Denzel Curry Wellington Headline Show Announced

Wellington hip hop heads will be thrilled to hear South Florida rapper Denzel Curry is playing a special headline event at the capital's San Fran in late January, as a side show to his upcoming appearance at Auckland's St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2019. The US hip hop star has been making serious waves since arising from the cloud rap scene with 2011's King Remembered Underground Tape 1991 – 1995, his new 2018 collection TA1300 (aka Taboo) showcases such commanding room-shaking hits as ‘13LACK 13ALLOONZ’ and ‘CLOUT COBAIN’. There's no doubt a serious party will be going down in January, here's the details...

Denzel Curry
Wednesday 30th January - San Fran, Wellington
Presales available from 12.00pm, Thursday 1st November

Check out Denzel Curry's warped video for recent single 'CLOUT COBAIN | CLOUT CO13A1N' from this year's TA1300...

Here's a spooky new clip for 'R.I.P 2 R.I.P | R.1.P 2 R.1.P'...

Press release:

Returning to New Zealand this February atop the St. Jerome’s Laneway Festival 2019 line-up, the ever-evolving rapper/songwriter DENZEL CURRY will perform one wild AF sideshow in Wellington this February – bringing the heat to what’s sure to to be a hot summer music festival season.

Since his induction to the scene in 2011 with “King Remembered Underground Tape 1991 – 1995”, Denzel Curry has been creating some of the most dynamic hip-hop out there today. The SoundCloud generation rapper holds a talent for sharp lyricism and deeply personal storytelling – an iconoclast who takes great pleasure in telling you... he is the ultimate.

On his latest record “Taboo” (TA1300), Denzel delivers a groundbreaking musical performance which sees him as a deadly lyricist and disciple of rap’s forefathers while simultaneously felling the gap between the older generation and the new generation of SoundCloud rappers that he helped birth in both sound and style. It’s a genre-hopping exercise in presenting his psyche, which takes a deeply honest and occasionally uncomfortable look into what makes him tick. The triple j featured “Album of the Week” includes the Twelve’In/Goldlink collaboration ‘13LACK 13ALLOONZ’ and the Billboard certified hit single ‘CLOUT COBAIN’ which peaked at #6 on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.

With his music and movements, Denzel Curry commands respect in a way few are able to as he tells stories that resonate with both the old and new generation audiences. South Florida’s favourite son is sure to bring the heat to New Zealand for what’s easily set to be the biggest Laneway sideshow this summer.

“Curry embodies the spirit of old-school hip hop with his raw magnetism and tantalizing wordplay while also appealing to the new generation.” – THE MUSIC