You know whose 30th birthday party we'd really like to get invited to? That of Tramar Dillard, the man otherwise known to the universe as rapper Flo Rida. He celebrates the bit 3-0 today, and you can bet he's going to do it in style.

The MC's meteoric rise can be traced to last year's massive chart-topping single "Low" (which featured a well-timed guest appearance by T-Pain). Though it landed on top of the Billboard Hot 100, it also seemed like it had the potential to be a novelty smash, forever casting Flo Rida into the abyss occupied by so many discarded rappers. But as it turns out, he's got staying power. He immediately followed up his hit debut Mail on Sunday with this year's R.O.O.T.S., a stout collection of party jams that took Flo's already-huge sound and blew it up into an intergalactic spectacle. And the hits just keep on coming, as he has scored big with the tracks "Jump" and "Sugar." But the cornerstone of R.O.O.T.S. is most certainly "Right Round," Flo Rida's second chart-topping single. The spectacular club tune not only helped launch the career of Ke$ha (who provides backing vocals on the song) but also helped re-introduce the music consuming populace to Dead or Alive, the New Romantic combo from the '80s whose "You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)" provides the sample around which the track was built. It's one of 2009's best singles, and has a wildly entertaining video to boot.

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