I don't know whether Everlast intended all who hear his name to think of jock-straps, but there it is.

Nice cover for the most part: good bass line / beat, vocals, but can do without the "insane in the brain" squeal thing.

/attacka yo' ass like a lootah in a riot!

I don't know, part of me thinks that Cash would have beat them senseless for doing this.

You know, that's really not bad. It might even be pretty good.

I personally don't think Mr. Cash would be offended. At least the singer sings the right melody. I don't know how many covers I've heard of Folsom where they get it wrong.

/I still miss Johnny...

I'm gonna jump down, turn around, and pick a bale of truth.

/Then you really might know what its like.

Couldnt listen to it due to the annoying cypress hill sample.

ChubbyTiger:I don't know, part of me thinks that Cash would have beat them senseless for doing this.

Zombie cash will beat him senseless for this shiat, horrible just horrible.

What would tempt someone to do that?

Well, he's got the voice to do it... but the 'Insane In The Brain' sample made me want to stab my eardrums out.

If it's not actually 'Insane In The Brain', I don't want to hear that noise.

Could have been an awesome cover without the sample....always liked that voice. Would really like to hear an acoustic version

ChubbyTiger:I don't know, part of me thinks that Cash would have beat them senseless for doing this.

So it's OK for Cash to remake a perfectly fine techno classic for him to gain a foothold of relevance, but it's NOT ok for someone to update one of his songs.

Yeah... no.

MattyFridays:ChubbyTiger:I don't know, part of me thinks that Cash would have beat them senseless for doing this.

So it's OK for Cash to remake a perfectly fine techno classic for him to gain a foothold of relevance, but it's NOT ok for someone to update one of his songs.

Yeah... no.

The difference is that cash has talent and actually made the song better than the original, this is just pure shiat.

MattyFridays:So it's OK for Cash to remake a perfectly fine techno classic for him to gain a foothold of relevance, but it's NOT ok for someone to update one of his songs.

What is this classic you speak of? And I'm sure he asked whoever the artist was for their permission before he covered their track. Also Johnny Cash was always relevant and then he became iconic in the latter years of his career.

Gunny Highway:MattyFridays:So it's OK for Cash to remake a perfectly fine techno classic for him to gain a foothold of relevance, but it's NOT ok for someone to update one of his songs.

What is this classic you speak of? And I'm sure he asked whoever the artist was for their permission before he covered their track. Also Johnny Cash was always relevant and then he became iconic in the latter years of his career.

I think hes referring to Hurt by NIN, what he fails to realize is everlast isnt event anywhere near Trent in musical stratosphere and not even in the same galaxy as Cash.

Either way, this song is horrible with that annoying beat with it.

I always love people who say they like "all music"... except for "rap and country".

Like it or hate it, rap music is part of the landscape. And I've heard worse covers of better songs.

I'm not saying Everlast is better than Cash, but it's not like he raped the song. He performed a different version of it. There's nothing wrong with it.

Cash was, in no way, shape, or form, "relevant" in the past 10-15 years until he remade Hurt and got back on the radar. You look in the past with rose colored glasses, the truth is, he was dropped by his label and was destined to the same fate as classic rock acts: a touring artist who makes his income on his past hits. Hell, his last album was primarily covers of other artists!

His career path is the same as Tony Bennett's. He had a lot of glory back in the day, he gets pumped up for one last show of relevance, then fades back into the background, just to do "special guest appearances" once in a while.

I'm not saying the man isn't a genius. He just wasn't relevant. "Hurt" and then his death soon after along with Walk the Line cemented his "iconic" status, but the point is, he wasn't relevant since the mid-80's.

Gunny Highway: Are you implying that Everlast didn't get permission for this? I don't see any indication of that.

Steaming Pile: You can thank Rick Rubin for Cash's version being better than Reznor's.

Disclosure: I was a young college student interning for a radio station when Everlast started smoking up right in front of me. My boss said, "It was the first time I had ever seen an intern with such a pure look of fear on their face."

Annoying and pointless. Don't record a cover of a song that's already great. Do one where you can improve on a good idea that wasn't fleshed out.

/my not-so-humble opinion...

MattyFridays:Gunny Highway: Are you implying that Everlast didn't get permission for this? I don't see any indication of that.

Im sure he got permission but he didnt get it from Cash.

