JOVM’s William Ruben Helms celebrates the 61st anniversary of the birth of Jam Master Jay.
Category: hip-hop
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New Video: Errol Eats Everything Teams Up With Statik Selektah and Rome Streetz on a Swaggering and Soulful Remix of “Round and Round”
Errol Eats Everything is an emcee and Black entrepreneur, who’s actively trying to reshape the music landscape while enacting positive change in the community.
Last year’s self-titled album is a bold manifesto, which saw him addressing systemic injustices, personal struggle and the continuing fight for freedom and equality with the album’s material voicing the bitter frustrations of a society that routinely fails its marginalized and struggling. His work demands that listeners confront the harsh realities of their lives, and then asks them to find the strength and resilience to rise about them, proudly reaffirming hip-hop’s enduring power to educate, challenge, uplift and eventually transform.
Errol Eats Everything closed out last year with the Beyond Yonder Remixes EP. Beyond Yonder Remixes EP saw the emcee and entrepreneur collaboration with Blu, Don Von Jovi, Rome Streetz, Planet Asia, Brother Ali and a lengthy list of others on a series of remixes of Errol Eats Everything LP track “Beyond Yonder.”
The emcee and entrepreneur begins 2026 with a remix of Beyond Yonder track “Round and Round” that sees him collaborating with Rome Streez and Statik Selektah. The album version of the track features Errol Eats Everything spit bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars over a woozy, old-timey jazz sample paired with DJ Premier-like boom bap. The remix flips the song on its head while retaining its spirit: Errol Eats Everything’s bruising Kool G. Rap-like bars are placed on a cinematic, soulful production that reminds of Statik Selektah’s mind-bending work on Strong Arm Steady‘s 2012 effort Stereotype. Rome Streetz delivers a swaggering street shit verse that in my opinion helps to boldly push the song into a new stratosphere.
Directed by Coach Bombay 3000, the accompanying video for “Round and Round (Statik Selektah Remix)” features the pair driving around New York while movie-styled violence erupts around them while illustrating the essential themes and imagery at the heart of the song.
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