40 Fun Facts About JPEGMAFIA

Which rapper joined JPEGMAFIA for Scaring the Hoes, a 2023 pay-what-you-want album?

Danny Brown had teased the team-up for a year, after the pair performed a song together at Smoker's Club Fest in 2022. JPEGMAFIA produced every track.

Which 1990s band of brothers has JPEGMAFIA named as one of his earliest musical influences?

Hanson share his list of influences with industrial pioneers Throbbing Gristle and Skinny Puppy, plus Björk and Radiohead.

JPEGMAFIA's song 1539 N. Calvert is named after the address of which shuttered Baltimore arts space?

The Bell Foundry was one of the most active DIY spaces in Baltimore's music scene before it shut. The song got its own video eight months after the album came out.

According to JPEGMAFIA, which pop star cleared his reworking of her 1998 hit for his album LP!?

Britney Spears signed off on his interpolation of ...Baby One More Time, and JPEGMAFIA says she listened to the finished track too.

JPEGMAFIA enlisted at 18 and served a tour during the Iraq War in which branch of the US military?

The Air Force is the service behind the title of his album Veteran. He left after speaking up about his superiors' reported abuse.

JPEGMAFIA spent summer 2025 as a supporting act on the From Zero World Tour of which rock band?

Linkin Park were on their first tour in seven years, and JPEGMAFIA joined as a supporting act from June to September 2025.

JPEGMAFIA produced songs on Vultures 1 for which rapper, whom he calls his biggest influence?

Kanye West made Vultures 1 with Ty Dolla Sign, and JPEGMAFIA wrote and produced on four of its tracks. He says the sessions taught him to trim filler from an album.

JPEGMAFIA's single Don't Rely on Other Men samples a patriarch's dialogue from which TV drama?

Succession patriarch Logan Roy is the voice in the sample, set against a beat that fuses boom bap, noise and industrial metal.

JPEGMAFIA co-wrote the song Fya for the 2026 album Arirang by which K-pop group?

BTS named Arirang after a traditional Korean folk song, and its long list of co-writers also includes Diplo, Kevin Parker and Ryan Tedder.

Before release, JPEGMAFIA kept promoting his album All My Heroes Are Cornballs by calling it what?

A disappointment was his running joke for the record, which went on to draw widespread acclaim and become his first album on the Billboard 200.

The song 1539 N. Calvert holds which position on JPEGMAFIA's breakthrough second album, Veteran?

The opening track is one of the album's nods to Baltimore, where JPEGMAFIA recorded most of Veteran before mixing and mastering it in Los Angeles.

JPEGMAFIA was born in which Brooklyn neighborhood before moving to Alabama at the age of 13?

Flatbush is where he was born, and he spent most of his childhood in East Flatbush. The racism he met after the move later shaped his music.

JPEGMAFIA formed the group Ghost Pop while living in which country during his years in the military?

Japan was his base as he moved between Okinawa and Tokyo, writing and producing music years before he settled in Baltimore.

Under which earlier stage name did JPEGMAFIA release mixtapes such as Dreamcast Summer Songs?

Devon Hendryx was the name on his releases from 2009 until he returned to the US and reinvented himself as JPEGMAFIA in 2015.

Which debut album by JPEGMAFIA was named Baltimore's best of 2016 by the City Paper?

Black Ben Carson borrowed the name of the only Black major-party candidate in the 2016 presidential race, and it sounds harsher and more distorted than his other projects.

One cover of JPEGMAFIA's Veteran shows his driver's license from which state, where he went to high school?

Louisiana is also where he enlisted at 18. The album's title points to his years in uniform and his life in the South.

JPEGMAFIA's license cover for Veteran echoes the food stamp card on a 1995 album by which rapper?

Ol' Dirty Bastard put a food stamp card on his solo debut, Return to the 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version, and Veteran samples one of his songs as well.

JPEGMAFIA's Veteran track DD Form 214 takes its name from which official US government document?

A discharge certificate is what a DD 214 is: the paper US service members receive on leaving active duty. The track features Bobbi Rush.

JPEGMAFIA's mixtape Darkskin Manson was inspired by protests over the death of which man?

Freddie Gray's death set off the 2015 protests in Baltimore, where JPEGMAFIA had moved only months earlier. The tape was his second under his new stage name.

An interlude about sorrel on JPEGMAFIA's All My Heroes Are Cornballs honors his roots in which country?

Jamaica gives hibiscus tea the name sorrel, and both of his parents come from the island.

Which lead single from JPEGMAFIA's Scaring the Hoes is named after a popular online fitness creator?

