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| Everybody and their moms got someone who they looked up to or wanted to get with when they was growing up. Most people my age was hooked on New Kids on the Block, Vanilla Ice or MC Hammer...lol. Not, I. I was about 8 years old when I first heard the style of a hip hop groove that I could actually get into. Even though the hardcore rapper Ice T was behind the scenes you couldn't tell that a white boy was spittin' game threw the mic. This man was Everlast. Singer, songwriter, survivor and hero to many young adults today Eric Schrody is my everlasting idol. He's known to be a member of the former hip hop group House of Pain. But, before that Eric Schrody was spewin' at the mic along beside Ice T in the group Rhyme Sydnict Posse releasing an album in 1990 called Forever Everlasting. After thanking God that the record flopped and he didn't turn out to be another Vanilla Ice (Lord knows that was not something we needed) that's when he formed the group House of Pain, alongside Danny Boy (Danny O' Connor) and DJ Lethal (Leor Dimant now in Limp Biskit). In 1992 they released their first album which struct platinum including their No. 3 single "Jump Around". After one platinum album and two continuing collaborations with Danny Boy and DJ Lethal, Everlast turned away to walk on his own. With money troubles and broken hearted Eric continued to do his own thing by recording Whitey Ford Sings the Blues.If you pay close attention to the back to back songs "Dollar Bill Ya'll" and "Ends" you get the feel on how both relate to how people, even Everlast, deals with their funds. At first it's like "I got to have it, I need it.." then it turns into "I got to much, what in the hell am I going to do with all this..."What the fuck I'm broke!" But, after recording "The Letter" (a song dedicated to his ex) he was rushed to the hospital with a torn arota. "As soon I was done finalizing the last record, I was out there supporting it." (Spin Febuary 1999). With that the album even revealed a mortalized grip edge from the tracks "Death Comes Callin'" and "Painkillers", before his heart attack. Causin' your own fate.... ain't that a bitch. During the first week the guitar playin', Unc Curtis' blues, hip to the hop album sold 50,000 and a later on he got to do thing with Carlos Santana by putting his deep fried soul voice on the song..."Put Your Lights On". And guess what? They won a grammy. Between his second album and Eat at Whitey's, Everlast born an Irish Catholic converted to Islam. "Islam made alot of sense to me....it let me see myself from all different sides...and be honest with myself..."Everlast (Penthouse). He was able to take this and compose it into his third album Eat at Whitey's, which came out winter of 2000. Everlast reinvented himself as a hip hop troubadour, rasping out grandaddy bluesy, folk-rock to a steady beat and found himself with a wider audience.This album gots Carlos Santana, my baby's daddy B-Real from Cypress Hill on the track "Deadly Assassins" and a well-done collabo with Ms. N'Dea Davenport. Fuck all that superstar rock/rap MTV, junk food for the soul, instant gradtifaction, like "I want my exstacy, microwave my burrito, and listen to my rap/rock. I'm tellin' people, if you don't have at least one of his album ya'll better get the steppin' or something because his soul, his sexy ass voice, and most def' his lyrics sends you out sayin'," Damn, man I love you." |
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