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Denzel Curry And JPEGMAFIA Secretly Worked On Kanye West’s “VULTURES 2”

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Denzel Curry and JPEGMAFIA are an unbeatable duo. They crush it every time they get on a song together, as evidenced by their new single “JPEGULTRA!” Curry and Peggy are very different artists, but they are similarly passionate about music and pushing their respective sounds. Apparently, Kanye West took notice of this, and recruited both rappers to work on his latest album. Unbeknownst to fans, since neither Denzel Curry or JPEGMAFIA are credited, but they both clocked studio time on VULTURES 2. How do we know? Well, Curry hopped on Twitter on August 13 and told us.

For all the fanfare and confusion surrounding VULTURES 2, Denzel Curry’s revelation was pretty simple. “Me and JPEG both worked on VULTURES 2,” he wrote, without elaboration. The notion of both of these artists linking up with Kanye West is notable, since neither of them have officially collaborated with the Chicago rapper. If anything, Denzel Curry and Peggy have made headline for being critical of West and his recent output. Curry, for example, roasted West’s album DONDA on social media. Curry also mocked Drake’s Certified Lover Boy. “DONDA and CLB could’ve been better,” he wrote. “Y’all n**gas rich and got the greatest musicians at your disposal.” Curry also roasted the artwork for both releases.

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Denzel Curry Previously Criticized Ye On Twitter

JPEGMAFIA has been even more vocal in his criticisms of Kanye West. He called out the rapper for working with who he deemed were subpar talents instead of someone like himself. “U got 27 n**gas tweaking hi hats just to make some mid,” he tweeted in January. “Talk to a real scientist brother stop wasting time.” Apparently, Peggy’s wish came true. Him and Denzel Curry got a chance to work on the VULTURES 2 sessions. As we previously stated, though, neither of their contributions made the final cut. Furthermore, Curry and Peggy didn’t even show up on the bonus tracks or the revised album tracklist.

It would be an understatement to write that VULTURES 2 has had a troubled rollout. It’s one of the most infamous albums of all time in terms of release, and it’s been out for less than a month. One can hope the Denzel Curry and JPEGMAFIA contributions will surface at some point in the future. Hell, maybe they will both be on the tracklist for VULTURES 3. Based on Curry’s lack of elaboration, though, it doesn’t seem like there’s too much more to the story. More songs for the Ye vault.

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JPEGMAFIA And Denzel Curry Team Up For Grimey Music Video “JPEGULTRA!”

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JPEGMAFIA and Denzel Curry is a match made in rap heaven. The two artists were elite on their first collab, “VENGEANCE I VENGEANCE,” but their latest song, “JPEGULTRA,” managed to top it. Both are in their absolute element, dropping clever bars over one of Peggy’s coolest productions. Unsurprisingly, the music video is just as good. JPEGMAFIA and Curry take to the streets with handheld cameras and deliver a visual that’s every bit as gritty and stylish as the song that accompanies it.

There’s some fun editing right off the bat. Denzel Curry raps the same bars in three different settings, and the clips are then overlapped in the frame so we can see them all simultaneously. It’s a jarring effect at first but it adds to the otherworldly aesthetic of the beat. The music video also plays with different film stock. There’s old VHS footage, grainy black-and-white stock, and footage obtained with a fish eye lens. They are interchanged about as frequently as JPEGMAFIA and Curry trade verses, which is to say: often. JPEGMAFIA’s last verse is electric. “On my knees for a God who can hear. I can’t pray to no God I can’t fear,” he spits. “I think I should have ran me a cult. Quarterback that ho like I’m Peyton on Colts.”

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JPEGMAFIA’s New Video Uses Different Filters

“JPEGULTRA!” samples “Get Up!” by the Japanese band Akira Ishikawa And His Count Buffalos. Peggy has spoken at length about the time he lived in Japan, and the impact Japanese music has on his own. He cited the Cowboy Bebop soundtrack, in particular, during a 2018 interview with Vice. “It was one of the first ones I heard but all of them have been influential in their own way,” he explained. “The thing I took the most from them was the strange rhythms and just the weird things they do. So sometimes they’ll pull these crazy melodies out, they probably don’t even care. It’s a melody for a scene, but it makes me cry.”

