House of Pain

Released: July 28, 1992

Songwriter: Danny Boy Everlast

Producer: DJ Muggs

[Verse 1: Everlast]
Peckerwood, peckerwood, tell me your tale
Please do explain why your skin's so pale
And you're so funky, now how can that be?
Like a bird in a tree you're on the T-O-P

[Verse 2: Danny Boy]
It's the Irish intellect, no one disrespect it
Or shit'll get hectic real quick
This is the House Of Pain (pain)
And plain is one thing we're not
Cause we know we've got
Style and fashion, smoke some hash and
I'm smacking up girls like cars were crashing

[Verse 3: Everlast]
Danny Boy, Danny Boy, the pipes are calling
Thought you was a winner, you was, now you're all in

[Verse 4: Danny Boy]
That's right, damn skimpy, you can't get with me
I run the whole track and leave you three laps back

[Verse 5: Everlast]
Chop suey don't do me no good
I gotta have corn beef and cabbage if I wanna manage
I'd never eat pig but I'll fuck up a potato
I'm not a dago, but pasta's all that
My pockets stay fat, so step the fuck back
You wanna move on me, you better bring an army

[Verse 6: Danny Boy]
I rip shit daily, ask my man Tom Bailey
I'm rocking the clock like if I was Bill Haley
I'm cocking my Glock and I got my shillelagh
So watch your lady, because I'm

(Danny Boy!) Danny Boy
(Danny Boy!) You know it's Danny Boy
(Danny Boy!) 'S Danny Boy
(Danny Boy!) You know it's Danny Boy
(Danny Boy!) 'S Danny Boy
(Danny Boy!) You know it's Danny Boy
Oh Danny Boy, the pipes, the pipes are calling
From glen to glen, and down the mountain side

Everlast was barely of legal drinking age when he released his major label rap debut, Forever Everlasting, as part of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate. Next he teamed with his high school pal Danny “Danny Boy” O'Connor, a hype man and graphic designer, to form the Irish American-centric House Of Pain, backed by Everlast’s longtime DJ, DJ Lethal (who is of Latvian/Russian descent).

“Jump Around” (produced by DJ Muggs) pushed House Of Pain’s debut to multiplatinum status, followed by the crossover rap/rock remix of “Shamrocks & Shenanigans.” After tours with Beastie Boys and Rage Against The Machine, their sophomore album went gold, but the group disbanded by the time their third album dropped.

DJ Lethal joined Limp Bizkit and Everlast went solo, going multiplatinum yet again on the acoustic/rap hybrid, Whitey Ford Sings The Blues. House Of Pain has reformed for festivals and club dates here and there ever since, often performing with Everlast’s backing band.

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