Only One Felipe raps in alternately gruff and melodic style with a perspective from the streets of Atlanta. His career achieved liftoff with a couple promising mixtapes that led to a solo deal with major-label Republic for his third tape in as many years, The Only One 2 (2018). He has continued independently with Thank You for Not Believing (2020). 
 Phillip Stokes, the ATL native known as Only One Felipe, appeared in 2016 on A Eastside Story, a collaborative mixtape with GENIUS (aka iAmTheGenius), and quickly followed up in 2017 with The Only One, a similarly lean and concise tape with no featured appearances. Felipe signed with Republic and made his major-label debut in May 2018 with "Pocket," a casually swaggering single produced by Tay Keith (who had recently hit the Top Ten of the Hot 100 with BlocBoy JB's "Look Alive"). It set the table for Felipe's second solo mixtape, The Only One 2, which arrived on Republic four months later with appearances from Bandhunta Izzy, Nessley, and Stoop Lauren. Comparatively quiet in 2019, the year he established his own label, Only One Records, Felipe increased his rate of output across 2020 with a batch of stray singles, the Only One Whippa EP (with Pyrex Whippa), and Thank You for Not Believing, his third solo full-length. The single "Tried" followed in 2021.