White Trash Beautiful

Now that the shock of seeing the House of Pain dude play guitar and sing (sorta) has faded, is there any reason to keep paying attention? Yes. Everlast’s latest collects back-in-the-day hip-hop grooves and downhearted urban blues that sport a surprising honesty. Confessions like “The sex is empty” (“This Kind of Lonely”) take more guts than predictable pimp-daddy bullshit.