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We Shot a Music Video on a Pontoon Boat
04Riley came south to the Lake, and we made three songs and a video before the weekend was out.
By Ty McDuffey · The Duff Radio Dispatch · August 2, 2026
Two hours and forty minutes. That is the drive from Blue Springs to Lake of the Ozarks, and 04Riley made it to record with Duff Radio in a basement studio that did not exist a few months ago. This is the first Duff Radio session at the Lake, and the first time the Kansas City underground got filmed somewhere with water in the frame.
What came out of the weekend: three songs written and produced from scratch in Logic, a music video shot at golden hour on a pontoon for a track called “Backrooms,” and a pile of unreleased material out of the vault. Along the way there is Arby's in Osage Beach, a weight session with boom bap playing, a round at Linn Creek Kickboxing Club, and 7 Springs Winery with the family.
“An underground Kansas City rapper in an entirely new world.”
If you have been searching for Riley Macc: the name is 04Riley now. Same artist, same Blue Springs roots, new chapter. We ran the long-form interview with him earlier this year, and the pontoon weekend is what the next one is going to be built on.
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