A-F-R-O

Despite his young age of 26, rapper A-F-R-O (a backronym for All Flows Reach Out) profiles as someone who would’ve meshed seamlessly within Nineties hip-hop. When the Californian isn’t unloading dexterous flows or displaying love for boom bap, he’s obliterating samples like Ponderosa Twins Plus One’s “Bound” on swift rhyming exercise “Sincerely, an Artist.” A strong cast of lyrical Austin-based MCs support the rapper/producer/actor: the College of Hip Hop Knowledge crew, Scuare, and current Austin Music Awards nominee Ben Buck. If you constantly watch radio station freestyles or long for some era before modern rap, this show’s definitely for you. – Derek Udensi