The history of rap-rock has many milestone markers along its twisted path — Run-DMC and Aerosmith, Anthrax and Public Enemy, Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, the list goes on — but one of the greatest has to be 1993's Judgment Night soundtrack. An entire album based on getting cutting-edge rap and rock artists in the same studio to hash out original collaborative cuts, the album is packed with trailblazing genre-crossing team-ups including Ice-T and Slayer, Onyx and Biohazard, Faith No More and Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E., and Pearl Jam and Cypress Hill.
One of Judgement Night's best tracks is the album-opening "Just Another Victim," a gnarly, grooving collab between NYC noise-rock wrecking crew Helmet and "Jump Around" hip-hop act House of Pain. The song has become a staple of Helmet's live set, but back in 1994, while Page Hamilton and Co. were in Japan, they played a very special version of the cut — accompanied by none other than House of Pain's Everlast. As seen in rare video, the performance lasts barely two minutes, but it leaves its mark, with the gravel-voiced rapper delivering his lines with a raw, punk-rock energy. Flashback above.
