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Eat at Whitey's

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 16 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 16 votes
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Album Info
Label: Tommy Boy
Release Date: 17 October 2000
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rock, Alternative, Rap
Summary
Also By This Artist: Love, War And The Ghost Of Whitey Ford
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Wall of Sound
Building on Whitey Ford's organic folk-pop rap, Eat at Whitey's develops the songwriter's street-style troubadour fixation even further. This time, there's more singing than rapping, and his gruff vocals actually sound stylish, especially on the provocative "Black Jesus" and the memorable "Black Coffee."
Read Full Review >Village Voice
And though it's as good as, if not better than, its predecessor, the album's not bowling people over, either. Maybe its rap-folk hybrid is just too much of the same. Or maybe we just can't identify with the first-person "Black Jesus" like we can the third person of yore. Because maybe this album's greatest strength is exactly what's holding it back: the narrative.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Whenever Everlast lays back and spins stories and tall tales on his own, his blend of folk, rock, blues, rap, and pop culture clicks.
Read Full Review >MTV.com
The result (smells like the blues, bubbles like funk-rock, burns like hip-hop) is some strange new kinda rock 'n rhyme stew... Eat At Whitey's is like nothing else that's happenin' right now.
Read Full Review >Billboard
With his raw, raspy baritone voice, he paints vivid, usually empathetic pictures within an instrumental context that is rife with refreshing live beats and sharply drawn guitar and keyboard lines.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly
An eclectic, intermittently rewarding album of first rate re-creations. But re-creations are all they are, down to Everlast's voice, which is beginning to sound like Redd Foxx's.
Read Full Review >CDNow
His gruff voice may have earned him comparisons to Tom Waits and Captain Beefheart in the past, but let's face it: Everlast is treading awfully close to Neil Diamond territory here. Salvation, as always, comes in the grooves. Eat at Whitey's is instrumentally opulent, adding cushioned layers of percussion and vintage keyboards to the familiar blues-hop template that launched "What It's Like."
Read Full Review >Spin
A far more sonically consistent and textured work, cushioned in Americana, drenched in soul.... But there's no urgency to this album, which stops looking out at the world and settles in for some serious celebrity navel-gazing. [Nov 2000, p.195]
Rolling Stone
But for all his self-consciously moral concerns, Everlast doesn't preach; his hard-assed urban observations speak for themselves.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
An inventively arranged mixture of blues, hip-hop, strings, folk and metal, 'Eat At Whitey's' is like Fun Lovin' Criminals' cameo in The Sopranos: by turns, flash, atmospheric, melancholic, and very masculine.
Read Full Review >Select
Bravado and roleplay being the essence of rock, problems only arise when the real Everlast, a Grammy-winning crossover artiste, rears his head. [Nov. 2000, p.116]
Alternative Press
Everlast hints at a hip-hop amalgam of Johnny Cash and Howlin' Wolf, but only when being chased. [Jan 2001, p.88]
Mojo
Though Black Jesus and Graves To Dig weld slow-burning hip-hop beats to politically astute lyrics, elsewhere the abundance of self-conscious singing and menopausal guitar noodling sees the album shuffle, uninterestingly, towards the middle of the road.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine
The rapper's nicotine-scarred voice does sound bluesy, and his raps are serious without being arch like Beck's. The album's sound -- a marriage of classical string arrangements and sparse drum beats -- makes the guitar stomp of his rap-rock peers seem more one-dimensional than ever. But Everlast's blues are one-shaded -- nothing on Eat at Whitey's approaches the grim fatalism of the Geto Boys' "Mind Playin' Tricks on Me," Eminem's "Rock Bottom," or even Snoop Doggy Dogg's "Murder Was the Case."
Read Full Review >Q Magazine
With deeply average tunes and deeply average rapping throughout, not even an appearance by Carlos Santana on Babylon Feeling can turn things around.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
Everlast's pretensions and ambition still outstrip his talent, however, and the distance between the two makes Eat At Whitey's both intriguing and frustrating.... like a defensive tackle trying his hand at ballet, he's far too clumsy and limited a singer and songwriter for the delicate material he attempts.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.6 (out of 10) based on 16 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark S gave it a 10:
you just fall in love with the vibe of this cd
stef yo gave it a 10:
like others said :one of the best albums,maybe it's the new style,the new sound.I can hardly wait 4 another one.Keep it on the same direction,Mr.Ford(Everlast)
Andrew C gave it a 10:
this is one of the best albums that i have ever heard. can't wait for a new one.
Mike M. gave it a 10:
This is my favorite album(with his first one). I love how his voice, musical sound, featured back-ups, and blend of styles tell his ideas and stories so well. Everlast rules! Keep up the good work.
Ken D. gave it an 8:
NICE.
Rocky F. gave it a 10:
Everlast has always put out all he had on every album ever. He throws in oldschool and kickass blues riffs and is inspiration to me.
Aaron S. gave it a 10:
I think it's the most interesting and best made album besides his first solo album.
