Flo Rida - Mail On Sundays (CD)

All Music Guide

If you've heard the Billboard Hot 100 number one single "Low," a DJ Montayproduced track featuring TPain, you know the deal: Flo Rida is not a new female member of the Ruff Ryders, but a male rapper with a husky but not imposing voice who has obvious pride for the state he calls home. On Mail on Sunday, he shows flashes of virtually every point in the history of Florida hiphop, from Miami bass, 2 Live Crew, and Poison Clan to Trick Daddy and Rick Ross. Though Flo Rida has his own identity for all the tough talk and the automotives fixation, he does come off as bighearted, and he could just as easily make an RB album and covers more bases than what is typical from other mainstreamyetstreet rap albums of 2007 and 2008, he's not nearly as distinctive as any of his predecessors. Here, he doesn't offer much more than a couple worthy singles and a handful of decent album cuts, and those highlights, such as the Timbalandproduced (and hogged) "Elevator," tend to be memorable more for the bea...ts and the hooks than the rhymes. - Andy Kellman, All Music Guide Read more Less