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for what I do. I preserve memories for people. When I started shooting,

I only was shooting what I knew. Low riders, the hood, my friends. I took pictures and people never

saw them. The guys were like, "Hey, homie, let me see the pictures from the tour." And I was like,

"Nah, I didn't get that [ __ ] developed yet." You know, they're like, "Why not?" And I was like,

"I'm busy. You know, I got [ __ ] to do." This right here is my my negatives

in my old life.

Somewhere in here there is uh Cypress Hill. [music]

I've known the group since day one. I met them on the block in 1989. I knew mugs before from

the clubs. I mean, I was taking [music] photos and filming as much as I could.

[music]

[music] Cypress mugs, be real, and sen were everything that hip-hop needed to

be. There's no other Cypress Hill. They're literally one of one. Especially from LA,

there was nothing like that. What up, man? All right, send dog. That marriage [music] between

Be Real and Send Dog's voice is just amazing. They sound like the crazy Mexicans [music] that

were on Angel Dust, but it's dope. ain't going out like that. [music] The music,

the cultural pedigree, everything about them was just so [music] perfect. That's not even

mentioning that they were the first ones that were literally crusading about the legalization

of marijuana at a time when it seemed like they were just a bunch of stoners bugging.

[music] Do you want to get high?

[music]

[music] Be Real was the first one ever to light a joint up on stage that I seen. The resiliency

that Cypus has, Be Real as a vocalist, Synindog as a vocalist, they seem to get

stronger like super cyborgs of weed. Thanks to Dr. Green Thumb, [music] every [ __ ] out there.

No, they're phenomenon to be honest. Not the music only. It's the artistry, the the the album covers,

the imagery they use. It's crazy that they're the biggest selling Latin hiphop group of all

time. [music] They were really ahead of their time in ways that people need to think about

and they were just being themselves. You had a camera with you literally 24/7. Nobody had

a photographer, videographer, social media person. There wasn't even none

of that [ __ ] back then. I became that guy. I was taking photos and video of them every day.

Imagine if I didn't keep all this. Be [ __ ]

[music]

I just toss that ham in the frying pan like when I come and slam. [music] Yeah, I feel like the sun.

Don't make me w sh I'll be going [music] like the lights are blinking. I'm thinking it's all

over when I go out drinking. Oh, making my mind [music] slow. That's why I don't [ __ ] with the

big boy. Oh, bro. I got to maintain cuz a [ __ ] like me is going insane. Insane [music] in the

me. Insane in the brain. Insane [music] in the membrane. Insane in the brain. Insane in the

membrane. Insane. Got [music] no bra. Insane in the membrane. Insane in the [music] in the

[music]

That's right.

[snorts]

These are some of the early photos I took of the band.

I never thought we'd be making history. And to

think it all started in LA, that's what's crazy to me.

We came up with the name Cypress Silk because of our love and our passion

for that block that we grew up on. We were street kids, but we always had

this thing where we wanted to take our block, Cypress Avenue, wanted to take it worldwide.

Well, right now we're on uh 8672 Cypress Avenue in Southgate Cali.

And this is where it all started at. My mom put that [ __ ] palm tree in. And when we

moved out of here, it was like this tall. And then they became some I guess you can't cut

trees down in this [ __ ] city. And the [ __ ] thing, look how big it is, dude. My my family

uh comes from a place called Pinat Rioa, Cuba for those that don't understand me.

And my dad had done, you know, time in in the joint there in penitentiary for, you know,

pro-human beliefs. He didn't want that life for his kids. So he moved us out here to California.

When we first moved in, it was very like, you know, everybody to themselves and they said hi

and this and that, but no one really intermingled [music] and whatnot. You know what I mean?

And then I moved in and eventually I turned this whole place around and I made it a party

block. We partied down here, you know, right here. Right here, man. And we got raided by the police

because they always thought we were selling stuff, but we were just using stuff, [laughter] you know?

We were getting stoned to the bone. Like for real, dog. You know, and they'd come and try

to like assault raids and run through the house and they could never find nothing,

you know? And they were like, "Where did the guys keep their dope at?" Like, "We smoked it."

I was walking down the street one day over there and I seen Be Real and Grego walking up

the street coming over here and I was like, "Oh man, if these guys say anything to me,

I'm just going to go over there and beat him down both." You know, B-roll yelled at me. He goes,

"Hey, send dog." And I go, "What?" You want to smoke this joint? Like,

okay. So I went over there and and then it was was just friendly from that point on like

All right. Hey B, tell us about your mom. Yeah. Son of a [ __ ] Okay. Go

ahead. Um yeah, so my mother, she's originally from Cuba, from Havana.

My father was from Mexico and I met Sen [music] through his brother Melo.

Sen dog was like 18, 19. I'm like 15, 16.

This was before any of us were rapping, you know, cuz back then we [music] were listening

to groups like Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, The Doors, and all that stuff.

The first time I heard hiphop was on KDAY. [music] 50,000 hip hop am

[music] Kday. You know it was AM station that we all used to listen to. That's how we got

it through the mix show the KDAY mix masters with Julie OG who played a big part in putting Cypress

Hill together. [music] What I remember back then, that was the only place you could ever hear

hip-hop. You couldn't see it yet. That's true. That's true. Yeah. AM radio at that time had like

those [music] little breakout stations. The music wasn't so big yet, but a lot of people just wanted

hip-hop. You'd have to find it, but it was there, you know, and people would would listen to it.

So, I'm going to go back and give you a story about [music] Cypress Hill. So,

I met Mugs probably like right out of high school or about to graduate high school. I said, "Hey,

Mugs, you should come to the block cuz you smoke a little [music] weed.

They smoke weed. They cool dudes, man. You should just come kick it." And Mugs

had just bought some turntables and a mixer. And I'm like, "Oh, man." Like,

you technique 1200s you got? Yeah. Cuz you know, no, nobody really had that. It was hard

to get that back then, you know, if you had those. It was a big deal. It was expensive.

I go to his house. I said, "Damn, this dude is serious." Cuz all he got is some records,

his dresser, turntables, and his bed right here and like a poster. That was

it. And then Monk started to come kick it cuz he was about hip-hop.

I was born in Queens, New York. I came from a place where it was ethnically diverse, you know,

Greek, Jewish, Dominican, Puerto Rican, black, Italian. Then when I moved to Los

Angeles, [music] where I moved, it was pretty much 99% Mexican. It was a culture shock, man. It was

just bars, funeral home, liquor store, church on repeat, you know what I mean? So I started tagging

on the walls, break dancing, and then I seen um Jam Master Jay and I was like, I want to do that.

