Everlast (musician)
Everlast ( born August 18, 1969 in Valley Stream, Long Iceland, New York as Erik Schrody ) is an Irish -born American hip -hop and crossover musicians. He was a member of House of Pain and is a member of hip-hop supergroup La Coka Nostra. The alias Whitey Ford, which uses Schrody next Everlast often refers to the successful baseball players Whitey Ford and plays on his whiteness to ( Whitey is considered appropriate unlike nigger ), since he is considered one of the first recognized white rapper.
Life
Erik Schrody grew up in Southern California in the San Fernando Valley. Under the Pseuodonym Erik Rocks Everlasting, which was, however, reduced after a short time to Everlast, he started early, among other things, inspired by Run DMC to make music. 1986 Everlast was at the age of 17 years a member of Ice -T's Rhyme Syndicate and published at age 21 his first solo album Forever Everlasting, which, however, was commercially very successful. The American magazine Spin confessed Everlast few years later, however: "I thank God every day that the album flopped. I could have been Vanilla Ice. That would have been the end. " In the time when he also got the Rhyme Syndicate alternative rapper Divine Styler, who is also Muslim faith, know that occurs again and again in his career in appearance. For instance with the Scheme team on the third House of Pain album; He also produced a piece on Whitey Ford Sings The Blues.
Once there were differences with Ice-T, Everlast left the Rhyme Syndicate and his record company and founded with his friends Danny O'Connor (Danny Boy) and Leor Dimant (DJ Lethal ) the group House of Pain. The eponymous debut album achieved thanks to the hit single Jump Around in the U.S. platinum and House Of Pain became one of the first successful white hip-hop groups. However, the two subsequent albums failed to match the success and the band broke up in 1996. To his House-of -Pain - founded Everlast time with the artist Estevan Oriol clothing brand Not Guilty. The label does not exist anymore, but with Oriol has "Joker" own brand.
1997 converted Everlast to Islam and took the same time to work on his new solo album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues. On the last day of admission the album a congenital heart defect led to a heart attack and it was used in an emergency operation at Cedars - Sinai Hospital, an artificial heart valve. Whitey Ford Sings The Blues was released in 1998 and became a great success, which was based on the relatively new stylistic blend of electric and acoustic guitars with rap. In the U.S., the album reached 3x platinum, the single What It 's Like was nominated for a Grammy and is still regarded as his most famous song.
2000 got Everlast with Carlos Santana a Grammy for the written of him, Put Your Lights On awarded. The song first appeared on Santana's album Supernatural and the same year next to Everlast's solo project, the Today EP, a mini - album with 8 (or 5 in the American edition ) tracks. Here Everlast showed his experimental side: the live recording of What It's Like is over eight minutes long, unusual for a hip- hop piece length.
Appeared in 2000 with Eat At Whitey's third regular solo album by Everlast. Despite good reviews in the trade press in the United States the album failed to match the success of its predecessor and missed the gold award. In Germany the album successful and reached number 11 was in the album charts.
Everlast brought out the fourth solo album White Trash Beautiful Only in the year 2004. The opinions of the critics were mixed, many fans were disappointed with the next big step in the direction of singer-songwriter music and the album was a commercial flop in America; just one week after it fell out of the Billboard Top 100 In Germany, the album reached the Top 20 and remained some weeks in the charts. The single " White Trash Beautiful " made it to Germany to No. 16 of the singles chart.
" - Live in Concert from the Playboy Mansion Everlast ", a DVD with only seven songs, including five from their latest album In the same year appeared. The expectations of the fans who had been waiting in vain for a live DVD, have been disappointed because most of the time the Playboy Girls Gillian Bonner, Shannon Stewart and Natalia Sokolova are seen, and also the camera work looks unprofessional.
The debut album A Brand You Can Trust his new group La Coka Nostra, which consists mainly of Ill Bill, Slaine and Danny Boy and DJ Lethal of House of Pain, was published in 2009 and is characterized by the frequent use of electric guitars and sharp social criticism from.
The published in September 2008 solo album Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford includes also increasingly influences of Arabic, which is probably due to Everlast's conversion to Islam, and electronic music.
Everlast can look back on numerous guest appearances on songs & remixes of other artists. For example, Madonna, Kurupt, Cypress Hill, Sick Of It All, Dilated Peoples, Prince Paul, Xzibit, Lordz Of Brooklyn, Ill Bill, Danny Diablo, Swollen Members, grain or Limp Bizkit, with their frontman Fred Durst he but had a fight and called him a " fake Everlast ".
Awards
- Grammy: Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal - Rock ( Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals ) for Put Your Lights On, 2000
- 3-times - platinum for the album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues