House of Pain

:The House of Pain is also a nickname for the Carisbrook stadium in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Carisbrook - Dunedin - New Zealand

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Everlast & House of Pain: Erik ?Everlast? Schrody started as a protégé of Ice-T, signing to Sire/Warner Bros. and releasing the solo album Forever Everlasting in 1990. It was not a commercial success, but when he and friends Dan ?Danny Boy? O?Conner and Leor ?DJ Lethal? Dimant signed to Tommy Boy Records, House of Pain?s 1992 self-titled group effort went multi-platinum off the hit single ?Jump Around?. Fashioning themselves as rowdy Irish-American hooligans (Dimant was actually of Latvian heritage), they toured with various rap and alternative bands after their breakthrough. They participated, along with several other rap acts, on the influential rock-rap collaborative Judgment Night movie soundtrack of 1993. Their 1994 effort, Same as it Ever Was, went gold with minimal airplay. Like Cypress Hill (who, with H.O.P. were a part of the loosely affiliated ?Soul Assassins? posse), they found Urban airplay an increasingly closed path; the trio abruptly broke up in 1996 during the release of their third album, Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again.

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Everlast - House of Pain - Ice-T - Forever Everlasting - Judgment Night - Same as it Ever Was - Cypress Hill - Soul Assassins - Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again

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Ironically, Everlast would finally get multi-platinum solo fame in 1998, when his folk-& blues-

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inflected Whitey Ford Sings the Blues album hit the charts; in 2000 a feud with Eminem coincided with the gold-selling Eat At Whitey?s. Meanwhile, DJ Lethal became a founding member of Limp Bizkit. With notable exceptions (i.e., Eminem, Kid Rock, Bubba Sparxx), many newer white rap acts find themselves in a defacto Alternative world that commercial radio is indifferent to (see MC Paul Barman, Company Flow, Insane Clown Posse, High & Mighty, Cage, Smut Peddlers, El-P, Kottonmouth Kings, Aesop Rock). Thus in some social circles, ?white rap? has almost become a distinctive alternative subgenre on its own. After the sale of the Tommy Boy Records? master tapes to Warner Bros., Everlast left the label, signed with Island/Def Jam, and released White Trash Beautiful in 2004. Rhino Records has released a hits collection, Shamrocks & Shenanigans, with singles from Everlast?s early solo days, House of Pain and his post-group solo efforts. Recently released from Island, Everlast is recording for a new LP effort, due sometime in 05/06.

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Whitey Ford Sings the Blues - Eminem - Eat At Whitey - Limp Bizkit - Kid Rock - Bubba Sparxx - MC Paul Barman - Company Flow - Insane Clown Posse - High & Mighty - Cage - Smut Peddlers - El-P - Kottonmouth Kings - Aesop Rock - White Trash Beautiful - Rhino Records - Shamrocks & Shenanigans

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