Eat at Whitey's

Eat at Whitey's
Everlast studio album
Publication (s)	October 17, 2000
Label (s)	Tommy Boy / Warner Bros.
Format (s)	CD · Download · Vinyl
Genre (s)	Alternative hip-hop · blues rock
Title (number)	14th
running time	46:07
production	Everlast ( exec. ) · Dante Ross (exec.) · John Gamble · Fredwreck · The Alchemist
Studio (s)	SD Studios, New York City
chronology Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998) Eat at Whitey's White Trash Beautiful (2004)

Eat at Whitey’s is the third studio album by the American rapper and singer Everlast . It was on 17 October 2000 on Tommy Boy Records and Warner Bros. released. Black Jesus , I Can't Move and Deadly Assassins came out as single releases, with Black Jesus being the most successful.

Emergence

With the string arrangements, Everlast intended to add emotionality. The album name refers to the feature films made in the 1950s or the Bugs Bunny cartoons, where you can often spot “Eat at Joe's” advertising signs. His idea for the title caused amusement among friends, especially since he used the “Whitey” already featured in the title of the first album for the “commonplace Joe”.

Cover

Everlast wears a white t-shirt with a soiled center and a black cap, in his left hand he is holding a waiter's note. He is in a rest stop in the evening, guests can be seen in the background eating and talking to each other. On one of the windows, a blue-red illuminated neon sign reads “eat at WHITEY'S” . In all opinion, the picture should give the impression that Everlast is a waiter at this rest stop.

Track list

#	title	length
1.	Whitey	1:35
2.	Black Jesus	4:40
3.	I can't move	3:25
4th	Black Coffee (feat. Merry Clayton )	2:56
5.	Babylon Feeling (feat. Carlos Santana )	5:11
6th	Deadly Assassins (feat. B-Real )	0:15
7th	Children's Story ( feat.Rahzel )	3:20
8th.	Love for Real (feat. N'Dea Davenport )	4:21
9.	One and the Same (feat. N'Dea Davenport)	5:02
10.	We're All Gonna Die (feat. Cee-Lo Green )	2:20
11.	Mercy on My Soul (feat.Warren Haynes )	3:24
12.	One, Two (feat. Kurupt )	3:27
13.	Graves to Dig	3:23

Bonus song:

#	title	length
14th	Put Your Lights On (feat. Carlos Santana)	4:44

Charts

album

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Eat at Whitey's	DE11 (18 weeks) DE	AT55 (2 weeks) AT	CH25 (11 weeks) CH	-	US20 (22 weeks) US	First published: October 17, 2000

Single releases

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)					Remarks
		DE	AT	CH	UK	US
2000	Black Jesus	-	-	CH86 (1 week) CH	UK37 (2 weeks) UK	-
2001	I can't move	DE99 (1 week) DE	-	-	-	-

criticism

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Allmusic
Music Express
Rock hard	9/10
Rolling Stone
HOT PRESS	9/12

Michael Edele from laut.de wrote that Everlast had made an album in which he took over "the best ingredients from the predecessor" , revised and "refined" them. One "potential hit single" follows the other. He also praised Everlast's lyrics , which are thoughtful and not include the usual “tits” , “big cars” and “nasty music biz” themes . With Eat at Whitey's, Everlast delivered exactly what was expected of him.

Erlewine from Allmusic also found that Everlast had expanded the concept that was already good at Whitey Ford Sings the Blues and incorporated new elements. The only problem is that the new elements in the duet with Carlos Santana and Warren Haynes don't work particularly well. He described his lyrics as "impressive, catchy and flattering" .

The reviewer of the Musikexpress said the album was "more mature and imaginative" than its predecessor. By “juggling” with the various ingredients, Everlast achieves “intense tension” .

Marcus Schleutermann was relieved in Rock Hard that Everlast "[n] ach the dispensable EP Today and weak concerts" is not a "one-day fly" after all . The atmospheric mix of rock , blues , hip-hop and soul receives additional charm from the various techniques of its numerous guest musicians.

While the album tended to receive benevolent reviews, there were also negative reviews. Zack Salsberg from faze magazine wrote that he "hated" the album . Salsberg would not even be able to recognize an "artistic development" in a single song , his lyrics were accordingly weak, his attempts to sound poetic would fail. Well-known guests like B-Real , N'Dea Davenport , Rahzel and Warren Haynes would not be able to save Eat at Whitey's .

Web links

• Album profile on the discogs website
• Eat at Whitey’s on rateyourmusic.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Michael Tschernek: Soulfood in Whitey's Diner. Formerly rapping bully at House of Pain, Everlast has now expanded its menu, also employs guests and appreciates strings . In: Rolling Stone . No. 73 , November 2000, Rock'n'Roll, p. 23 .
2. ↑ Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
3. ↑ Michael Edele: The best ingredients of the predecessor have been revised and refined. . laut.de . Retrieved December 17, 2015.
4. ↑ Stephen Thomas Erlewine: AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine . Allmusic . Retrieved December 17, 2015.
5. ^ Bm: Weißmannsheil. Everlast. Eat at Whitey's . In: Musikexpress . No. 538 , November 2000, pp. 70 .
6. ↑ Marcus Schleutermann: Everlast. Eat at Whitey's . In: Rock Hard . No. 162 , November 2000, In Scheiben, p. 88 .
7. ↑ AT WHITEY'S - THE NEO BLUES ADEPT WITH STRINGS, SINGERS AND SANTANA  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.   , Review by Jörg Feyer at Rolling Stone , published October 3, 2000, accessed December 17, 2015
8. ↑ Hannah Hamilton: Eat At Whitey's . HOT PRESS. November 9, 2000. Retrieved December 17, 2015.
9. ↑ Zack Salsberg: EVERLAST - Eat at Whitey's (Tommy Boy) . faze magazine. 2001. Retrieved December 17, 2015.