‘Errol Eats Everything’ by Errol Eats Everything is a 17-track hip-hop masterclass that delves into systemic oppression, histories and media. It leaves food for thought and a space for expressions, with chopped-up vocals, samples from speeches and emphatic verses.
The album feels like it can be divided into parts, with the one part layering in the history of systemic oppression, while the second covers where we are.
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‘Errol Eats Everything’: Track-by-Track
‘Errol Eats Everything’ tells a story that weaves in narratives, while structurin itself into a cohesive soundscape that feels frustrated, hopeless and reluctantly optimistic.
‘Errol Eats Everything’: Setting
‘The Inauguration’-’Everything’
‘The Inauguration’ sets the tone, locating itself at the center of these moments, taking it all in. There’s a sense of rebellion and teases of strength, context and loss in this song’s mood. This with a loud declaration, “…I would never sell my soul…”.
‘Kingdom’ truly begins to live in this setting, beginning with a sample of speech that behaves like a catalyst. The narrator sees the oppression they are experiencing clearly. They clearly know where they fall in this hierarchy and this inspires this almost complex emotions that define this existence.
“…I am lesser than I am in you Kingdom.
But I am not afraid.
You have devalued my existence and locked me in a cage…”.
‘NRG’ spreads hope through grief, with powerful lyrics that seem to take a stand in the face of this unending oppression. The song spreads out positive energy almost like its being spread through the radio and broadcast everywhere. All encompassing with an all mindset.
The titular ‘Errol Eats Everything’ brings in the main premise of the album, a collection of media narratives that set the tone of the nature of oppression. It presents a way to take the narrative back from the oppressors. Its tone is reminiscent while its end is abrupt.
‘Fly Girl’ introduces a bit more piano and funk to the soundscape, that began with a strong, rhythmic percussion and vocal chops & samples. We follow the narrator of this story trying to build a life before something outside of him cuts his life short. The vocals cut abruptly to almost signal that inevitability.
‘Everything’ is a vocal-chop interlude, giving us this sense of everything passing and seeming to show it all to us. Everything, quiet literally.
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‘Errol Eats Everything’: Histories
‘Ballad of the Brutes’-’Be Out!’
‘Ballad of the Brutes’ brings in this rock edge to feed in a mood that attempts to subvert the external narrative (here, the speech that plays at the beginning of this song). Here (and all over) the written and spoken narrative makes systemic injustice plain to see as our narrator is being told to “…know your worth, know your value…”. Not to empower but to pull down.
‘Mind’ places value in oral histories, told by those who have been pulled down and silenced. Its a bid to know value, calling out the hypocrisy that doesn’t match the narrative you see. “…Search and you’ll find…you will find…’. The speech at the beginning fortifies this.
‘Beyond Yonder’ aims to stoke flames, to build moment and persuade action. Tries to show that all is not hopeless and doesn’t end abruptly, to show us that this positivity is strength. ‘Creases’ is bright with hope, even while expressing situations that are stacked up against the narrator. This song is “…for the people in the creases…’, the ones ignored and targetted for being different.
It ends abruptly, again. ‘Be Out!’ is an almost groovy call to action in a situation that seems futile in that adversity. Pointing out that most would “…rather stay boozed up…” than be out, standing up for their community. This feels justified, with moments in each song highlighting this sense of inevitable futility in the face of adversity that constantly needs constant checks.
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‘Errol Eats Everything’: The Present(s)
‘Automatic Traumatic’- ‘Grateful’
‘Automatic Traumatic’ seems to snap to some reality, taking from ‘Be Out!’ and picking up from a space of protest. “…No justice, no peace…”, important slogans that push back against what feels like oppressive inevitability. “…We will rise up to injustice…”. This section feels through the events that rippled the world and launched a new wave in the BLM movement, but highlights how things like this have always been happening.
‘Don’t Matter None’ dives deeper into this divide, attempting to make sense of something that can’t be. When in this vein, the wants are simple:
“…We want justice…equality…freedom…some peace…
…We don’t want no military…”.
‘Stand Your Ground’ is a dialogue between someone in authority and someone “…resisting…” their “…oppression…”. It move through what seems to be a typical interaction that ends abruptly again, as though this is the way things should typically end. The song inspires burning anger and this sense that this emotion will always rage.
‘Round N Round- Radio Edit’ sustains this anger, and highlights the seeming all-encompassing nature of it all. Its all horns and a sense of dreading inevitability. “…RIP to somebody’s son…A bunch of losses but ain’t nobody one…”.
‘Eye Said What Eye Said’ seems to evoke the phrase “an eye for an eye”, a statement that despite everything we won’t be broken. The lyrics proclaim fearlessness in the face of injustice. It seems neverending.
“…I ain’t scared…
…What do we care about dying when you don’t give us the right to live?…
…You told us we were free, now show us that we’re free…”.
‘Grateful’ is led by some cymbals and piano melodies in a descending melody. It attempts to pull this charge in the air towards a cool-down. It pulls in this elevated gratefulness in a situation that inspires none, effectively closing out this powerful album with a lot of food for thought.
Conclusion & The Artist
‘Errol Eats Everything’ by Errol Eats Everything is everything Errol is seeing, downloading and exploring. It details the absorption of everything has encountered, running down every emotion he experiences when he is faced with these realities.
The album makes a powerful statement in a world that is desensitised to them.
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