Former House Of Pain member jumps around stylistically cutting excellent blues/folk/rap-infused singer-songwriter albums.
Everlast first broke onto the music scene in the early-'90s as part of the Irish-American frat-boy rappers of House Of Pain (who scored a monster hit with "Jump Around"). He launched a solo career after the outfit split in the middle of the decade. Doing a complete stylistic about-face, Everlast reinvented himself as a rock-rap everyman, merging the lyrical folk-rock tales of Bob Dylan and Neil Young with trip-hop beats and finding success on his own, scoring one of the biggest modern rock hits of the 1990s with "What It's Like."