Early 87, I met 783. My name is Larry Mugar. M U G G- E R U D. Also known as the Mighty Italiano

Grand Mixer Mugs. You know it. They had a record called 783 Will Rock You. And they was down with

the Syndicate with Ice Te. 783 had DJ Mugs as the DJ. Some Italian kid from he he he lived outside

of LA, like another area. never talked, but he was dope. He He had this vibe about him. And then

you guys started doing backyard parties or how did how did it We just pull up in the backyard

parties and just get on the mics. Sometimes they wouldn't let us on the mic. Sometimes

they would. Sometimes we bring our own mic and just [ __ ] plug it in, go take it with us. So

if anybody tried to get on after us, you wasn't getting You better have brought your own [ __ ]

Prior to you guys hip-hop careers taking off, what were you guys up to? Basically,

I was uh you know involved with a lot of negative stuff, you know, gangster lifestyle and stuff like

that. Do you miss it? Gang banging? Nah. I mean, you know, when I was a kid and didn't know better,

it was fun. But now that I know better and what I was doing, you know, I just realized it was

a a learning experience. I wouldn't change it because then I wouldn't be who I am, you know?

In the late 80s, LA was a war zone. It was basically impossible to live in the

hood and not be gang affiliated. Growing up here in Southgate,

even if you didn't pick a side, you might catch up with the beatd down. Another world,

man. This [ __ ] was dangerous every night. Gang banging, gunshots, scraps. And see, [music] the

problem with LA is everybody got a gun and it can escalate real quick. I'm a chicken

that's [music]

we were rapping for fun as a hobby in the beginning and then I sort of strayed away

from from it all while the other guys kept moving forward with it. I know they were worried about

me because they knew who I was running with. I was running with some real [ __ ] you know,

and and uh at any moment I, you know, could have been locked up or popped,

you know what I mean? And and I did get popped. I got shot.

It was um you know, typical hangout night with the homies, but we went to another hood. Car pulls up,

four dudes in it, blue hats. We're all wearing red. the gang signs and the [ __ ] you and the

this and that starts happening [music] and then the we see the rifle coming out. They shot at me

four times and [music] I could hear three of them right in back of me like they're they're chasing

me and I guess on the last one maybe he led me a little bit. It hit into my back. The bullet which

was a 22 hollow point had come in bursted into three pieces. one piece putting hole in my lung.

When you're living that life, that's what you expect. You

You accept that. You embrace it. It was a natural thing for me until it

wasn't. And the music changed my mind about what I was going to be doing.

Send dog and DJ Bugs, [music] they came and asked me, "Hey, you know, why don't you come and write

some songs, you know, I thought [music] that would be cool." You know, I didn't know if it would work

out or not, but maybe there's another direction I could go as opposed to jail or the grave. It was

everything because I I started having fun writing these songs again and thinking like, I can do it.

I could actually write a song. [ __ ] writing a rap. I can write a song. You're doing some

stuff of your own right now, too. Me and my boy ST stiff and and what's up? I'm STE. I don't care no

gas cuz I'm going to drop [ __ ] like flies. Mugs took that chance and was like, I believe in you

two. You know what I mean? Like, I think I could do something with you guys, but it's going to take

a couple years and you guys got to quit your jobs and move to my apartment. So, that's what we did.

Hey, Fernando. What was that [ __ ] I did at Kodak? What do they call it? It was a stacker. A

stacker? And I worked in a conveyor line with, you know, side pallets here and pallets upstairs as

they went into the trucks. And that's that's what I did. And I was good at it, too. [laughter] Tell

them how you stole my job. Cuz you were lazy. Is that why? That had something to do with [laughter]

We was making our demos, but they was like on the cassette [music] just rapping on somebody

else's beats. Whatever 12-in that was, I'd flip them and they rap on him. S had swag. [music] He

could rap better than B at the time. But his writing was basic. Bau could write different

than everybody. Like Bro could always write, you know, from the first day. Could just was a good

writer. [music] For two, three years. That's all we did. All we did every day. All day. Every day,

you know, with Mugs at the helm giving us instructions on on how he wanted us to sound

or our flows and whatnot. It wasn't just like all of a sudden we just became this band. Like

it's like we had to go hungry. We had to go broke. [music] And I think in that apartment is where we

fine sharpened our tools formulating what would be Cypress Jam. So he kind of like masterminded the

whole thing and and made it to where we could present it as, you know, as a group. [music]

Check this one out, son. This is a [ __ ] demo we did that um on our first demo tape. Check

this one out. Had that little beat up BMW. We used No, that little that little primer one

is death, but I say it's real with the appeal. It's a dope ideal. And after I destroy it,

I annoy you. Then I [music] heal of you. are tall, I will be bigger. Have a gun, don't pull

the trigger. If you pull a nice to take my life, I'll serve you to deliver. Nothing simple. This

is strange how it's lyrically arranged at your disposal. My proposal as explained from the brain

right don't get it wrong. How much further or how long will you face to And your voice back then was

was so wow. Yeah. No, was before any any of the you know the nasal thing you developed and all

that thing. And I had the flow just the voice wasn't cutting but I couldn't sound like that

now if I tried. I was happy I found your vocals. You got any more old school? Oh, you know I do,

baby. I was just waiting for the word. This is the original real estate, but the other

version's more got more energy. Like it's way more hype, but this is this one's funky. [music]

[music]

That's why I said that's the first song we did. That sounds like a record. That's

the demo. Sounds like a [ __ ] like Sounds like a hit, right?

[music]

[music]

That was the first song I flipped my voice on. All the demos previous [music] to that one,

I was using that voice you heard before. And that's when Sent Dog

comes up with the beta voice that complements that high pitch style.

That's when we started developing a a different sound to go along with the type of music that that

Mug was giving us. Yeah. That was the entry into who who we were eventually going to, you know,

evolve into right there. That was the first one. That was the key. It's like what 3 years of work

like it's working. You know what I mean? My beats was whack for the first year. Everything was I

thought it was dope. When I looked I was like, "Shit, you was just learning. We was just figuring

it all out together." But then one day, you know what I mean? all that work you just lock in like

the studio back then I remember it being like unorthodox kind of the way we did things. Um

Mugs ran everything through a SP12 and then he had a ghetto blaster in the room and we got all

the sound out from there. We kept recording and we had this song we did one day called Trigger

Happy Bau said one line in the song that said here is something you can't understand [music] how I

could just kill a man one time and I was like yo stop that's the [ __ ] hook here [music]

bro I couldn't stop playing that [ __ ] all [ __ ] day then we did

light another we did psych buck down killer man funky feel one that was

our demo once we did real estate. Everything started getting dope.

So I go to New York. Then I walk into Def Jam when it was on Prince Street. Mr. Bill Stephanie,

I believe, was the executive producer of the first Public Enemy albums.

It was all a dream. A rapper once said,

"I did see that they were looking for direction and I wanted to really give them some refinement

on how we think about, you know, artists who are successful." So he's like, "All right, fellas,

what's your concept? I'm thinking in my head, what the [ __ ] a concept? Never even heard

that word. I didn't have that [ __ ] in spell in class. So he breaks it down. He was like,

listen, man. Slick Rick's the storyteller of rap. Public Enemy represent Malcolm X.

