Eat Pray Thug

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Eat Pray Thug
Devonte Hynes
  • Boody B
  • Keyboard Kid 206
    • Heems chronology
    Wild Water Kingdom

    (2012)     		Eat Pray Thug
    (2015)     		Lafandar
    (2024)
    Singles from Eat Pray Thug
    1. "Sometimes"
      Released: January 8, 2015[1]

    Eat Pray Thug is the debut studio album by American hip hop artist Heems.[2] It was released on Megaforce Records on March 10, 2015.[3] Music videos were created for "Sometimes",[4] "Damn, Girl",[5] and "Pop Song (Games)".[6]

    Critical reception

    Professional ratings
    Aggregate scores
    SourceRating
    Cuepoint (Expert Witness)
    		A[11]
    Exclaim!8/10[12]
    Pitchfork6.3/10[13]
    PopMatters[14]
    Rolling Stone[15]
    The Skinny[16]
    Spin8/10[17]

    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".[7]

    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."[14] 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."[12]

    Jayson Greene of

    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."[11]

    Accolades

    Publication Accolade Rank Ref.
    PopMatters 80 Best Albums of 2015
    63
    [18]
    Spin 50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015
    9
    [19]
    Vice Top 26 Overlooked Albums of 2015
    N/A
    [20]
    The Village Voice Pazz & Jop
    3
    [21]

    Track listing

    No.TitleProducer(s)Length
    1."Sometimes"Gordon Voidwell4:01
    2."So NY"Harry Fraud3:40
    3."Damn, Girl"Gordon Voidwell3:38
    4."Jawn Cage" (featuring Rafiq Bhatia)Gordon Voidwell3:02
    5."Flag Shopping"Bill Ding3:56
    6."Pop Song (Games)"Gordon Voidwell4:19
    7."Home" (featuring Dev Hynes)Dev Hynes3:57
    8."Hubba Hubba"Boody B2:46
    9."Al Q8a"Boody B3:27
    10."Suicide by Cop"Keyboard Kid 2063:12
    11."Patriot Act"Boody B3:50
    Total length:39:48

    Charts

    Chart Peak
    position
    US
    Heatseekers Albums (Billboard)[22]
    		 8
    US Independent Albums (Billboard)[23] 24
    US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[24] 32
    US
    Rap Albums (Billboard)[25]
    		 21

    References

    1. ^ Leight, Elias (January 8, 2015). "Heems Unveils New Single & 'Eat, Pray, Thug' Release Date". Billboard. Archived from the original on January 5, 2023. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
    2. ^ Coscarelli, Joe (March 6, 2015). "Heems Talks About 'Eat Pray Thug'". The New York Times. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    3. ^ 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.
    4. ^ Carley, Brennan (April 7, 2015). "Heems' 'Sometimes' Video Hawks a Faux Skin-Whitening Paste". Spin. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
    5. ^ Beauchemin, Molly (June 10, 2015). "Heems Dances Around An Art Gallery in "Damn, Girl" Video". Pitchfork. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
    6. ^ Breihan, Tom (September 25, 2015). "Heems – "Pop Song (Games)" Video + "Coconut Oil (London)"". Stereogum. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
    7. ^
      CBS Interactive
      . Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    8. ^ Jeffries, David. "Eat Pray Thug - Heems". AllMusic. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    9. ^ a b Schonfeld, Zach (March 10, 2015). "Heems goes deep with the surprisingly moving Eat Pray Thug". The A.V. Club. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    10. Consequence of Sound
      . Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    11. ^ a b Christgau, Robert (March 6, 2015). "Expert Witness: March 2015". Robert Christgau. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
    12. ^ a b Mertens, Max (March 10, 2015). "Heems - Eat, Pray, Thug". Exclaim!. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    13. ^ a b Greene, Jayson (March 11, 2015). "Heems: Eat Pray Thug". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    14. ^ a b Fitzgerald, Colin (March 13, 2015). "Heems: Eat Pray Thug". PopMatters. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    15. ^ 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.
    16. ^ Gordon, Andrew (February 26, 2015). "Heems – Eat, Pray, Thug". The Skinny. Retrieved April 14, 2015.
    17. ^ 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.
    18. ^ "80 Best Albums of 2015". PopMatters. August 12, 2020. Archived from the original on August 21, 2022. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
    19. ^ "The 50 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2015 (page 2 of 2)". Spin. December 16, 2015. Archived from the original on March 24, 2017. Retrieved December 19, 2015.
    20. ^ "The Top 26 Overlooked Albums of 2015". Vice. December 23, 2015. Archived from the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved January 5, 2023.
    21. ^ "Ballots: Robert Christgau". The Village Voice. Retrieved September 25, 2016.
    22. ^ "Heems - Chart history - Heatseekers Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
    23. ^ "Heems - Chart history - Independent Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
    24. ^ "Heems - Chart history - Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.
    25. ^ "Heems - Chart history - Rap Albums". Billboard. Retrieved April 10, 2016.

    External links

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