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Rio Da Yung OG
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Rio Da Yung OG

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Monday, August 3, 2026
8:00 PM PDT – 11:00 PM PDT
$30-$40

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Rio Da Yung OG believed Flint, Michigan needed a rapper who could turn a story about owing somebody money into a beat-by-beat masterpiece. So he has released roughly fifty projects since 2015, the kind of catalog where the people who know the deep cuts know them with the unhinged loyalty that underground rap audiences specialize in. Music Box in San Diego on a Monday is the kind of show where the room is the catalog people specifically — the folks who have been waiting for him to make it through customs to a California stage. Five hundred capacity. Downtown. Thirty to forty at the door depending on when. Doors at seven, music at eight. Monday in San Diego, which is to say only the people who really wanted to come are in the room.
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