scallops hotel is an alias of MC Rory Ferreira, also known as R.A.P. Ferreira (formerly milo). The scallops hotel moniker is used when Ferreira produces or raps—however, Ferreira established guidelines to when his music is “scallops hotel,” and when it isn’t:
A scallop’s hotel project is written without the audience in mind. Any time I can pull off a song without thinking about the audience, I’ll call it a scallop’s hotel song. It has a spirit of fun that I think my milo shit doesn’t have because I get so scared of saying something that some kid who looks up to me is going to be offended by. In real life, I’m a nigga. I’m afraid of certain white people, and my life experiences are informed by being black. And when a lot of people listen to my music I don’t think they necessarily think about that. So they stay stuff online and feel a type of way, and might feel a type of way, and I just know that sometimes I disappoint people in my milo shit. And any time I can write something and not worry about disappointing anyone that’s scallop’s hotel, it’s got a certain quality of being unconcerned. It tends to be messier.