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Tampa’s BeatsNChill, basically the place where any producer wants to be, gets the clique back together at its unofficial clubhouse for a set with hip-hop beatsmith Santiago Purp.

The featured guest is Oakland emcee MG whose work updates the sensuality of Too $hort for the modern age.

Jay Browne, one of the best rappers in Tampa, hosts the gig which features a live podcast taping.

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This article appears in Jan. 15 – 21, 2026.

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...