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INTERVIEW: Eternia w/ Okayplayer.com

hyperadmin | Interviews | Thursday, May 13th, 2010

SICK look for Eternia. Her grind is crazy! Really happy to see things falling into place for her. Here she sits down with one of the world’s biggest/most influential websites to talk about her new project with MoSS and much more. At Last June 29th! Oh, and if you’re in the NYC area this Saturday be sure to go wish E a Happy Birthday at her official Bday Jam. Here’s all the event info!

“People ask me all the time is it hard to be that honest or raw or whatever. And my answer is no. I think it’s actually really hard for people who have to be one thing on record and another thing in real life. That is hard. That takes work. That can cause people to have a mental breakdown.”

Eternia is far from crazy. She’s actually so sane it can make listening to her music rather uncomfortable. Her unflinching, documentary-style raps pull no punches in the ‘reality rap’ department. Refreshingly, this multi-faceted artist’s version of the truth encompasses the life of a performer and a human being. If the hard-hitting confessionals found on It’s Called Life and the mixtape Get Caught Up were a preview of Eternia’s evolution, her fifth full-length, At Last, due out June 29th, will elevate her status Stateside with hip-hop fans.

Produced by fellow Canadian, MoSS, At Last is the culmination of two years of recording between Canada and New York City with some of hip-hop’s finest including Rah Digga and Joell Ortiz. Though she’d been indirectly introduced to MoSS’ work by her label Fat Beats in 2005, circa his production of “Kilos” on Ghostface‘s Fishscale, it took a fortuitous gig as the opener for Marco Polo on tour for Eternia to know MoSS should helm her next album. MoSS said ‘he saw a whole album in his head’ after watching Eternia perform and the rest is history. But with Eternia, it’s no surprise that she came to the same conclusion in her own time, in her own way.