A promotional portrait photo showing MacDeezy the rapper. Captured in a medium shot, rapper MacDeezy sits behind a desk with hands clasped under his chin, looking forward. He wears a white long-sleeve sweatshirt with black text reading "PRESIDENT" alongside black graphic prints. In front of him on the desk sit stacks of cash and a money-counting machine, set against a dark wall covered in a pattern of US dollar bills and illuminated by bright purple neon dollar-sign signs ($) under dim blue and neon stage lighting.
MacDeezy Credit: macdeezofficial / Instagram

Eight months after getting new ownership, The Bricks continues to book hip-hop, and Ybor City is better off for it.

Danny Fazoli keeps doing his part, too. Known on the ones and twos as Dfaz, the DJ and tastemaker’s “Rap House” series returns to the patio this time showcasing soulful pop singer Ava Iri, expat Nevada rapper Mac and Dog House Music Festival curator MacDeezy, and others.

There’s no cover to see Ava Iri, MacDeezy, The Stay Tuned Crew, Ab.Nrml, and MatWithOne.T at The Bricks in Ybor City on Friday, Oct. 23.

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This article appears in Oct. 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...