Rico Nasty Net Worth: How Rich is the Rapper Actually in 2022?

Maria-Cecilia Rico Nasty is a stage name for Simone Kelly, a rapper and songwriter from the United States. Smack a Bitch and Key Lime OG are two of her most well-known hits, and they helped her establish herself as a female rapper. Rico Nasty has a net worth of about $1 million as of 2022.

Full Name	Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly
Birth Date	May 7, 1997
Birth Place	Washington D.C, Maryland
Profession	Rapper and Songwriter
Relationship Status	In a relationship
Net Worth	$1 million

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Early Life

Maria-Cecila Simone Kelly, as Rico Nasty, was born on May 7, 1997. Her father was African-American and her mother was Puerto Rican. Her father was also a rapper, which had an impact on her decision to pursue a career as a rapper. She attended a Baltimore boarding school but was expelled when she was 14 years old for consuming marijuana. When she was 15 years old, her father was condemned to jail, and her parents divorced at the same time.

Rico Nasty Net Worth and Career

Rico published her debut mixtape, Summer’s Eve, in 2014. She was still in high school at the time. Following her graduation from high school, she continued to release mixtapes such as The Rico Story and Sugar Trap. After the release of the hit tune iCarly, which became famous on YouTube, she began to build a following in 2016. Hey, Arnold was also published, and it was remixed by rapper Lil Yachty.

Her first huge hit tune, Poppin, was published in 2017, and it went viral on YouTube with millions of views. In the same year, Rolling Stone named Sugar Trap 2 as one of the Best Rap Albums of 2017.

Nasty and Anger Management are two of her mixtapes that she has released throughout the years. Smack A Bitch and Key Lime OG were significant successes on TikTok and in meme creation. In 2018, Atlantic Records signed her after she consistently demonstrated high-quality songs.

She was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 list for Music in 2019, indicating that she is a rising talent in the rap world. Rico was still making music in 2020, despite the epidemic. She released the track iPhone as part of her first studio album, Nightmare Vacation, and is now working on further singles.

Personal Life

When Rico was just 18 years old, she gave birth to a kid called Cameron. Unfortunately, when Rico was still in high school, his father died from an asthma attack. She used to work as a hospital receptionist, but as her rap career grew in notoriety, she shifted her concentration to her rap career, with the support of her manager and now boyfriend, Malik Foxx.