JPEGMAFIA recently made headlines for throwing shots at Drake. He went at the Toronto rapper not once, but twice on the album I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU. Peggy has gone at Drake for most of his career, but the aggression of his bars caught a lot more attention this time around. He even addressed the controversy on social media. “If anybody got a problem with what i said on this album, my tour dates in bio,” he tweeted out. “Y’all cant even pay your rent but defending Drake for free, go outside and be somebody.”

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Here Is Jpegmafia’s ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’ Setlist

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In June, Jpegmafia announced he was heading out on the Lay Down My Life Tour. Well, fast-forward to present day and the tour just launched at Fox Theater in Pomona, California on August 7.

If you’re heading out to an upcoming date and you want a preview of the songs Jpegmafia is gonna play, the August 7 setlist (via setlist.fm) should serve as an indication of what you can expect.

Find the setlist below, along with the Lay Down My Life Tour tour dates.

Jpegmafia’s Lay Down My Life Tour Setlist

1. “Jesus Forgive Me, I Am A Thot”
2. “Sin Miedo”
3. “I Scream This In The Mirror Before I Interact With Anyone”
4. “Lean Beef Patty”
5. “Bald!”
6. “Don’t Rely On Other Men”
7. “Hazard Duty Pay!”
8. “Call Me Maybe” (Carly Rae Jepsen cover)
9. “1539 N. Calvert”
10. “Steppa Pig”
11. “Garbage Pale Kids”
12. “God Loves You”
13. “Scaring The Hoes”
14. “New Black History”
15. “Vulgar Display Of Power”
16. “Exmilitary”
17. “Jihad Joe”
18. “Baby I’m Bleeding”
19. “Either On Or Off The Drugs”
20. “It’s Dark And Hell Is Hot”

Jpegmafia 2024 Tour Dates: Lay Down My Life Tour

08/07 – Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater Pomona
08/08 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
08/10 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
08/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
08/13 – Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
08/15 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
08/16 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
08/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
08/19 – Reno, NV @ Virginia Street Brewhouse
08/20 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
08/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
08/24 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
08/27 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre
08/29 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
08/30 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
08/31 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
09/03 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
09/05 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
09/06 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
09/07 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
09/10 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
09/11 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
09/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
09/14 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
09/15 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/17 – Providence, RI @ Fête Music Hall
09/19 – Toronto, ON @ Rebel
09/20 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
09/21 – Chicago, IL @ Radius

JPEGMAFIA Doubles Down On Drake Disses And Mocks OVO Stans

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JPEGMAFIA is a professional Drake hater. Well, he’s a professional rapper, producer, and performer, too. But underneath all those, he loves bashing the Toronto superstar. He’s been doing it for almost a decade, and he dished out some of his most scathing Drake bars on his new album. He dropped the phrase “No Drizzy” on the song “New Black History.” He also leaned into the rumor that the rapper has gotten with underage girls on “it’s dark and hell is hot.” OVO fans were obviously unhappy with JPEGMAFIA, but he didn’t back down. Instead, he went back at them on Twitter.

Hours after JPEGMAFIA dropped I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU, he addressed the Drake disses. He made three separate points, and all of them were pretty valid within the parameters that he set. The first one made note of the fact that he’s been ragging on Drake for a while. “1st off. I been dissing that n**ga since 2016,” he wrote. “Them sh*ts was throwaway bars not noteworthy.” Then, JPEGMAFIA turned his attention to fans who threatened him over the insulting bars. He made it very clear he’s going to stand behind what he said, whether it not it upsets certain people. “Second off if anybody got a problem with what i said on this album,” he added. “My tour dates in bio.”

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JPEGMAFIA Urged Fans To Stop Defending Drake

The third point was directly at stans, rather than fans. The ones who defend their favorite rapper to the death, despite the fact that disses add up to very little at the end of the day. Peggy said it himself when he described his “No Drizzy” bars as “throwaway.” He clearly has had enough of the OVO stans who feel the need to address the hate that Drake has been getting in 2024. “Third, y’all cant even pay your rent but defending Drake for free,” JPEGMAFIA concluded. “Go outside and be somebody.” Basically, Peggy decided to follow up his Drake disses with some additional digs for the fans.

