Thursday 1st November 2018
Metropolis Music Presents
Jpegmafia
Plus Para Fiction
7:30 pm until 11:00 pm
Tickets
Price: £13.75
Status: On-sale Friday 29th June at 10am (Updated on 18th June 2018)
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Admission
Doors open at 7:30 PM – Event ends at 11:00 PM
Age: You must be 18 years of age or more to attend this event (no exceptions) | Photo ID – Please bring ID if you are 25 years of age or less or appear so. | | Access – Standing. There are no seats assigned. The venue is arranged on several floors with many stairs and no lift. Find out more about accessiblity.
About Jpegmafia
Often, art is considered the safe space for dangerous ideas. JPEGMAFIA is a reminder that in a dangerous world, sometimes nowhere is safe.
Operating out of Baltimore Maryland but born in New York to Jamaican parents, JPEG spent the bulk of his childhood in East Flatbush, Brooklyn – a neighborhood deeply rooted in West Indian culture and black pride. He spent the majority of his mid teens in deep south rural Alabama, bouncing from place to place due to rough circumstances at home.
After a short stint in prison, due to a racially-charged altercation in his late teens, JPEG joined the military where he was deployed to different parts of the world, meeting fellow artists and adding new elements to his producing and rapping repertoire.
If trap music is the sound of the street, then JPEGMAFIA is trap’s subconscious; dark but not without a humor that makes things even more uncomfortable. His role as villain or satirist, hood protector or nihilist is intentionally hard to put one’s finger on. What more appropriate way to embody the frightening and confusing reality of America today?
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