Experimental hip hop megastar JPEGMAFIA is bringing his 2025 world tour to Bristol

Experimental hip hop megastar JPEGMAFIA is bringing his 2025 world tour to Bristol

Posted on: 10 Jul 2024

The Brooklyn rapper/producer and serial collaborator will be dropping by the South-West next year as part of his ‘LAY DOWN MY LIFE’ world tour.

 

JPEGMAFIA will play O2 Academy Bristol on Thursday 6 February 2025.

 

This eagerly anticipated tour will celebrate the release of Peggy’s first new solo material since 2021, with his most recent long form release coming in the shape of last year’s album Scaring the Hoes, a critically acclaimed collaboration with fellow rap eccentric, Danny Brown.

 

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JPEGMAFIA – known as Peggy to his fans – was born in New York City but spent much of his childhood bouncing from place to place due to rough circumstances at home. After spending much of his childhood in Brooklyn, he relocated in his mid-teens to deep south Alabama where he faced racism head on.

 

Following high school, JPEG joined the US military and was deployed all over the world before participating in the Iraq War. Once stating “I started rapping because no one liked my beats”, his eclectic life added new and unorthodox elements to Peggy’s producing and rapping repertoire.

 

He approaches his craft alone, writing, recording, producing mixing and mastering all of his own music. Now based in LA, JPEGMAFIA has forged his own dark sound that incorporates humour to make things even more uncomfortable. His role as villain or satirist, hood protector or nihilist is intentionally hard to put one’s finger on.

 

Peggy’s eclectic influences include his hero Kanye West, alongside Hanson, MF DOOM, Björk, Radiohead, Arca and more. After a slew of tape releases, he first saw widespread love for his debut album, Veteran (2018) and follow-up All My Heroes Are Cornballs, and has continued with a series of 2020 EPs alongside last year’s Scaring The Hoes.

 

 

JPEGMAFIA will play O2 Academy Bristol on Thursday 6 February 2025 as part of his ‘LAY DOWN MY LIFE’ world tour – buy tickets HERE.

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Stanley Gray

Stan is a born and bred Bristolian, recently graduated from studying English Literature in Sheffield. His passions are music and literature and he spends the majority of his time in venues all over the city, immersing himself in Bristol’s alternative music scene. A lifelong Bristol City fan, Stan’s Saturdays are spent watching his team both home and away.