Run DMC's are the gangster of rap. LL Cool J the love guys who got all the ladies at the

club. So you got to remember Cyprus comes from our generation where you had to be different.

You could not be anything like any iced tea and Ice Cube. We both got ice names,

but we're different. You know, when you went to see the fat boys, you saw some fat boys. Okay,

cool. So, you know, I took all that information. The minute I got to back to Cypress, I was like,

"Damn, we need a logo, fellas. We need a concept. We got to build this [ __ ] cracking." They

looking at me like, "This [ __ ] dude's crazy." I'm like, "I got this shit." One day I was like,

"You know what our concept is? Y'all got to be the Chichin Chong of this motherfucker."

Is that a joint, man? No, we're Chichin Chong and we discovered Be Real. Yeah. Breaking into

our house. We managed to convince him to start rapping and form a group called Cypress Hill.

He took our advice. He That's the first wise thing he ever did. This was the first time

that we met uh we met uh Chong Papa. Somehow someway we met him at the Chateau Marmmont.

We were very much influenced by Chichin Chong because you know we were stoners but you know

we also wanted information about cannabis. The thing was is that it was very taboo to talk about

it at the time. One year marijuana to heroin what everybody will tell you oh it doesn't lead

to other drugs right when kids ask me what are the worst drugs on the street and you know what

answers they want to hear right that's crack it's PCP turn your brain to applesauce. I say

marijuana. No one else was really engaging like we were in hip-hop, you know, and uh they some

labels didn't understand it. I mean, we had [ __ ] asking us like, "What are you guys talking about?

You guys are talking about weed?" And we're like, "Yeah, we were all trying to unlock this and,

you know, get it legal." And so we felt the more of us in hip-hop that talked about it, the better.

That was a no no. Nobody smoke weed. Other groups who saying I don't [ __ ] with the herb. I still

don't smoke weeds [music] to give a brotherage and brain damage on the mic don't manage nothing

but making a sucker and you equal. Don't be [music] another sequel. You know, we're not

really bugging on that. We, you know, we believe that, you know, um can samp, you know, good for

more than just smoking. We can live by it. And uh if nobody tells you that, you'll never know.

Do you feel like Cypress Hill picked up where you guys left off kind of or? Sure. In a lot of ways.

Yeah. With [music] music. I mean, we influenced a whole generation of young musicians coming up

and they had that mentality and that outlook on life and no extra charge, Dapers Hill. [laughter]

And I was living in Hollywood and we just kept doing our demos,

kept doing our demos. One day I played it for Joe the Butcher and he was like, "Yo,

you got some [ __ ] here. We want to sign you.

My name is Joe the Butcher Nicolo. I first and foremost I feel like I'm a record mixer producer.

Um, but I also owned uh co-owned Rough House Records. We were forging a whole new different

frontier. We were making records that the guys in the lab coats was like, "It's got total harmonic

distortion. It's distorted." What? Yeah. It's like, "Yeah, no [ __ ] Sherlock. It's distorted."

So, okay. Are are we rolling? All right. Awesome. Um, my name is Chris Schwarz and I am the CEO and

co-founder of Rough House Records, uh, company that I started with Joe Niclo back in the 80s,

like the mid 80s. And, and Philly, for all intents and purposes, is the birthplace of Gangster rap.

We signed The Outsiders, which featured Eminem before it was with Dre. We signed

EMX. We signed Nas, Cool Keith, Crisscross, The Goats, The Fujis, Y Cliff, Oh, Beanie, Seagull,

Cool Sea, Steady, Property, The Mountain, of course, Schooly D. We did like 75 artists. I

can't always remember all the names. So, then I got the Cypress Hill Mugs demos. It sounded

like they set up a boom box and put rap on it. They were gritty, but they had punch.

I have never in this business, as long as I've been in it, heard a demo where every

song is not only as good as the last, but they it just kept getting better.

When you come from where we come from and you get a good opportunity,

you don't [ __ ] it up. And I remember that first Cypress Hill album was menacing.

You could hear it now. It's just the edge, the sonics, the perspective. Yeah,

mugs. When I think about that time, the sound was so rich and the nuance of it

was so slick. They were like beautiful train wrecks. Honestly, the first time I heard it,

I didn't really know what to think of it. I was like, damn, this is S and Bal. [music] Bal

had changed his rap style. Synindog. The way they implemented Synindog into it, it was very

unique and it was nothing, you know, especially from LA. There was nothing like that. [music]

It don't sound like anybody like New York hardcore. But the way they were the way they

were saying it, man, was like with a with an LA swag. Okay. There's just these infectious hooks

and grooves that I could just listen to all day long. But uh it just was not doing much

of anything. It was like 6 months in and we had sold maybe 60,000 records and it's just like what

is wrong with people? Why aren't they getting this? And this was during a time period where

the East Coast is, you know, very, you know, like they, you know, the the New York was the

epicenter of hip-hop. So, anything that didn't have a New York sound was kind of written off,

you know. Um, Cypress Hill came and just kind of kicked that door in. Look right here,

Chuck. First time I heard Cypress Hill was actually hearing their music for the movie Juice.

Come here. In the movie Juice, Killer Man played for like 98 seconds, which

is a long time to play in a movie, right? You can sit there in the movie theater and

watch people. When that song came on, it's like see they start moving in their seats.

It was crazy. We sat at 32,000 records for months and months and months. Next

thing you know, we're selling 50,000 copies a week. Hey. Hey.

[music]

You can't understand.

There is something you can't [music] understand.

There is something you can't understand. Look at

this killer. There is something you [music] can't understand. Look at this man. [music]

I'm like, who are these [ __ ] And this guy had this squeaky voice. His vocal delivery was like

ad rock of beasty but different. Yeah, you know I heard the gaction summer in '91. That [ __ ] took

all New York City over. You know what I mean? And then then it took the country over. Then it took

over the world. Our record went from not in the top 200 all the way up to number three. Brazil.

[cheering] First of all, I'd like to say thanks to my mother. I want to thank all the college radio

stations for plugging us up. Uh, last thing I got to say here, legalize it. Peace out. [cheering]

When we uh first put out the album, we didn't really think to be advocates or activists, but

once it started to hit and they started hearing about us and how we were championing cannabis,

a lot of the publications and the advocacy group started to come at us like, "Hey, we want to

partner up with [music] you guys." First, I like the music and second of all, they were seemed to

be all about weed and it was just a perfect fit for high times. Well, and not to mention taking

a lot of chances smoking out in public on stage every night in places where it was not accepted

[music] by the law at all and generally getting away with it. Every place is not New York and LA,

you know, they're playing Alabama and Kansas, you know, and they're pushing the envelope.

When they asked us to do the High Times cover, I mean, that was like one of our

first milestones cuz I mean, we grew up off High Times magazine. It was it was important to us.

Aside from reggae music, no one was holding up weed like that.

