Experimental American hip-hop artist and producer JPEGMafia, known formally as Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks or “Peggy”, is due to perform at Manchester’s Albert Hall on the 31st of January 2025 as part of his ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’. The tour is rumoured to be in support of his upcoming fifth full-length album which is currently untitled.
Hendricks is yet to set a release date for the upcoming LP however he confirmed the news in an Instagram post with the very vague caption ‘album is on the way’. Fans haven’t just been left with breadcrumbs however as the avant-garde rapper dropped the first single lifted from the unreleased record ‘don’t rely on other men’ which is the alternative rappers first solo single since 2021 however it was written in collaboration with and frequent appearance on Peggy’s tracks, FREAKY – an extremely elusive and rarely ever pictured Baltimore rapper.
Hendricks is due to hit the road for his U.S. leg of the ‘Lay Down My Life Tour’ in August which will see him perform in cities all across the U.S. such as LA, Chicago, San Fransisco, Dallas, New York, Orgegan, California and even stop off for a show in Vancouver, Canada however it is speculated that the untitled project won’t be released before then. Lucky for UK fans they don’t all have to scramble for tickets to JPEGMafia’s Albert Hall show as he won’t just be stopping off in Manchester when he touches down in the UK. The rapper has just released tour dates on his Instagram for cities like Glasgow, London, Brighton and Bristol as well as shows all across European cities, including Berlin, Barcelona, Paris, Brussels. For a full list of UK dates, see below.
January 30 – 3Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
January 31 – Albert Hall, Manchester, England
February 2 – Barrowland, Glasgow, Scotland
February 4 – Roundhouse, London, England
February 5 – Chalk, Brighton, England
February 6 – O2 Academy Bristol, England
Hendricks has experienced massive amounts of success in the past few years most notably from producing and writing on four tracks from Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign’s album Vultures 1. The tracks include “Stars”, “Fuk Sumn”, “Beg Forgiveness” and “King”. The album gained commercial success after its release in February, 2024 and gained nearly 170 million official streams, and topping the billboard 200 chart according to an article by The Washington Post.
The rapper also dropped his collaborative project with fellow rapper, Danny Brown, SCARING THE HOES which was released on the 23rd of March of this year.
You can check out tickets for the Albert Hall show directly from their website here or you can access all other dates from the Ticketmaster website here.
