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House of Pain threaten Donald Trump with violence for playing "Jump Around"

by Jeremy Mersereau

It seems like every other week a politician gets called out for using an unlicensed song to soundtrack their campaign rallies, but the artists don’t typically get this heated, or drop this many f-bombs.

Leave it to Everlast (government name: Erik Schrody) to shake up the formula. After catching wind that U.S. presidential hair apparent Donald Trump was using his former group House of Pain’s 1992 hit “Jump Around” at campaign stops, Schrody had some um, forceful language for everyone’s favourite orange millionaire:

Maybe Trump just likes House of Pain so much because that’s what he’d be re-naming the House of Representatives? Anyway, Everlast continued, telling Billboard that the “smartest businessman in the world should know that you have to license this music if it makes an appearance on TV with you, and they’re making appearances on TV — so you’re a moron.”

He wasn’t finished:

“And the reason he doesn’t ask anybody – a lot of people have asked him to cease and desist – [is] because every fucking person would say, ‘No, fuck you,’ except for whatever right-wing country artist wants to give him the song, and I don’t even think there’s many of them”.

Everlast then went off on the Trump campaign’s overarching strategy in using a hit song from a white hip-hop group:

“That’s hip-hop, man, that is black culture — what the fuck do you think you’re doing with it? He’s a fucking racist piece of shit. They’re not stupid, the people around him. They’re trying to create these inroads to people’s demographic cubbyholes, so they can be like, ‘Yeah, we’re down with hip-hop. Yeah, we’re fucking cool.'”

Finally, he threatened to drop bombs on the Donald:

“Fuck that dude. I’ll smack that fucker’s combover right off his fucking scalp. Like, for real, if I met Donald Trump, I’d punch him in his fucking face. And that’s not a joke. Even if he did become president — watch out, Donald Trump, because I will punch you in your fucking face if I ever meet you. Secret Service had better just fucking be on it. Don’t let me anywhere within a block. This is horrible.”

Something tells me Everlast just made a bunch of FBI watchlists. Still, it’s hard to fault him for reacting so strongly. If I wrote a heartfelt, personal song with vital lyrics like “I’ll serve your ass like John McEnroe / If your girl steps up, I’m smackin’ the hoe,” and it got misused, I’d be pretty heated too.

[h/t Billboard]