Veteran (JPEGMafia album)

Veteran
JPEGMAFIA sitting on a porch in front of a house with grey walls and a white door, he is holding a drink and his eyes are closed. Half of the photo is completely white due to a first of the (film) roll burn effect
Studio album by
JPEGMafia
ReleasedJanuary 19, 2018 (2018-01-19)
Recorded2015–2017
Studio
  • JPEGMafia's home studio
  • The Bell Foundry
Genre
Length47:13
Label
ProducerJPEGMafia
JPEGMafia chronology
Black Ben Carson
(2016) 		Veteran
(2018) 		All My Heroes Are Cornballs
(2019)
Alternative cover
Photo of a Louisiana diver's licence, licence photo features JPEGMAFIA smiling. The personally identifying information on the licence is blocked out by black bars and a text in a pixel-like font displays the word "veteran" under the licence photo.
Bandcamp and vinyl cover
Singles from Veteran
  1. "Baby I'm Bleeding"
    Released: December 1, 2017

Veteran is the second studio album by American rapper JPEGMafia. It was released on 19 January 2018 by Deathbomb Arc and Republic Records.[6][7] A music video for "Baby I'm Bleeding" was released on 1 December 2017.[8] A second video was released on 18 May 2018 for "Real Nega".[9] On 12 September 2018, a video for "1539 N. Calvert" was released.[10] The album was released to widespread critical acclaim and was featured in numerous year-end lists; in 2019, Pitchfork listed it at number 171 in their list of best albums of the decade.

  1. ^ Farrow, David (December 17, 2018). "2018: Favorite 50 Music Releases". Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved March 4, 2019.
  2. ^ a b St. Michael, Jonathan (September 18, 2019). "JPEGMAFIA All My Heroes Are Cornballs". Exclaim!. Retrieved September 18, 2019. 2018's critically acclaimed Veteran was a warped and glitchy blend of experimental and industrial hip-hop
  3. ^ Williams, Aaron (September 18, 2019). "Jpegmafia's Satirical 'All My Heroes Are Cornballs' Mocks The Pageantry Of Modern-Day Rap". Uproxx. Retrieved October 14, 2019.
  4. ^ Kot, Greg (February 7, 2019). "Jpegmafia has developed his own hip-hop vocabulary, and is riding it to success". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  5. ^ Cavalcanti, Amanda (March 13, 2018). "O pós-trap de JPEGMAFIA em 'Veteran'". Vice (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved November 19, 2019.
  6. ^ Brown, August (June 29, 2018). "L.A. rapper JPEGMAFIA lashes out at the right and the 'fake-woke' left. Just don't call it 'trolling'". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  7. ^ "JPEGMAFIA - Albums". Jpegmafia.net. Archived from the original on March 7, 2020. Retrieved March 3, 2019.
  8. ^ Ham, Robert (December 1, 2017). "JPEGMAFIA Presents Dizzying New Video for 'Baby I'm Bleeding'". Paste. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  9. ^ Burney, Lawrence (May 18, 2018). "JPEGMAFIA's "Real Nega" Video Is a Calming Contrast to His Hectic Output". Noisey. Retrieved April 15, 2019.
  10. ^ Burney, Lawrence (September 12, 2018). "JPEGMAFIA's video for "1539 N. Calvert" is an ode to Baltimore's Bell Foundry Space". The Fader. Retrieved April 15, 2019.