Who knows what this album would have sounded like if Flo Milli hadn't posted that TikTok last September, pulling out a stack of bills in a sparsely furnished apartment, glowing in the coals as she raps, “Speed up to the Wraith while his hand my doll /Touches Emilio Pucci”.
Flo had already released a single, “Fruit Loop,” with another, “Chocolate Rain,” coming that week. Those two songs, along with October's single “BGC,” were produced by up-and-comer Young Fyre, who previously co-produced Flo's revenge brat “Conceited.” According to an interview with Rolling rock last year, Fyre produced at least 10 tracks for Flo's follow-up to 'vulnerables' until 2022 Are you still here, Ho?
None of these songs appear Nice Ho, stay. It's easy to imagine how the viral success of “Never Lose Me” could upend the Alabama rapper's release — picture a mid-level record executive breathlessly recounting the metrics to her team, the budgets that were locked in the past they suddenly reopened. Nice Ho, stay it's therefore expensive, laced with beats from established hitmakers like Bangladesh, ATL Jacob and Lex Luger, and offers some of Flo's best songs to date. It's much closer to the trilogy starting in 2020 Ha, why are you here?but it's hard to shake the feeling that Flo Milli can make a better album than this one.
This is largely due to Flo Milli herself, whose nimble flows curl painless ideas into delightfully irregular shapes. In “Edible,” a particularly gifted lover doesn't make Flo feel perfect or flawless, but “flawless.” the start-stop strobe of “Tell Me What You Want” will probably leave you muttering “Men want to talk and I hate it” for weeks. Her focused flows are like snappy phrases and sticky earworms, like on the double Dutch anthem “Got the Juice,” where Flo alternates hot and cold: “I'm so confused, can't tell if I'm in love or if I'm using/I just lost my food, let's proceed with the recruitment.'
Speaking of eaters, Nice Ho, stay focuses almost exclusively on sexual competition. Milli still flaunts the carats in her watch and a small caravan of luxury vehicles, but she's more interested in her harem, particularly the assets they offer—cash, comfort, a swing. In “Neva”, Flo does “a rich nigga go broke”. in “New Me,” she gathers the guy's entire group of friends to make sure he fucks the hottest one. The hoes carry little to no distinguishing features, a cast of NPCs who exist solely to confirm the intensity of Milli's sexuality.
