This Black Music Month, Tiny Desk is giving the women their flowers. We’re releasing 9 Tiny Desk live shows from Black ladies artists, from veterans who’ve paved the best way for what we hear immediately in Black music, to those that are carving out their very own paths.
The Tiny Desk has humbled many artists, however Flo Milli strutted into NPR HQ and behind the Desk with the unwavering confidence of an OG. Whereas her look gave smooth and female, clothed in blush pink with child’s breath scattered all through her hair, Milli’s lyrical prowess sliced like a sword. Her bars have been bratty and braggadocious alongside Atlanta’s personal Band of Brothers and her background singers she dubbed “The Floettes.”
Flo Milli has carved out her personal lane in hip-hop. At simply 24 years previous, she’s dropped a trilogy of albums — 2020’s Ho, Why Is You Right here?, 2022’s You Nonetheless Right here, Ho? and 2024’s Positive Ho, Keep — and scored her first Billboard Sizzling 100 charting single with the infectious “By no means Lose Me.” Performing with a reside band for the primary time, we get a style of every of those albums in her efficiency. The opener, a medley of “Immodest” and “Mattress Time,” will get a rock makeover with some heavy keybass and electrical guitar. Then, Milli and her band take us again to her debut days with the music that put her on the map, “Beef FloMix,” which takes on a soulful, guitar-led makeover. Closing her set with a deal with, the band trade their devices for acoustic guitars to carry out a particular rendition of “By no means Lose Me” — with a brand new verse, solely for the Tiny Desk viewers.
SET LIST
- “Immodest”
- “Mattress Time”
- “In The Occasion”
- “Beef FloMix”
- “Weak”
- “By no means Lose Me”
MUSICIANS
- Flo Milli: vocals
- Slim Wav: keys, musical course, guitar
- André Brown: bass, guitar
- Marlon Allen: guitar
- Jordan Hemby: drums, bass
- Samira “YaYa” Gordon: vocals
- Desiré Gaston: vocals
TINY DESK TEAM
- Producer: Ashley Pointer
- Director/Editor: Kara Body
- Audio Technical Director: Neil Tevault
- Host/Sequence Producer: Bobby Carter
- Videographers: Kara Body, Joshua Bryant, Alanté Serene
- Audio Engineer: Josephine Nyounai
- Photographer: Estefania Mitre
- Animation: Jackie Lay
- Florist: Kelanda Edwards
- Tiny Desk Crew: Hazel Cills, Maia Stern
- Government Producer: Suraya Mohamed
- Sequence Creators: Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson
- VP, Visuals and Music: Keith Jenkins
