Rejjie Snow today announces his biggest UK and European headline tour to date. Kicking off in February 2018, the 29-date tour includes a show at London’s 1,700 capacity Roundhouse.
The announcement comes hot on the heels of new single Virgo, featuring New Orleans rapper Pell, and its accompanying video. Premiered by DJ Target on MistaJam’s Radio 1Xtra show, the track is already shaping up to be Rejjie’s biggest yet as the recipient of Track of the Week accolades by three BBC Radio 1 DJs: Annie Mac, Clara Amfo and Adele Roberts. Virgo is available to stream and download now.
“Virgo is a track I wrote about feeling the pressures of trying to be a star,” says Rejjie. “But knowing that you put those pressures mostly on yourself, because someone will have your back no matter what”.
Watch Virgo
Rejjie Snow has been rhyming since he was a kid in north Dublin - moving to Georgia at age 17 on a soccer scholarship, before switching from sports to the mic full time to drop his first mixtape, Rejovich in 2013. The five track set introduced the world to his surreal style and villainous eloquence. Now Rejjie's debut album, Dear Annie, is on the way. It’s executive produced by Rahki, who won a Grammy with Kendrick Lamar, and it's already given us a handful of impressively (though not unexpectedly) diverse gifts.
There's the moody G-funk of Crooked Cops, which Rejjie wrote after watching police violence explode in the U.S., and the thrilling Flexin', a hypermodern trap-addled bleak-banger full of unapologetic braggadocio. The chiming D.R.U.G.S. already surpassed 4.8 million YouTube streams and its followup, Pink Beetle, was named Hottest Record in the World by BBC Radio 1's Annie Mac. And, rather than retreat amidst growing anticipation, Rejjie went ahead and dropped a full-length mixtape on the way to releasing his LP: 2017's The Moon & You, an experimental beast of a different stripe that, despite a Joey Bada$$ cameo, puts him more squarely in the camp of genre-less auteurs like Shabazz Palaces, Anderson .Paak, and Thundercat.
- “It goes without saying, that Rejjie Snow is undoubtedly one of hip-hop’s hottest prospects” - NME
- “Snow is causing an uproar on both sides of the Atlantic” - Dazed
- “Ireland’s most promising young rapper” - Pitchfork
- “Snow is an exotic creature not to be fucked with” - Hot New Hip Hop
- “one of our favourite young rappers” - i-D
- “with music like this, it's fair to say the kid's doing bits” - Complex
- “hip-hop that appeals to bi-lingual thotties and serious-faced rap-fans alike” - Noisey
- “his flows are laid-back and reflective, in common with the likes of Earl Sweatshirt” - The Guardian
- “delicate production with deep, nearly menacing vocals” - Pigeons & Planes
- “Snow announces his intent to vanquish his competition” - XXL
Catch Rejjie live in 2018
- Friday 23 February, Stylus, Leeds, England (UK)
- Saturday 24 February, The Albert Hall, Manchester, England (UK)
- Thursday 1 March, The Waterfront, Norwich, England (UK)
- Saturday 3 March, The O2 Institute, Birmingham, England (UK)
- Monday 5 March, Engine Rooms, Southampton, England (UK)
- Tuesday 6 March, O2 Academy Oxford, Oxford, England (UK)
- Wednesday 7 March, The Junction, Cambridge, England (UK)
- Friday 9 March, Motion Bristol, Bristol, England (UK)
- Monday 12 March, The Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Republic of Ireland (IE)
- Wednesday 14 March, The Roundhouse, London, England (UK)
- Saturday 17 March, Melkweg, Amsterdam, Netherlands (NL)
- Sunday 18 March, Club Banhof Ehrenfeld (CBE), Köln, Germany (DE)
- Tuesday 20 March, Uebel & Gefährlich, Hamburg, Germany (DE)
- Friday 23 March, Debaser, Stockholm, Sweden (SE)
- Saturday 24 March, Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark (DK)
- Monday 26 March, Lido, Berlin, Germany (DE)
- Tuesday 27 March, Warsawy Theater, Warsaw, Poland (PL)
- Wednesday 28 March, Futurum Music Bar, Prague, Czech Republic (CZ)
- Friday 30 March, Fri-Son, Fribourg, Switzerland (CH)
- Saturday 31 March, Le Sucre, Lyon, France (FR)
- Sunday 1 April, Dynamo, Zurich, Switzerland (CH)
- Monday 2 April, Ampere, Munich, Germany (DE)
- Wednesday 4 April, Locomotivclub, Bologna, Italy (IT)
- Thursday 5 April, Circolo Magnolia, Milan, Italy (IT)
- Friday 6 April, La Laiterie, Strasbourg, France (FR)
- Saturday 7 April, Orangerie, Brussels, Belgium (BE)
- Monday 9 April, Stereolux Nantes, France (FR)