Eat Pray Thug

Eat Pray Thug
Studio album by Heems
Released March 10, 2015 (2015-03-10)
Genre Hip hop
Length 39:48
Label Megaforce Records
Producer Gordon Voidwell, Harry Fraud, Bill Ding, Devonte Hynes, Boody B, Keyboard Kid 206
Heems chronology
Wild Water Kingdom
(2012)		 Eat Pray Thug
(2015)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic76/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
The A.V. ClubB[3]
Consequence of SoundB-[4]
Exclaim!8/10[5]
Pitchfork Media6.3/10[6]
PopMatters[7]
Rolling Stone[8]
The Skinny[9]
Spin8/10[10]

Eat Pray Thug is the first studio album by American hip hop artist Heems.[11] It was released on Megaforce Records on March 10, 2015.[12]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Eat Pray Thug received an average score of 76% based on 12 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

Colin Fitzgerald of PopMatters gave the album 7 stars out of 10, saying: "The beats on Eat Pray Thug are as wacky and irreverent as they were on Das Racist's mixtapes and their lone studio album Relax, but Heems is 180 degrees more serious on his own."[7] Max Mertens of Exclaim! called it "the soundtrack of a son of immigrant parents learning that while you might be able to return home, nothing will be the same as how you left it."[5]

Jayson Greene of Pitchfork Media said: "A handful of songs draw directly on his experiences as an Indian-American in a post–9/11 world, and they are sharply observed, painful, emotional, and deeply quotable."[6] Zach Schonfeld of The A.V. Club gave the album a grade of B, describing it as "an unfailingly direct set of meditations on post-9/11 racism and failed love, set to skeletal beats and bracing, plainspoken hooks."[3] Writing in Cuepoint, Robert Christgau gave the record an "A" and said "this is rapping that foregrounds the variegations of the ordinary speaking voice--its cracks, its rumbles, its anxious highs, its distracted lows, its deep-seated imperfections and insecurities. It's very American."[13]

Christgau later named it the third best album of 2015 in his ballot for The Village Voice's annual Pazz & Jop critics poll.[14] It ranked at number 9 on Spin's "50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015" list.[15]

Track listing

No. TitleProducer(s) Length
1. "Sometimes"  Gordon Voidwell 4:01
2. "So NY"  Harry Fraud 3:40
3. "Damn, Girl"  Gordon Voidwell 3:38
4. "Jawn Cage" (featuring Rafiq Bhatia)Gordon Voidwell 3:02
5. "Flag Shopping"  Bill Ding 3:56
6. "Pop Song (Games)"  Gordon Voidwell 4:19
7. "Home" (featuring Devonte Hynes)Devonte Hynes 3:57
8. "Hubba Hubba"  Boody B 2:46
9. "Al Q8a"  Boody B 3:27
10. "Suicide by Cop"  Keyboard Kid 206 3:12
11. "Patriot Act"  Boody B 3:50

Charts

Chart Peak
position
Heatseekers Albums[16] 8
Independent Albums[17] 24
Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums[18] 32
Rap Albums[19] 21

References

  1. 1 2 "Eat Pray Thug - Heems". Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  2. ↑ Jeffries, David. "Eat Pray Thug - Heems". AllMusic. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  3. 1 2 Schonfeld, Zach (March 10, 2015). "Heems goes deep with the surprisingly moving Eat Pray Thug". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  4. ↑ Levy, Pat (March 6, 2015). "Heems – Eat Pray Thug". Consequence of Sound. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  5. 1 2 Mertens, Max (March 10, 2015). "Heems - Eat, Pray, Thug". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  6. 1 2 Greene, Jayson (March 11, 2015). "Heems: Eat Pray Thug". Pitchfork Media. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  7. 1 2 Fitzgerald, Colin (March 13, 2015). "Heems: Eat Pray Thug". PopMatters. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  8. ↑ Weingarten, Christopher R. (March 10, 2015). "Eat Pray Thug - Ex-Das Racist MC makes an honest, emotional solo record". Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  9. ↑ Gordon, Andrew (February 26, 2015). "Heems – Eat, Pray, Thug". The Skinny. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  10. ↑ Weiss, Dan (March 11, 2015). "Review: Heems Confronts His (And Hip-Hop's) Dualities on the Surprisingly Mournful 'Eat Pray Thug'". Spin. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  11. ↑ Coscarelli, Joe (March 6, 2015). "Heems Talks About 'Eat Pray Thug'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  12. ↑ Shah, Beejoli (March 10, 2015). "Q&A: Heems on His Quest for Racial Identity and How Hip-Hop Gets Lost in Translation in Asia". Spin. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
  13. ↑ Christgau, Robert (March 6, 2015). "Expert Witness: March 2015". Robert Christgau. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Ballots: Robert Christgau". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
  15. ↑ "The 50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015 (2/2)". Spin. December 16, 2015. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
  16. ↑ "Heems - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  17. ↑ "Heems - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  18. ↑ "Heems - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
  19. ↑ "Heems - Chart history - Rap Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.

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