Ricardo Lamarre, known professionally as Rico Beats, is an American record executive, record producer, and songwriter.
14 Facts About Rico Beats
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Rico Beats previously co-managed the late American rapper Pop Smoke with American record executive Steven Victor.
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In 2004, Rico decided he wanted to be a record producer when he was in college.
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Rico Beats really admired Needlz and bought the same equipment as him so that he could recreate his sound as best he could.
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Rico Beats 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.
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Rico Beats got into using Ableton because most people were using Fruity Loops and Logic Pro, so he started messing with Ableton to stand out and be different.
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Rico Beats 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.
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Nicki's manager, called Rico to send some beats when they started working on Nicki's second album Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded.
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Rico Beats 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.
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In January 2012, Rico Beats was working in a studio in Los Angeles, trying to get more music on her album.
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Rico Beats went there and played a snippet of "Roman Reloaded", but it wasn't finished yet.
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In 2013, Rico Beats produced Pusha T's controversial "Exodus 23:1" which was diss to Drake.
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Rico Beats told MTV News that the Young Money label was the last thing on their minds.
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Rico Beats has already produced two tracks for Jadakiss's next album and one of them is going to feature rapper Jeezy.