Tinashe and Ricky Reed Unpack West Coast Influences, Hidden Ad-Libs on ‘Nasty’ for Variety’s Behind the Song

Long before Tinashe’s “Nasty” spawned the catch phrase of the summer, (“Is somebody gonna match my freak?”) the idea for earworm come through a freestyle on the way to a recording session with Ricky Reed. “I’d just gotten this necklace that said ‘Nasty,’ because I have this nickname Nasty Nashe,” the singer tells Variety in […]