Rican Da Menace is putting her confidence and charisma on full display as a rapper. She comes through with a one-two punch of lyrical dominance and undeniable energy in her music. With her new song “F No,” the Baltimore rapper wants you to take pride in your independence, which is a flip on Mario’s classic “Let Me Love You.”
What was your inspiration behind making “F No?”
I went to Atlanta, we were just listening to beats, and he played “Let Me Love You.” If you didn’t know, Mario is from Baltimore and I grew up listening to that song. When I heard it, I wanted to do a flip version, I didn’t want to do a love song because I felt like it didn’t go with my story. Everybody knows I’ve been publicly humiliated online by dudes, and they know I’ve been through it with them. I just feel like that song relates to me so much, and I’m just addressing everything and I’m able to express how I fully feel. This is the song that shows how I was feeling, how I was getting treated, and how I felt.
Where did your love for music come from?
I was recording a little bit when I was younger, but I didn’t sound good, so I never really took it seriously. I just kept doing it, and music was always a part of my life growing up in Baltimore. Everybody is a rapper, everybody wants to rap. Everybody goes to the studio. I always was around that because my uncles rapped too. I just decided to take it seriously one day because I knew I could do it. I just never sat down and put my mind to it. It was two years straight where I was in the studio every single day. During 2021, I was in the studio every day. I was in the studio recording and trying to find my voice, and now I’m confident. I used to be scared of the mic, but now I can go in the studio, and I don’t care if [there are] 50 people in there, I can record and I’m comfortable with it now.
What is your creative process like?
My process is different from other artists. I’m trying to get to punching in without writing. I need to write, though, because I want to know what I’m going to say, and I want to be confident in what I’m going to say. If I don’t, then I won’t sound confident because I don’t know [if] it’s going to sound right. I write the day before the day of recording. I like to write the whole song. I don’t like to go in not knowing what the h— I’m talking about. I write the whole song before I go in and I lay it down.
