A couple of years ago, it would have been difficult to imagine a major label rollout for a Rico Nasty project. When Rico broke out in 2017-2018, everything about her felt antithetical to the mainstream. Her early music was pretty much as weird as it got for the time. I remember first hearing her music and my jaw hanging open in awe. But, over the course of the last few years, the rest of the game caught up to her sound, and Nightmare Vacation perfectly demonstrates the years of work she has put in.

Flohio’s newest project, No Panic No Pain is 30 minutes of perfectly constructed bars from East London. The project is a seamless blend of styles and a thematically dense work. Through this project, Flohio manages to access a lot of deep-seeded anger, while allowing you to step into her shoes and understand her world. The idea of trying to live through the trials of life comes up over and over on No Panic No Pain, but rather than this dragging the project down, Flohio uses these experiences as examples of how she has grown.