If it’s any consolation, JPEGMAFIA has been critical of most famous rappers. He regularly cited Kanye West as one of his favorite artists, yet attacked West on social media back in January. He claimed he was more talented than the people that West collaborates with, and made his feelings on the matter known. “Truthfully I don’t give a f*ck about nothing Kanye got going on at this point i just wanted to get paid,” he tweeted. “But its ok im not a rapist or some weirdo incel n**ga so I get why he wouldn’t wanna work with me.” Moral of the story: Nobody is safe from Peggy’s wrath.

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JPEGMAFIA & Vince Staples Make “New Black History” In First-Time Collaboration

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JPEGMAFIA released his latest album, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU early Thursday morning. The album is his first since SCARING THE HOES, his 2023 collaboration with Danny Brown. It is his first solo release since LP! in 2021. His latest effort features an appearance from frequent collaborator Denzel Curry, on the song “JPEGULTRA!” It also features his first collaboration with Vince Staples, on the track “New Black History.” The song, which is produced by JPEGMAFIA himself and electronic producer Flume, is in line with his trademark sound. It’s quirky, opening with a sample of Future’s “Covered N Money” before transitioning into Staples’ verse. Staples finds his pocket on the off-kilter beat, delivering a series of bars about gangster life, him being the best rapper out, and shouting out Long Beach. It’s reminiscent of his performance on the SOPHIE-produced “Yeah Right” from his sophomore album, Big Fish Theory. Peggy’s verse covers a lot of ground and shouts out the professional wrestler CM Punk at the end.

JPEGMAFIA’s verse created controversy this morning for a line directed at Drake. “‘Specially when y’all cashing out for PDFs and rapers (No Drizzy)” is the second bar of his verse. Of course, he’s referencing the allegations made against Drake by Kendrick Lamar during their heated battle earlier this year. Peggy has long been a Drake hater, a moniker he bestowed upon himself many years earlier. That line is not a surprise to anyone who’s been following his career. Regardless of JPEGMAFIA’s controversial bars, “New Black History” is a song you should be checking out today. Listen to the new track below.

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JPEGMAFIA & Vince Staples – “New Black History”

Quotable Lyrics:

When I come around, better stare at the floor (Yeah!)
‘Cause I’m in that mode, on my own, I got that flavor, Jonathan Major paper
‘Specially when y’all cashing out for PDFs and rapers (No Drizzy)
I hope y’all paid attention, no really
I die and I killed myself, tell ’em they killed me (Hey)

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JPEGMAFIA Controls The Chaos On “I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU”

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JPEGMAFIA is a menace. The man raps like nobody else, and makes beats like nobody else. He sounds beamed in from another dimension, where hip-hop is slightly off-kilter, and it’s incredible. Peggy reached a cultural high with his Danny Brown collab SCARING THE H*ES in 2023, but he’s back to doing what he does best on his new solo album. I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU definitely scares the h*es, but there’s darker elements at play here, and JPEGMAFIA channels them all brilliantly. The opener, “i scream this in the mirror before I interact with anyone,” lives up to its antisocial title. Guitar riffs crash into Peggy’s voice, resulting in an unhinged sonic stew.

There’s more of a traditional rap sound on the rest of the album, but only barely. “SIN MIEDO” flips a classic Miami bass sample into the musical equivalent of a mosh pit. “I’ll Be Right There” provides an unexpected breather, with its lush strings and romantic and the Jade sample spliced throughout. The artist has a knack for making incongruous sounds work together to create something unexpected, and the best parts of I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU stem from this unpredictability. It also helps that Peggy has electric chemistry with the likes of Vince Staples and Denzel Curry. Staples sounds menacing as ever on “New Black History,” while Curry skates over a messy horn break on “JPEGULTURA!” JPEGMAFIA also finds time to diss Drake multiple times, but you can read more about that here. Overall, I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU is another triumph.

