Has a rapper ever suffered a more embarrassing identity crisis than Everlast? The fella went from
slangin' pizza pies to
drinkin' Guinness pints to
singin' like Chris Rea to
rebranding himself as Necro & Ill Bill's Uncle Doughie. When his
Whitey Ford Sings The Blues album dropped and the videos for
What It's Like and
Ends were in rotation on MTV I was equally amused and appalled by the sight of him in a cowboy hat strumming an acoustic guitar. The cracka who made
Syndication, that's what I called E'. But now he's wearin' a Stetson hat like Paul C. Revisiting
What It's Like and
Ends decades on minus the videos, I'm gonna have to slang humble pie and hyperbole in the same sentence because both songs are #actually killer choonz which are so obvious prototypes for Bubba Sparxxx's
Deliverance.
Ends is
THE jam 4 me: an ode to lost souls who've been crushed by the 'Murican Dream with a nifty interpolation of
a Whodini classic.
Everlast - Ends
(From Whitey Ford Sings The Blues album; 1998)
Another thing
Whitey Ford Sings The Blues shares with Bubba's
Deliverance is that it features a bonus track which is so good, it should have been the album's street single.
Deliverance has
Disappear,
Whitey Ford Sings The Blues has
Next Man. It's another song which is an ode to lost souls who've been crushed by the 'Murican Dream, but instead of sounding like some proto-
Deliverance shit, it's delivered in the style of
Sporty Thievz. No lie, this shit sounds like it coulda/shoulda had a fish-eye lens Hype Williams video.
Everlast - Next Man
(From Whitey Ford Sings The Blues album; 1998)
