Eat at Whitey's

Eat at Whitey's is the third solo studio album by American recording artist Everlast. It was released on October 17, 2000, via Tommy Boy Records. The album's audio production was primarily handled by Dante Ross and John Gamble. According to AllMusic, the album continues from the folk rock style of Everlast's previous album, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues.^[2] It featured guest appearances from various musicians, such as Carlos Santana, B-Real, Rahzel, N'Dea Davenport, Cee-Lo Green, Warren Haynes, and Kurupt.

Eat at Whitey's
Studio album by Everlast
Released	October 17, 2000
Recorded	2000
Studio	SD Studios (New York City) Fantasy Studios (Berkley, CA) NRG Recording Studios (North Hollywood) Ocean Way Recording (Hollywood) [1]
Genre	Hip hop folk rock[2]
Length	46:07
Label	Tommy Boy/Warner Bros.
Producer	Everlast (also exec.) Dante Ross (also exec.) John Gamble Fredwreck Alchemist
Everlast chronology
Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998) Eat at Whitey's (2000) White Trash Beautiful (2004)
Singles from Eat at Whitey's
"Black Jesus" Released: 2000 "I Can't Move" Released: 2000 "Deadly Assassins" Released: 2001

The album was both a commercial and critical success and has been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America a month after its release. It peaked at number 20 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart with sales of 50,000 copies. The lead single of the record, "Black Jesus", peaked at number 15 on the Billboard Alternative Songs and number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock.

Reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	67/100[3]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Alternative Press	[4]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B[6]
The Independent	[7]
Mojo	[8]
NME	7/10[9]
Q	[10]
Spin	7/10[11]
Wall of Sound	82/100[12]

Eat at Whitey's received generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 67, based on 16 reviews.^[3]

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".

— Bob Gulla, Wall of Sound^[12]

Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic stated: "Whenever Everlast lays back and spins stories and tall tales on his own, his blend of folk, rock, blues, rap, and pop culture clicks". In New York's Vulture.com, it said: "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 Playing Tricks on Me', Eminem's 'Rock Bottom', or even Snoop Doggy Dogg's 'Murder Was the Case'."

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Whitey"	E. Schrody D. Ross J. Gamble	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	1:35
2.	"Black Jesus"	E. Schrody	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	4:40
3.	"I Can't Move"	E. Schrody K. Ciancia	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	3:25
4.	"Black Coffee"	E. Schrody K. Ciancia	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	2:56
5.	"Babylon Feeling" (featuring Carlos Santana)	E. Schrody	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	5:11
6.	"Deadly Assassins" (featuring B-Real)	E. Schrody L. Freese A. Maman	Alchemist	2:43
7.	"Children's Story" (featuring Rahzel)	R. Walters	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	3:20
8.	"Love for Real" (featuring N'Dea Davenport)	E. Schrody	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	4:21
9.	"One and the Same"	E. Schrody K. Ciancia M. Oliver	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	5:02
10.	"We're All Gonna Die" (featuring Cee-Lo Green)	E. Schrody K. Ciancia	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	2:20
11.	"Mercy on My Soul" (featuring Warren Haynes)	E. Schrody K. Ciancia	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	3:24
12.	"One, Two" (featuring Kurupt)	E. Schrody R. Brown F. Nassar	Fredwreck	3:27
13.	"Graves to Dig"	E. Schrody	Dante Ross Everlast John Gamble	3:23
Total length:				46:07

Notes

• "Children's Story" is a cover song of "Children's Story" by Slick Rick

Personnel

Vocalists

• Erik Francis Schrody - vocals
• N'Dea Davenport - vocals (track 8), additional vocals (track 9)
• Louis Freese - vocals (track 6)
• Thomas Callaway - vocals (track 10)
• Ricardo Brown - vocals (track 12)
• Merry Clayton - additional vocals (tracks 2, 4, 11)
• Bob Khalil - additional vocals (track 2)
• Brendan Lynch - additional vocals (track 2)
• Chris Thomas - additional vocals (track 2)
• Kevin Dorsey - doowops (track 2)
• James Gilstrap - doowops (track 2)
• Dorian Holley - doowops (track 2)
• Phillip Ingram - doowops (track 2)
• Rahzel M. Brown - beatbox (track 7)

Instrumentalists

• Erik Francis Schrody - guitar
• Keith Ciancia - keyboards (also live), bass (track 2)
• Carlos Santana - guitar (track 5)
• Jack Daley - bass (tracks 5, 9, 11)
• Victor Rice - bass (track 4)
• Miles Tackett - cello (track 1)
• Ben Boccardo - bass (track 8)
• Chris Thomas - bass (track 10, also live)
• Farid II Schater - bass (track 12)
• Abdel Wahab - sitar (track 12)
• John Bigham - guitar (live)
• Larry Ciancia - drums (live)
• Patrick Freitas - deejay (live)

Technicals

• Erik Francis Schrody - producer (tracks 1–5, 7–11, 13), programming (tracks 11, 13), executive producer
• Dante Ross - producer (tracks 1–5, 7–11, 13), programming, mixing, executive producer
• John Gamble - producer (tracks 1–5, 7–11, 13), programming, mixing, recording
• Daniel Alan Maman - producer (track 6)
• Farid Nassar - producer (track 12)
• Howie Weinberg - mastering
• Jamie Staub - mixing
• David Campbell - strings arrangement
• Jay Nicholas - assistant engineer
• Jason Tuminello - assistant engineer
• John O'Mahony - assistant engineer
• Noah Evans - assistant engineer

Additional

• Andy VanDette - editor
• Christian Lantry - photography
• Carl Stubner - management
• Corey Wagner - management

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Australian Albums (ARIA Charts)[13]	67
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[14]	25
Canadian Albums (Billboard)[15]	20
Dutch Albums (Album Top 100)[16]	52
Finnish Albums (Suomen virallinen lista)[17]	30
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[18]	11
Swedish Albums (Sverigetopplistan)[19]	60
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[20]	25
UK Albums (OCC)[21]	89
US Billboard 200[22]	20
US Independent Albums (Billboard)[23]	2

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[24]	Gold	500,000^
^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.