Everywhere at Once is the second solo studio album by Japanese-American rapper Lyrics Born. It was released on March 18, 2008 via ANTI-. Recording sessions took place at Studio With A View in San Francisco Bay Area, at Studio Chocula in San Francisco, at The Corner Store in Berkeley, at The Blap Room, at Malay's Crib, and at The Band Room and at Megasonic Sound in Oakland. Produced entirely by Lyrics Born himself in conjunction with Jake One, Trackademicks, AmpLive and Kat Ouano, it features guest appearances from Joyo Velarde, Myron Glasper, Baby Jaymes, B'nai, Chali 2na, C-Holiday, DJ D-Sharp and Trackademicks.
Everywhere at Once was met with generally favourable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 66 based on seventeen reviews.[1]
Addi Stewart of Now described the album as "these 18 selections feel like the intersection where Del the Funky Homosapien meets Parliament, while Lyrics offers life-affirming couplets in his comedic drawl".[3] Alan Ranta of PopMatters called it "an improvement over his debut from start to finish".[5] Patrick Taylor of RapReviews concluded: "like Big Boi and André 3000, Lyrics Born is on a mission to expand the boundaries of the genre. He doesn't always succeed, and the result is an album that is a little inconsistent, but it is damn good more often than not".[6] Nate Patrin of Pitchfork stated: "with only two weak tracks and some deletable skits outweighed by a dozen good-to-great cuts, Everywhere at Once is one of the best albums to come from a SoleSides alumnus in a long time".[4] Michaelangelo Matos of The A.V. Club resumed: "like any party, it loses steam toward the end, but it's worth attending for at least a while".[9]
In mixed reviews, Keith Harris of Spin declared "the result is less an uncommonly danceable indie-rap disc than it is an uncommonly thoughtful groove album".[8]AllMusic's Marisa Brown wrote: "Everywhere at Once is reminiscent of what's already been done, either by the rapper himself or by another artist, almost derivative of itself, and as a whole, altogether disappointing".[2]
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