Straight from The Dirty….Jersey that is!!! We present to you “A-FS 201-973”, A-FS is no stranger to the struggles & hustles of the gutta, raised in Jersey City, N.J. As a teenager he spent alot of his time on Martin Luther King, Jr. drive a.k.a. Jackson Ave. in the greenville section. As he calls it, he was learning for all the hard lessons that would come up in his life in the future, such as ending up homeless during a cold winter for 7 months. When A-FS is asked how does it feel to go from down to lower he says “Struggle means strength! Just when you think life can’t get no harder, you will be prepared for when it does get harder!”

“Theres no loyalty in the streets, no more! These new kats have no respect for the rules thats been laid down! When you gotta study the actions of folks thats supposed be yo peoples, you might as well cut they ass off!” These are the words that A-FS will say with no hesitation when talking about life nowadays.

When asked about hip-hop, he’s quick to take you back to the time when rap was still in it’s early b-boy stages, & being surrounded in rap music “since sperm”, only made his love for it unconditional. With songs like “Celebrate The Hood”, “Hip Hop Ain’t Dead” & “We gon make it” he gives you something that would be reminiscent of the 1993 era, while Keeping you moving with joints like “The headbanga”, “In These Streets”& “Ghetto Anthem”.

A-FS has been rapping for over 20 years and has been putting down tracks since ‘97, independently releasing two solo albums available through all major online music stores such as ITunes, Rhapsody, amalgamdigital.com and CD Baby as well as a self produced compilation and a digital mixtape. He’s also been getting into the field of production for over 5 years now, and within those years A-FS has also took on the tasks of engineering, mixing, graphic design as well as hosting and producing his own t.v. and radio show on local community stations seen & heard in southern California and plans on keep it moving, signed or unsigned, A-FS 201-973 holds weight in Hip Hop! Period!