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Born Erik Schrody on 18 August of 1969, Everlast grew up with his mother
in the suburbs of the San Fernando Valley, California USA; heavily influenced
by old school Rap he first surfaced in Los Angeles as a member of Ice-T's
Rhyme Syndicate crew.
In the spring of 1990 Everlast released his first Hardcore-Rap style
solo-album entitled "Forever Everlasting", but failed to attract
any attention.
He found considerably greater success two years later, when he formed
the Irish American Hip-Hop act named House
Of Pain with Danny Boy and DJ Lethal, their single "Jump Around"
became a big hit in America; the trio released three albums and disbanded
in the mid-'90s when DJ Lethal joined Limp
Bizkit.
Everlast returned as a solo artist and in September 1998 released "Whitey
Ford Sings The Blues", an acoustic Rap-Rock oriented album which
climbed into the top 10 of The Billboard Top 200 chart, while "What
It's Like" rose to the top on both Billboard's Modern and Mainstream
Rock Tracks charts and also peaked at #13 on The Billboard Hot 100; the
second single, "Ends", hit #7 on The Modern Rock chart, #13
on Billboard's Active Rock list and helped elevate his second album to
double-platinum status.
In February 2000 he won a Grammy for Best Rock Performance with "Put
Your Lights On", a track performed by Everlast & Santana,
written by the rap-rocker and featured on the multi-platinum Santana
album "Supernatural".
That fall he churned out "Eat At Whitey's", maintaining the
Rap-Rock formula, the record climbed into the top 20 of The Billboard
200 chart resulting in another platinum album; the main single, "Black
Jesus", peaked at #15 on The Modern Rock chart and the follow-up
single, "I Can't Move", hit the #24 position on the same chart.
Everlast re-appeared after nearly three years absence with "White
Trash Beautiful", this album reached #56 on The Billboard Top 200
upon its May 2004 release, but the title-track, released as a single,
failed to chart completely.
September 2008 saw the release of "Love, War, And The Ghost Of Whitey
Ford", another eclectic album that mixes Rock, Blues, Country and
Hip-Hop; the set includes the single "Folsom Prison Blues" which
is a Johnny Cash cover laid over Cypress
Hill's "Insane In The Brain" beats.
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