* 1994 - American Recordings
* 1996 - Unchained
* 1998 - VH1 Storytellers: Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson
* 2000 - American III: Solitary Man
* 2002 - American IV: The Man Comes Around
* 2003 - Unearthed
* 2004 - My Mother's Hymn Book
* 2006 - American V: A Hundred Highways

I thought all his recordings he did with American were pretty awesome. Once Ruban signed him he became relevant again.

MattyFridays:You can thank Rick Rubin for Cash's version being better than Reznor's.

Really I always thought it was Johnny's singing that made that track so perfect.

/IMO of course.

MattyFridays:Steaming Pile: You can thank Rick Rubin for Cash's version being better than Reznor's.

Disclosure: I was a young college student interning for a radio station when Everlast started smoking up right in front of me. My boss said, "It was the first time I had ever seen an intern with such a pure look of fear on their face."

Rubin can thank cash for making rubin relevant again, cash could sell out most places that most could only dream of playing, but its nice to see your bias in the story. He may have been nice to you but he has a horrible voice, little to no talent, and horrible beats in his music.

Gunny Highway:Really I always thought it was Johnny's singing that made that track so perfect.

Thaaaaaaaaaaaaaank youuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu, unless its britney or some other pop star the producer doesnt have to do much.

And doesnt even Trent Reznor say cash made his song better?

steamingpile:And doesnt even Trent Reznor say cash made his song better?

It seemed more poignant coming from Cash. Reznor definitely conveyed a feeling of agony and distress, but Johnny Cash gave it a different level of pain and despair. The aging of his voice just emphasized the finality of it all and the heartbreak of a man realizing his end.

I don't know if he himself chose the arrangement for American V, but in my opinion it was a brilliantly laid out record, no matter if the songs were Cash's own or not.

I just came here to relate to everyone that I hate this pretentious turd bucket.

MattyFridays:Cash was, in no way, shape, or form, "relevant" in the past 10-15 years until he remade Hurt and got back on the radar.

As a younger person, I'd like to say there are LIBRARIES of music by Johnny Cash that are more relevant than almost anything done in the 90s.

Nobody, except you, gives a shiat about how relevant he was late in his career... the fact is, Cash is a LEGEND. Everlast isn't even a f*cking trouser stain on the musical landscape. Reznor isn't anything more than a dysfunctional teenager (not to say I don't love some of his stuff). Cash is a DEMI-GOD in American music, and he transcends both genres AND generations (unlike some other legends, he does so with his classics and with his more modern works).

You hang onto the "he wasn't relevant" card, in one of the worst popular music generations of the century (behind disco and bubble-gum pop). Legends don't need to be relevant to the modern scene when they're in their twilight, except to smarmy little disc jockeys who think they know what's best for everyone else.

puffy999:MattyFridays: Legends don't need to be relevant to the modern scene when they're in their twilight, except to smarmy little disc jockeysPrograming Directors who think they know what's best for everyone else.

Fixed.

/Am a Smarmy DJ
//I do think I know what's best for you to hear
///Am getting kick out of these replys

Gunny Highway:What would tempt someone to do that?

Cash. (See...'cause it's a Johnny Cash song...and money (Cash.) would be a motivator in covering a classic.) (My wife says I explain things too much...did I do it again?)

phedex:Couldnt listen to it due to the annoying cypress hill sample.

This, dear god, this. Side track: I wanted to shoot Puffy D. Diddy Daddy for what he did to...well, really just about every song he, ahem..."covered." Putting a "rap" over the original song ISN'T A COVER, douchetard. Especially when said "rap" consists mainly of him going, "Yeah, uh-huh, yeah." Dear god, Sting, why'd you let him do that?

REEEEEEEEEAAAH

Everlast is the original white rapper that blew up. Before Eminem, Everlast was doing the same shiat with House of Pain and then on his own.

Everlast got away from rap for awhile, but is now back into it with La Coka Nostra, which is some of the best rap I've heard for awhile.

La Coka Nostra is:
Danny Boy, Everlast, with some of the production done by DJ Lethal (all from house of pain)
ILL Bill (from Non Phixion, also Necro's brother)
Slaine, Big Left
with appearances by DJ Muggs and B-Real of Cypress hill.

Also this remake isn't bad at all. I like Everlast and I like this song, but I went into it thinking it would probably suck. I was pleasently suprised.