Clifton Grefe (born October 12, 1989), also known by the name Beef or Beefy, is an American rapper, singer, record producer, songwriter, author, sociologist and journalist from Madison, Wisconsin.
[1] Growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, Beef began writing poetry, performing spoken word, singing, whistling and dancing at a young age.
[4] During his time in college, he also worked for 93.1 JAMZ (WJQM) as a part-time on-air personality and producer, for The Badger Herald as a staff writer,[5] for Wisconsin Union Theater as a marketing intern,[6] and a bartender for several bars in downtown Madison.
Beef was nominated for song of the year for the 2014 Wisconsin Area Music Industry Awards as a featured artist on Anthony Lamarr's "Elevation.
[22] Shortly after, Grefe re-launched the Basement Made website and wrote the company's mission statement, expressing his desire to better represent the independent art, urban and rural culture of Wisconsin, the Midwest and the north.
The artist became an author on January 20, 2017, when he published his first book through Basement Made, entitled Why Wisconsin Voted For Donald Trump: The Coastie Privilege.
Shortly after the release, Grefe returned to his hometown, where he started writing his second book and autobiography The Life of Cliff G: DOG.
Beef delivered the first set of tracks for his largely freestyled, multilingual Chapter III: God album on January 31, 2019.