Alabama rapper Flo Milli broke through to mainstream success when her 2018 single "Beef Flomix" went viral. The song's mix of bouncy instrumental hooks and relentless, attitude-heavy lyrics put Flo Milli in the same camp as other brash, confident rap superstars like Cardi B, City Girls, and Megan Thee Stallion. The response was enough to give successive singles tens of millions of streams as well. Flo Milli's debut mixtape Ho, Why Is You Here? collects the best of her standout singles -- "Weak," "In the Party," "Like That Bitch," and the anthem that started it all, "Beef Flomix" -- as well as several previously unreleased tracks for a brief but powerful explosion of swagger and intensity. The singles already established as hits are unsurprisingly some of the best material on the project, with "Weak" standing out as one of the more inventive tunes. The song samples the SWV song of the same name as Flo Milli lists off all the men pursuing her romantically and shrugs them off with a smirk. The R&B-informed instrumental and front-and-center vocals are a nice detour from the rest of the mixtape's nonstop flexing over trappy pop beats, but it's just one of the many infectious moments that make Ho, Why Is You Here? so engaging and so fun.
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