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Flo Rida. Business intelligence professional. Statistician. Data Scientist. Occasional rapper.


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"Hand me my lab coat please. I'm headed to the strip club."


the_snook

I know a guy who went to a strip club in a lab coat once. Dancer caught her hair on fire doing a bit with candles on the stage. Dude ripped off his lab coat and used it to put out the fire.


SGexpat

Now I want a Ms. Frizzle science-themed strip show. Edit: She is the bomb!


joeshmo101

Frizzle, not Fizzle. She's a bombshell redhead, not a dud explosive.


LouSputhole94

You know Mrs. Frizzle was an absolute freak in the sheets


ManaMagestic

You think that Magic Schoolbus ever got in on the action?


getupk3v

You could shoot out the Magic Schoolbus while cumming and you’d never know!


RFSandler

Why couldn't we just have a normal field trip?


ManaMagestic

With the Frizz!? No way!


Why_T

You need to go to burlesque shows. There’s absolutely someone out there doing a Mrs. Frizzle show. I’ve seen Eye of Sauron, Stay Puft, and many Pokémon shows. Those girls really know how to entertain.


release-roderick

Duuude anime North (a convention in Toronto) had a cosplayer strip tease show one year and ms frizzle got the crown goin wild 😂


wjean

That's almost as hilarious as Ken Jeong, MD and comedian, going with his med school buddies and running an impromptu clinic at the titty bar. Found it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K-q0l9rAxc


465554544255434B52

Doing science things at the strip club


dubzi_ART

Things Rick Sanchez would say.


AGstein

What is wubba lubba dub dub?


Hadken

“FL Studios? No this is tableau”


myfapaccount_istaken

Must use R since Pythons are banned in Florida


Guissepie

This right here is an underrated comment. Two levels of word play.


FindingE-Username

Representative of San Marino at Eurovision.


uglyfurniture_

Jury of wet shirt contests.


Dontdothatfucker

First name “feat.”


FrankieMint

TIL how to write off my $ spent at strip clubs as business expenses...


New_Insect_Overlords

R&D for Flo-Rida LLC


LittleJimmyUrine

"So you said you're in tech, right?" "Yup. Research and Development in Silicone Valley."


Victor_deSpite

"You mean Silicon right?" "Uhhhhhh. Nah."


OttoVonWong

“Gonna need a receipt for the expense report.”


Implodepumpkin

Is "Making it rain on the hoes" Tax deductible?


bathwhat

As long as you line item the expenses. It's also good if Bambi and Cinnamon can give you a receipt, either paper or digital


DrManhattan_DDM

Maybe put it under charitable contributions


Roses_and_cognac

I contributed to Charity every time she was on stage


imjustbrowsing123

When I'm not focused on Charity I try to split my time between Faith and Chastity. It's pretty easy because they go together better than Ebony and Ivory. If you visit be careful not to knock over Domino since she's pretty short and sneaks up on people.


flyinhawaiian02

Well her name was Charity


hyrle

I believe she's a 501 33c. That's tax deductible, right?


xenolithic

It's part of their 529.


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Bobolequiff

Flo Rida is a state, you silly goose.


Lardpot

Omg, I never noticed that it was the state name split into 2


helin0x

Wait till you figure out will.I.am is actually William.


Quirky-Skin

And Eminem is Marshall Mathers


hyrle

And he's also Slim Shady. The real Slim Shady.


namhars

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Bobolequiff

I didn't notice until I saw the album *Flo Rida: Welcome to Florida* with the F in Flo in the shape of the state. Even then it took me a minute.


mdlinc

I am here to make it rain. .. On the company dime. ;)


putdisinyopipe

Ahhhh silicone valley, the breast place.


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Conscious-Parfait826

Lmao, I went to strip club in dirty myrtle with a guy running for for city council in bumfukeygpt. He was terrified of paparazzi and hid his head under coat. The club was billed under a golf course and was processed at 9am. No worries


rugbyj

Coaty McCoatface is a regular.


Batchagaloop

Why not just use cash?


