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House of Pain
Origin	Valley Stream, New York
Genre(s)	Hip hop
Years active	1992-1996
Label(s)	Tommy Boy Records
Associated acts	Cypress Hill La Coka Nostra Pete Rock
Members
Everlast Danny Boy DJ Lethal

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".

Contents 1 Band history 1.1 Rise to fame 1.2 Second album and decline in popularity 1.3 Third album 1.4 Split, solo and current affairs 2 Members 3 In popular culture 4 Discography 4.1 Albums 4.2 Singles 4.3 Exclusive Soundtrack Contributions 5 Other Hip hop artists of Irish influence 6 External links

After 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". This song was also remixed twice by Pete Rock, one version featuring a verse from him and one without. "Jump Around" was also influential to the Soul singer Amy Winehouse, as she sampled the bass line on her song "You Know I'm No Good." The album also featured Cypress Hill member, B-Real, on the song "Put Your Head Out."

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 Judgment Night movie soundtrack.

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, "Marky Mark" (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.

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.

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, who would cover the famous "Jump Around" at live concerts, particularly in Limp Bizkit's early years during the Family Values Tour 1998. Everlast would finally get multi-platinum solo fame in 1998 with his acoustic rock/blues-inflected album Whitey Ford Sings the Blues The first single to come of that album was "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.

• Everlast
• DJ Lethal
• Danny Boy

• "Top O' The Morning To Ya" was the theme song for Bullseye in the film Daredevil.
• The group was briefly featured on the 2002 VH1 program 100 Greatest One-Hit Wonders.^[1]
• "Jump Around" is played at various sporting events in North America, from football to hockey. A notable example is the playing of "Jump Around" between the third and fourth quarter at every University of Wisconsin-Madison Badgers home football game. Another notable example is the use of "Jump Around" as the background music to appearances of the Rally Monkey, the mascot of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Angels. The song is also featured on Jock Jams volume 4, and is considered by many to be a "sports anthem" or a "pump-up song."
• "Jump Around" was featured on the television commercials for Strongbow Cider in Australia .

Album information
House of Pain (Fine Malt Lyrics) Released: July 21, 1992 Chart Positions: #14 US, #16 Top Hip Hop/R&B Last RIAA certification: Platinum Singles: "Jump Around", "Shamrocks and Shenanigans", "Top O The Morning To Ya"
Who's the Man? Released: 1993 Chart Positions: N/A Last RIAA certification: Singles: "Who's the Man?"
Legend Released: 1994 Chart Positions: Last RIAA certification: Singles: "Legend", "Word is Bond", It Ain't A Crime"
Same As It Ever Was Released: June 28, 1994 Chart Positions: #12 US, #12 Top Hip Hop/R&B Last RIAA certification: Gold Singles: "On Point", "Who's The Man?" "Word Is Bond"
Truth Crushed To Earth Shall Rise Again Released: October 10, 1996 Chart Positions: #47 US, #31 Top Hip Hop/R&B Last RIAA certification: Singles: "Pass The Jinn", "Fed Up", "Heart Full of Sorrow"
Shamrocks & Shenanigans Released: February 10, 2004 Chart Positions: Last RIAA certification: 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)

• 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"

• Ashley MacIsaac
• Emcee Lynx
• Marxman
• Manau
• Seanchai & the Unity Squad
• Fat Rat

• WHITEY FORD RECORDS complete House of Pain/Everlast discography and news
• Everlast World huge House of Pain/Everlast fansite
• House of Pain biography by All Music Guide's Stephen Thomas Erlewine
• Maxim.com Rap Public Service Announcement featuring House of Pain

v • d • e House of Pain
Everlast | DJ Lethal | Danny Boy
Albums: House of Pain | Same as It Ever Was | Truth Crushed to Earth Shall Rise Again
EPs: Who's the Man? | Legend
Compilations: Shamrocks & Shenanigans - The Best Of House Of Pain and Everlast
See also: La Coka Nostra | Soul Assassins