{"id":126497,"date":"2026-01-21T15:30:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126497\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T15:30:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T15:30:07","slug":"beatsnchill-producer-series-brings-oakland-rapper-mg-to-ybor-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126497\/","title":{"rendered":"BeatsNChill producer series brings Oakland rapper MG to Ybor City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"484\" data-attachment-id=\"350899\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/mg-theofficehoursstudioinstagram\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MG-theofficehoursstudioInstagram-scaled.png?fit=2560%2C1588&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1588\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"MG theofficehoursstudioInstagram\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;MG&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MG-theofficehoursstudioInstagram-scaled.png?fit=300%2C186&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MG-theofficehoursstudioInstagram-scaled.png?fit=780%2C484&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MG-theofficehoursstudioInstagram.png\" alt=\"A close-up of a person wearing a black jacket, dark sunglasses, and a white and black baseball cap. They are holding a microphone to their mouth with a gold ring visible on their hand, gesturing with their other hand while standing in front of a bright window.\" class=\"wp-image-350899\"  \/>MG Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DTvskerEo1K\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theofficehoursstudio \/ Instagram<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tampa\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beatsnchill.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BeatsNChill<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>The featured guest is Oakland emcee MG whose work updates the sensuality of Too $hort for the modern age.<\/p>\n<p>Jay Browne, one of the best rappers in Tampa, hosts the gig which features a live podcast taping.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa\/NewsletterSignup\/Page\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/jan-15-21-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jan. 15 \u2013 21, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief&#8230;\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a class=\"author-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/author\/rroa\/\" rel=\"author nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMore by Ray Roa\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MG Credit: theofficehoursstudio \/ Instagram Tampa\u2019s BeatsNChill, basically the place where any producer wants to be, gets the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[62639,1864,62640,135,1865,137,136,62641],"class_list":{"0":"post-126497","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-beatsnchill","9":"tag-live-music-in-tampa","10":"tag-mg","11":"tag-tampa","12":"tag-tampa-bay-concerts","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-the-bricks"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126497","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}