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**Ashton Nicole Casey**, professionally known as **Ashnikko**, is an American singer, songwriter, rapper, record producer, and model. She has collaborated with various artists like Kodie Shane, Grimes, and Yung Baby Tate. They are currently signed under Parlophone Records.

## Early life

Ashton was born on February 19th, 1996 in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, and raised in the city of Greensboro where her parents exposed them to country music and Slipknot. She recalls becoming interested in music, specifically rap music, when they listened to "Bucky Done Gun" and "Arular" by M.I.A on her iPod Nano at the age of 11, claiming that it "blew [their] little brain away". As a teenager, her family moved to Estonia for their father's studies, spending a year there before relocating again to Riga, Latvia.

## Career

### **2017 - 2018: *Sass Pancakes* and *Unlikable***

Casey's first song, "Krokodil", was produced by Raf Riley and published to SoundCloud in July 2016. Casey released her first extended play, *Sass Pancakes*, under Digital Picnic Records in 2017. The EP was produced by Raf Riley and features appearances from Avelino. Their second EP, *Unlikeable*, was released in November 2018 and features appearances from Kodie Shane.

### **2019: *Hi, It's Me***

Casey released her third EP, *Hi It's Me* in July 2019. The five-track EP features the song "Stupid" with Yung Baby Tate which gained "viral" popularity on the video-sharing platform TikTok. Since September 2019, the song has been used in over 400,000 videos on the app, and has gained over 10 million streams on Spotify alone. The song reached No. 1 on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the Billboard Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop chart and the Spotify Viral 50 chart. They embarked on a North American tour supporting American rapper Danny Brown in October 2019.

### ***2020- 2021: DEMIDEVIL***

On March 6th, 2020, Ashnikko released the stand-alone single "Tantrum". This would be followed by the single, "Cry" featuring Grimes, which was released on June 17, 2020. Following this, "Daisy" was released on July 9. "Daisy" peaked at #30 on the UK Singles Chart, becoming her first charting and first top 40 hit in the United Kingdom. "Cry" and "Daisy" would both appear on Ashnikko's debut mixtape, *Demidevil*, which was initially scheduled for a February 19th 2021 release. On January 7th 2021, Ashnikko announced Demidevil would officially come out January 15th, 2021 because of the accidental distribution of some physical copies of the album early. Shortly before the albums release, on January 12th, 2021, the single "Deal With It" was released with a music video, and a few months after the album's release music videos for two tracks on the album, "Drunk With My Friends" and "Slumber Party" were released too, due to the latter trending on TikTok. In addition, a virtual concert was held for the mixtape.

### 2021 : Panic Attacks In Paradise & Maggots

On September 29th, 2021, both Panic Attacks In Paradise and Maggots were released as singles. Both originally were theorized to be a part of Ashnikko's debut album - later to be named Weedkiller.

### 2023 : WEEDKILLER

Kicking off the year of 2023, on February 8th 2023, Ashnikko had released the first single for the new era : You Make Me Sick! Later on, Casey had released the second single: Worms, on March 1st 2023. Further on, the title track of the album, WEEDKILLER released on April 6th 2023. Unfortunately, the album had been delayed of its June 2nd 2023 release date. The album had been rescheduled for August 25th 2023. This delay had been announced with the release of the fourth single, Possession Of A Weapon. After the fourth single, Ashnikko had created an instagram reel showing off merchandise for the album, such as vinyl records and DnD Sets. On July 28th 2023, the fifth single, Cheerleader, was released. August 25th marked Weedkiller's release with World Eater, Super Soaker ( feat. Daniela Lalita), Don't Look At It, Moonlight Magic, Miss Nectarine,Chokehold Cherry Python, Want It All and Dying Star (feat. Ethel Cain) being officially released,[1]

## Trivia

* At one point, she was the only American in the country to attend a Latvian public high school.
* They love Italian Food.
* Her favorite color is blue.
* Their favorite rappers are Eminem and Doja Cat.
* Her zodiac sign is Pisces.
* They are a fan of Hastune Miku/vocaloid.
	+ She has released a version of Daisy featuring Miku.
* They have stated that Kelis' song ‘Caught Out There’ is one of her favorite songs in the entire world.
* They are pansexual.
* She is genderfluid. Their pronouns are she/they.
* They have a brother.
* She currently is in a relationship with singer/songwriter Arlo Parks. They have been together since December of 2021.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/writer/883442414/CASEY%20ASHTON%20NICOLE
2. ↑ https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/ashnikko
3. ↑ https://www.musicjournal.com.br/americana-ashnikko-celebra-sucesso-de-stupid-proximo-do-top-200-global/
4. ↑ https://www.clashmusic.com/next-wave/next-wave-862-ashnikko
5. ↑ https://soundcloud.com/ashnikko/ashnikko-x-raf-riley-krokodil
6. ↑ http://oddchildmusic.com/ashnikko-signs-her-first-ep-to-digital-picnic-records/
8. ↑ https://twitter.com/ashnikko/status/1396622094721601543

https://twitter.com/ashnikko/status/1409911342585331719