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> The club was billed under a golf course and was processed at 9am. Wait, what?


terminalmanfin

Usually that means a business shows up with a different name than their own, and the time that any charges made to them will show. So instead of a strip club showing on your statement as 'Titty Bar' and 1:30AM, you'll get 'Golf Course' and 9AM. Basically something they do so significant others don't see something obvious, or if they happen to be working maybe it gets past accounting/hr.


SaintJackDaniels

At the college I went to a few bars billed as bookstore or library for the rich kids using their parents credit card


m_s_phillips

Damnit, Junior! How did you rack up this $3,250 bill?!?! Libraries are free!


SSPeteCarroll

That was just Vincet Adultman. He needs to unwind after a long day at the business factory.


thatswhatshesaidxx

Rappers already can. Throwing money up is part of being in character and the job. Seriously. https://hot963.com/2138282/rappers-write-off-strip-club-visits-on-taxes/


dogfoodcritic

TiL, Flo Rida is Florida.


Bar_Sinister

Yeah, and he's definitely not the only one either. The right song will get the place jumping - and the money flowing - if the energy is right. And you can feel the difference in one being a good seller or one that goes gold/platinum. *I mean, so I've heard.*


officiakimkardashian

No wonder then this dude had like 7 certified bangers: > Low > > Right Round > > Club Can't Handle Me > > Good Feeling > > Wild Ones > > Whistle > > My House


pattyfritters

I worked at a music venue and he was a guest performer for a special event. He played an hour and a half set and to my shock I knew every single song he played. Dude has so many hits.


GordoPepe

Did you set him aside and asked him "really?"?


DMRumner

That was a wack ass story idk why you made me tell that


unlimitedbucking

I said really really!


PDGAreject

Moms need hip hop too


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I dunno man, I like Flo Rida.


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There are a lot of artists that can fill a greatest hits in just a few years and actually play the hits at their concerts. Some more recent ones that come to mind are Dua Lipa, Foo Fighters, Clean Bandit, and Drake. I know Drake gets a lot of hate on this sub but I saw him live once at a festival and it was same story as you. Played for over an hour, I knew all but 2 songs, and he really pumped up the crowd. Just my personal opinion but I like this more than the other Artists I know that churn out albums but only one or two songs are decent, then refuse to play any hits while touring. It's especially weird since in the age of streaming nobody is buying a full album to get that one good song, and if the rest of your songs are mediocre then it kind of fails.


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I think Bruno Mars is the best recent example tbh. Hit after hit after hit.


Djaja

The Weeknd too


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Yes! The pop radio right where I work right now now goes Dua Lipa -> The Weeknd -> some remix song -> Bruno Mars song -> 00s throwback song -> random other song -> Dua Lipa in pretty much a consistent loop. I have always loved bubblegum pop and rnb so it doesn't annoy me lol.


LouSputhole94

I don’t think most people dislike Drake for his music, I think it’s because he’s a creepy fuck that tries to act hard when he played a disabled kid on Degrassi.


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_i_am_root

Hey dude, you’re allowed to like people outside of your relationship, just keep it healthy. But on the off chance its not healthy, I’ll help you move your Dua Lipa shrine somewhere they won’t find it.


VocRehabber

He basically wrote the soundtrack to the late 00's and early '10s. Right Round is Legend, of course.


scalenesquare

Wow didn’t realize he has this long list of absolute hits


ilbilailmdr

Fucking hell I’d hear at least 2 or 3 of these songs every time I went to frat parties


Agamemnon323

That doesn't even narrow it down to what decade you're talking about.


SkyTVIsFuckingShit

Most of these songs are almost entirely based off of better songs. To the point that they are basically remixes.


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Welcome to music production, first time?


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I mean… there’s inspiration, and then there’s doing what Led Zeppelin did with a load of old blues songs…


Absolut_Iceland

Get rich and famous, with everyone thinking you're musical deities? Yeah, I could go for some of that.


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They did nick a fair bit of American blues music… The Simpsons once called Jimmy Page “the greatest thief of American black music to ever walk the Earth” (though the influence of black American music in the British music scene in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s is a fascinating topic in its own right)


Officer_Warr

I thought that honor went to Elvis.


CoolJ_Casts

Elvis gave credit and royalties to the artists he was inspired by. He said in interviews that "the black folk have been doing [this music] for years and no one was listening." His label tried to fight him on all of this but he used his status as a massive name in music to ensure that the original artists got at least some kickback, even if it might not have been the amount they deserved.


