'iCarly' which amassed over 500,000 views on YouTube within months. After graduating from high school, she started focusing on her music career and released two mixtapes in 2016: The Rico Story and Sugar Trap. Rico started rapping in high school and released her first mixtape, Summer's Eve (2014), when she was in tenth grade at Charles Herbert Flowers High School. Career 2014–2017: Career beginnings and early mixtapes The following year, her father was sent to prison and her parents divorced. She was expelled for smoking marijuana at 14 and transferred to Charles Herbert Flowers High School in Prince George's County where her music career began.

When she was 11, her mother moved to Palmer Park, Maryland where she was enrolled in a Baltimore boarding school for the sixth grade. She was raised in various locations including Prince George's County, Maryland, New York, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly was born an only child to a Puerto Rican mother and African-American father, also a rapper, who introduced her to rap music when she was a child. Rico's seventh mixtape, Las Ruinas, was released on July 22, 2022. Rico Nasty's debut studio album, Nightmare Vacation, was released in December 2020. This was followed by the collaborative mixtape Anger Management (2019) with long time associate Kenny Beats. After gaining wider recognition in 2018, she signed to Atlantic Records where she released her sixth mixtape, Nasty (2018).

She gained a local, underground following with SoundCloud singles such as 'iCarly' and 'Hey Arnold'. Rico Nasty began self-releasing content in 2014, while in high school, and had released five solo mixtapes by late 2017. She rose to prominence in 2018 with singles such as ' Smack a Bitch' and 'Poppin'. Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (born May 7, 1997), known professionally as Rico Nasty, is an American rapper and singer from Maryland.

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