House Of Pain

House Of Pain Was An Irish-Styled American Hip-Hop Group Who Released Three Albums In The Early To Mid 90's Before Lead Rapper Everlast Decided To Pursue His Solo Career Again. The Group Is Best Known For Its 1992 Hit Single Jump Around. The Band's History Starts With A Failed Short Solo Career Everlast Teamed Up With DJ Lethal And High School Friend Danny Boy To Form House Of Pain. The Group Was Signed To Tommy Boy Records And Their Self-Titled Debut Album 1992 Went Multi-Platinum Spawning The Successful DJ Muggs Produced Single Jump Around. Fashioning Themselves As Rowdy Irish-American Hooligans Lethal Is Actually Of Latvian Heritage They Toured With Various Rap And Alternative-Rock Bands After Their Breakthrough. They Participated Together With Helmet Along With Several Other Rap Acts On The Influential 1993 Rock-Rap Collaborative Judgement Night Movie Soundtrack. Sophomore Album And Decline In Popularity Their Follow-Up Effort 1994's Same As It Ever Was Went Gold Despite Minimal Airplay And No Major Hits. The First Single "On Point " Is Noted For Taking A Swipe At Another American Rapper With A Strong Irish Heritage Mark Wahlberg "Calvin Klein's No Friend Of Mine/So I Don't Like Marky" . Like Cypress Hill Who With House Of Pain Were A Part Of The Loosely-Affiliated Soul Assassins Posse They Found Urban Radio Airplay An Increasingly Closed Path Which Affected Album Sales. Third Album House Of Pain Abruptly Broke Up In 1996 After The Release Of Their Third Album Truth Crushed To Earth Shall Rise Again Which Featured Guest Appearances By Rappers Sadat X Of Brand Nubian Guru Of Gang Starr Producer/rapper Divine Styler And Reggae Singjay Cockni O'Dire Credited As The Scheme Team . On The Release Date Of The Album Everlast Announced His Departure From The Group. Split Solo And Current Affairs From This Point On The Status Of The Group Would Seem To Be In The Past Tense Though The Members Would Continue Their Careers Separately. Danny Boy Would Found An Art Company DJ Lethal Became A Member Of Nu Metal Band Limp Bizkit And Everlast Would Finally Get Multi-Platinum Solo Fame In 1998. In That Year His Acoustic Rock/blues-Inflected Whitey Ford Sings The Blues Album Hit The Charts Together With The Single "What It's Like". In 2000 A Feud Between Everlast And Rapper Eminem Coincided With The Gold-Selling Eat At Whitey's Which Had Minor Hits Like "Black Jesus" And "Black Coffee" And Featured A Collaboration With Carlos Santana. After The Sale Of The Tommy Boy Records Catalogue Of Master Tapes To Warner Bros. Music Everlast Signed With Island/Def Jam And Released The Solo LP White Trash Beautiful In 2004. Later The Same Year Rhino Records A Subdivision Of Warner Music Has Released A Hit Collection Shamrocks & Shenanigans With Singles From Everlast's Early Solo Days The House Of Pain And His Post-Group Solo Efforts. Prior To The Release Everlast Announced On His Official Message Board That He Was Not Endorsing The Compilation Album. Founded By Danny Boy In Early 2006 La Coka Nostra Is A New Project That Has Reunited Him Everlast And DJ Lethal For The First Time Since House Of Pain's Split. Other Group Members Include Ill Bill Of Non Phixion And Newcomers Slaine And Big Left. Members * Everlast * Danny Boy * DJ Lethal Albums House Of Pain Fine Malt Lyrics * Released July 21 1992 * Billboard 200 Chart Position #14 * R&B/Hip-Hop Chart Position #16 * Singles "Jump Around" & "Shamrocks And Shenanigans" Same As It Ever Was * Released June 28 1994 * Billboard 200 Chart Position #12 * R&B/Hip-Hop Chart Position #12 * Singles "On Point" "Who's The Man?" & "Word Is Bond" Truth Crushed To Earth Shall Rise Again * Released October 10 1996 * Billboard 200 Chart Position #47 * R&B/Hip-Hop Chart Position #31 * Singles "Pass The Jinn" & "Fed Up" Shamrocks & Shenanigans * Released February 10 2004 * Billboard 200 Chart Position # * R&B/Hip-Hop Chart Position # * Singles - Singles * Jump Around / HOP Anthem 1992 * Shamrocks & Shenanigans US 1992 * Shamrocks & Shenanigans / Who's The Man UK 1992 * Top O' The Morning To Ya Remix 1992 * Who's The Man? 1993 * Legend EP US 1994 * On Point 1994 * Over There I Don't Care 1994 * It Ain't Crime / Word Is Bond UK CD 1/2 1994 * Legend / It Ain't A Crime UK CD 2/2 1994 * Word Is Bond / Legend 12" 1995 * Pass The Jinn 1996 * Fed Up / Heart Full Of Sorrow Feat. Sadat X 1996 * Fed Up Remix Feat. Guru 1996 Exclusive Soundtrack Contributions * Judgment Night 1993 -- Song With Helmet "Just Another Victim" * Who's The Man 1993 -- Song "Who's The Man" * Eddie 1996 -- Song "Punch Drunk" * Jerky Boys 1996 -- Song "Beef Jerky" read less