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JPEGMAFIA Pushes Sonic Boundaries On His Latest LP

I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU 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 (featuring Freaky)
  5. New Black History (featuring Vince Staples)
  6. don’t rely on other men (featuring Freaky)
  7. vulgar display of power
  8. Exmilitary
  9. JIHAD JOE
  10. JPEGULTRA! (featuring Denzel Curry)
  11. either on or off the drugs
  12. loop it and leave it
  13. Don’t Put Anything on the Bible (featuring Buzzy Lee)
  14. i recovered from this

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JPEGMAFIA Obliterates Drake With Multiple Disses On His New Album

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JPEGMAFIA truly does not care. He does what he wants, and he doesn’t apologize. It makes sense, given combative album titles like All My Heroes Are Cornballs (2019) and SCARING THE H*ES (2023). Peggy is bold as ever on his new release, I Lay Down My Life for You, but the sonic experimentalism will definitely be taking a backseat to the combative bars. JPEGMAFIA decided to hop aboard the Drake hate train, and deliver some absolutely brutal insults on the cuts “It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot” and “New Black History.” The rapper goes as far as to coin the phrase “No Drizzy.”

“It’s Dark and Hell Is Hot” is not solely a Drake diss. There are bars aimed at entitled fans and jealous rappers, but the ones aimed at the 6 God are unmistakable. He flips Drake’s 2018 song “No Friends In the Industry” while spotlighting the allegations that the Toronto rapper has been with underage girls. “I can count all of my industry friends on my hands. And my n**gas, they be in demand,” JPEGMAFIA spits. “Obviously, rappers, they know what it is. If I show you a Drac’, I ain’t playin’ with kids.” The use of Drac’ the firearm as a double entendre for Drizzy is another reference, to Kendrick Lamar’s “Euphoria” diss. It is worth pointing out the song’s title evokes DMX’s first album. DMX, of course, was a rapper who very much despised the 6 God.

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JPEGMAFIA Coins The Phrase “No Drizzy” On His Album

Then there’s the “No Drizzy” line. The song “New Black History” sees JPEGMAFIA and Vince Staples trade bars over a glitchy instrumental. Staples is predictably excellent during his verse, but Peggy goes for the throat on his. “‘Specially when ya’ll cashing out for PDF’s and rapers (No Drizzy),” he raps. “I hope ya’ll paid attention, no really, I’m dyin’. I killed myself, tell them to kill me (Hey).” Oof. “No Drizzy” comes from the same place as “No Diddy,” which took the internet by storm earlier this year. The phrase was a way to denote sus behavior, while referencing the horrid allegations leveled at Diddy.

JPEGMAFIA equating Drake with Diddy is perhaps the most devastating diss made by anyone not named Kendrick Lamar. This, of course, is nothing new for the rapper. JPEGMAFIA has been a Drake hater since day one. “I been randomly dissing Drake for like five years,” he told DJ Booth in 2019. “Don’t know why. I guess, because [it’s] Drake. He’s so big that yeah I have been dissing him for five years, just because like he’s big as f*ck.” Peggy’s disses are a bit more heated on the new album, though, so there may be more to the hating than internet trolling. When Kendrick Lamar’s “Meet the Grahams” diss dropped on May 3, JPEGMAFIA tweeted: “I’m no longer the biggest Drake hater. Kendrick Unbelievable.” We agree, but the rapper is giving Dot a run for his money.

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JPEGMAFIA Continues To Push Boundaries On The Wild & Trippy “SIN MIEDO”

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JPEGMAFIA never rests on his laurels, and it is why he is such a fascinating artist in a genre that can become too one dimensional. This has allowed him to work amongst some the greatest and most unique talents in the game. He has even stepped outside of hip-hop, with one of his most recent experiments being with Raveena on “Junebug”. Speaking of collaborations, the Brooklyn native has been devoting a lot of his time to helping out others like Kanye West & Ty Dolla $ign on VULTURES 1, or Danny Brown on SCARING THE H*ES. But, as of a month ago, JPEGMAFIA is getting back to working on his solo catalog, and today that is continuing with “SIN MIEDO”.

