Greyt Big Talk w/ Floco Torres
Be The Flow
Recording artist Floco Torres on hip hop, homelessness and keeping a forward mindset.
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Floco Torres
Hip-hop musician and graphic designer
Floco Torres (pronounced Flock-o) is a hip-hop musician, producer and graphic designer based in Akron, Ohio, and 38 projects deep into his solo career. A New Jersey native, he moved to Georgia in 2008 and recorded and performed steadily there before relocating to Akron in 2017 to work for the arts and culture magazine The Devil Strip.
He has envisioned and revisioned his creative expression countless times, building a steady following for a sound where hip-hop meets alternative rock, with influences like Kid Cudi, Tame Impala and St. Vincent. Nobody Cares News is the umbrella brand for all of his work in music, graphic design, live performance and journalism. He is also one half of the duo Free Black!, which played Akron's bicentennial celebration at Lock 3 Park in 2025.
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“Don't be afraid of the next line, the next job the next situation, it will come.”
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Coco's Chalky Paints
530 Euclid Ave., Suite 44, Cleveland, OH, 44115
Coco's Chalky Paints was Hikia "Coco" Dixon's chalk paint shop in downtown Cleveland's 5th Street Arcades. She opened it in 2018 to sell her own chalk powder, which turns any paint into chalk paint, and showed it off on secondhand furniture she upcycled and painted herself. In 2020 she took over about 20,000 square feet of vacant arcade space, adding a plant shop, a furniture showroom, a 250-person event and workshop space, and low-cost private studios for Black and Brown business owners. The business later grew into Coco's Selfie Space in the same arcade, which still sells Coco's Chalky Powder.
About this event
"Don't go with the flow, be the flow." Recording artist Floco Torres talks about hip hop, homelessness, and how he has kept a forward mindset, always getting to the next thing.