ERU is an artist born from the fires of seventies soul and the birth of pop in the eighties.

His musical influence is his mother. ERU’s mother was a renowned female DJ in the seventies known as “Simply Merl”. “Moms use to DJ these massive parties and I remember she let me sit under the table while she was doing her thing.” That’s when I knew music would be a part of my life. I can even remember as far back as preschool when I was in listening to that “Off The Wall” album by Mr. Jackson.

Eru (Earl Henderson born 3/25/1978) did not consider himself to be an emcee until the late nineties when he heard people quit talking to the people in their rhymes about issues that matter and started talking about how they are down to exploit people to get whatever. What ever happened to groups like Three Times Dope and X Clan the people who were using the art to lift the people?

I always held emcees in the highest respect for the power they possessed along with the explosive potential to wield more power because of their ability to package situations into 3 minute conversations that are entertaining. People forget that in the late eighties early nineties it wasn’t like everybody understood how to emcee. So when you did hear freestyle or when you did see someone rhyming then they were either exceptionally good or they were very garbage on the rhyme. Now everybody has a rhyme. That’s great because it shows how many people hip-hop has touched. So I guess you can say that my style of hip-hop would be like a radical deconstructionist. I know we can’t go backward but we can make sure that what’s ahead of us is worth the time to listen to and ponder.