“I was going through old beats from back in the day,” Rylo says over the phone. “Back in the day, you’d watch 106 & Park and shit, that’s the kind of songs they used to play on that ...

We ain’t got li’l fun stuff to do. We got to go out of town to have fun.” Rylo Rodriguez, a peer in Alabama’s burgeoning hip-hop scene, has a different take: “It’s hard,” Rylo says ...