Everlast
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Birth name | Erik Francis Schrody |
Also known as | Whitey Ford |
Born | Long Island, New York, U.S.[1] | August 18, 1969
Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S.[1] |
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Years active | 1987–present |
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Website | martyr-inc |
Erik Francis Schrody (born August 18, 1969),
In 2000, Everlast received a
Formative years
Everlast went to
"I was around when Straight Outta Compton was being made. I watched and learned a lot. ... I'm here as a white kid opening up for the likes of Big Daddy Kane, Slick Rick and N.W.A cause I'm rolling with Ice-T. I was just coming up in the game. I opened for them, met them. They were larger than life."[This quote needs a citation]
Career
Late 1980s–mid 1990s: Early career and group's breakthrough
Emerging as a member of Ice-T's group Rhyme Syndicate, Everlast's 1990 debut album
Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans (Lethal is actually
1998–2001: Solo breakthrough
Everlast's 1998 album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues was both a commercial and critical success[3] (selling more than three million copies).[citation needed] Whitey Ford Sings the Blues was hailed for its blend of rap with acoustic and electric guitars, developed by Everlast together with producers Dante Ross and John Gamble.[citation needed] The album's lead single "What It's Like" proved to be his most popular and successful song, although the follow-up single, "Ends", also reached the U.S. rock top 10.
Everlast followed up this success by collaborating with
Despite the success of Whitey Ford Sings the Blues and his success with Santana, Everlast's follow-up album, Eat at Whitey's (2000), stumbled commercially at first in the United States. However, it was eventually certified gold. The album was also embraced critically, especially by Rolling Stone which reviewed the album between "good" and "great" and focused on it as that month's most important release.
Feud with Eminem
That year, a feud erupted between Everlast and Eminem. Eminem and Everlast crossed paths before a concert in early 1999. Eminem says he did not greet Everlast because he did not recognize him right away, and said Everlast did not acknowledge him. Everlast's version is that he tried to congratulate Eminem on his success, and Eminem blew him off.
Everlast's verse from the Dilated Peoples all star track "Ear Drums Pop (Remix)" contained a thinly veiled reference to Eminem ("Cock my hammer, spit a comet like Haley/I buck a .380 on ones that act shady"), and went on to warn "You might catch a beatdown out where I come from" in his recounting of the incident.[4] Eminem, in turn, blasted Everlast several times in public and with the song "I Remember (Dedication to Whitey Ford)" released as the B-side to his group D12's 12" vinyl single "Shit on You".
Everlast responded with the track "Whitey's Revenge", released only on his official website. While the song contained references to Eminem's strained relationships with his wife and mother, it was "Better run and check your kid for your DNA", again referring to Eminem's daughter, Hailie Jade Mathers, that set Eminem off. The track ends with the spoken words, "I ain't wasting no more time with you man. Fuck that shit, That's it".[5][6]
Eminem and D12 responded with "Quitter", the second half of which is a take off on "
In a TRL interview, current Limp Bizkit and former House of Pain member DJ Lethal made a statement that if Mathers and Schrody were to fight in real life, Everlast would win. This irked Eminem, and an insulting track aimed at both Everlast and Limp Bizkit appeared on D12's mainstream debut, Devil's Night, as a hidden track called "Girls". B-Real of Cypress Hill claimed that Everlast recorded another diss towards Eminem following the release of "Quitter", but it went unreleased due to him deciding to instead quash the feud.[8] According to Eminem, their fight has settled since then and there is a mutual respect between Mathers and Schrody.[9] Further indicating an end to lyrical hostilities between the two, Eminem seemingly gave a shout out to Everlast on The Marshall Mathers LP 2 song entitled "Baby".[10]
2002–present: Subsequent success
After the sale of the Tommy Boy Records' catalog of master tapes to
In early 2006, Everlast teamed up with his former House of Pain mates DJ Lethal and Danny Boy to join the hip-hop group La Coka Nostra. The group first came to be due to the former House of Pain hype man Danny Boy starting the group as a collective with rappers Slaine and Big Left (who has since left the group). Soon after the group started Ill Bill of a now disbanded Non Phixion and Everlast joined the group. Their first known song was "Fuck Tony Montana" which features B-Real of Cypress Hill and Sick Jacken. Due to the popularity of the song online, the group released several more online for free.
In 2007, Everlast was chosen to do the theme song for the TV show Saving Grace. The song plays during the show's main title sequence, and was originally released to digital outlets only; however, it was also included on Everlast's fifth solo album, Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford. The album was released on September 23, 2008, on Everlast's own record label Martyr Inc, with distribution by Hickory Records/Sony/ATV Music Publishing. (It was revealed through diditleak.co.uk that the album leaked out early on Friday August 29.) A second single and video, "Letter Home From the Garden of Stone", was released for free download from martyr-inc.com in December 2007. The third single, a cover of Johnny Cash's "Folsom Prison Blues", was released to download on August 19. The music video for "Stone in My Hand" debuted on the Martyr Inc. website on October 28, 2008 making it the fourth video for the album.[13]
The group's debut album A Brand You Can Trust was released on July 14, 2009. The album features guests like Snoop Dogg, B-Real, Bun B, Immortal Technique, Sick Jacken, and Q-Unique. La Coka Nostra then joined the likes of Nas and Ill Bill's brother Necro on Rock the Bells.
In October 2011, his sixth solo album, Songs of the Ungrateful Living, was released through Martyr Inc. in partnership with EMI. Produced by Everlast in collaboration with DJ Lethal, Fredwreck and Darius Holbert, the album featured the lead single "I Get By". Like Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford, a number of tracks on Songs of the Ungrateful Living contained overtly political and social themes.
