Black Jesus (song)

Black Jesus (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Black Jesus


Artist = Everlast
from Album = Eat at Whitey's
B-side = "Children's Story" "Graves To Dig"
Released = 2000
Format = CD
Recorded =
Genre = Blues Alternative rock
Length =
Label = Tommy Boy Records
Writer = E.Schrody
Producer =
Certification =
Chart position =
Last single = "Painkillers" (1999)
This single = "Black Jesus" (2000)
Next single = "Deadly Assassins" (2001)

"Black Jesus" is a song by American rap turned folk-rock artist Everlast from his 2000 album "Eat at Whitey's". The song was released as a single in October 2000.

The song itself is not about religion, as Everlast sings about how his career has had it ups and downs. The video was directed by Jonas Åkerlund, and featured Everlast walking around the streets of London and the London Underground, passing very strange people, makes it to the top, and walks past clowns and midgets. The video later ends when Everlast has made it to the top of a building. Two parts of the video were cut for TV, mainly the part where he is walking along the road and gets hit by car, and at the end of video where Everlast jumps off the top of the building. The video received heavy rotation on UK music channels Kerrang TV and Q Television.

Tracklisting:

#Black Jesus (Radio Edit) 4:20
#Children's Story - featuring Rahzel 3:20
#Graves To Dig 3:23
#Black Jesus (Album Version)

Lyrical references

"Come back on the one and kiss my love gun":Love Gun is a song originally by US rockers KISS, taken from their album "Love Gun" which was released in 1977.

"Shook ones keep Shakin' ":"Shook Ones" are two songs (Part I and Part II) originally by Mobb Deep. Everlast actually recorded a cover of Part II on the Loud Records rap-rock collaboration album, "Loud Rocks".

"Manhattan keeps makin, Brooklyn keeps takin' ":The line is borrowed from the song "South Bronx" by Boogie Down Productions from the album "Criminal Minded".

"Haven't you heard the bird, bird, bird yes the bird is the word":This is a lyric from the song "Surfin' Bird", originally by The Trashmen.


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