Ice Gretzky Credit: Photo via icegretzky/Instagram
Nearly a decade ago in the Tampa rap scene, Gat and Cris was a hot commodity, and while members spread out and moved away to do their own thing, the duo has come back together under new monikers—and has plans to play Hooch and Hive in Tampa on Friday, Nov. 4.

In Debt Chet and Ice Gretzky—host and headliner of this show, respectively, and now playing an East Coast version of trunk-rattling rap from Texas or Tennessee—are part of a lineup for the “A Nuisance” show which has brought Deezy Wee the Reaper (another heavy-hitting, not-often-seen-on-stage, rapper) back to the stage, along with Pusha Preme who’s fresh of the release of his new album, Hate To Say Goodbye.

This article appears in Oct 27 – Nov 2, 2022.

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...