Everlast

Erik Francis Schrody, known by his stage names Everlast and Whitey Ford, is an American rapper, singer, and songwriter who was the frontman for hip hop group House of Pain. His breakthrough as a solo artist came in 1998 with his album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues, which blended rock and hip-hop and garnered him his first Grammy Award nomination for the song "What It's Like".

The man behind "Jump Around" proved remarkably durable by refusing to stay confined to the novelty-rap lane that House of Pain initially carved out. Everlast's 1998 pivot to *Whitey Ford Sings the Blues* was genuinely unexpected—a rock-rap hybrid that earned Grammy consideration and showed real songwriting chops on tracks like "What It's Like," a far cry from the Cypress Hill-adjacent party rap that made him famous. His 1999 beef with Eminem, sparked when a young Marshall snubbed him backstage, resulted in Everlast firing shots that Slim Shady would famously body on "The Marshall Mathers LP," yet Everlast never quite recovered that cultural moment.