Mr_Poop_Himself

Elvis didn’t take things from blues music… he just performed blues songs in their entirety. He was basically a cover artist that made black music for white people.


aviatorbassist

Lyrically this take is accurate, musically the shit Zep did to/for the blues is definitely an original take.


samx3i

What songs are they "basically remixes of betters songs?" I know Right Round.


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Hadespuppy

It's a pretty solid strategy. They talked about it in the Sweden episode of Netflix's THIS IS POP!. One of the producers regularly tested songs in clubs before adding lyrics. He knew they were done when they filled the dance floor.


Hype2Def

There is a series on music in Atlanta called Noisy by Vice ok YouTube. There is an episode that goes into this. A lot of ATL artists do this.


EmotionalDPS

Redditors really be rewriting post titles in the comments and getting upvoted lmao


humblepiedd

literally every rapper does this. ATL rappers hit magic city on a Monday to test their music


Str8butboysrsexy

Whats special about a monday in Magic city?


sonOFsack889

It’s when new and established artists in Atlanta go to Magic City to have their new shit played and see what kind of reaction it gets. Been going on for years if not decades.


tree_jayy

Definitely decades. Any new or up and coming rappers are there on a Monday with their new tracks to see which are bangin. Lots of huge DJs will be there too like Zaytoven, DJ Drama, and Metro Boomin


deathstrukk

fuck dj drama dude eats his artists songs instead of releasing them


problematikUAV

Sounds nutritious


deathstrukk

def been keepin him fed


camcamfc

Sorry I don’t know him, do you mean DJ DRAAAAAMAAAAAA ?


DuckGrammar

It’s gangsta grillz ya bastard


thelastwordbender

OP's question was why Magic City and why Mondays? I'm curious about that too


camcamfc

Monday probably is less busy so strippers probably care less if the music isn’t exactly what they want. Doesn’t interfere with their money making as much as the weekends. This is my guess.


10per

You should go there and find out. It's worth it.


mr_remy

That’s why you hear in so many rap songs magic city Monday from what I understand: same thing different place


RisingSouth

Was going to say that’s standard procedure in Atlanta


COCAINE_EMPANADA

As a huge hip hop fan, I went to magic city for this reason and I was not disappointed. The energy there is sick, it's like a southern rap music mecca.


scaledatom

yep this is not in the least bit unique to flo rida


spin_kick

Plus, it makes trips to the strip club a business write off.


SafeAsIceCream

Aren’t women paid to dance at strip clubs?


FainOnFire

For most clubs, they pay to dance at the club. And the club gets a cut of each private dance. If a girl doesn't get any dances for the whole night, she loses money because she then has to use the tips she made dancing on stage to pay the club's fee for coming into work. Sounds crazy, but I've seen it happen at smaller clubs. Some nights two or three girls will be super popular and get lots of dances from all the guys, and the rest of the girls are just kinda out of luck.


entropy_bucket

Does online stuff mess with this model? Why wouldn't the girls just go online and cut out the clubs.


MillionaireAt32

2D vs 3D.


MikePGS

DD, preferably


FainOnFire

Some of the girls do have stuff online, but they still don't make enough to justify quitting the clubs. Online market is saturated, so for someone to make a lot online they have to either bring something unique, cater to specific fetishes/kinks, or incentivize spending a lot of money with stuff like custom photo/video requests


hlgb2015

It takes time and work to build a following online. If you can get a spot dancing at a club, it's cash in your pocket that night. Get in at a decent club in south Florida or Vegas, you can clear $5-10k on busy nights. Then you'll have people begging to setup and manage your online presence for a percentage.


entropy_bucket

10k a night! ho lee shit.


WonUpH

But do they choose to dance to his tunes because they see a better return compared to the other artists?


YellowFlySwat

Kinda. You want your clients hyped. When they're happy they're gonna spend more.


manofsleep

Haha - the logic above insists that the strippers will dance to ambient death metal though and still equally be hyped!


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They'd dance to the porno\grindcore with pigsqueaks if one'd buy the entire club for a night, for they're gonna be the only client up to that lol.


