JPEGMAFIA has announced his new album, EXPERIMENTAL RAP, which will land on May 21st, along with an extensive 2026 North American tour. In anticipation, JPEGMAFIA also dished out his first taste of the project with the searing lead single, “babygirl.” Stream it below.
EXPERIMENTAL RAP was written, mixed, and produced entirely by JPEGMAFIA, and is expected to be a wide-ranging project in line with the friction and noise of the modern era, emboldened by influences from gospel, industrial, and underground rap.
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“babygirl” arrives as the first preview of EXPERIMENTAL RAP, and shows a continuation of the artist’s run of genre-blurring work, seamlessly folding rock, rap, and punk with high-intensity production and inexhaustible yet pointed bars. It opens with a militaristic quandary, “What you gonna do, what you gonna do?” — a looped vocal sample that appears to be chopped from Saul Williams’ 2007 song, “tr(n)igger.”
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The accompanying music video, directed by Logan Fields & JPEGMAFIA, follows a single nude woman surrounded by a battalion of others buttoned up in military uniforms and blindfolds. They focus on the outlier and salute her with a practiced respect before marching into an abandoned industrial building. As they reach their destination, “babygirl” shifts sonically and rips into raw overdrive as the video shifts from color to monochrome, the squadron is set free from their blindfolds, and they become equal in the rain.
Alongside the album announcement and song, JPEGMAFIA has laid out the plans for “The Experimental Rap Tour” with 20 dates set across North America starting September 22nd in Spokane, WA. The run quickly moves through major markets including Los Angeles, Chicago, and Toronto, before hitting back-to-back nights in New York City, and wrapping in Atlanta on October 24th. The tour will feature support from redveil and matt proxy.
An artist pre-sale (sign up here) begins on Tuesday, May 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time, followed by a Live Nation pre-sale for select dates the same day at 12:00 p.m. local time. Fans can sign up for Live Nation’s free All Access membership to receive access. Tickets will then go on sale to the general public on Wednesday, May 6th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
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Ahead of the North American dates, JPEGMAFIA is scheduled to appear at several European festivals over the summer, including Lowlands in the Netherlands, Pukkelpop in Belgium, All Points East in the UK, and more.
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JPEGMAFIA 2026 Tour Dates:
08/21 – Biddinghuizen, NL @ Lowlands Festival
08/22 – Hasselt, BE @ Pukkelpop
08/23 – London, UK @ All Points East x Outbreak
08/28 – Dublin, IE @ Electric Picnic
09/22 – Spokane, WA @ Knitting Factory
09/23 – Vancouver, BC @ Commodore Ballroom
09/25 – Eugene, OR @ The McDonald Theatre
09/26 – Portland, OR @ Roseland Theater
09/27 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo
09/30 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield
10/01 – Riverside, CA @ Riverside Municipal Auditorium
10/02 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Novo
10/03 – Phoenix, AZ @ The Van Buren
10/05 – Salt Lake City, UT @ Rockwell at The Complex
10/06 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
10/08 – Minneapolis, MN @ The Fillmore
10/09 – St. Louis, MO @ The Sovereign
10/10 – Chicago, IL @ Aragon Ballroom
10/13 – Toronto, ON @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
10/14 – Montreal, QC @ MTELUS
10/16 – Boston, MA @ Roadrunner
10/17 – New York, NY @ Terminal 5
10/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Brooklyn Paramount
10/20 – Philadelphia, PA @ The Fillmore
10/21 – Washington, DC @ Echostage
10/23 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte
10/24 – Atlanta, GA @ The Tabernacle