- My whole life in music, and my real life,
has been a journey.
I feel like everybody's life has been good and bad.
And although my music screams energy,
and great mood, and, you know, confidence,
I wanted this to be called 'Nightmare Vacation'
because I wanted to acknowledge just as much good (beep)
and just as much as bad (beep).
I mean, that's why it's called 'Nightmare Vacation.'
Because, although, like, I'm battling my own (beep),
I'm making it look fun, you know?
And I feel like, also, that's what all of us should do.
Honestly, I'm very happy to have it out.
Finally. I feel like this is something
I've held onto for a very long time and yes,
it's (beep) out.
Let's go.
Hey, MTV News.
It's Rico Nasty
and I'm here to tell you guys my top five music videos
from my own catalog.
First music video of mine is "Poppin."
I woke up at, like, 6:00 in the morning.
I directed it.
I pretty much just told my cameraman and my boyfriend,
"Get up. We're going to the Hollywood sign.
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And I had made the song the night before,
so I didn't even go to sleep from the studio.
And I shot it, he edited the video,
I sat there with him, and it came out the very next day.
My second favorite video is "Smack a (beep)."
I almost got kicked out of the hotel shooting it.
And I was just like, "Well, I just want to, like, make a video
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We were, like, in the hallway and (beep),
and we found this little window--
and we were using it for vlog footage,
right?
And I'm like,
"No, we should perform right there and do, like, on the wall."
So, we shot out there.
The people are like, "You can't shoot."
So, we're like, "Where can we shoot?"
So, we go to the stairwell,
'cause we're just trying to explore the hotel
and places where people won't go.
We go to the stairwell. It's fire.
There's, like, stamps all on the wall
and all this crazy (beep).
And, originally, it's white.
The stairwell is white.
So, I went in my room and I got a pink, like, bra.
Like a bralette, like a lace bra.
And we put it over the light and we made it pink.
And then I had my boyfriend, like, flash it and (beep),
and it made it look like it was rainbow light.
They did wind up coming
to our room and telling us [that] whatever footage we used,
we couldn't use it.
And we fake had to delete footage
off our, like, phones and yeah. So, boom, "Smack a (beep)."
(laughs)
My favorite video
number three is "Roof."
Lord have mercy.
"Roof" was shot in the (beep) desert.
First of all, it was shot in a desert.
And then, it was shot, like, in this one bedroom
that was done up, like, hella fire.
Shout out to Cody Dobie, he's amazing.
We met this man through email and we were like, "Bet.
"He's gonna shoot the video.
"Cool." He had this awesome-(beep) treatment.
He had like, work to show for it.
So, we're leaving from Kenny's studio.
Once again, 3:00 in the morning, sleepy as (beep).
And I'm like, 'bout to just go to sleep in the car with them,
you know?
'Cause I'm thinking it's just going to be the director,
me, and my boyfriend,
'cause we had to ride in a truck
with all the props and (beep).
I get in this van,
it's, like, five people and there's a ladder. And I go to sleep.
So I wake up, we eat, and I realized we're in the desert.
And I'm, like, looking at my boyfriend,
looking at my makeup artist.
Like, "Where we at?"
Like, these (beep) got a ladder, what ditches they diggin'?
I'm trying to text and there's no (beep) service, bro.
So, like, I'm sitting next to my makeup artist
and I'm, like, tapping him on the leg,
and I'm like, "Bro, where are we?"
I was getting so much anxiety.
It was, like, the worst ride ever.
We get there--
and obviously we needed a ladder
so that the extra could stand
up on this (beep) rock for the intro scene.
But, whatever, I was like these (beep) are going to kill us
and bury us in the (beep) desert.
Fast forward.
We had to drive to another scene,
and it was below sea level, and it was so hot.
We walked out there, we're setting everything up,
and the (beep) director, he's like,
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And he just pauses
and he stares at me. And I'm like,
"What? What is it? Like, is it a (beep) lizard on me?
