Quin NFN: I started rhyming when I was like six years old. My momma would play R&B in the house and my older brother would hang with rappers, but I just started rhyming for fun. It didn’t really come from anywhere special. I grew up in East Austin. It was like any other hood in America. We just been outside every day being bad. It calmed down now though. There ain’t nothing going on there no more. All the elderly people live over there now.
Because we don’t have a big scene here, I’m making it up as I go along. It’s harder than people think, basically. It’s real challenging. I had to get on a whole other platform. I had to get some people that believe in me through the internet first. I started hanging at the Beat Kitchen, which really pushed me to a new place. I’m still the youngest out of everybody that I work with, but you can’t really tell. I don’t feel like I’m my age. I feel like I’m twentysomething. I feel like I’m 23. We’re all in a circle and I have everything I need here, so we’re really just working. I don’t do anything besides hang at home and hit the studio. I have to move smart now.
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I want Austin to be the next Atlanta but it’s hard. Down there, everyone fucks with each other. Down here there are a lot of people that’s hating. I hope we can all come together.
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When that shit gets too wild, when I feel too much hate it makes me mad, but the person that pushes me when it gets hardest is my momma. My momma [is] like my brother, basically. I struggle with her together. If she don’t got it I’m gonna give it to her and if she ain’t got it she’s gonna give it to me. We got that type of bond. That’s what pushes me. Everything’s for my momma. I still live at home. Everything’s for her.
The Teeta is the elder statesman of the Austin rap scene. At 27 years old, the Austin-born emcee has been releasing tapes since 2016, coming into his own on the impressive and hazy American Pop, which was released earlier this year. Says Quin, “He has a wavy style and I have more of a turnt style. I respect his crew, though, Team Next Music.” That wavy style consists of a smooth, narcotized delivery that touches on girls, drugs, and money.
WhooKilledKenny (FKA Kenny Gee) has found the most success as an Austinite outside of Quin, thanks in large part to his latest track, “Check on Me,” which features Lil Baby. Quin and Kenny run in two different scenes, but the young upstart still looks to Kenny as a peer. “I fuck with Kenny. I really like his music. I really like that he’s himself. It was cool meeting Kenny after I’ve known of him for a long time. It didn’t feel like anything crazy because he used to be around my brother, but it’s nice hanging with another rapper, especially in Austin.” Kenny’s Auto-Tuned flow is gravelly and steely, confident without ever becoming anodyne. “Whenever I get a chance I’ll take things I’ve learned from him,” explains Quin. “He’s really taught me a lot about making plays with this music shit.”
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Cyph Mike doesn’t write down lyrics. He uses the vocal booth as an opportunity to experiment, stretching his voice in multiple directions. He’s the Austin equivalent of Young Thug, dexterous in his delivery yet not quite as creative as the Atlanta legend. “I love his recording process and the way he carries himself. We’re from the same hood so I fuck with him even more. He talks about being flashy and shit, that’s just motivation for me,” Quin explains, before adding, “When you’re young and from the same hood, seeing him like that, it really gets you motivated. It’s a healthy competition and we push each other in a good way. That’s my dog, though.” His voice and style also ring true with Quin, who adds, “I love the way he can switch his voice up and sound like a completely different person. He’s perfecting his craft and is learning when to switch up his flows really well, which is real fun to watch. He’s so genuine and so real. He want me to win and I want him to win. When it’s time to work he doesn’t play around. He doesn’t fuck around.”
J Soulja’s still relatively unknown in the Austin scene, but he possesses as much talent as anyone making a career in the city. “We first met because he was always hanging out in the Beat Kitchen. It was an instant connection, instant love. I fuck with bruh,” explains Quin. Part of that attraction is because of the emotive style Soulja puts forth on tracks like the just-released “Almighty.” Says Quin, “He has such soulful music. I really wanna do soulful shit like that.” The two fostered their relationship at the Beat Kitchen, where Soulja’s a staple as well. “When we’re in the studio we’re always talking about our music. The Beat Kitchen is the only place I’ve ever recorded so that place and that relationship means a lot,” explains Quin, before adding, “I’ve really learned not to bullshit being with J Soulja. It’s really inspiring seeing him in the studio because he can do four songs in an hour. That’s crazy.”
RoneNfn has been rapping for less than a year, but he’s ridden the success of his childhood friend, Quin, to an exciting lane within the scene. “That’s my boy. We used to be on the same street growing up,” says Quin. “He’s in my house every day. We was living together around when I was 15 and he was 17 and we were real, real close.” “Remember,” Rone’s best song to date, takes emotional piano chords—more R&B than Zaytoven—and weaves an earworm of a hook about growing up poor into an anthem.
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