{"id":255430,"date":"2026-05-02T14:07:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255430\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T14:07:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T14:07:21","slug":"tampa-beat-scene-og-sponatola-releases-new-album-on-sunday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255430\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa beat scene OG Sponatola releases new album on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"800\" data-attachment-id=\"358880\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/sponatola-photo-by-deyson-rodriguez\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sponatola-Photo-by-Deyson-Rodriguez.jpeg?fit=1080%2C1107&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,1107\" 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=\"Sponatola Photo by Deyson Rodri\u0301guez\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Sponatola&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Sponatola-Photo-by-Deyson-Rodriguez.jpeg?fit=780%2C800&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1777730841_951_Sponatola-Photo-by-Deyson-Rodriguez.jpeg\" alt=\"A close-up portrait of a light-skinned person with a goatee standing against a bright, textured coral-red wall. They are wearing a bright red t-shirt that closely matches the background, a gold chain with a square pendant, and a dark green baseball cap. The cap features an oval patch with a vintage graphic of a woman's face and text. The person is looking directly at the camera with a calm, serious expression. The overall lighting is bright and even, highlighting the vibrant color coordination of the outfit and the background.\" class=\"wp-image-358880\"  \/>Sponatola Credit: c\/o Deyson Rodri\u0301guez<\/p>\n<p>Marc Irvin, a patriarch of Tampa\u2019s beat scene better known as Sponatola, marks the release of a new album, Spaced Out, by bringing out a hibernating giant of Bay area hip-hop, Seefu McCloud.<\/p>\n<p>The release is Spon\u2019s first of the year, and follows five 2025 beat tapes available on <a href=\"https:\/\/sponatola.bandcamp.com\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/sponatola.bandcamp.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bandcamp<\/a> right now.<\/p>\n<p>Other producers like Wally Rios (coming off the release of his own new album), Knux, and St Beatz round it out. Fellow legends Slopfunkdust and DJ Shafiq play support.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sponatola.bandcamp.com\/album\/tampatola\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TAMPATOLA by Sponatola<\/a><\/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\/apr-30-may-06-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apr. 30 \u2013 May 06, 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":"Sponatola Credit: c\/o Deyson Rodri\u0301guez Marc Irvin, a patriarch of Tampa\u2019s beat scene better known as Sponatola, marks&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":254171,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1864,135,1865,137,136,62641],"class_list":["post-255430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-live-music-in-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-concerts","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-the-bricks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255430","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=255430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/254171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}