Rico Beats
| Rico Beats | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Ricardo LaMarre |
| Origin | Brooklyn, New York City, New York, United States |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
| Occupation(s) | Record Producer, Songwriter |
| Instruments | Ableton, Logic Pro, Fantom, MP |
| Years active | 2004−present |
| Associated acts | Cardiak, Pusha T, The Dream, Kevin Gates |
Ricardo LaMarre, better known as his stage name Rico Beats, is an American record producer and songwriter from Brooklyn, New York City. His most famous production credits are DJ Khaled's "Take That Off", Nicki Minaj's "Roman Reloaded", and Pusha T's "Exodus 23:1".
In 2004, Rico decided he wanted to be a record producer when he was in college. Once he heard Needlz produce "Bang Bang" by Young Buck so he started following his work, and it turned out that they had a mutual friend, so he was introduced and it went from there. He really admired Needlz and bought the same equipment as him so that he could recreate his sound as best he could. Rico started using Needlz was using Logic at the time, and he saw his success with that but felt like it took too long to make a beat on there, so decided that he'd rather do his own thing with Ableton. He got into using Abelton because most people were using Fruity Loops and Logic Pro, so he started messing with Ableton to stand out and be different.
In 2010, He produced the song "Mean Thug" on Soulja Boy's album The DeAndre Way. Rico wanted to work on Nicki Minaj's first album, Pink Friday beat he missed out because he was working with Soulja Boy at the time. Nicki's manager, Safaree Samuels called Rico to send some beats when they started working on Nicki's second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded . He didn't have any beats at the time he called, so he made fifty beats within the next month and "Roman Reloaded" was the one Nicki ended up keeping. In January 2012, Rico was working in a studio in Los Angeles, trying to get more music on her album. She went there and played a snippet of "Roman Reloaded", but it wasn't finished yet. The full version of the song was released on February 24.
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