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He says, "Your wig is green and we're using green screen."
You can look at the "Roof" video for reference.
I'm not lying.
This really (beep) happened.
It's so hot.
This wig is on my head.
I am like, "Well, I didn't bring another one."
I should have brought another one.
I should just take this (beep) off.
I got my outfit from this costume store in L.A. for, like, $150.
The stones were burning me, (beep).
We hot as (beep) out there,
any water bottle we bring back
from the car gets hot instantly.
It was a (beep) mess, but we got it done.
And that was, by far, one of my favorite music videos
to shoot, ever.
Number four.
I'm going to have to say, "OHFR?"
And I just love that music video
because it's on 'Nightmare Vacation.'
It's new, it's fresh.
People kept telling me to bring the spikes back, I did.
The music video for it is very
just brash, and aggressive, and in your face.
And I love that type of (beep).
It was shot in one place,
so it wasn't, like, hectic going
to different locations or nothing like that.
I did my own makeup.
I styled myself.
And I like when I do (beep) like that, sometimes,
'cause it can be real fun,
like, building this (beep) from the ground up, stylistically.
But yeah, I love that video.
My fifth and final favorite music video is "iCarly."
We all start somewhere.
And if you look at that music video, I kind of look a lot -
Well, I don't kind of, I look a lot different.
I feel like people who know me
in real life can tell by that video,
I was very nervous and like, you know, new. Very new.
And I just remember getting that whole (beep) together.
Planning the video shoot once again,
my outfits, doing my hair that morning,
being nervous that somebody would cancel
and we wouldn't be able to do this, X, Y, Z.
But that was, like, a really fun time in my life
because I had no idea that I would be this blessed,
and have so many fans, and be able to do so many things.
I don't cringe at that video.
Like, I don't ever look
at my old videos and, like, get ashamed or anything.
It just really inspires me.
Like, I was thinking some crazy (beep) when I was dirt poor.
Like, I was thinking some out-of-the-box (beep),
and it just inspires me to go super hard,
and to never forget, like, where this (beep) started.
It started in the basement,
it started asking friends, can you shoot at their house,
borrowing my friend's clothes. (Beep),
hitting girls up on Twitter to be in my videos,
making sure all the girls are, like, being hosted.
And like, you know what I'm saying?
Getting food, getting drinks,
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Making sure that we all come
with the same outfit, the same vibe,
like, all of that (beep).
I was like, "How the (beep) did I have time for that?"
But, it was amazing.
I feel like my visuals complement me as an artist
because that's my chance to show people the world
that I'm rapping about.
That's my chance to bring people
into my, what's supposed to be, everyday life or, you know,
whatever theme the music video is.
And I also feel
like it's a time to bring the song to life, as well.
Like, music videos are a time to add action
to the words that you're saying. Like, even the "Own It" video,
you know, I asked, out of my mouth, I asked
for drastic, over-the-top, crazy,
when talking to wardrobe.
And when I got to fitting, that's what I got.
And a lot of the stuff was uncomfortable.
A lot of the stuff I couldn't walk in.
A lot of the stuff I couldn't breathe in- the spike mask,
you know? But, I felt like that's all a part of
a nightmare vacation.
And when you got the video, it looked amazing.
But, let me tell you, they were wheeling me on and off set.
And not to mention just that, but obviously, coronavirus.
I don't want to give her too much clout
because, (beep) that (beep), she needs to (beep) go away.
But obviously, that's (beep) a lot of stuff.
A lot of stop-and-go traffic.
Like, right when you think you're done, you're not done.
You got to start over or, you know,
getting a lot of jitters because "iPhone" was a song
my fans were very excited for,
and I wound up having to shoot that in my basement.
Do a lot of CGI (beep), and that was, you know, stressful
because I'm like, (beep), but I wanted to give a real video.
I wanted to give actors and a storyline.
And even though the video gives that
'Nightmare Vacation' (beep), there was
a lot of ups and downs and trial and errors.