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1998 single by Everlast

1998 single by Everlast

"What Information technology'due south Like"
Single by Everlast
from the anthology Whitey Ford Sings the Blues
B-side	"seven Years"
Released	July 1998 (1998-07) [1]
Genre	Blues rock[2] folk blues[iii] culling rock[4] alternative hip hop[v]
Length	5:03 (album version) 4:37 (video version) 3:fifty (radio edit)
Label	Tommy Boy Mushroom (Australia)
Songwriter(s)	Everlast
Producer(s)	Everlast
Everlast singles chronology
"The Rhythm" (1990) "What It'south Like" (1998) "Painkillers" (1998)
Audio sample
"What It's Like" file aid
Music video
What Information technology'south Similar on YouTube

"What It'south Similar" is a song by American musician Everlast. Information technology was released in July 1998 equally the lead single from his second studio album, Whitey Ford Sings the Blues (1998). The song is typical of the way Everlast embraced after leaving hip hop trio Firm of Hurting, beingness a combination of rock, hip-hop and dejection incorporating label and empathy towards impoverished protagonists.

The song went to number one on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for i week and number one on the Mod Rock Tracks nautical chart for nine weeks.^[6] It besides peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100, condign the vocaliser's merely solo top xl hit on the United states of america nautical chart to date.^[6] Outside the Usa, the song reached number four in Iceland, number vi in Canada and the top 30 in Australia, Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

Song construction [edit]

Structurally, the vocal consists of three verses, a chorus, and a bridge. The last line of the chorus varies in accordance with the particular situation faced by the graphic symbol in the preceding verse. Each character is presented in a sympathetic light every bit a victim of circumstance and as being an object of derision. Each poetry ends with the line God forbid y'all ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes (in the third verse, "...you ever had to wake upwards to hear the news") and Crusade then you really might know what it's like to, with the activity varying depending on what the character has to do ("sing the blues," "have to choose," and "have to lose," respectively).

The characters are:

• A beggar (the man at the liquor store beggin' for your change); when asking for change from a man he's turned down rudely (Go a task, you fuckin' slob)
• Mary, a pregnant girl who decides to take an ballgame (Mary got significant from a kid named Tom who said he was in honey); when she goes through the door of the dispensary, she gets called a "killer," a "sinner," and a "whore."
• A drug dealer named Max, a man with trigger-happy friends and an booze problem (He liked to hang out tardily, he liked to go shit-faced and keep the pace with thugs) who dies a tearing death (He pulled out his chrome .45 talked some shit and wound up expressionless).

The speaker attempts to build sympathy for each character's struggle through the phrase "God forbid you ever had to walk a mile in his/her shoes, 'cause then you really might know what information technology's like". The tertiary poesy changes the angle slightly to focus on the family unit left behind: "Now his wife and his kids are caught in the midst of all of his hurting ... God forestall you always had to wake up to hear the news, 'cause then you really might know what information technology's like to accept to lose".

Music video [edit]

The music video was directed by Frank Sacramento in Los Angeles. Everlast is shown singing underwater while the three characters depicted in his vocal drown. Later they are crowded around a window (possibly dead) behind which an idyllic family is enjoying dinner, oblivious to the less fortunate who are outside.

Track listings [edit]

US promo CD [7] "What It'due south Like" (no curses, no drugs, no guns, time edit with scratches) – four:35 "What It'south Similar" (no curses, no drugs, no guns, time edit with drop outs) – 4:35 "What It's Like" (no curses, fourth dimension edit with scratches) – 4:35 "What It's Like" (no curses, time edit with drib outs) – 4:35 "What It's Similar" (no curses, no drugs, no guns, album length with scratches) – 5:03 "What It's Like" (no curses, no drugs, no guns, anthology length with driblet outs) – 5:06 "What It's Like" (album version) – 5:03 UK vii-inch single [8] A. "What Information technology's Like" (original album version) – 5:03 B. "vii Years" – 4:04

Uk CD and cassette single [9] [10] "What It'south Similar" (radio edit) – iii:49 "What Information technology's Like" (original album version) – 5:03 European and Australian CD single [11] [12] "What It'south Like" (radio edit) – 3:49 "What It'due south Like" (original anthology version) – 5:03 "7 Years" – 4:04

Charts [edit]

Release history [edit]

References [edit]

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