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.