The name Rico Nasty came from Instagram.

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.

As women, we're always supposed to be catty, or too cute to dance. And it sucks.

I want to bring more structure into my shows sometimes but honestly, people have told me they like the randomness and how crazy it gets.

I'm a little bit scared of everything. It's kind of funny. Whenever people ask me how I'm feeling, I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm scared. I'm nervous.'

Growing up, my mom always knew that I was more on the Black side than the Spanish side, just because I didn't speak Spanish.

When I started making music, I figured the name Rico Nasty would give a background of who I am.

The scene in the DMV now is very united. I don't know if it's for everybody but everybody is showing love, everybody is showing support. Everybody is just trying to make a name for themselves and they are willing to help other people. Everybody is willing to network and do things with people outside of who they know.

I stopped making music for other people.

It's very important when you in the studio to be with a confident creative.

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 got expelled from high school my freshman year.

I love Rihanna.

I like music where someone is trying to get their power back.

I wanted a future outside my hometown.

People keep trying to say I'm one type of artist and I'm just not.

I love that my friends understand that I'm not gonna forget about the old me.

I made 'iCarly' when I was 18 years old.

I really hate when I do a great song with great lyrics but my voice just don't fit because of the type of beat I picked.

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

I shot 'Poppin' in L.A. because I love L.A. Because when I came out here, I fell in love with it.

I feel like all artists have to come to L.A. at least once because it's just beautiful. It's peaceful.

I'm proud of who I am.

I think that it is important to mingle with your peers and get to know the people that you coming up with because everything that we're doing is history.

I feel like what made 'Nasty' so fire was it was finally something that they couldn't take from me.

It is kind of easy for me to speak out. Just because I am very vocal in my music about a lot of different emotions, like anger, and normally stuff that people would hide, I'm okay with as a woman.

Whenever I'm around Spanish people, I'm kind of like a fly on the wall.

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

Taurus and Sagittarius do not get along.

I'm like pixie grunge. The perfect blend of sugar and spice.

I've never been the type of person to put myself in a box.

I don't wanna be bare minimum. I wanna be successful.

You gotta be very positive. It helps. It really does.

Once I found art, it was a wrap.

I don't want to be that stereotypical black girl that's mad all the time.

It's hard to be dainty and la la la when you're also supposed to be strong.

I feel like I'm really loud and brash.

Everything's a battle.

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.

At the end of the day, you have a side of the story that needs to be heard, too.

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

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.

A lot of times I play my music at shows based on the views and the streams.

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

I love when people are just naturally happy people.

Shoutouts to Cardi B. She's going to be a great mom.

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.

Try performing with your period. Like really, and then call me back. I know Beyonce has. I know Nicki has. I know all of the legendary women have had to do that. A man can't do that.

I thought I'd be famous for being cute.

I don't want to say I'm that famous, but when you see me, you see me.