''Eat Pray Thug'' is the debut studio album by American hip hop artist

Heems Himanshu Kumar Suri (born July 6, 1985), better known by his stage name Heems, is an American rapper. Suri came to prominence as a member of the alternative hip hop group Das Racist, with whom he released two mixtapes and one album. Suri has ...

. It was released on

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on March 10, 2015. Music videos were created for "Sometimes", "Damn, Girl", and "Pop Song (Games)".

Critical reception

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, 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'' 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 ''

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'',

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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."

Accolades

Track listing

Charts

References

External links

* {{Authority control 2015 debut albums Heems albums Megaforce Records albums Albums produced by Harry Fraud Albums produced by Dev Hynes