Bleep

Switching from plunderphonic, vaporwave-esque blurs to lasering beat artillery at a moment’s notice, JPEGMAFIA’s second album Veteran solidified his style and effectively put the iconoclastic Baltimore rapper and producer on the map. His full throttle maximalism and unrelenting lyrics with sly references caught immediate attention in 2018, beginning a blisteringly hot three album run with All My Heroes Are Cornballs and LP! quick to follow. Tracks like ‘Thug Tears’ exemplify Peggy’s sample based sensory overload, pulling U turns from melodic trap into abstract electronica with overblown bass, driving into impressionistic rhythms and guttural glitching growls further down the tracklist.