Zack Fox books Knockdown Center for a late Friday in February

The Atlanta rapper, comedian and artist plays the Maspeth warehouse on Feb. 5 with DJ Delish; tickets are $40 on DICE.

For Manhattan, the ask is a trip across the river to Maspeth on a February Friday, with a 10 p.m. start. For a Zack Fox show in a 3,200-capacity room, plenty of people will make it.

Zack Fox plays Knockdown Center on Friday, Feb. 5, 2027, at 10 p.m., with DJ Delish. Tickets are $40 through DICE. The show was announced Oct. 22.

Fox is an Atlanta rapper, comedian and visual artist, and for a lot of people he is still the guy behind "Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression)." That song came out of an April 2019 episode of *The Cave*, producer Kenny Beats' YouTube series in which he invites artists to freestyle over his beats. Fox and Beats made the track during the episode; it came out that June as a comedy hip-hop single and reached No. 1 on Spotify's U.S. Viral chart on July 8, 2019. It was their second collaboration, after 2018's "Square Up." Fox has been ambivalent about the hit since, telling Rolling Stone he disliked its success and calling it a "meaningless" troll.

Comedy and rap have never been separate lanes for him.

That tension is part of the draw. Comedy and rap have never been separate lanes for Fox; he released a surprise debut rap album, *shut the f\*\*\* up talking to me*, and he has spent 2026 on the road, with a run that started July 31 and is scheduled to wrap Nov. 21. Some dates on that tour have been billed as DJ sets. The February Knockdown date arrives after that run ends, as a standalone New York night.

The venue is a big part of why this is a news item rather than a calendar line. Knockdown Center sits at 52-19 Flushing Ave. in Maspeth, Queens, a large event space that has grown into one of the city's bigger rooms for live music and nightlife. It called 2023 its biggest and busiest year to date, and its calendar has kept filling since; it already has shows on the books into January 2027. At 3,200 capacity, it's a much larger room than many comedians who rap ever get to fill, and it's set up for exactly the kind of late-night, DJ-adjacent show a 10 p.m. start with DJ Delish suggests.

When to buy: now, if you're sure. At a flat $40, there's no lower tier to wait for, and DICE tickets are tied to your phone, so plan to transfer in the app rather than forward a PDF if you're buying for friends.

Manhattan readers, map the trip home before you go. Then go.

Sources: Zack Fox — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Jesus Is the One (I Got Depression) — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Zack Fox Shares Surprise Debut Rap Album — Okayplayer (okayplayer.com); Zack Fox tour dates 2026 — Hypebot Concerts (concerts.hypebot.com); Knockdown Center — Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); The Knockdown Center in Maspeth brings live music nightlife venue to the community — QNS (qns.com); Maspeth's Knockdown Center celebrates biggest and busiest year in 2023 — QNS (qns.com); Zack Fox at Knockdown Center — tickets (DICE) (link.dice.fm)