Heems (Formerly of Das Racist) Announces Eat, Pray, Thug, Shares “Sometimes”

The former Das Racist MC Himanshu Suri, aka Heems, has announced his debut solo album—the follow-up to 2012′s mixtape Wild Water Kingdom. Eat, Pray, Thug is out March 10 via Megaforce. Check out the album’s first single “Sometimes”, produced by Gordon Voidwell, below.

Heems wrote about the new song in a statement:

“Sometimes” is about dualities, identity and the space between spaces. Like so many other people, as a first generation South Asian in the U.S. I often felt like I lived two lives, an Indian one and an American one. I lived, at once, in and between two spaces and outside them as well. On another level, I also often felt like in America I lived in the space between black and white. Dualities are normal though. As fun as rap is, I can’t always feel happy. Sometimes I feel sad too. It also pays homage to hip-hop before me with cadences referencing both Nice and Smooth and Busta Rhymes.

The album was recorded in Bombay and Brooklyn. It features guitar by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) and Rafiq Bhatia. Hynes, Voidwell, Harry Fraud, and Boody B are among the album’s producers. In a press release, Heems refers to Eat, Pray, Thug as  “9/11 and Heartbreak”.

Apparently, Heems is also going by the alias “Deepak Choppa” these days.

Watch Heems and Das Racist on Pitchfork.tv’s “Over/Under”:

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