Rico Nasty explained her musical manifesto in her recent cover story with Kerrang!. “I treat genre like a bitch on the street,” she said. “I think genre deserves to get bent and broken. I don’t ever look at genre; I only look at vibes.” Rico’s new mixtape, Las Ruinas, undoubtedly abides by that mantra. Trap, hip-hop, rap-rock… it doesn’t really matter how you label these 17 songs. As was Rico’s aim, the vibes Las Ruinas gives off are thrilling, engaging and the mark of an artist who’s becoming impossible to ignore. There’s plenty of aggression on show throughout Las Ruinas. Opening track Intrusive finds Rico singing about how she’s ‘Only here to smoke blunts and spit on racist cunts’ over some belligerent hip-hop beats, while the venom with which she deliv...