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

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.

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.'

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.

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

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.

The name Rico Nasty came from Instagram.

I do see a lot of young artists who write records or sacrifice records, because there are a lot of older artists who are preoccupied; they don't have as much time as they used to to be in the studio.

For anybody that grow a beard or have hair on their face, I welcome you to the beard game. We're all family. I encourage that. I encourage beards.

I come from Carol City. The city renamed it Miami Gardens.

I'm fortunate enough to socialize with some of the greatest musicians around.

My kids love me. I'm blessed.

I was a real avid 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' fan. I think I may know every episode.

What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and DeJ Loaf is her favorite artist. So 'Maybach Music V,' I wanted a real airy type of feel. Just a real slow vibe to it that's also going to surprise my daughter. So that's real special.

In high school, I played football and became an all-American offensive lineman, but my father hadn't been to any of my games. In those instances, you still hold your head up high. But, when you look up into the stands and you see everyone else's parents cheering and supporting, you have to just stay focused and push through.

Miami is a party city, a go-fast city.

Toomp produced 'White House' on my first record, and we made magic.

The rollout of a classic has to have the heart of all the people working it. There's no way they can have their heart in it if they don't believe in it.

DJ Khaled most definitely knows how to rock a party.

I'll always be a supporter of Reebok. That's a forever thing.

When someone mentions my name because they're attacking someone that I'm close with, it's my problem now.

I ain't gonna lie: I love that cheese.

What I did in '06 with 'Port of Miami' was classic for that era, for that time frame, and in 2017, 'Rather You Than Me' will be the same.

Everybody who know Rick Ross know that, for one, I love creating music, and one of the biggest impacts we have on the game was the fact that when we came into the game, artists was waiting two to three years to put out albums. I was one of the few that put out an album every year along with two or three mixtapes.