EVERLAST. - Review - sound recording review

Interview, Nov, 2000 by Dimitri Ehrlich

Eat at Whitey's (Tommy Boy)

Unofficial spokesman for the hard-bitten (but deep down really sweet) tattooed set, Everlast pioneered the white rapper thing in the '80s, with Irish-American Bostonites House of Pain, then reinvented himself in 1997 with Whitey Ford Sings the Blues. Since then, Eminem has single-handedly made every other white rapper sound really white, leaving Everlast to try his hand at singing more on this uneven mix of hip-hop, rock, and metal. Unfortunately, despite guest appearances by Carlos Santana, rock'n'roll isn't quite as easy as some MCs imagine.