Flow $tro drops “Steppin,” a hip-hop ballad in praise of a woman
By Kurt Beyers
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Flow $tro’s tracks usually have something to talk about, and the subject of his newest song, “Steppin,” featuring Skooly from Rich Kidz, is about the beauty of a woman.
“It’s basically about a female, like I liked the way a female dresses, or like the way she carries herself, the way she puts her clothes on, wearing heels, or switching up out of the heels — steppin’ like that.”
The beat in “Steppin” is slow and dreamy, the melody soft, the vibe like a ballad, even where the lyrics get explicit.
Girl you like this liquor got me on you bad
You know how good you look but you never brag
She ain’t got no make up on
Baby girl don’t need a mask
$tro listened to Skooly’s music when he was first starting out.
“So, he kind of played an influence on how I make music, and I ended up getting a feature for him on the record.”
The video comes out in a couple of weeks.
“Get that. Download it. Share it,” said $tro. “The video’s hard. For real.”
$tro began seriously putting out music in 2021, when he dropped a single and a 13-track album. He began experimenting with music while his main interest was still basketball by recording himself on his grandfather’s computer.
Then he turned to poetry in high school, writing only for himself. The first album he put out began with his lyrics, reflecting his poetic roots, hence the name, $troetry.
Now, though, he is “more into the music.” He likes to listen to the beat, find the melody, then come up with the lyrics.
“Sometimes I freestyle, sometimes I jot stuff down and come back to it.”
A lot of his music, about 70 tracks now, counting “Steppin” and including four albums, talks about subjects, sometimes indicated in titles like “Patience,” “Clockin,” “Clue,” “Remember.” “Pic,” from an album he put out early in 2024, Conflicted, is a hip-hop ode to his brother.
But sometimes, he says, “It’s really just a feeling.”
“Sometimes it’d be the beat. Sometimes it gives me a vibe to where I might just say anything, not to where it’s not making sense, but to where I don’t have to have specific subject matter. But then I might hear a beat to where I want to talk about it on this beat.”
And it goes from there.
“I might say a bar and then stay on subject with what I was talking about. When I come up with the hook, then I get to the verse, and I just make my verse about whatever I put on the hook.”
He wants to be one of the biggest artists, though he says he doesn’t have to be, or want to be, “the biggest face.”
“But I want to make an impact on music, whether it’s just writing, writing for a big artist, or it’s one of my songs or me as an artist being big. I just want to make it on music.”
The impact is on music and his life and his family, an impact he can pass on to the next generation. Music is his career.
“I’m not just putting out music to put it out. I like doing music, don’t get me wrong, but I’m also doing it to change my family life and to make a difference.”
“Steppin,” he agrees, is a feel-good track, a track praising women and how they make a man feel. “We don’t have a lot of music out there where we’re praising a female.”
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