PHOTO: © Lord Apex

Lord Apex - Smoke Sessions Tour 2025

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Lord Apex

Smoke Sessions Tour 2025

Presented by Live Nation
12.11.2025 Cologne, Yuca Club
Admission 19:00 | Start 20:00

Imagine the following scenario: an old hip-hop record is playing on a sleepy autumn morning while someone raps to it in a mesmerizing way with sophisticated wordplay - this is roughly the vibe Lord Apex creates with his music. In typical old-school hip-hop style, the West Londoner works with influences between 90s lo-fi, alternative hip-hop and UK hip-hop. His love for anime and vintage clothing influences his visual aesthetic just as much as J Dilla and MF Doom inspire his music. In 2020, Lord Apex was nominated for a UK Music Video Award for his feature on KAM-BU's song "Different", and in 2021 Complex Networks named him as one of 21 UK Rappers to Watch in 2021. 2022 saw him tour Europe both supporting Freddie Gibbs and headlining. Since then, the 25-year-old rapper has released his latest album "The Good Fight" (2024) and the mixtape "Where's Your Feet?" (2024) have been released. Lord Apex will be coming to Hamburg, Berlin and Cologne in November 2025 on his Smoke Sessions Tour 2025 .

Lord Apex (real name Shaeem Santino Wright) grew up in west London and started releasing music in 2014. Since his first EPs, which were released under the name Tino Apex, Lord Apex has built on a huge output and many collaborations. His long-player debut "Smoke Sessions, Volume One" was released in 2016 and laid the foundation for a series of releases that continued in 2019 and 2021 with "Smoke Sessions, Vol. 2" and "Smoke Sessions 3". In 2020, he had already released 16 EPs in addition to his first two albums and then focused on mixtapes and albums. In addition to the collabs with V Don ("Supply & Demand " - 2020) and Drae Da Skimask ("THE ELEVATED AND ELUSIVE " - 2023), he released another solo work, "Off The Strength", in 2022. On "The Good Fight", Lord Apex also collaborated with Madlib in 2023 alongside Freddie Gibbs, Eyedress and MAVI - from whose alter ego Lord Quas Lord Apex adapted his own stage name. A full-circle moment that did not, however, lead the rapper to stagnate through artistic perfection. Together with El Lif Beatz, with whom the mixtape "Joga Bonito" was created in 2022, the mixtape "Where's Your Feet?" followed in 2024. At the end of August, "Initial P" was released as the artist's new single, which once again transports listeners into his dreamy hip-hop worlds with washed-out synthesizers and chilled beats.

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Price information:

plus fees

Location

YUCA Bartholomäus-Schink-Straße 65 50825 Köln

Organizer

Hush Hush GmbH Köln

Organizer

Live Nation GmbH Köln

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