Ashton Nicole Casey was born on 19 February 1996, in Oak Ridge, North Carolina, and while growing up her parents exposed her to diverse musical genres, from country music to Slipknot. She became interested in music, specifically rap music, when she listened to Arular by M.I.A. at the age of 10, and she didn't listen to male musicians until she was 16. As a teenager, her family moved to Estonia for her father's studies, and at 18 she moved to London by herself. Using the stage name Ashnikko, she recorded her first song, 'Krokodil', produced by Raf Riley and published to SoundCloud in July 2016. Her first EP was released by Digital Picnic Records, with 'Sass Pancakes' coming out in 2017, followed by her second EP, 'Unlikeable', a year later. Her third EP was 'Hi It's Me' in 2019, and this time it was preceded by the promotional single 'Special', which was launched alongside the EP's title track and lead single, 'Hi It's Me'. The second official single, 'Stupid', featuring Yung Baby Tate, and gained viral popularity on TikTok, reaching number one on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart. In 2019 she co-wrote eight songs, two of which she is featured on, on Brooke Candy's debut album, 'Sexorcism', which was released in October 2019, and later she co-wrote 'Boss Bitch' with American rapper Doja Cat, which was included on the 'Birds Of Prey' soundtrack album. In March 2020 she released the standalone single 'Tantrum', and this was followed by her breakthrough record, when 'Daisy' was released in July 2020, charting internationally in countries including Australia, Belgium and the United Kingdom, where it reached number 24 on the UK Singles Chart. In January 2021 she released her debut mixtape 'Demidevil', which she promoted with a North American and European tour in October. After a years hiatus since the release of the two singles 'Panic Attacks In Paradise' and 'Maggots' in September 2021, Ashnikko released her new single, 'You Make Me Sick!', on 8 February 2023, as a taster for her debut album 'Weedkiller', which was scheduled for an August 2023 release. Following the appearance of 'Weedkiller', four more singles have been released from it, and so now is a good time to collect together some of the tracks that she's recorded from as early as 2013 up to last year which didn't make it to the album. There have been many short snippets of songs leaked to Youtube, but for this album I've only chosen completed tracks, plus a few collaborations that she's done along the way.
Track listing
01 Fight Like A Girl
02 Cake Face
03 Homicide
04 Wallflower
05 Nonsense
06 Damsel
07 Hands On The Wheel (feat. Grafomans)
08 Krokodil
09 Creepy
10 Fever (feat. Yurrit & Terrell Morris)
11 Emerald Eyes
12 Coming
13 Mellow (feat. Firejose & Justicious)
14 Mermaid
15 Kiss Kat (feat. Nightwave)
16 Please Don't Grab My Pussy
