![]() After church, they go to bars and get in fights.”ĭanny Boy: It’s a blessing and a curse. Muggs: She was like, “This reminds me of my brothers. She seen the logo like, “What the fuck is this?” I guess it went to Tommy Boy, and Monica Lynch seen it - she’s Irish. I knew this was different.Įverlast: I think the original demo is pretty much what you hear on record.ĭanny Boy: I put the House of Pain logo on the second round of demos that we sent out. You’d play them other demos they’d just nod their head and go, “Yeah, yeah.” But we’d even play them just the demo in my living room, I swear to God, like, everyone started going bananas, going crazy. I mean, we knew it was good.ĭanny Boy: I’d play it for kids I went to high school with that were hanging out with us. We’re going to do ‘Jump Around.’ ” I went out to the driveway and wrote it. Jump around, if you love culture.” Muggs was the one to say, “Get rid of the reggae part. I was big into dancehall and Shabba Ranks, and there was one part of my rhyme where I was like, “Jump around, if you love freedom. It wasn’t even a song it was a bunch of lyrics. He used to have a studio in his bedroom at his aunt’s house that he lived in, in Bell Gardens. He played me the “Jump Around” beat, but it didn’t have the horn in it yet. and all that stuff, Muggs and I were dating chicks that kind of lived together, so we’d wind up hanging out a lot. ![]() ![]() In the process, I had met up with Everlast.Īlso Read “Don’t Drink the Brown Water”: Our Live Report From Woodstock ’99Įverlast: After I left Warner Bros. I played the beat for Ice Cube, for a few people. I had Son Doobie from Funkdoobiest rap on the song - it was all right. We had just finished the first one and the guys were kind of done recording. I was saving it for the second Cypress Hill album. I had the song called “Jump Around” already. The members of House of Pain took off their shit-kickers and sat down with spin to talk about the impulsive chant that spawned a million junior-high-school mosh pits. Beyond a 20th anniversary tour in 2011, the members of House of Pain have been fruitful in recent months: Everlast just released his sixth solo album, Songs of the Ungrateful Living DJ Lethal’s even more notorious group, Limp Bizkit, re-formed for another stuff-breaking go-round and all three are working on a new album from their blood-soaked supergroup La Coka Nostra, due this spring. It turns sports arenas into collapse hazards nightly and has soundtracked at least one memorable commercial featuring a rapping Pringles can. Doubtfire in trouble and helped Happy Gilmore dominate his golf game. Or maybe the appeal was just the way the track’s tweeter-frying siren stab lunged directly into your go-bonkers receptors - producer Muggs swears it’s not a sample of a Prince scream or Junior Walker’s saxophone, though he can’t deny the bite of Bob & Earl’s brassy “Harlem Shuffle” on the intro. Boasting peckerwood status, they were dedicated to drunken bar-brawling, lifting skirts, and fucking up potatoes, filling voids left by grunge’s self-seriousness, New York rap’s increasingly suave delivery, and the Beastie Boys going Buddhist. After the dust settled, the twosome teamed with old graffiti buddy Danny Boy and rebranded themselves House of Pain, a roving white-boy mob of unrepentant L.A.-based knuckleheads draping themselves in Irish flags and Celtics jerseys. ![]() ![]() DJ Lethal, the brawny teenage cut-master, had dropped out of high school to perform as his backing band. Everlast, the great white hope of Ice-T’s Rhyme Syndicate posse, had flopped with his pop-centric solo record for Warner Bros. This call to action became bigger than Billy Clinton in 1992, but before that, House of Pain were mostly a foster home for second chances. Despite decades of slams, get-lows, and hip-hop hoorays, no dumb-out arena anthem has proven as sublimely Pavlovian as House of Pain’s indomitable cattle prod “Jump Around.” “It’s the kind of shit you can put a lampshade on your head and act an idiot to,” accurately observes Danny Boy, the crew’s resident agitated synapse. ![]()
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