It was an important bridge for hip-hop. [cheering]

It's such a long span of time that they've been on that mission. This blood's for these [ __ ]

They transcended hip-hop, you know. They went beyond hip-hop. Look at Bal's look,

you know, which also was so important to me as a kid. We cared about how rappers

looked. Their look was monumental when you think back to Cypress Hill

look. And it's funny because it was a mixture of California and New York.

Well, this is the world's famous green spans in Southgate, California. This

is where we crafted all our first looks as Cypress Hill. is back in those days,

we used to go look through the the shelves and the rafts and all that stuff and just find the

those pieces that were hard to find. And that was the best part about it was like the actual

searching and looking for stuff. That's fresh, D. I'll take this one. That one's tight. You know,

you want to be fly gangster. That's bowling shirt gangster right there. So, this is how we

do in Cuba to see if the pants fit you. Take fit. Yeah. [laughter] If they go all the way around

your neck, they they'll go around your waist comfortably. [laughter] There he is. What's up,

Evan? Good to see you, man. Good to see you all. Yeah. So, I actually met Evan here back in 1978. I

was a little dude. I think I was just came to buy shoes or something. And every time I would come in

the store, you've always been a regular part of the stores. You know, everything I'm telling you

is true. There goes the original 8x10 photos that House of Pain and Cypress Hill did back in the '9s

or 1990 or something. Yeah. This place was key to to all of our first looks and our first videos.

This is where Senog crafted his, you know, Perrol Loco look. Pendletons and, you know, the creased

up [ __ ] If you wanted that West Coast LA gangster look, you can always find something

you would [ __ ] with. Like when I walked in, I saw a hat that I'mma leave with. [laughter]

This was all pre- internet. There was no Instagram, no Soundcloud, no MySpace,

none of that [ __ ] Bands could only rely on touring getting their video played on

MTV or the radio. But radio, it just wasn't playing that level of hip-hop yet. It was

getting there. It was more the MC Brains, the MC Hammers, the Vanilla ISIS. rap her. Those

were the 199091 records that were really on the radio because they were more like commercial.

Kill a man off the gate. It's very difficult because even back then they would have had to

edit that out. They don't want to you use words like you're killing somebody. Today

you just hear the radio and it just they just say drugs and guns and it's just regular. Well,

back then it was a no no. How do you feel about that? Do you care about airplane? We don't. No,

we don't really care about it cuz for some reason people will tend to shy away from

us and not give us that airplane to where the other groups we have like they they're easier

to play them groups cuz they don't they don't take that stand like we do. But we

do take the stand and some and some cost of it is that they're not going to want to play

us in some stations but like it's no big deal to us, you know, still sell records.

If you didn't feel like you were getting enough MTV support or radio support, you had to get out

there and win people over. And our way of winning [music] people over was for us to play. So,

we went out and toured with anyone who would tour with us. standing on the corner close to the real

estate. We understood one thing though at the beginning was the only way to get exposure to

the fans is be like a [ __ ] punk rock band and get on the road and get in front of the people.

So to be able to lock in into a lot of loser and then to be on

stage with whoever we didn't care we was like let's go [music] out

[music] my favorite time still remains those those years that we toured with Nirvana and

song garden and Pearl Jam and and in in the middle of those guys. They stuck us

in there. Remember we watched Kurt Cobain and all those guys perform every night. You know,

sometimes backstage and with Courtney and, you know, Dave Gro and we were, you know,

somehow we figured out, you know, how to get ourselves in the position [music] with,

you know, the biggest bands at that time. It wasn't just work for us. We're

very competitive. We wanted to go out and blow other [ __ ] groups out and make them, you know,

have to deal with coming on after us. We went from playing in front of 16 people to 3 400, 500,

600. So we was doing European festivals. Um, we was the first group to headline reading festival,

first rack group, 150,000. And I was like, damn. I mean, when you playing in Europe and they doing

the soccer chance and everybody's waving the flags, you know what I mean? be like, "Fuck.

[cheering]

I don't know what tours I've been on. These ones, these are the little

uh handbooks that we would make that go on tour. It would have the venue, the promoter, the hotel,

crew after show departure for Irvine, 418 miles, ban sleep in San Francisco.

And this was our life for [ __ ] many, many years. I wasn't just a photographer or video guy. I was

the tour manager. I set up the shows. I set up the press. I set up the travel. I took care of

the bus drivers. Most of the time I was always the first one awake and the last one to go to sleep.

La Palooa 94 the Migas Hills with the BC boys. Bobo's playing here.

Bobo play for both bands. Bob played for both bands, believe it or not.

[music]

The tour that I did with the BC boys, the first one was 1992 check your head tour,

the last leg in the in the states and the the the bill was, you know, BC Boys, Rollins Band,

and then the last two weeks they were replaced with Cypress Hill. I remember going and being in

the lobby and then here comes Send dog and me and him kind of like lock eyes. I'm in the elevator,

but this time I'm I'm frying on acid, right? And I kind of can't talk cuz I'm all over the place,

right? So Bobo walks in the same elevator and I recognize him,

but I more than recognize him, I recognize him from his dad.

My father was Latin jazz icon Willie Bobo. Legendary percussionist. [music] He played

with people like Tito Poente and Miles Davis and 14 albums under

his own credit. Known as one of the best uh percussionist ever.

first time on stage. I was 5 years old. That was at a jazz club in North

Hollywood called Dante's. I didn't even have a rehearsal, you know,

but he knew that the music was [music] in me because I'd be beating on pots and pans

and being on stuff all around the house. So to be from a club size to maybe like 20 people to like

Playboy jazz festival that's like all cheering and everything like that, it's like it's a rush.

How about these guys? Did you play with any of them? Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean,

of course. And Titoe [music] Mao, he kind of took me under his wing after a pops, [music]

Willie Bobo. He's a heavyweight, man. Big time. Big time.

all the artists that, you know, eventually were sampled a lot in hip-hop, I knew all of it.

So eventually [music] when it was about time to like make that crossover musically,

I already I already knew it after that Beasty Boys tour. So I started like nudging them to, you know,

come play with Cypress, come do a song with us. And at that point, we had a we had a single out

called Latin Lingo, and Bobo loved that song because of the Latin percussion work on it

and all that. So, he was like, I'll play on that song with you. So, we started bringing him out.

Erica, [music] what the [ __ ] up, homie? The Latino's always been around since the inception

of hip-hop. Always, right? And never really had too many prominent voices. Cypress Hill comes out

Not only were they Latin, they representing the Latin culture on the West Coast. When

they added Eric Bobo into the mix, that was a whole another dimension.

The fact that you have a black man who is guess what? Latin. What?

straight up. That's what made Cyber Sil so dope is because they sort of represented the

diversity of what California represented. You know, the fact that they were good at it is

a bonus. What was cool is that the schedules didn't conflict. So, it's like when I was done

with the BC boy tour and there, okay, we're done. Cypress tour world tour was starting up. Eric Bo

taking hits his from the bongo. Everything was cool until [cheering] Woodstock 94.