Everlast left the group in 2012 in order to attend to his daughter's medical issues.[14]
In 2013, Everlast and Eminem were featured on a Busta Rhymes track together.[10] On August 27, 2013, Everlast's acoustic album The Life Acoustic was released via his own record label Martyr Inc. That year, Everlast sued the inflatables company "Jump Around Rentals" for using the phrase "if you want to get down jump around" in their advertising, arguing it belonged to House of Pain.[15][needs update]
Starting in 2017, joining with Divine Styler and Sick Jacken, Everlast released a Warporn mixtape.[16]
On September 7, 2018, Everlast's seventh studio album Whitey Ford's House of Pain was released.[17]
Personal life
On the day Schrody finished recording Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, he experienced a tightening in his chest. It persisted for five hours, prompting his co-producer and friend John Gamble to insist Schrody go to the hospital. Schrody had a torn aortic valve, and his heart was essentially "drowning in blood".[18]
By 1996, Everlast had converted from
Also in 2015 he said, "To me, Islam is mine. Allah is God of all the worlds, and all mankind and all the Alameen (worlds/universe). Islam is my personal relationship with God. So nobody can put any more pressure on me than I can put on myself. But as far as the mosque where I pray, I have never felt more at home or more welcome."[21]
Musical style and influences
Everlast's music ranges from blues to hip hop and rock.[22] After having previously established himself as a rapper earlier in his career, Everlast subsequently reinvented himself with a new sound that fused acoustic rock, folk, blues and hip hop under the alias Whitey Ford.[23][22] According to Stephen Thomas Erlewine, "Nobody ever would have guessed that the leader of House of Pain would come back after a bout of obscurity and a serious heart attack to reinvent himself as a hip-hop troubadour, rasping out bluesy folk-rock to a steady-rolling beat."[24]
Everlast's influences include N.W.A, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, Ice-T, Gang Starr, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, The Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, and Run-DMC.[22][25]
Accolades
Year | Nominee / work | Award | Result | Ref. |
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2008 | "Saving Grace" | Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Main Title Theme Music | Nominated | [26] |
2000 | "Put Your Lights On" | Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal | Won | [27] |
"What It's Like" | Grammy Award for Best Male Rock Vocal Performance | Nominated | ||
1992 | "Jump Around" | Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group | Nominated |
Discography
Studio albums
- Forever Everlasting (1990)
- Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998)
- Eat at Whitey's (2000)
- White Trash Beautiful (2004)
- Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford (2008)
- Songs of the Ungrateful Living (2011)
- The Life Acoustic (2013)
- Whitey Ford's House of Pain (2018)[17]
Notes
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References
- ^ a b Alona Wartofsky (February 14, 1999). "A B-Boy Changes His Tune, And Life". The Washington Post. Retrieved October 27, 2019.
- ^ "Everlast". AllMusic. Retrieved October 6, 2018.
- ^ ISBN 0-7535-0427-8.
- ^ "Dilated Peoples". Dilatedpeoples.com. Retrieved February 22, 2009.
- ^ "Whitey's Revenge". Sing365.com. Retrieved June 23, 2009.
- ^ "I Remember (Dedication To Whitey Ford)". Retrieved June 23, 2009.
- ^ "Quitter". Metrolyrics.com. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved June 23, 2009.
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- ^ a b Harling, Danielle (October 1, 2013). "Slaine Says Eminem & Everlast Appear Together On Unreleased Busta Rhymes Song". HipHopDX. Archived from the original on May 4, 2015. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
- ^ "Tommy Boy Artists Dance Again". Allbusiness.com. Retrieved February 22, 2009.
- ^ Johnny Loftus. "White Trash Beautiful". AllMusic. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
- ^ "Martyr Inc". Martyr-inc.com. Retrieved February 22, 2009.
- ^ "UNCLE HOWIE, LA COKA NOSTRA PARTS WAYS WITH EVERLAST - "MASTERS OF THE DARK ARTS" IN STORES JUNE 26, 2012". Unclehowie.tumblr.com. Archived from the original on March 6, 2012. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ "Everlast: Don't jump around". Newshub. 3 News. November 15, 2013. Retrieved August 12, 2015.
- ^ "Warporn Industries aka Everlast, Sick Jacken*, Divine Styler - Warporn Industries". Discogs.com. May 2017. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
- ^ a b Pozzolano, Vincent (September 4, 2018). "Everlast – Whitey Ford's House of Pain (Album Review)". Crypticrock.com. Retrieved September 6, 2019.
- ^ "Erik Schrody: Built to Last". Rolling Stone. March 18, 1999.
- ^ "Interview with Everlast (Erik Schrody)". Islam.uga.edu. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ "Everlast Talks New Album, 20-Plus Years Of Evolution, Juggling House Of Pain And La Coka Nostra". Hiphopdx.com. October 22, 2011. Retrieved February 17, 2017.
- ^ "I felt at home in every mosque ... Allah is God of all the worlds". Arab News. July 24, 2015. Retrieved July 25, 2021.
- ^ a b c Ankeny, Jason (August 18, 1969). "Everlast". AllMusic. Retrieved May 11, 2012.
- ^ Quinlan, Thomas (November 19, 2008). "Everlast: Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford". Exclaim!. Retrieved January 6, 2023.
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- ^ "Eric "Everlast" Schrody". Emmys.com. Retrieved December 5, 2019.
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