Rapper Everlast was part of the successful hip-hop group House Of Pain in the nineties, good for the big hit Jump Around in 1992. When the group fell apart he turned to a solo career, which had flopped miserably earlier in 1990 with his debut album Forever Everlasting. His second solo album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues (1998) brought him significantly more success, with platinum sales and the hit
… single What It's Like, but also had a downside, Everlast suffered a heart attack during recording. On this CD and its successor Eat At Whitey's (2000), Everlast mixed hip-hop with blues, country, rock and folk to form its own kind of 'roots rap', and he could also be heard singing and playing guitar. On White Trash Beautiful he largely repeats this formula, with the important difference that he has now received competition from, for example, Bubba Sparxxx and Kid Rock and is therefore no longer so original. White Trash Beautiful has few notable highlights, but is above all a solid album, on which Everlast's hip-hop past can only be heard sporadically. (IV)more