I'm on tour with the BC boys. Cypress call me up. He said,

"Yo, going to do Woodstock. We're going to play on on Sunday." I said,

"Great. That's my day off." Somehow that [ __ ] got switched to Saturday.

So, I proceeded to write a note to my D. I left to go to Woodstock to play with Cypress,

but I'll be back before the show. I slip it under his door. I'm out.

Check this out.

I remember us flying in and seeing traffic for miles like people forever.

But we couldn't even [ __ ] see the end of them. It's the same.

That's the Woodstock joint, right? [cheering]

[cheering] Somebody say

1994.

You want to get ready tonight. Everybody

[cheering]

check.

But when Cypress came out, it was like a [ __ ] explosion. It was like the people

just went buck wild. Was like, yo, all right, we hit another level now. I just had to sit

back and look at this [ __ ] like, is this [ __ ] really [ __ ] happening? Cuz I know

I'll never see a crowd that big again the rest of my life. going out. [cheering] No,

we ain't going out. You know, we ain't going out. [cheering] We ain't going out.

[music] This is the day that B and Sin they kind of announced me as like you know new addition

of disciple like officially like I want to say what's up to the beasty boys down Palooa right

now. [cheering] Oh yes we kind of have the same thing in common. It's this [ __ ] right here.

That's the new addition to Cypress Hill. Derek Bobo on the [ __ ] percussions at this time.

Yeah. You You know, we stole Derek Bobo from the Beasties. You know, we decided we're going

to snatch him up and we knew we would win that fight all day. We had the better weed.

Any chance the band got, they pressed the issue. People gave them [ __ ] for it,

but they always smoke weed on stage. Every show was a smoke out. What

happened on Saturday Night Live? Yeah. So, ladies and gentlemen, Cypress Hill.

[screaming] I'm sitting in the dressing room early during rehearsal rolling the joint and Sony Music

comes in and say, "You can't light no weed on stage now." I'm like, "No problem." They came

in like 10 times to tell me the same [ __ ] So, I was like, "You know what? Once again,

Cypress Hill [applause] [cheering] New York City. [music] They said I could have liked

my joint. You know what I'm saying? But we ain't going out like that. We [music]

ain't going out. And I lit that [ __ ] They said the phones went on right away. Everybody started

calling on there, calling, [music] calling, calling. I wouldn't have lit it, but the fact

they kept pushing me and kept pushing me and kept pushing me. I'm like, man, [ __ ] this. We punk

rock. About to light this [ __ ] right now. S and B were mad at me. They was like, "Why the

[ __ ] did you do this? We're banned. We can't go on the show no more." You know, I didn't give a

[ __ ] We're banned. And didn't hurt us at all. We ain't going out like that. [cheering] [applause]

Right here real quick. really good. One second.

I would get on. Hold on. B, don't blink. I got my eyes closed. Poppy, you can't tell. [laughter]

I've had them closed this whole time. Yeah. Right there. Perfect. Are we ready to go? Yeah. Yeah.

That's one thing I could always say about the the unit here is that we could always get down

on stage from the very first beginnings to like what we turned into. We were always like I almost

felt like we were like naturals on the stage at one point cuz no rehearsal, get off a flight,

go to the stage and kill it. You know what I mean? Snap in. Just snap right into it. Snap right

into it. And you know, we were always, you know, pushing things like to try to to to do what others

wouldn't expect us to do or what they weren't doing, right? And one of those things was I think

one of the smokeouts we planned it to where on the get high portion of the show that we were going to

have two of the homeboys dressed in cop suits come and pull me off like I had violated something.

What the [ __ ] going on? I can't hear that [ __ ] What? And y'all stirred the crowd up like

crazy. And then I came out looking like a pig. And then the [ __ ] Yes. looking like a pig. [music]

[ __ ] you, [ __ ] The [music] [ __ ] going on here?

It was kind of theatrics. And that [ __ ] was effective cuz everybody was talking about that

after, right? So, it's not just a show, it's an experience. And we always put those extra efforts

that, you know, the folks that came to see us didn't expect. [screaming] [cheering] Like at that

time, hip-hop artists hadn't figured out how to have a stage present, but Cypress, we did it like

a [ __ ] punk rock show combined with a cannabis convention mixed with Pink Floyd, not to mention

the giant inflatable Buddha. Right before [ __ ] I want to get high, they used to black out the crowd

and smoke up the stage. And then I used to have to creep in and fill up this big ass Buddha with air

and the Buddha would just arrive in the smoke. And then I want to get high beat would drop.

[cheering] And then I used to shake the Buddha so it looked like it was dancing to the beat.

[screaming]

[cheering]

[ __ ] Yeah. No. Do you remember hitting Excalibur for the first time? Yes, I do. [laughter]

Oh, cuz you and I were trading cuz I was doing it first,

right? And then you wanted to try it one day and I was like, "Yeah, come on,

Bobo." when [ __ ] Bobo did it and he became big long Bobo. Big long baby.

[ __ ] hit it, hold it in even. How you did that,

I don't know. And then [ __ ] blow all that [ __ ] out slowly. It was like art. [music]

[screaming]

message.

We're going to bronze your lungs and put them in the cannabis museum. We're taking

your lungs. [laughter] Watch him have perfect lungs. When he's done,

they're still pink and looking all pretty. Notice the resin build up.

I love you every day. Sing my song. Puff all

night long as I take hits from the bomb. Hits from [music] the bomb.

[music] And if you even you notice this beat doesn't really lock. I mean, it's like, okay,

and so at the time, people would be like, [music] the beat's [ __ ] up, man. You can't you can't use

that. The beat's [ __ ] up. But it's just like, well, no, it's not because when you when you put

it in with um this kind of just, you know, it sits lazy here. You lock them together. [music]

you you got that loopy kind of and that's where when you go like if you weren't [music] like you'd

be like that's [ __ ] up. No man, that [ __ ] ain't [ __ ] up. That shit's that shit's perfect,

man. That's that's fuel. And then um making those records stoned and that's I know it's it's a shock

to everyone that we made those records stoned. I mean those sessions, man, we would blaze really

hard, but it did make a difference in h in the in the production of way the way the records were

made. So it's like you're like, okay. And you're listening and it's just like up got to start

fading and it's like don't fade it yet. We got to let it let it go, man. Let it go. This is feeling

good. No. Okay. Now, now we can start slow, slow, faded, slow, slow. That's the kind of [ __ ] that

happens when you're stoned. Production choices were were definitely enhanced by, you know,

being in an altered state. Here has every laminate from every tour. These are what we'd give you if

you were like a a friend, a family member, or even a hot chick if we didn't know you. Just give you

put it right there and let's roll out. We're in Melbourne, home of Crocco Dundee. I'm right here

chilling. Got the bomb. I remember uh when we got to uh Australia and Public [music] Enemy,

they were playing and this was a time that you and Flavor, y'all were just going like

back and forth freestyling and like the two best Hey, man ever. What's cracking,

big dog? None, dog. What's tonight's forecast? Uh 420, heavy smoke, much wreckage on the stage.

supply set up in the sky. as you can cuz you can't

[ __ ] with [music] this [ __ ] When I got the better cuz I ain't

[music]

We always did sprinkle a little bit of Latin flavor [music] and when we go to

Latin speaking countries, they want us to play those songs specifically.

