As an act of provocation, All My Heroes Are Cornballs thrills.
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Cunningham and Cage thought that a lot of their colleagues were cornballs.
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The more you listen to All My Heroes Are Cornballs, the more it teaches you how to listen.
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On Cruel Intentions, those worlds co-exist, placing "respectable" tunes next to cornballs and giving equal weight to both.
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This track, from the album "All My Heroes Are Cornballs" crams together prayer and raunch over a slow groove that's upended again and again.
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On the face of it, Veteran is the harsher noise album, while All My Heroes Are Cornballs incorporates cushier beats, sweeter pop elements, a softer glow.
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"PTSD" and "All My Heroes Are Cornballs" construct mesmerizing electronic vacuums, looped keyboard splotches that sound somehow hermetic, as if Jpegmafia is rapping in an airless room; the songs move, but they're also frozen in place.
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All My Heroes Are Cornballs, out since September, gathers countless discrete grimy, chopped-up noises and shuffles through them with kaleidoscopic impatience, as the Baltimore experimental rapper holds forth on political discord, social media, and his own brilliance from behind several ironic framing devices.
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His second solo studio album Veteran was released in January 2018 to widespread critical acclaim. In September 2019, he released his third studio album All My Heroes Are Cornballs, to further acclaim. It debuted at number 105 on the Billboard 200, becoming his first entry on the chart.
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All My Heroes Are Cornballs was promoted as a "disappointment" with ironic videos released on the rapper's YouTube, along with two singles: "Jesus Forgive Me, I Am a Thot" and "Beta Male Strategies". It was supported by the JPEGMafia Type Tour, which began in North America on October 14, 2019 and ended in Europe on July 6, 2020. Upon release, All My Heroes Are Cornballs received widespread acclaim from critics, who highlighted the humorous, sarcastic lyrical content, and praised its detailed and chaotic production; some of them deemed it superior to Veteran, and it was placed in numerous publications' year-end lists. The album debuted at number 105 on the Billboard 200, becoming JPEGMafia's first entry in the chart.
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Barrington DeVaughn Hendricks (born October 22, 1989), known professionally as JPEGMafia (stylized as JPEGMAFIA), is an American rapper, singer and record producer from Baltimore, Maryland. His 2018 album Veteran, released through Deathbomb Arc, received widespread critical acclaim and was featured on many year-end lists. It was followed by 2019's All My Heroes Are Cornballs, released to further critical acclaim.
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On August 28, he officially announced that his third album would be titled All My Heroes Are Cornballs, to be released on September 13. On September 10, he released the second single, "Beta Male Strategies". Two days later, a listening party for the album launch took place in Baltimore, Maryland. The artwork was designed by Alec Marchant, JPEGMafia's photographer and close friend.
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All My Heroes Are Cornballs is the third studio album by American rapper JPEGMafia, released on September 13, 2019 by EQT Recordings. After the release of his breakthrough record Veteran (2018), he began recording tracks for its follow-up, with a total of around 93 songs by 2019. He handled the production, mixing and mastering in his home studio. The album features guest appearances from Abdu Ali, Helena Deland and Buzzy Lee, as well as additional vocals by Refined Sugar, Vegyn and Young Emoji.
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Vegyn also serves as a co-producer on one track. An avant-garde experimental hip hop and punk rap album, All My Heroes Are Cornballs draws influences from glitch hop, ambient, noise and industrial music, and experimental pop. It has a smoother and more melodic sound than its predecessor, employing uncommon song structures, extensive sampling, and a variety of vocal techniques such as rapping, screaming and singing, often in falsetto. Thematically, the album is personal, introspective, and presented in a stream of consciousness form, touching on the Internet culture, prejudice, political issues and JPEGMafia's newfound fame.
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All My Heroes Are Cornballs is an avant-garde experimental hip hop and punk rap record. It contains sound collages, influences from ambient music, glitch hop, noise, industrial and experimental pop, and elements of trap, R&B; and vaporwave. JPEGMafia called it his "punk musical" and referred to it as vulnerable, introspective and his most personal album to date; he has cited the Beach Boys' Smile, TLC's FanMail, Björk, Cam'ron, Everything but the Girl, Kanye West and Rick Rubin as influences. The album is loosely structured, marked by constant tonal and vocal shifts, erratic and "random" use of samples and noises, and unconventional song structures, which are also present in his previous album Veteran.
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Eli Schoop of Tiny Mix Tapes said that All My Heroes Are Cornballs is one of the best produced albums of the year, and likened the album to an electronic manifesto and an auditory guerrilla warfare. He compared it to James Ferraro's Far Side Virtual, reasoning that both are inspired by "internet anxiety", as JPEGMafia's "memetic technology and kinetic mindset" resembles Ferraro's "dread of automation and late-stage capitalism web osteria". This was echoed by Kieran Press-Reynolds's review for Highsnobiety, which says that JPEGMafia "nails the chaos of post-internet society", and that his writing is reminiscent to Virginia Woolf, "who felt overwhelmed by modernity and tried to describe it in the best way they could". It also described the album as a "better hodgepodge of empowered tumult" than his previous record Veteran.
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