Rapper Flo Rida promises to bring the party to Macau and China
The American hip hop artist behind club hits such as Low and Good Feeling talks about his career and desire to expand and diversify his business – and Asia is as good a place as any to start
“I’m really looking forward to coming to Macau and China,” he says. “I love the people and culture.”
Flo Rida was born Tramar Lacel Dillard in 1979 in Miami, Florida, and says he feels he was “most definitely” destined to channel Miami’s spirit and create party music. The only boy and the youngest in a family of eight children, he was raised by a single mother in one of the city’s toughest housing projects, where he dodged trouble with a mixture of music, basketball – his first cultural love – and working out.
Being raised in a household full of women, he has repeatedly said, gave him a natural respect for them, and his lyrics, although at times highly suggestive, are generally clean and uncontroversial – partly because his mother listens to them. The emphasis is on partying, with that tendency to refer to all nightlife as “the club”, as if there’s only one.