Rico Nasty: Five Guys Burger & Boardwalk Fries

Your Last Meal with Rachel Belle

Rachel Belle

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4.4 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Sweet and boisterous, rapper Rico Nasty professes her love for making music; cooking for the people she adores most; and her grandmas, all while promoting her new album, Lethal. Her conversation with host Rachel Belle bounces from Maryland boardwalk fries (we’ll tell you what they are!) to Taco Bell (we learn what the Cinnamon Twists are made from) to a popular Puerto Rican party snack her grandma makes her, and only her, as a treat.

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0:00.0	Alaska Airlines has teamed up with Hawaiian Airlines to create new nonstop international flights.
0:05.6	Go to Alaskaair.com or Hawaiian Airlines.com and I'll tell you more details later in the show.
0:15.0	I'm Rachel Bell and this is your last meal.
0:23.0	The show where celebrities share stories about the foods they love most,
0:26.0	and we dig into the history, culture, or science of those meals with experts from around the world.
0:32.2	Today on the program, rapper Rico Nasty.
0:36.3	She's a bad bee. I could eat her up. She's a bad bee. rapper Rico Nasty.
0:50.5	Rico started self-releasing music in high school.
0:56.5	And after gaining a big online following, in 2018, she signed with a big label and has been putting out records ever since. Her new album is called Lethal and she is on tour now.
1:03.9	And I find Rico's success to be extra impressive considering she gave birth to her son when she was a
1:09.6	senior in high school.
1:16.1	Rico is only 28, but she already considers herself a candy grandma.
1:22.7	So later in the show, we're going to dig into the history of one of the most classic grandma candies.
1:26.9	But right now, let's jump into my conversation with Rico Nasty.
1:36.4	Tell me about who's Taco Bella.
1:37.8	Oh, okay.
1:42.7	So Taco Bella is, that's the personality that I developed while I was pregnant.
1:46.1	I loved Taco Bell. And it was like a low key supposed to be my rapper name,
1:48.8	but I don't think it ever like took off.
1:50.9	Taco Bella was like the OG pregnant.
1:54.6	Pregnant me couldn't drive past Taco Bell without crying.
1:58.1	Like what do you mean I'm not getting Taco Bell?
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