JPEGMAFIA shares new LP I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU + Australia & New Zealand tour Feb-Mar 2025
PRAISE FOR JPEGMAFIA
“A disruptor”
“Hip hop's leading experimentalist”
“Prolific as ever”
“A full-body experience”
“One of the most unique forces in rap today”
“Nobody does it like JPEGMAFIA”
“A man with very little regard for what you think of his music”
“JPEGMAFIA has always been good at talking shit”
“A stunning expansion of his punk ethos – pushing his anti-establishment rhetoric to the brink, promoting a DIY ingenuity, embracing the counterculture – and yet another provocation”
“A radical, politically charged rapper willing to take the government and society to task”
“JPEGMAFIA pushes to extremes and steps back for moments of personal reflection”
“Has always said what few were willing to”
“He'll keep talking until he knows he's been heard”
TRACKLIST
1. i scream this in the mirror before i interact with anyone
2. SIN MIEDO
3. I’ll Be Right There
4. it’s dark and hell is hot
5. New Black History (feat. Vince Staples)
6. don’t rely on other men (album)
7. vulgar display of power
8. Exmilitary
9. JIHAD JOE
10. JPEGULTRA! (feat. Denzel Curry)
11. either on or off the drugs
12. loop it and leave it
13. Don’t Put Anything On the Bible (feat. Buzzy Lee)
14. i recovered from this
I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU LP by JPEGMAFIA is out now, buy/stream it here.
Prolific rapper, producer, and cultural disruptor, JPEGMAFIA today shares his highly anticipated new album, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU via AWAL. Tickets for his Australian leg of the global LAY DOWN MY LIFE tour in 2025 are on-sale now. LISTEN HERE + BUY TIX HERE.
I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU sparks the unpredictable levels of mayhem from JPEGMAFIA’s earlier releases, stunting from all new heights. Continuing to push the extremes as some of his most downtrodden and hyperactive rhymes run wild. Executive produced and mixed by Peggy, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU is rich with layers of narrative, samples and features from Denzel Curry, Vince Staples and Buzzy Lee.
Boasting his most meticulous production, the resulting 13 tracks are amongst JPEGMAFIA’s leading in technique and innovation to date. Where experimental hip hop’s most defining albums mined the conceptual, JPEGMAFIA brings lived experience to heed warning. World’s away today from his ex-military background, the genre’s leading pariah reflects on the state of the world with damning reads on capitalism, conscription, patriot propaganda and more through his most anarchic raps.
WATCH: I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU (ALBUM TRAILER)
At a glance his string of seemingly nonsensical nods to dub reggae, ‘Weapons Of Mass Destruction’ style glam metal, Jihad (or G.I.), agnosticism, the war on drugs and others paint an out of context nightmare of insanity – pieced together JPEG leverages a cunning and critical piece of fine art. Illuminating just how apt his ‘you think you know me’ catch phrase stands seven albums later, JPEGMAFIA’s confrontational style – not to be confused with advocacy for debauchery or hedonism – across I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU posits his metaphorical crucifixion and artistic resurrection.
Most profound across tracks as the meta ‘Exmilitary’, Mad Max dystopia laced ‘vulgar display of power’, to the Denzel Curry aided shade-storm ‘JPEGULTRA!’ and wake up call ‘either on or off the drugs’ joins the previously released and fearless ‘SIN MIEDO’ and ‘dont rely on other men’. Elsewhere gloats with Vince Staples on ‘New Black History’ stark in contrast and controversy to the ethereal Buzzy Lee led and insecure ‘Don’t Put Anything On The Bible’. Rolling the dice on this multi-verse of dark humour and unfiltered honesty, JPEGMAFIA commands respect. A pivot from disruptive to necessarily radical status.
In celebration of the release, JPEGMAFIA will be heading out on his “LAY DOWN MY LIFE” world tour, a global invitation into the realm of one of contemporary music’s most visceral performers. Beginning in North America before stints in UK/EU and Australia/NZ, the tour will compound the power of a JPEGMAFIA live show courtesy of a discography spanning set that underlines the true influence of the artist’s diverse, constantly growing catalogue. Tickets are now on sale at: https://laylo.com/jpegmafia/m/jpeg-tour.
JPEGMAFIA (Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks, “Peggy”) is a multi-talented experimental rapper, producer, and performer known for his scathing lyrics and genre-defying productions. His music is a bold commentary on contemporary culture. His electrifying stage presence and unique sound have made him a must-see live act with standout performances at Primavera Sound, Pitchfork Music Festival, CDMX, Splendour In The Grass, Listen Out, Peggy steadies for his global I LAY MY LIFE DOWN FOR YOU TOUR including an Australian leg in 2025. In recent years, JPEGMAFIA has released critically acclaimed projects such as Veteran (2018), All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2019), and LP! (2021). His 2023 collaboration with Danny Brown, Scaring the Hoes, debuted at number #84 on the Billboard 200 and entered at position #39 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, while also charting in six other countries including Canada and the UK.
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