• January 9, 2000
• Flo Milli is an American rapper who was born Tamia Monique Carter on January 9, 2000, in Mobile, Alabama. She is known for her confident, witty, and playful style of rap.
• Flo Milli was raised on artists her mom liked, such as Jill Scott, Erykah Badu, Anthony Hamilton and Musiq Soulchild. "I kinda grew up on soul music," she told XXL magazine. "It's kinda weird [since] I don't make that type of music. My first favorite rapper was Young Thug. Nicki Minaj, also."
• She started writing songs at age 9 and rapping at age 11. In her early teens, she formed and later disbanded a rap group called Real & Beautiful, later rebranded as Pink Mafia.
• Her breakthrough came in 2018 when "Beef FloMix," a freestyle over the instrumental of Ethereal and Playboi Carti's 2014 track "Beef" went viral on social media.
• Flo Milli signed with RCA Records and released her debut mixtape, Ho, Why Is You Here?, in 2020, which received critical acclaim and reached #78 on the Billboard 200.
• On December 30, 2023, "Never Lose Me" debuted at #84 on the Billboard Hot 100, marking Flo Milli's first appearance on the chart as a lead artist.

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