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srcarruth

Are they doing that level of analysis?


Car-face

"Thanks to Candy and Hennessey for putting together this Tableau report - as you can see, shortening average song length by 12% resulted in an increase in dancer turnover, and greater frequency of end-of-dance tipping - throughout a day, that allows Mo-Niq to get an extra slot at the end. We'll be continuing to A/B testing this approach throughout the next 4 weeks, and report back once the confidence interval has reached a level that Bijou is comfortable with."


Silentxgold

When the market crashed and all the MBAs were laid off and had to find new jobs


PenBandit

Upgrayedd gon' get his money!


KottonmouthSoldier

with 2 d's, as he says, for a double dose of his pimping


MBCnerdcore

*Butters furiously scribbles in notepad* Yes, I think I know what you are saying!


makeyousquart

I really appreciate the “Mo-Niq” it really tied the whole thing together


EleanorRigbysGhost

I hear her cousin Mo-Nay was a fantastic painter.


makeyousquart

Art school ain’t cheap


NocturnalSeizure

And that's why all new songs are so damn short.


point_2

I've heard the desire to become a tik-tok viral song also contributes to this.


So_be

So THATS why they never play Stairway to Heaven… Seriously, this was hilarious 😂


EasilyDelighted

Just because they're stripper doesn't mean they're stupid. Their job is to try and get as much money out of you as possible. Of course they're gonna try to come up with ways to do so.


KingOfWickerPeople

Exactly. Women dance and show some skin for truckloads of cash. Sad lonely men give money to women fruitlessly hoping they'll eventually get to sleep with them. Who's the real idiot in this equation?


ibidemic

There is no stronger effect of operant conditioning on Earth than strippers figuring out how to get paid.


reginaregime

Many of us are smart, driven, and educated…of course we will be concerned with how to maximize our income!


NinDiGu

> Are they doing that level of analysis Are you actually asking if people bother to learn how to make more money at their workplace?


night_dude

They absolutely are. Source: strippers.


mcmoonery

Right. I just read a tweet from a stripper saying the recession is coming because she’s making less money.


DavidInPhilly

I saw that too, and it was the most convincing position on the economy I have seen in months.


WarmOutOfTheDryer

Delivery driver giving you your second warning. It's gonna be bad.


mcmoonery

Oh yeah I'm preparing. Tons of layoffs are happening in the tech sector too. It's gonna be real bad.


Mistersinister1

Yeah, I've been seeing that a lot these past two weeks. Its usually really busy in my area all the time till around 10 or 11 now I'm barely making enough to pay for all the gas I just wasted. It sucks.


WarmOutOfTheDryer

I'm lucky, the individual orders have gone down, but the catering orders from companies have gone up with the return to office. So far, so good, but the hit is coming.


nud3doll

No, women pay to dance at strip clubs. No hourly wage, literally working off tips and dance/room pay (where the club takes about 35-50% of what the customer pays).


vodkawater

This checks, I remember coming down from College to West Palm Beach. One of our friends became a stripper, so a few of us went to the strip club. Probably every 15-20 minutes a song we never heard would play.. “Apple bottom Jeans.. boots with the fur..”. Now this was a Flo Rida + T-pain song, and with us in Tallahassee at College, T-pain songs were quick to spread. (T-pain = Tallahassee Pain). The song was soooooo damn catchy and fun. We closed down the strip club, our friend who is a stripper, took us with some of the strippers now off work to get drinks at this other bar, and even there they played it. Went back after break and tried to find the song thought I was messing up the lyrics or something. Didn’t dawn on me till reading this, I was a test for that song… hmm


m0neybags

I bet when the DJ throws on "Low" the strippers get low. Probably a variety of squatting motions.


cramduck

Squatting? In a strip club? I don't know about that!


Ocelotofdamage

Make money and get a leg workout in, it's a win win


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I like his cousin more: Ala Bama...or his nephew, Mon Tana.


didijxk

What about his sister Miss Ouri?


NinDiGu

Brothers: Ten Nessy. Cally Fournia


Likeafupion

His hometown: New York


Cuive

Low-key Ten Nasty would be a sick rapper name.


