For most musicians, the idea of playing with Pulitzer- and Grammy Award-winning superstar Kendrick Lamar would be a lesson in surviving the hot seat: an endless tour of stadium concerts and television shows, and globe-trotting, sleep-deprived, eye-of-the-hurricane schedules. Talk about pressure! But twenty-five-year-old Tony “Rico” Nichols lets it all roll off his back like seawater off a seal.

October 2018 Issue