So We Ate Them Whole was critically praised, with reviewers calling it a "genuinely beautiful UK hip hop record"[6] that is "quintessentially surreal and riddled in complexity".
[8] After So We Ate Them Whole, Baxter left the UK and spent a lot of time travelling in East Asia then Central and South America.
[12] Fetch the Poison was written while Baxter was residing in the town of San Cristóbal de las Casas in Mexico.
[13] Reviewers have compared Jam Baxter's lyrical style to that of the famously verbose rapper Aesop Rock[6] or the surreal prose of writers like J.G.
[8] Baxter has collaborated with Kae Tempest,[2] Rag 'n' Bone Man,[14] Lee Scott, The Four Owls, Jehst, Dizraeli, Verb T, Nah Eeto and many more across his career.