So it’s sort of like hey, the vocalist has to rap about something. But again, in the grand scheme of the tune the featured storyline gets little attention anyway. After all, ‘busting’ some dude “in the eye” and then taking his girl or ‘smacking a ho’ doesn’t have anything to do with jumping around anyway. However admittedly, the lyrics do get quite hostile at certain points, especially as far as what’s considered by some to be a family-friendly dance song is concerned. In fact he comes off more or less like your quintessential West Coast rapper of the day, a true protégé of Ice-T’s. For instance, he lets it be known a couple of times, using some choice language, that he isn’t fond of the police. Also, the vocalist dedicates quite a few bars to admiring his own lyrical skills.Īnd yes, there are quite a few references to violence, including an allusion to opps getting shot. But there’s not even any curse words in the song, unless you consider “b*t*h” to be one.
And in analyzing the verses, it seems that Everlast may have overestimated his hardcoreness as noted above. For despite the fact that there are some potentially-controversial lyrics, even by early-1990s rap standards, he doesn’t necessarily say anything eye-popping. “Everybody” is being advised to “jump around”, which within this context would be a form of wild dancing. So we already know what’s going on in the chorus. And in this case Everlast more or less admits as such, even if indirectly. Or more precisely, he dropped lyrics which he thought were “too hardcore” to make it mainstream. But again, that’s the power of creating a chorus as powerful as this one – no one really picks up on what’s being said in the verses anyway.
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