The Ghost~Pop Tape

After threatening to commit suicide in 2012 if his music didn’t take off, Devon Hendryx (now rapper JPEGMAFIA) created THE GHOST~POP TAPE. With a completely new lo-fi and experimental hip hop sound that seems to reflect his new feelings towards his music. Recorded sometime in 2012 and released in 2013 during a heavy bout with depression while Devon was in Japan. The album was almost completely ignored upon its release. With only one review even existing (which has since been deleted), the reviews were originally on the Bandcamp description for the album in around 2014 to 2015, but have since been removed (although you can access them via the Wayback Machine and read them there. The album was notable for utilizing a sound and atmosphere that was ahead of its time. The sound of the album is very similar to Frank Ocean’s 2016 album “Endless”, but was released almost 3 years earlier. The extremely quiet vocals and oddball nature of the song titles, combined with the ambient droned out vaporwave/R&B backdrops with random happenings, such as an entire portion of a WWE match playing throughout a track, mutilated porn samples used as melody’s and toilets flushing/bodies being brushed against the microphone used for snares and kicks, made it very unusual for it’s time. THE GHOST~POP TAPE was released with a DVD film to accompany it. Which featured footage of unknown people peeing in public, vomiting, cut up clips of random anime, full frontal nudity and uncensored gay and straight sex scenes as well as unknown people taking baths and riding roller coasters. The DVD has since been posted online but original physical copies are extremely rare, with the only proof of it even existing was a scan of the DVD cover, however the DVD was most likely never made, and the scan was just posted by Devon somewhere. A download for the movie was available at ghostpop.jp, along with a free download of the album. “I won’t lie… some of my old shit is hard to hear now… especially THE GHOST~POP TAPE. I was very close to death when I made this. But for y’all, I will. No dates right now but when I have time and desire I’ll do it.” - JPEGMAFIA on re-releasing the Devon Hendryx moniker. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.