Obviously your new single is going to spark a conversation about the B-word.

Rico Love: When an artist put out that song and they say “pop that pussy, bitch,” nobody say nothing. I’m making an introspective song about behaviors that I don’t agree with. I don’t agree that a woman should leave her kid with her mom while she parties and take trips and don’t spend time with her kids, or buys her kids Jordans but don’t go up to the school. If I got to say the word ‘bitch’ to get your attention then fine.

In the song, you are speaking to a certain type of woman.

Rico Love: I see it all the time. If you listen to the first four bars, that’s me empathizing with this particular individual. And obviously, I’m in this particular club noticing it, so I’m apart of the life.

My issue with that word and targeting black women is that black men attack women too often. That’s why we have these adverse reactions to songs like this.

Rico Love: I can’t speak for every individual and what they’re dealing with. What I can say though, in these certain scenarios that I’ve experienced, the black woman is usually the one to go crazy at the mouth. Now, if we beat black women down mentally so many years, that causes them to be so aggressive and so combative towards us; it all stems from us as men. But I know there’s certain women who are aggressive out the gate because they’re prepared. It’s like a dog and that’s where the term bitch came from. It’s from how aggressive a female dog is especially when she’s protecting something and when she feels threatened.

In the last verse I say, “I ain’t judging,  just saying how it is, you know what you do, you know how it is, you be taking trips, you don’t be with your kids…” Like, that’s true. That has nothing to do with no man at that point. If you’d rather go visit a basketball player than be with your kids when you have one free weekend off, you can’t blame men. And the reason why I’m putting the pressure on them is because, again, I’m saying we are nothing without our mothers, without our women, without those matriarch figures in our life.

So you’re certainly defining what you believe a b-word to be. What defines a woman?