Flo Rida, real name Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), is a rapper and songwriter from Miami, Florida.
He emerged in 2008 with the club anthem mega-hit "Low" and has been consistently putting out pop rap radio hits ever since. One of the most egregious examples of a "singles artist"; while he has 11 Top 10 hits, and 7 songs in the Billboard end-of-the-year Top 20 (several of which have been certified gold or platinum), his album sales have tended to be rather poor in comparison (none of them have been gold certified in the United States). Described by Stephen Colbert as "the last black man willing to be associated with the state of Florida".
In 2021, it was — quite unexpectedly — announced that Flo Rida would be representing San Marino in the Eurovision Song Contest with Italian singer Senhit on her 2021 entry "Adrenalina".note
Discography:
- Mail on Sunday (2008)
- R.O.O.T.S. (2009)
- Only One Flo (Part 1) (2010)
- Wild Ones (2012)
- The Perfect 10 (TBA)
Tropes associated with Flo Rida include:
- Double Entendre: "Can ya blow my whistle, baby, whistle, baby!" In case you couldn't tell, it's not actually about whistling.
- Epic Fail: Flo Rida, a Grammy Award-nominated rapper, somehow lost to Bo Dallas, a non-rapping novelty wrestler, in a freestyle rap off. To be fair, Bo used to do freestyle rap offs with Adrian Neville and Sami Zayn back in WWE NXT, but that doesn't mitigate the fact that Flo Rida is still a professional rapper who lost to someone that's supposed to be a complete amateur.
- In Da Club: Most of his songs' themes are centered around being clubbing. "Club Can't Handle Me" is all about this. Inverted with "My House", which takes place in his house rather than the club.
- Singer Namedrop: He does wordplay on his stage name in "Whistle":There's only one Flo and one Rida
- Sampling: "Good Feeling"'s chorus is based on the opening verse of "Somebody's Got a Hold of Me" by Etta James.
- Stuffy Old Songs About the Buttocks: "Can't Believe It", in which he and Pitbull spend about four minutes gushing over asses of white and black girls alike.