"I've Got More Rhymes Than The Bible's Got Psalms"

Wow!  That's a lot, right? 

This probably one of the most memorable lines from the 1992 House of Pain hit "Jump Around."  I'm sure Everlast and his crew had no idea that this song would rise to fame the way it did.  After all, it was on the playlist at the "out-of-control party" that Daniel Hillard threw for his son Chris in the hit 1993 cross-dressing nanny movie Mrs. Doubtfire, despite the fact it was forbidden by lame ole Sally Field!

Even though we know that an uphill battle ensued for Robin Williams, there was no uphill battle for House of Pain.  The song is still popular and played all over the place, even today.

But have we stopped and thought about how many rhymes Everlast is really claiming to have?

The Bible has 150 Psalms.  If we use "Jump Around" as a standard of how many rhymes Everlast might put in one song, we see it contains 55 rhymes in total (excluding the 86 iterations of the word "jump" repeated throughout the song).  With the Psalms as the standard to beat, he is just over that mark in about 3 songs.

He is basically saying that he has a reasonable amount of rhymes... perhaps enough for an EP.

It's sort of a weird benchmark.  Especially as an Irish dude, who has historically had beef with people like Eminem, Mark Wahlberg, DJ Quik, and even Cypress Hill for a short stint, you think he would shoot for a more impressive self-proclaimed standard.

"Watch out... you guys! / I've got about 3 songs worth of smack to dole out / Who wants it first? / There's not enough for everyone though, so let's / Jump, jump, jump, jump / Jump, jump, jump, jump" etc...

I just think it's weird, especially when you are talking smack for a whole album, and are arguing that you only have enough rhymes to release 1/4 of an album.  So not only do you seem lame, but did you have to plagiarize the other 3/4ths of the album to get it to release in time?

Are you a house of pain, or just like, an apartment of pain?
 
Are you like Arnold Schwarzenegger or are you like Jon Cryer?

Are you Irish, or are you... Welsh?
 
Well, regardless, I guess you just gotta "jump! jump! jump! jump! jump!"