{"id":4514,"date":"2022-08-06T15:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-08-06T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/read.streamapse.com\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:59:23","slug":"flo-milli-the-alabama-spitter-has-a-question-for-middling-mcs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=4514","title":{"rendered":"Flo Milli &#8211; The Alabama Spitter Has A Question For Middling MCs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile, Alabama-hailing MC Flo Milli was here for any and all of the smoke upon release of her 2020 debut mixtape Ho, why is you here ?. If the title of that project&#8217;s follow-up\u2014You Still Here, Ho?\u2014tells us anything about the MC today, it\u2019s that the two years that passed between those efforts did little to soften her resolve.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4515\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4515\" style=\"width: 700px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/artist-to-watch\/flo-milli-you-still-here-ho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4515\" src=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Flo-Milli.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"700\" srcset=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Flo-Milli.jpg 700w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Flo-Milli-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Flo-Milli-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4515\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/artist-to-watch\/flo-milli-you-still-here-ho\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ff00ff;\"><strong>Stream You Still Here, Ho?<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Milli spends the large majority of You Still Here, Ho? reminding other MCs that they cannot compete where they don&#8217;t compare. The whole thing is a collection of anthems of affirmation, songs with titles like \u201cHottie,\u201d \u201cConceited,\u201d and \u201cBig Steppa\u201d that allude to the kind of confidence Milli wishes for fans. For her competitors, though, she\u2019s got little more than secondhand embarrassment, a feeling that stems from Milli\u2019s own ability to write hip-pop songs in the vein of admitted influence Nicki Minaj (\u201cPretty Girls,\u201d \u201cPay Day\u201d) and then purer rap anthems like \u201cF.N.G.M.,\u201d which contains an interpolation of Junior M.A.F.I.A.&#8217;s golden-era classic \u201cGet Money.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mobile, Alabama-hailing MC Flo Milli was here for any and all of the smoke upon release of her 2020 debut mixtape Ho, why is you here ?. If the title of that project&#8217;s follow-up\u2014You Still Here, Ho?\u2014tells us anything about the MC today, it\u2019s that the two years that passed between those efforts did little [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[872,873,874,681,276],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-alabama","tag-middling","tag-milli","tag-question","tag-spitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6556,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/6556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}