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- From: klm3298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu (K-Mello SGP '92)
- Subject: Re: House of Pain
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:55:02 GMT
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- In article <8f2bLau00awAAHHF9_@andrew.cmu.edu>, Michael Anthony Carnevale <mc78+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
- >c60a-lj@danube.Berkeley.EDU (LAB ASSISTANT) writes:
- >
- >>Damn, is it me or does Everlast look NOTHING like he looked like when he
- >>put out his solo album? I mean, for the longest time, I thought that
- >>Everlast was Danny Boy by the video and album cover -- since when did
- >>he have red hair?
- >>
- >> --RAS--
- >
- >House of Pain is one big front. They've got slammin tracks, courtesy of
- >Muggs, but the rest of it is all a fronted style. I wish they were
- >true, but when you see Everlast on his first album looking like Rocky
- >Balboa with perfect hair, and then on his next one looking like a
- >hardcore leprechaun, you've got to start to wonder. I still listen to
- >the tape because it's got some good stuff on it but it's real
- >disappointing when you realize that the Irish homeboy talk on the album
- >is all contrived just to sell records. People bust on Marky Mark for
- >comin off like he's hardcore (don't get me wrong, I do too because he's
- >fake as hell) but not many realize what's going on with the House of
- >Pain. If I'm wrong about this, and the earlier Everlast style was fake,
- >but the one now is true, then inform me and disregard the above.
- >alright, and i'm out....
- >
- >In there like Prego,
- >
- >-Mc
-
-
- I understand what your'e saying, but it could be that his style evolved, or
- that Everlast just improved on the mic. Think about it, when "Peoples...W
- dropped, who would give props to Phife for lyrical skills? Nobody. Now after
- "Low...", the boys is getting repsected for his lyrical skills, even appearing
- on other people's jams. Maybe that's what happened with Everlast. He just got
- better. Regardless of what happened, now he is selling records, and before he
- wasn't.
-
-
- K-Mello
- SHYGUY Productions '92
-