Flohio

It’s common knowledge that in England, rap artists are sorted according to zip code. Funmi Ohio didn’t get particularly lucky with E16—Bermondsey is the kind of London neighbourhood whose Wikipedia entry names a converted Soviet tank and a textile museum as the most fascinating local attractions. But Flohio, as Ohio calls herself today, has had to be creative all her life. Her father was a pilot and her sister went to a Nigerian boarding school, so all she had were music and stories to tell. And she tells these stories with the force and the drama of a grime MC from East London, and with the kind of flow that comes from the Dirty South on the other side of the pond. The foundation of her music, however, remains the staccato groove of Afrobeat, the music that shaped her childhood. The world comes together in E16, and Flohio knows how to control it.

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