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2->''Flo Rida is the guy you get when you want ''a'' rapper, but not necessarily any rapper in particular.''
3-->--'''WebVideo/ToddInTheShadows'''
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5Flo Rida, real name Tramar Lacel Dillard (born September 16, 1979), is a rapper and songwriter from UsefulNotes/{{Miami}}, UsefulNotes/{{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", 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. Meanwhile, his album sales have tended to be rather poor in comparison (none of them have been gold certified in the United States). Described by Creator/StephenColbert as "the last black man willing to be associated with the state of Florida".
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7In 2021 it was —quite unexpectedly— announced that Flo Rida would be representing UsefulNotes/SanMarino in the Series/EurovisionSongContest with Italian singer Music/{{Senhit}} on her 2021 entry "Adrenalina"[[note]]While they did make it out ofthe semi-finals, they only came 22nd out of 26 acts in the final[[/note]].
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9!!Discography:
10* ''Mail on Sunday'' (2008)
11* ''R.O.O.T.S.'' (2009)
12* ''Only One Flo (Part 1)'' (2010)
13* ''Wild Ones'' (2012)
14* ''The Perfect 10'' (TBA)
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16!!Tropes associated with Flo Rida include:
17* BoastfulRap: Several of his songs fit this pretty well, most notably "Good Feeling".
18* DoubleEntendre: "Can ya blow my whistle, baby, whistle, baby!" In case you couldn't tell, [[IntercourseWithYou it's not actually about whistling]].
19* EpicFail: Flo Rida, a Grammy Award-nominated rapper, somehow lost to ''Wrestling/BoDallas'', a non-rapping novelty wrestler, in a freestyle rap off. To be fair, Bo used to do freestyle rap offs with Wrestling/AdrianNeville and Wrestling/SamiZayn back in Wrestling/{{WWENXT}}, 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.
20* TheFourChordsOfPop: "Whistle."
21* InDaClub: Most of his songs' themes are centered around being clubbing. "Club Can't Handle Me" epitomizes this; it's right down to the title.
22** Inverted with "My House", which takes place in his house rather than the club.
23* IntercourseWithYou: "Wild Ones", "Sugar" and "Right Round" are good examples of this trope, but of course, "Whistle" is the main star of the show, which is the most obviously sexual, unsubtle song from him.
24* AWildRapperAppears: More than a few instances of this, such as Music/JenniferLopez's "Goin' In", Olly Murs' "Troublemaker", Music/EnriqueIglesias' "There Goes My Baby" and Music/LadyGaga's "Starstruck".
25* SingerNamedrop: He does wordplay on his stage name in "Whistle":
26-->There's only one Flo and one Rida
27* ShoutOut: He gives a possible shoutout to fellow rapper A$AP Rocky in "Good Feeling": ''Got a feeling it's a rap, asap''. He did pronounce his name instead of spelling the initials, it's also possible wordplay on A$AP Rocky's name and the ASAP acronym.
28* StuffyOldSongsAboutTheButtocks: "Can't Believe It", in which he and Music/{{Pitbull}} spend about four minutes gushing over asses of white and black girls alike.
29* {{Understatement}}: In "I Don't Like It, I Love It", he sings about his love for a girl and how he doesn't just ''like'' her, he ''loves'' her.
30%%* WolverinePublicity: He's had the chance to collaborate with Music/NickiMinaj, Music/EnriqueIglesias, Music/LadyGaga, Music/{{Pitbull}}, Music/TPain, Music/JenniferLopez, Music/ChrisBrown, and Music/{{Sia}}.%%WP isn't about collaborations

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