Irish rapper Kojaque is back and swinging. His new single ‘That’s Gonna Be Me’ is out now on Soft Boy Records, and it pushes back hard against what he sees as a dark political moment.

“There’s been a strategic amplification of ignorant and divisive voices, and I want to drown them out,” he says. He wants to be every bit as loud as those voices, but with positivity, and he calls apathy “the path of least resistance”.

He’s honest about how heavy things feel too: “I feel flattened by the modern world. Everything feels grim and relentless and too much of everything all the time.” For Kojaque, art, music and writing are how he can make a difference.

A hand-made video

Kojaque directed and animated the video himself. It’s a stop-motion piece built from 127 individually printed frames showing his face on fake banknotes. The single follows his recent one-off ‘antihistamine’ and his acclaimed album ‘PHANTOM OF THE AFTERS’.

Kojaque tour 2027

He’s also announced his biggest headline tour yet: 17 dates across the UK, Ireland and Europe in March 2027. The highlights are a London show at KOKO on St Patrick’s Day and a Dublin night at the 3Olympia Theatre.

Tickets go on general sale on Wednesday 18 November at 10am GMT. Set those alarms!

Source: Clash