Alfred Banks Credit: Photo via underdogcentral/Facebook

Cities need artists like Alfred Banks, who unabashedly flies at 110 mph in support of the streets that he calls home.

The New Orleans rapper is back in Tampa (he played in January 2022) in support of hip-hop that bucks the mainstream and has earned him slots of New Orleans Jazz Fest, and out-of-the-box collaborations with the likes of Tank and the Bangas, Volkswagen, and even the X Games.

Tickets to see Alfred Banks at Tampa’s Hooch and Hive on Saturday, Nov. 4 are still available and cost $15.

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This article appears in Oct 26 – Nov 1, 2023.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...