That's what made us decide to put a Spanish album out there. And we didn't [music] expect the impact

the album would have. It sort of opened the door for other Spanish speaking hip-hop albums. [music]

[music] Oh, I must be over here. [music] Japan

scamas got the camera is how we do it. We got one more song to do. [music]

If B real knew that we were going to be somewhere and he knew that there wasn't

going to be no weed, he would have the [ __ ] FedExed out there ahead of time.

Could this be what they call weed? I am the international smuggler extraordinaire.

This is beautiful. We in Africa, baby. [ __ ] slowly coming over. How's that for

a solo ass? Wow. [ __ ] [ __ ] wild right now. Put the fish in the air like this.

I remember our first time in Europe, but there was a lot of buildup cuz you know

on our first album we hadn't gone there [groaning]

[screaming]

live. Let's just talk about live stage show. Not not many people can [ __ ] with

B real and send dog on stage. You know what I mean? Like their camaraderie. Be

real showmanship. They got respect from the east coast, from the south, from the north,

overseas. They got respect across the map. We're in Germany right now. We're in Berlin,

Germany. That is home of Adopo Schitler. We're here, you know, being tourists, you know.

I remember we had just done a show in Amsterdam. So, we were stocked up on weed and hash and all

this other [ __ ] right? See, and then you can buy this kind of stuff here, you know,

in the coffee shop. That's just how you can do it. Look at that. Beautiful. And

we had stashed it up [music] and they search all our bags, but they don't find anything.

And they come to Bobo. They look at Bobo's passport. [music] The hash ball stuck on the

face of his picture. [laughter] That [ __ ] was everything. And homeboy's like, "What is this?

I forgot about that when I got there, bro. You be a [ __ ] cigar. A [ __ ] pro at that,

man. What's your name? Dr. Green Thumb. Hello, Dr. Green Thumb. Paging Dr. Green Thumb. [music]

[music] Dr. Green thumb is a character I created from song. We were working on

Cypress Hill 4 and you know I heard this beat and it was infectious. I realized I

had something there you know in terms of a song that our fans were going to love.

Come on back one time. [music] If not they be and thanks to Dr.

And more than anything, what gave life to it was the video. People knew we were talking about weed,

but we couldn't show it if we were going to get MTV or BET play or any kind of play. So,

so we got Little Shop of Horror, the original guy that made the puppet,

and he came and and did the puppet work. That song started catching. It became a cult classic. And

what it did for me was allow me to create my alter ego. Hello, my name is Dr. Green thumb. [music]

That song, it's a part of who I am. It's a part of my history, part of my legacy.

I started throwing events under Dr. Green Thumb and Dr. Green Thumb Spring Gathering

and and all this other [ __ ] that led me to eventually making the Dr. Green Thumb brand in

cannabis. [music] And it gave me a different identity than Be Real the Rapper. Doctor,

is it now? What's in there? What's it? What's in my box? I called it mushrooms. Get the [ __ ]

out. No, you didn't. Yo, [laughter] we had a lot of them. We had many relationships with

these mushrooms just like these. Well, I'm banned from no soul. You remember?

You remember what happened with Senog had some shrooms. Somebody threw a hat up on stage and

then Synindog looks at the hat and he stops the song. He says, "Stop." They say, "Stop. Stop.

Stop. Who threw this hat up on stage? Who threw this? This is [ __ ] up. Shut the [ __ ] up."

Me, you were looking at each other like, "The [ __ ] What the [ __ ] did that say?"

We go into the next song which is insane in the brain. Be does his verse and everything

like that. We're shroomed out and all of a sudden Sand dog gets to his verse and he's

doing the verse like this [ __ ] like this to the dude right [laughter] after the show. Sand

dog's tripping. Sand dog does not let go of his hat. And then we see him [laughter] we see him

around his trash can and he's like talking to the hat. [ __ ] him. [ __ ] him like this. And then

finally he throws the hat in the trash can and then he walks off. We all [ __ ] like, "All right,

this is our chance. Let's see what the [ __ ] this hat says." And we expect him to say, "Yo,

[ __ ] Sand dog. [ __ ] Cyprus." Whatever. The hat said Banana Boat Tanning Company.

That was it. This fool thinks that this guy was talking about the Cuban refugees that were coming

on the boats and they called him banana boat. It's a damn tanning company, but he flipped.

Those days we used to tour like hell. We had to be out on the road and I remember one day

we had just got home. We were in LAX and we're picking up our bag. We just got home from tour

and I hear B real say, "Man, I can't wait to get back out there." And I looked at him like, "Fuck,

why don't I feel like that?" There's when S dog um wanted to have a good time. Get it on video.

Promoter came over and said, "Hey, man. How is it going?" And I go,

"It's going great. [ __ ] we're having the time of our life. Only took us like 27 hours to get here,

but we love it." He goes, "Everything's cool." And I go, "Yeah." He goes, "You sure?" I go,

"Yeah, yeah, everything's great, man. Love it." He goes, "Um, the reason I'm asking is cuz

uh one of the guys uh destroyed one of the dressing rooms." And I go,

"No way. Let me see." And I went over there and I was like, "Whoa, okay." And he go I go, "So,

so now what?" He goes, "So now what? This?" And he handed me a bill and it was $4,000.

I think all I really needed was a rest. But we didn't do that, man. You know, we were, you know,

tour, put an album on, we toured, another album, and we toured. Another album, we was that cycle,

you know, like I got kind of sick of it. So, I would do things like leave when I wanted to,

come a day late, leave a day early. I remember one time we were all at the airport and he says,

"I'll be right back." And this fool had called up somebody to pick him up and we're waiting

for him to come back from [music] the bathroom and he leaves. He goes back home and we're going

to Europe. One time we was going to Japan and Sam was on the plane right in front of

me. Then we start taking off and S wasn't on the plane. Sometimes he he'd stay on the full tour,

sometimes he wouldn't. You know, I was a tour manager, so I go in to get send dog.

Call in the room, he don't answer. I tell the people, "Hey, I need a key to the room,

you know, cuz maybe this guy overslept. It's like [ __ ] empty. No clothes, no bags, no send dog."

What was the points where you you know where you would where you would leave? Was there something

we said or something we did or is there something that pissed you off or just was in you or No, man.

I I it was nothing that any of the brothers did on the tour bus or anything like that. It was I could

honestly say it was all really me. You know what I mean? I just didn't want to be out there anymore.

You know what I mean? I wanted to go out and if if we were out for 6 weeks and somewhere around

the third week I decided I'm done. I'm leaving and there's nothing anybody could do to hold me back.

