Flo Milli features Rich Boy in video, shares clip from Mardi Gras

Flo Milli features Rich Boy in video, shares clip from Mardi Gras

Who’s out there living her best life — breaking TikTok records, performing on late-night TV, giving away big-screen TVs at Mardi Gras, and giving a nod to another Mobile rapper who broke out to national success?

Flo Milli, that’s who. Her freshly released video clip featuring Mobile rapper Rich Boy, and referencing his hit “Throw Some Ds” is only the tip of the iceberg, as far as what she’s been up to recently.

In late January, “Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon welcomed her for a performance of “Never Lose Me,” which he introduced as a track from her “upcoming album ‘Fine Ho, Stay.’”

That’s significant, because Milli has been tantalizing fans with the release of “Fine Ho, Stay” for a while now. Way back in September, an interview with Rolling Stone indicated the plan was to release it in fall 2023. At the time, Milli described it as a 10-song set mostly recorded in a single night. Rolling Stone described it as the third album in a trilogy, after 2020′s “Ho, Why Is You Here?” and 2022′s “You Still Here, Ho?’”

“Flo (born Tamia Monique Carter) has consistently been one of the most fun listens in rap, rhyming with the candy-colored zeal of a Clueless character — albeit one who spits fire,” wrote Andre Gee. “‘Fine Ho, Stay’ (due this fall) is her most personal album to date, as well as a more expansive version of her vibrant sound.”

“Never Lose Me” has been a record-breaker: On Feb. 8, Billboard.com reported that it had spent four consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s TikTok Top 50 chart, the first track to do so.

More recently still, Milli posted Instagram video of herself having a large time at Mardi Gras in Mobile, riding a float where the throws ranged from the usual beads all the way up to boxed television sets. And she dropped a video for the track “D’s.” The title is an obvious tribute to “Throw Some D’s,” a Top 10 hit for Marece “Rich Boy” Richards in 2006. And in case it wasn’t obvious, Rich Boy is featured in the video, though not on the track.

There’s a little bit of a twist. Where “Throw some D’s” was about putting some big rims on a custom car, “D’s” is about a boyfriend investing in some augmentation of his girl’s body.

A release date hasn’t been announced yet for “Fine Ho, Stay,” but 2024 seems like a breakout year for an Alabama artist who launched her first national headlining tour in 2022, after an appearance at that year’s Hangout Music Festival.