Norff

Norff is a South American rapper, known for his singles "She Ma Lady", "Mirror, Mirror", "Sanitize Your Hands", and more.

Norff signed to Barking Vans Music in 2018 and has since released a multitude of singles and an album, "Life Is Rough". He has received acclaim for his musical abilities, including hard hitting lyricism over original and catchy instrumentals.

Norff is known for his "Fact Diss EP" series, which was aimed at his collaborative teammate, Gee Mak, and is interspersed across debut album "Life Is Rough". His singles that have been released to tease his upcoming efforts, "Norf" and "Overmorrow" have also gotten notoriety on the internet and radio. Those two aforementioned albums were both distributed in 2021, June and December, respectively.

All three of his full length albums, Life Is Rough, Norf, and Overmorrow, have tapped an audience and received positive reviews. Norff teased a sequel to his debut album, titled "Life Is Rough Pt 2" numerous instances between late 2021 to mid 2022 before revealing he was unimpressed with the album's current production and wanted to key in on it, while releasing a majority of the songs he made for it so he could start from scratch. The project, titled "Story Of My Life" is expected to feature the 2022 singles "Till The Day I Die" and "Out Of Breath".

He frequently works with the aforementioned Gee Mak, Mcee Detox, 69ERRAS, and 12Digits. He is also known for his Forgive The Delay EP series, released before big projects, which teases tracks off the impending.

In September 2023, Norff's content on streaming services dissipated.

## Career

### 2016 - 2019

Prior to meeting Mike Barkhoff in 2018, Norff had recorded a handful of songs, many of which remain unreleased or hard to find on the internet. At this point in time, his alias was also Ab Ceffi Gilburn.

In 2018, Ceffi signed to Barking Vans Music, the then outlet of Barkhoff's, alongside Mcee Detox and Gee Mak. Along with the former, Ceffi began recording material for his debut studio album and conceptuqlizing the release with Barkhoff. The duo created a cover art and put a name to the project, and intended for it to be released in 2019. Marketing began with the release of the singles "Fact Diss, Volume One" and "Drugs", the latter of which featured Mcee Detox.

Barkhoff decided to move away from the business in 2019 when struggling with depression, and, upon getting the okay from the three artists, took time off, unsure if he was going to collaborate with them again. During this timeframe, Ceffi worked on bettering his skillset as a lyricist, beatmaker, and began making music that would tonally fit his second album, seeing a shift in sound for his artistry. He also buried his disagreements with Gee Mak, following Barkhoff's advice during one of their last conversations before Barkhoff retreated to his personal life in silence.

### 2020 - 2021

Barkhoff found Ceffi online in 2020, when he was reflecting on the rappers he had met two years prior and felt the need to get back into music releasing. He asked Ceffi, Mcee Detox, and Gee Mak for their forgiveness of his disappearance and offered them the ability to return to their old contracts with a decrease in Barkhoff's stakes. The three all took interest in the idea and began work with Barkhoff again.

Ceffi became the frontrunner for Barkhoff's new business, Live Free, and it's Music subsidiary - alongside UGK David. Ceffi released the song "Fire" upon being signed, following it the next month with "She Ma Lady". Suggesting that he discard his initial idea of a debut album, Barkhoff suggested Ceffi actually use it to his advantage and release the debut album, "Life Is Rough", to showcase his sonical range for music making.

Barkhoff set out to begin marketing for the album, which was anticipated for a September 2020 release, but ultimately delayed by Norff himself. Ceffi wanted to record two more songs for the album to fit on either end of the collected songs, collectively an album opener and closer. Upon delivering these to Barkhoff, the album was set for release in October 2020 and did so to 500 streams in it's opening night - the highest at the time for Live Free.

Ceffi's wish was to follow this up with an EP entitled "Norf", which was set to release during the summer of 2021. Ceffi would ultimately suggest he release two albums instead of the intended one (which would have seen thirty tracks), and sent his material to Barkhoff. The second album was released in July with it's announcement being a mere six hours ahead of release. Due to it's singles and extensive marketing, the album garnered much higher streams than it's predecessor. It also launched the respective signings of 12Digits and 69ERRAS.

Following this, Ceffi went fairly silent until his third album, "Overmorrow" saw it's release on Christmas Day of 2021, another surprise release. His third album was met with the best praise of his career yet.

### 2022 - Current

Following the release of his previous two albums, Ceffi went largely silent for the majority of the early part of 2022. Following his feature on 12Digits' "STRUGGLES", his second feature appearance on Gee Mak's "Dear Crush" was uncredited, and his third saw features from a majority of his contemporaries (the posse cut "Love" by lead Gee Mak) Notable, Ceffi himself promoted these songs in a bare minimal type of fashion. Aside from features Ceffi maintained promoting his latest album through a music video and teasing the cover art and title of his next album.

Two days ahead of it's untraditional Sunday release - the same release day as his debut album, however - Live Free and CreateMore announced Ceffi was returning with a single titled "Till The Day I Die". The single arrived May 29th, 2022 to critical acclaim, and was expected to be the first single off his then forthcoming album "Life Is Rough Pt II".

Late August saw a note published by Norff stating that "Life Is Rough Pt II" was being reworked because he wasn't happy with it enough to release it yet. He announced that in it's place would be "Story Of My Life", which he hoped for release before year's end, and also introduced his upcoming single "Out Of Breath". Released September 2nd, the single saw an uptick in streams - likely due to being only the second new song of the year from Norff - and was met with positive reviews.

Norff teased his fourth album as being imminent and, in November, released it. The album, For Your Consideration, was met with overwhelmingly positive reviews and again saw an uptick in streams for Norff.

May 2023 saw Norff release his fifth album, Body Bag, in a short promotional timespan. The album consists of five new songs alongside one unique song from UGK David and four "hosted skits" (primarily freestyles) done by Mediator. Body Bag was met with lukewarm reviews, with many considering it to be Norff's most "uninspired" effort, though some favorably compared it to his debut album, Life Is Rough, for it's content matter. Alongside the album, it was revealed he was changing his name to 1K Norff.

Throughout 2023, Norff teased a variety of new singles and projects, all of which were seemingly scrapped during a period where he transverted to being a Christian rapper. Still, he teased projects after this, but it appears that none of them are poised to release. In September, Norff's music left streaming services. Mike Barkhoff revealed that after the death of Sompicy Norff asked for his music to be removed.

## Discography

### Albums

2020 - Life Is Rough

2021 - Norf

2021 - Overmorrow

2022 - For Your Consideration

### Singles

2018:

- Fact Diss, Volume One

- Drugs (ft. Mcee Detox)

2020:

- Fire

- She Ma Lady

- Dead Body (or "Fact Diss, Volume Three")

- Baby Please (ft. BOMO)

- Forgive The Delay

- Mirror, Mirror (ft. Gee Mak)

2021:

- Sanitize Your Hands

- Suicide (Skwad!)

- Too Loud (ft. Era, Square Lee, Gee Mak)

- Shorty (ft. Era)

- Forgive The Delay II

- Chasin' This Life (with 69ERRAS)

### Features

2018:

- 2 features on Stage One

2020:

- 1 feature on Mcee Detox's reissued songs on "Live Free Introductory"

2021:

- Pica-Boo by Gee Mak

- 2 features on Rising

- 1 feature on Hustle Till Success

2022:

- STRUGGLES by 12Digits (single)

- Dear Crush by Gee Mak (uncredited)

- Love by Gee Mak

- 2 features on He Survived

- 2 features on IMPL LP

- Till The Day I Die

- Out Of Breath