As you can see, Sen Dog is not with our crew no longer. And we want y'all, as well as us,

we're going to give him a peace and much [music] props and good luck in his new career.

No matter what, he will always be a part of Cypress Hill because that's what homeboys are

about. If your homeboy or home girl needs a change in [music] their lives, it's up to you

as friends to accept a change and help them move on and be understanding. That's right. Y'all know

what I'm saying? Took a little bit of wind out of the sales cuz it felt like we were invincible. We

could not be stopped. You know, we're a force together. And here's the [ __ ] psycho beta,

the big bad [ __ ] send dog. He's He's gone. The sand dog who is also not here. [music] I

didn't have sand, but I had Bobo. And we just put 110% effort into each show. [music] I need help.

Godamn.

The pressure was [ __ ] on, but I never thought that we were going to quit because B wasn't going

to quit and I was going to be there. He got behind the the the turntables. [music] Then we

would get someone to kind of like do backups with B and everything. If I had to do S's whole verse,

I would do it. I'm having this confusion driving me bad inside. I'm having illusions confusions

[ __ ] me up in my mind. I'm having illusions driving me mad inside. I'm having illusions

for a few years. It was pretty much me, Bobo,

and Bal that kept the group together cuz Mugs was home doing remixes and S

was home kicking it. He didn't want to tour no more. So, we had to do what we had to do.

We were a little upset and disappointed because,

you know, we wanted our brother to be there with us, but we understood because we were

all learning [music] how to deal with what this was becoming for us as artists, as young men.

man. The fame, the responsibility of having to show up on these tours [music] and go away from

your family for 6 to 8 weeks, dealing with some [ __ ] that that there is no school for. [music]

[music] Peace up to the rest of the Cypress crew.

No, no, I definitely feel conflicted, man. like I felt I I would feel bad because I left the team in

the middle of a game, in the middle of a season, you know what I mean? Of course, that played on

my guilt side, you know what I mean? But at the same time, I felt like I couldn't breathe while

I was out there, you know what I mean? And I just had to go somewhere where I could be like

I actually went to [music] a a psychiatrist lady that like put my head on straight. The way she

spoke to me was profound and it [music] kind of like straightened me back up and put me back where

I needed to be. And I recommend that to any artist that if you feel, you know, that you can't sleep

or you can't eat or you're stressed out and, you know, you're worried or whatever, talk to somebody

or not, just take a break. you know, take a break and learn to miss it. Learn to love it again.

The bike club is called the Cypress Hillbillies.

[music]

Pretty much everybody in the club has an [music] extension to the block from Southgate. Back

when we started like, you know, 11, 12 years ago, I was big into like NASCAR [music] and

uh professional bull riding, you know. So the the guys would come over the house or call me

and [music] they'd be like, "Hey man, what are you doing?" I go, "Man, I'm getting to watch this race

at Tallaladega and Dale Nhard's racing and so and so." And they're like, "Man, you're such a

hillbilly." And that's where it all started from there. People were like, "Hillbillies? What kind

of name is that?" But, you know, frankly, I don't give a damn what people think. So, [laughter]

We all [music] die.

We all die. I started to grow more as an artist when I kind of like stepped out of

this Cypress Hill thing and started a punk rap band called SX10. [music]

I've always liked metal and rock, but when I tried it, then I fell in love with it.

I would be the only one writing [music] the songs there, you know what I mean? So when I got there,

I had to really apply myself and learn how to, you know,

write complete songs with verses and hooks and, you know, and everything in them,

you know what I mean? And and they and them guys helped me do that.

The whole freedom of it all, I think, is what I dig the most. It helped me find me as an artist.

I felt like alive again.

[cheering]

I remember maybe like a couple years later I saw Cypress Hill.

It was a festival in Canada that they were showing live on MTV.

And as I'm watching the show, I was like, "Let me see these guys

and see what they're up to and you know how they're doing these days, whatever, right?

I could almost smell the festival through the TV, you know, the the grass, the people,

you know, the air and all that. The B-roll smokes the joint. I could almost smell it.

[cheering]

I think that was my first indication that I was like, I wanted it again.

Finally, rapper Sand Dog has reunited with Cypress Hill and will join them on their fourth album due

in August and on this summer's Smoke and Grooves tour launching in July with Wcliff, Gangstar,

and Public Enemy. Sand dog left Cypress Hill back in 1995 after their third album Temple of Boom.

He's been working with his uh own rock band SX10, which will release its debut album on an

independent label later this year. How permanently had Synog left the group? I mean, was he did take

much persuasion to get him back or uh you know, I I think what it was was us reaching out to him,

expressing to him that that we wanted him to be a part of it, that he was always a member

of this group no matter what he decided to do. Um I think I think that convinced him that, you know,

he still had family here. And one day he just came in and said, "I'm ready to do this." So we started

banging songs out the next day. It's something we definitely wanted. We wanted, you know, him to get

back, you know, into the swing of things. But, you know, he had he had to feel ready himself,

you know, and get that confidence up. And he came back with a bang, you know, re-energized.

Another good opportunity. Show off our show. S did [music] finally return and bugs came and it

was us four on the road and you were back to doing tour manager. It was like we were able

to continue on. [cheering] Any great group has had issues with one another in spite of having

a great run. That's sort of what makes it great cuz you get through all the [ __ ] and still,

you know, have this brotherhood and still have this chemistry. If you didn't know, now you know.

If you don't care, I don't give a [ __ ] either. Cuz in the meantime, we will hit you like this.

[music] Superstar

looking up in the world. Don't trust [music] nobody got to look over. I remember the days when

I was a young kid growing up looking in the mirror [music] dreaming about blowing up the rocks.

So we got to like I think it was our fifth album and you know the climate

was changing. We was doing rock shows. We wanted to kind of do a rock record for fun,

but then we didn't want to step on what we had already created, you know. And then we was like,

yo, let's just record two albums. Let's record a rock album and a rap album, and we'll put them as

a double album, but they'll be we won't mix them together. So, if you don't want to hear the rock,

you have the choice. You don't want to hear the rap, you have the choice. [singing]

I walked into Columbia and I had rap superstar and I think um can't get the best of me was supposed

to be the rock single Donnie was like no this is the single [music] rap superstar and that was it.

I went back to LA and I started working on the remix for rock superstar. I had bro come in he

just had to say one word rock. They say they want to be a [music] superstar and live large

a big house and buy cars to break charge [music] world. Don't trust nobody. Got to look over your

shoulder. Left the beginning hip-hop. Changed the rap to rock [music] and then built it and

just turned this into this orchestral [ __ ] mega [ __ ] Metallica Led Zeppelin [ __ ] piece. You

know what I mean? That was just bigger than life. [cheering] Cypress Hill. Cypress Hill

is the first band I ever seen that was a hip-hop band. They were stage diving into the audience.