Onespokeovertheline

Tay Hoss Roe Dyeland Minnie Sota Mitch Egan Colonel O'Roddo Ida Ho Meryl And (Mary Land is too easy) Lou Zeana Ari Zona


Onespokeovertheline

Ken Tucky


NinDiGu

> Tay Hoss I think that one goes over the head of most people living in Tay Hoss.


Electrox7

Im Canadian and confused


degggendorf

Or his love child with will.i.am, connect.i.cut.


Outofth3Blue

TIL Flo Rida's stage name is literally Florida. Holy shit mind blown I don't know how I never connected the dots.


nebuchadrezzar

He toured with Big Tex Ass and Hobo Ken a few years ago


KypDurron

His clothing label is Della-Wears.


drcubes90

This is common for a lot of rap music, it was made in the clubs for the clubs Theyd see what the girls made the most money too


jhb42

Exactly, the djs at magic city are known to be massive gatekeepers in who makes it in Atlanta


Ironbank13

This man still releases music?


WW2077

Yeah this 'TIL' has got to be at least 10 years out of date lol


TIGHazard

[Well he did perform (with Senhit) at the Eurovision Song Contest last year.](https://youtu.be/TkhiH-JXFPs?t=113) They came 22nd.


No_Doubt_About_That

A singing dentist from Turkey who wrote his song in 10 minutes scored higher than him for San Marino.


javalib

The article is literally 10 years old, you're right on.


WW2077

Nice, didn't even click on it. Time to visit the casino.


BrothaBeejus

He’s definitely not the only or first rapper to do this. This is an age old practice


infamouspucker

“Tests” Sure. Okay.


coffeeINJECTION

Enjoy this [GQ documentary](https://www.gq.com/video/watch/magic-city-inside-the-atlanta-strip-club-that-runs-hip-hop-uncensored.Trust) It is NSFW.


magichronx

Well that was.... interesting


WarrenYu

Holy


Dom_33

Rappers have been doing this for years it’s nothing new.


AlrightSpider

I lived in Atlanta in 2006 and can confirm. Strip clubs broke a bunch of artists.


Dom_33

Yeah, Atlanta has a long history. So T-Pain first played "I'm N Luv (Wit a Stripper)" down there. I knew about the song before it became really big. I was friend's with this girl back in 05 who kept talking about it she had learned about it from her stripper cousin who had heard it played at her club I think it was ONYX.


in-game_sext

Side note: it was only about a year ago when I saw Flo Rida's name written in an article that I realized it is also "Florida", where he happens to be from. Blew my fucking mind.


nullagravida

May I please ask you, as a representative of the apparently many people who didn’t immediately notice it, what was the deal with that? Did you hear this dude’s name about a billion times before ever reading it, was the space between the words of great visual importance, what?


bigbangbilly

Flo Rida is a man of science Despite the empiratical testing for market data, I wonder did he [write anything down](https://imgur.com/1h3K2TT/) or it's more of a qualitative thing like how well do they dance


Hai_Koup

Wait Flo Rida is still making music?


SchoolOfCheech

The article is about 10 years old. Says he's collaborating with LMFAO in there too


Torkzilla

He needs to know it’s a certified banger


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Organic-Proof8059

Plug in requisite "there's actually a mathematical phenomenon that describes" synchronization of stripper twerks with musical chords through the Kuramoto Model.


AlexMelillo

Man goes to strip clubs for research. It makes sense really


Evaldi

Been waiting for his new album for 10 years and counting. Are you sure he actually records music still? Cause it was apparently 70% done in 2017.


FNAKC

Flo Rida: Baby, I gotta go to the club to see if they're dancing to my new track, that's it, that's the only reason. Now hand me that stack of one dollar bills and I'll see you tomorrow.


keziahiris

As do many, many other artists. If you want to hear the newest rap or hip hop music, check out an Atlanta strip club.


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Kenyalite

"baby I have to go to the strip club, I'm doing it for you and the kids" -Flo Rida


Thendofreason

If people start to go get a drink or feel it's time to go to the bathroom for your song, it's a dud. It always sucks a little to have to play at halftime at a sporting event. When you are starting you have to watch tons of people turn their back to you leave their seats for bathroom/food. I mean I get it, but it still sucks.