Lean Beef Patty is built around a sample of a P. Diddy hit, and it arrived with a music video eleven days before the album.

Which Maryland rapper makes the only guest appearance on JPEGMAFIA's album Scaring the Hoes?

Redveil appears on the track Kingdom Hearts Key, and JPEGMAFIA joined him on the single Black Enuff later that year.

JPEGMAFIA made most of Scaring the Hoes on which sampler, chasing a 1990s sound without Pro Tools?

The Roland SP-404SX shaped the album's raw sound, and JPEGMAFIA likened the process to a practice session.

Which rapper put JPEGMAFIA on his song Vengeance, then guested on JPEGMAFIA's Bald! remix?

Denzel Curry sent over his Bald! verse after telling JPEGMAFIA he liked the song, and he later directed the JPEGUltra! video himself.

JPEGMAFIA opened a 2019 tour for which rapper, later a guest on his song New Black History?

Vince Staples delivers a cold-blooded, low-key verse on the 2024 track. JPEGMAFIA mixed All My Heroes Are Cornballs right after opening Staples' 2019 tour.

Which producer hosts The Cave, the YouTube series where JPEGMAFIA recorded his DOTS freestyle?

Kenny Beats has his guests make a track on camera, and JPEGMAFIA remixed his episode's song for All My Heroes Are Cornballs with the sound of Hawaiian campfires.

Which electronic producer joined JPEGMAFIA for the 2025 collaborative EP We Live in a Society?

Flume recorded the four tracks with him in January 2023, two months before Scaring the Hoes came out, yet the EP waited more than two years for release.

JPEGMAFIA's track Exmilitary shares its name with a mixtape by which band he is often compared to?

Death Grips gave Exmilitary away for free in 2011. JPEGMAFIA's song of that name draws on his own years in the service and a soul sample once used by Wu-Tang Clan.

JPEGMAFIA's track Vulgar Display of Power borrows the title of a 1992 album by which metal band?

Pantera made that title famous with their sixth album. JPEGMAFIA's song sets chants and growls against blistering guitars and reworks a Method Man hook.

Fentanyl Tester on JPEGMAFIA's Scaring the Hoes chops up Milkshake, a hit by which R&B singer?

Kelis is one of several 2000s pop voices flipped on the album, alongside NSYNC and Lady Gaga.

Which grocery chain gives its name to a track about gentrification on JPEGMAFIA's album Veteran?

Whole Foods is one of two gentrification songs on the album. The other, Williamsburg, mocks overpriced coffee in the Brooklyn he grew up in.

JPEGMAFIA freestyled while dodging attacks in a Rapper Warrior Ninja sketch on which comedy series?

The Eric Andre Show pitted him against Lil Yachty, Murs, Trippie Redd and Zack Fox in the sketch, a parody of the obstacle-course show Ninja Warrior.

Frustrated by sample-clearance limits, JPEGMAFIA left which major label after his album LP!?

Republic Records could not clear some of his samples, so he put an alternate version of the album on Bandcamp and YouTube and then got out of his contract.

Which singer-producer co-produced Panic Room, the only shared production credit on JPEGMAFIA's EP2!?

James Blake is the lone outside name on an EP that JPEGMAFIA says he made in three weeks, locked in a room with a few synthesizers and no samples.

Which singer provides guest vocals on Free the Frail, from JPEGMAFIA's All My Heroes Are Cornballs?

Helena Deland sings on a song JPEGMAFIA nearly cut from the album. It went on to get its own music video two months after release.

Which independent label, an early home of Clipping, released JPEGMAFIA's breakthrough album Veteran?

Deathbomb Arc, started in Los Angeles in 1998, listed its founder's cat as acting CEO for years.

On the first song of I Lay Down My Life for You, JPEGMAFIA likens himself to which NBA agitator?

Dillon Brooks is known for getting under people's skin, and JPEGMAFIA returns to the comparison on the later song Jordan Rules.

Which Baltimore rapper made the EP The 2nd Amendment with JPEGMAFIA and performs an entire Veteran track?

Freaky took over the Veteran song so completely that JPEGMAFIA removed his own verse, feeling his friend had summed it up perfectly.

Which indie-rock frontman reacted to All My Heroes Are Cornballs in JPEGMAFIA's pre-release listening videos?

Jeff Tweedy of Wilco joined comedian Hannibal Buress among the guests who discussed and reacted to songs from the album on JPEGMAFIA's YouTube channel.

JPEGMAFIA's song All My Heroes Are Cornballs ends with a friend ordering from which burger chain?

Wendy's got the cameo because a friend was recorded ordering a bacon smokehouse meal. JPEGMAFIA called the clip really random and nearly cut it.