This song is looking like the second single for his upcoming and currently unnamed album. “SIN MIEDO” follows up on the chaotic and industrial-sounding “don’t rely on other men”. It was one of the standout tracks of June and “SIN MIEDO” looks like it has a chance to be for July. The Spanish to English translation for this means “no fear” and it is clear that JPEGMAFIA had none of that when creating this off-the-wall record. Like its predecessor, “SIN MIEDO” includes plenty of guitar sections, who are seemingly handled by Alex Goldblatt (BLP KOSHER, 6LACK, Kehlani). Additionally, there is a wild vocal sample from Mr. Mixx’s “Hoochie Mama”. Somehow, but not surprisingly, the mad scientist that is Peggy manages to piece all of these elements together for another thrilling banger.

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“SIN MIEDO”- JPEGMAFIA

Quotable Lyrics:

I do what I do with a vengeance, Pegasus been had style
Shot with class, give me detention
Y’all do a lot for the mention
I spaz in other dimensions
F*** what you got, you another level, my attraction came with a pension

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Jpegmafia Announced The Dates For His ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’

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Jpegmafia heading back on the road. After touring with Danny Brown last year, the genre-bending rapper is heading out on a solo tour in August. The Lay Down My Life Tour is billed to begin on in Pomona, California and hit a string of venues in Las Vegas, Reno, Tempe, and more.

Tickets go on sale on Friday, June 14, with a presale beginning tomorrow, June 13. You can see the tour dates below.

Jpegmafia 2024 Tour Dates:

06/28 – Manchester, UK @ Outbreak Fest
06/30 – Brussels, BE @ Couleur Café Festival
08/07 – Pomona, CA @ Fox Theater Pomona
08/08 – Las Vegas, NV @ Brooklyn Bowl
08/10 – Denver, CO @ The Fillmore Auditorium
08/11 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Depot
08/13 – Eugene, OR @ McDonald Theatre
08/15 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
08/16 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
08/17 – Vancouver, BC @ Vogue Theatre
08/19 – Reno, NV @ Virginia Street Brewhouse
08/20 – San Francisco, CA @ The Regency Ballroom
08/23 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Palladium
08/24 – Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
08/27 – Oklahoma City, OK @ Tower Theatre
08/29 – Dallas, TX @ South Side Ballroom
08/30 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater
08/31 – Houston, TX @ White Oak Music Hall
09/03 – Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution Live
09/05 – Raleigh, NC @ Hopscotch Music Festival
09/06 – Atlanta, GA @ The Eastern
09/07 – Orlando, FL @ The Beacham
09/10 – Norfolk, VA @ The NorVa
09/11 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring
09/13 – Philadelphia, PA @ Franklin Music Hall
09/14 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
09/15 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
09/17 – Providence, RI @ Fête Music Hall
09/19 – Toronto, ON @ Rebel
09/20 – Columbus, OH @ Newport Music Hall
09/21 – Chicago, IL @ Radius

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Raveena Taps An Unexpected Guest Star, Jpegmafia, On Her New Single, ‘Junebug’

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If there are two names who’d seem like stylistic opposites, Raveena and Jpegmafia would fit the bill. One’s a dreamy, mellow pop-soul singer who’s deeply in touch with her spirituality. The other’s a raw force of chaos whose last album cheekily nodded at the jest that his music is best for Scaring The Hoes. Somehow, on Raveena’s new single “Junebug,” they actually form a surprising chemical bond that turns out to blend better than you might expect. A big part of that is Peggy toning his energy way down and riding the jazzy groove like he stepped straight out of hip-hop’s Golden Era.

The track is the latest single from Raveena’s upcoming album Where The Butterflies Go In The Rain, and like its predecessors, continues the running theme of transformation (and bug references). In the video for “Pluto,” Raveena turns into a butterfly, while in the video for “Lucky,” she romances a giant caterpillar(?) that eventually also metamorphoses into a butterfly.

In a statement, Raveena explained the unexpected collaboration, saying, “I love inviting people with vastly different sonic landscapes to my music. To me, it is proof of our oneness and divine inter-connectedness. Jpegmafia brought the perfect energy to this summertime song — and I think we both aligned on this song with our mutual love for the tropics, with me being from India and Peggy from Jamaica.”

Listen to “Junebug” above. Where The Butterflies Go In The Rain is due on June 14 via Empire Records.