Rob49 has been played on NTS in shows including FATIMA'S MAPLE SYRUP WAFFLE SHOW, featured first on 1 March 2024. Songs played include Homebody (Remix) and ATL Freestyle 1.

Rob49 arrived fully-formed, as though he’d been practicing for his first studio session his whole life. The deep-voiced New Orleans artist just started rapping in April 2020, but you wouldn’t know it—already people are calling him “baby Soulja Slim” for his magnetic presence and confidence on the mic. Rob’s pure bars are caked in Louisiana slang and delivered in the kind of gruff, musical cadence you might have heard over Mannie Fresh production 20 years ago,…