Eat Pray Thug
Details
LP / Format
Megaforce / Label
Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Cloud Rap
, Conscious Hip Hop
, Pop Rap
/ GenreFull Credits
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Critic Reviews
80
Such uncompromising rhymes means Eat Pray Thug falls firmly in the category of "ain't for everybody," but that's the thrilling bit, as everything else about the album is alluring.
11y
80
In many ways, Eat Pray Thug is a prequel to Das Racist, filling in the biographical gaps of a seemingly inscrutable wiseass from when he had to cry before he could laugh.
11y
80
There are more questions here than resolutions, making Eat, Pray, Thug a thinking person's record, but that's a good thing, especially now that he's speaking to his largest audience yet.
11y
75
To its credit, Eat Pray Thug never feels like a forced or obligatory stab at maturation. Instead, it seems like Heems has a lot to get off his chest and has little use for obfuscation, hooks, or irony.
11y
70
At some point, all the music’s dissonance and divergence just makes it more vital and interesting. Without Das Racist, Heems’ limitless creativity has completely erupted, and as messy as it all is, it’s a little beautiful, too.
11y
70
Eat Pray Thug is a remarkably moving opus condemning ethnocentricity and wallowing in relational grief.
11y
70
It's the least think-piece-ready album he's ever been on — but with tons of incisive emotional insights on growing up of South Asian descent in post-9/11 America, it's the most likely to kick-start a long career.
11y
67
His messages are so strong that it seems strange to dilute them with pop songs.
11y
63
Eat Pray Thug isn’t lacking in ideas, just focus, and there are long stretches where it’s much harder to connect to Heems’ persona.
11y
60
His political material far outshines the comparatively blunt relationship post-mortems but both are buoyed by an idiosyncratic, Bollywood-inflected production which, along with Heems' affable character, shines throughout.
11y
Himanshu delivers his side of what made Das Racist the greatest rap group of the 2000's or 2010's. Whereas Kool AD always delivered his often satirical, always dazzling serpentine word flow, Heems added the hard-hitting satirical flavor with experimental takes on pop-rap trends. The rappers always had a way of accomplishing 2 things, mocking those mainstreamers with little talent and doing what they do better than them simultaneously, adding depth to even the most shallow type of rap trends. In ... read more
This album sucks for the most part a mix of tinny overproduction and bad rapping. songs like Jawn Cage and Alq8a feel like eighth graders who are freestyling for the first time using any word that rhymes with itself with no cohesion With random bit crunched Star Trek noises grabbed from a 2006 YouTube link. When it's not that and his voice isn't miserable it's just generic love songs and repetitive choruses. What I do like about this album is when he makes a politically focused ... read more
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Track List
| 1 | Sometimes 4:01 | 59 |
| 2 | So NY 3:40 | 53 |
| 3 | Damn, Girl 3:38 | 52 |
| 4 | Jawn Cage 3:02 feat. Rafiq Bhatia | 45 |
| 5 | Flag Shopping 3:56 | 64 |
| 6 | Pop Song (Games) 4:19 | 67 |
| 7 | Home 3:57 feat. Blood Orange | 54 |
| 8 | Hubba Hubba 2:46 | 55 |
| 9 | Al Q8a 3:27 | 48 |
| 10 | Suicide by Cop 3:12 | 69 |
| 11 | Patriot Act 3:50 | 78 |
Total Length: 39 minutes
