Eat Pray Thug Explained

Eat Pray Thug
Type:studio
Artist:Heems
Cover:Eat_Pray_Thug.jpg
Genre:Hip hop
Label:Megaforce
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Eat Pray Thug is the debut studio album by American hip hop artist Heems.[1] It was released on Megaforce Records on March 10, 2015.[2] Music videos were created for "Sometimes",[3] "Damn, Girl",[4] and "Pop Song (Games)".[5]

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".

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." 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."

Jayson Greene of Pitchfork 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." 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." 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."[6]

Accolades

PublicationAccoladeRank
PopMatters80 Best Albums of 2015
Spin50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015
ViceTop 26 Overlooked Albums of 2015
The Village VoicePazz & Jop

Charts

ChartPeak
position
US Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[7] 8
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[8] 24
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[9] 32
US Rap Albums (Billboard)[10] 21

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Heems Talks About ‘Eat Pray Thug’. The New York Times. Joe. Coscarelli. March 6, 2015. April 14, 2015.
  2. Web site: Q&A: Heems on His Quest for Racial Identity and How Hip-Hop Gets Lost in Translation in Asia. Spin. Beejoli. Shah. March 10, 2015. April 14, 2015.
  3. Web site: Heems' 'Sometimes' Video Hawks a Faux Skin-Whitening Paste. Spin. Brennan. Carley. April 7, 2015. October 3, 2017.
  4. Web site: Heems Dances Around An Art Gallery in "Damn, Girl" Video. Pitchfork. Molly. Beauchemin. June 10, 2015. October 3, 2017.
  5. Web site: Heems – "Pop Song (Games)" Video + "Coconut Oil (London)". Stereogum. Tom. Breihan. September 25, 2015. October 3, 2017.
  6. Web site: Expert Witness: March 2015. Robert Christgau. Robert. Christgau. March 6, 2015. April 10, 2016.
  7. Web site: Heems - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums. Billboard. April 10, 2016.
  8. Web site: Heems - Chart history - Independent Albums. Billboard. April 10, 2016.
  9. Web site: Heems - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums. Billboard. April 10, 2016.
  10. Web site: Heems - Chart history - Rap Albums. Billboard. April 10, 2016.

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