Eternia & Rel McCoy - Home (feat. Shad & SHEAL)
In Our Headphones
KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
Eternia & Rel McCoy - "Home (feat. Shad & SHEAL)" from the 2021 album FREE on Fat Beats.
This past September saw two of Toronto’s hip hop stars team up for a collaborative album titled FREE. Juno-nominated rapper Eternia and Juno-winning producer Rel McCoy put together twelve tracks that flex their skills while shining a light on some of the criminally underrated talent that’s coming out of Canada.
Our Song of the Day, “Home,” sees two of those underrated talents join them, Juno-winning rapper Shad and angelic vocalist SHEAL. Inspired by and built off of the latter artist’s 2016 track of the same name, the song samples SHEAL’s emotional hook and is led by Eternia’s opening bars exploring displacement, loneliness, and homelessness. Shad then joins in for an incredible verse about his idea of home and the struggle to plant seeds while Rel’s downtempo instrumental guides them, well, home.
The song comes with a video by Noisemaker Media’s Mark Carrenceja, who focuses squarely on the faces of the artists while journeying through two of Eternia’s homes - her former Queens and, now, Toronto. Watch the video at the link below.
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| 0:00.0 | We're up in the mountains, and they are snowing |
| 0:05.0 | And all we need is enough of all |
| 0:10.0 | Brought a letter to my home |
| 0:14.0 | Can't even tell what had it |
| 0:16.0 | Brought a letter to my home |
| 0:19.0 | Can't even tell what had it |
| 0:22.0 | Brought a letter to home, sent it to nowhere |
| 0:24.0 | With no return address, right on the trains |
| 0:26.0 | Like I'm homeless, homeless |
| 0:28.0 | I pray that God before I wrote this |
| 0:30.0 | May she fill me up and pull me out for y'all to die |
| 0:32.0 | Just die, just say the word |
| 0:34.0 | I'm transported to a pain that's unheard of |
| 0:36.0 | A place that's of concern |
| 0:38.0 | Maybe I can find a way to share an unlearn |
| 0:40.0 | Reflect on what occurred |
| 0:42.0 | My past is just absurd |
| 0:43.0 | Listen, about 15 schools |
| 0:45.0 | Five states plus five cities |
| 0:47.0 | In the province of the Great Lakes |
| 0:48.0 | Three countries in relationships |
| 0:50.0 | Come on, I lost count |
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