While 2019's Anger Management showed her off as a maleficent talent with a taste for blood, Nightmare Vacation is Rico at her nastiest.
Overall, Rico’s inaugural efforts are cathartic, ballsy and just plain fun. Nightmare Vacation solidifies the emcee as quite the furious force to be reckoned with.
Combative, empowering and unashamedly fun.
Nightmare Vacation is an excellent look into the many cogs that make Rico’s brain work without setting up a definitive future direction.
Basically, Nightmare Vacation is the soundtrack to Rico Nasty’s graduation. It’s short, aggressive and about as in-your-face as a Slipknot record, and it leaves you with the feeling that it could be the record that will finally cement Nasty as one of the most essential, vital voices in rap’s current pantheon.
There's rarely a dull moment on Nightmare Vacation, whether it's going in a poppier or a more extreme direction.
Filled with some promising musicalities scattered throughout, Nightmare Vacation lacks the final finesse to turn Nasty's sketch of a nightmare into a seismic escapade.
The high-volume delivery may be an acquired taste but there are gems to be found in this album of chaotic experimentalism.