Oh [ __ ] [laughter] Like these [ __ ] are rock stars. [cheering] When that came out and they

added in that element of doing the live stuff on stage, I think it just took them even further.

They were on the edge of that musically anyways because it wasn't traditionally rap, wasn't

traditionally rock, but had elements from the samples that Mugs would use or just the energy of

their live shows. [cheering] Hip-hop is a copycat genre. What works for one is going to, you know,

there's going to be like a thousand to follow. the fact that Cypress Hill went deeper into it like

the Black Sabbath, you know, influence and really like rock, you know, as well as with the hip-hop

made it like a no-brainer for the areas that they touch that few hip hoppers have ever gone before.

[music]

That's when we started, you know, recruiting [music] send dogs boys from MSX10.

[music]

I'm I'm trying to think of who else. Well, I know DMX played rock stages. Wu Tang does,

too. I guess it's just got to be a certain kind of hardcore. I guess that's the trick. Hardcore rap

translates to rock better than softcore rap. For a group to be on their fifth album and be brand new

and hit and be on the top of the world, it just gets bigger and bigger and bigger. [cheering]

That's a Sigma sponsored by Napster. Back to basics tour streaming was brand new. Like if

you didn't want to hear the radio, you had to buy the album. But now these guys called Napster were

coming out with an idea of we're going to put all the music on the internet and we're going

to let everybody play it for free. And the music industry went crazy. But Cypress thought about

it different. Like they paid us a good amount of money to go on tour with Limb Biscuit and they're

like, "We're gonna pay this much money. We're going to have you go on tour and every show is

free." But for the first time in history, music was being given away for free and concerts were

be given away for free. And we are the ones that did it with Lib Biscuit and people were pissed.

We wanted to remove everything that people know about the tours of, you know, hiphop and rock

shows. So, we removed, as you remember, we removed security, all security, and put up a fence.

[cheering]

[cheering]

watching Cypress Hill every night from the side just going, "Holy [ __ ] I can't [ __ ] believe

that that's those guys right in front of me on this stage." And the crowds, you remember you were

there. It was some of the greatest. I get chill bumps just talking about it. Be be was ruthless,

man. Sin, too. They, you know, I don't know what they are in their hearts, but if it's stage diving

punk rockers, they have it in them because they were is crazier than anybody there having a blast.

I think you guys used to buy pizzas for all the kids in the crowd. Yeah,

cuz I have photos of the all the guys carrying like big box pizza and giving them out to the Oh,

man. I got to see that. Well, they were waiting and camping out for days to see Cypress Hill

and Limp Biscuit. And uh so we, you know, we felt like we had to feed these guys. You know,

what could we do? Pizzas are cheap. Let's do it. Cypress [snorts] Hill Pizza.

[ __ ] outrageous, dude. Oh, hell yeah. Oh my god. [ __ ] yeah, dude. Yeah. Yeah. No other

bands were doing that. And we went, it wasn't like we went with all the security. We didn't

go out with no security. We just, it was just us. Sometimes it was just you and I, you know

what I mean? And no one ever tripped on us or, you know, people always treated us right. But we

also showed that we're not scared of anybody either. So, you know, it was that, you know,

mutual respect. any show we did, we walked out in the crowd to meet with fans, you know,

and uh that was one of the keys to the longevity that we have was being able to be on the road,

giving them a good show every time and then connecting with them after [cheering] because

it's like Chuck D told me one time when I met him for the first time and I was like, "Yo, Chuck,

what's good, man? I just want to tell you, man, we're all fans of you on our block and hopefully

one day we do we're doing what you do." and he was like, "Hey man, good luck and thanks for the love

and hopefully, you know, you keep doing this and one day you will be doing this shit." You know,

he gave me 5 minutes of his time and I thought, man, if I ever get where he's at, I'm going to be

with my fans the way he was with me. It it's really the epitomizes what Cypress Hill has

always been about. They're inseparable with their fan base. They're the greatest group to do it,

you know. And when you're the greatest group to do that, then you're in the running for the greatest

group ever because you got a fan base that's going to fight for that. [cheering] [applause]

[cheering]

[cheering]

There are 2600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but there is none more important

than the star that we are about to unveil for Cypress Hill. [cheering]

Cypress is the first hip-hop group to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

That's just fun [laughter] and fantastic. Everybody make some noise for the Hill,

y'all. To all of you fans out here, we could not have done this without you. You know, when when

they said we wasn't going to get a record deal, who's got the last laugh now, homeboy? [cheering]

Cypers, it's like they're literally an anomaly. They're pivotal on the West Coast front, pivotal

as Latinos in hip-hop. They created something so special and so unique in a really crowded genre.

That's what allowed Cypress Hilders to have a dominant reign over hip-hop and they're still

here to this day and that's that's a beautiful thing. I admired that with an envious smile.

Long before the days of legal dispensaries and medical marijuana, Cypress Hill were

advocates of that sticky icky icky. Cypress Hill has definitely contributed to legalizing

marijuana in the US. The sound of marijuana is Cypress Hill. The trailblazers. Yeah, you get

it. Trailblazers blazer. Blazers. Yeah. [music] This is going to be an altar for all stoners,

for all cannabis culture right here. Come light your candles. Dump your blunts, dump your joints,

dump your bongs right here. Pray for a great harvest. And thank you [ __ ] very much.

I preserve moments in time. And sometimes that's all you got. [music] Sometimes you

don't know what you got until you look back and you see what you've been doing for 30 years.

all these good times and bad times and all these memories and you realize like

[ __ ] man like I really got some [ __ ] here.

This palm tree was nowhere near this. Yeah, I was like I didn't

even remember it. This was a little last tree when this guy 30 years later. Yeah,

we spent a lot of time on this block, you know, talking about what what we wanted to do, you know,

and having a belief in ourselves when no one else did cuz we were just trying to make music

that that related to us and if anybody [music] else could relate, great. But we did not know the

impact it would have. You know, I tell you that it's beyond a brotherhood. It's a familia. You

know what I mean? And we made special things happen and we got upset with each other and,

you know, made up and came back and did the whole thing all over again.

You know, it's one of those [music] eternal flames that we keep lit by

all of us going and just being masters in our crafts, better men, better friends,

better at our arts, better at business. I mean, look at us. 30 years later, it was all organic.

assassin.

We rise and fall in the rap race to win it all. Standing tall as we ever did. And if you recall

that very moment you seek an opponent, you better own it like you're seeking atonement

or you blown it. Time after time haters pray for all decline. They could never dim the light that

shines in this paradigm. The vibe interwined the love and hate frame of mind. [music] Living in the

balance [singing] as I'm dancing with the devil's kind reminded by the thin line we walking as we

lead the blind. Step into the stairway to heaven where we all resign. What you find is the vision

of the grand design. [music] We are eternal in this journal. You might find a sign. Live free.

Tell it how you see it. You can be it. See your dream and seize it. Unlock your dream and release

it. It ain't a secret. We believe it. Never doubt it. Watch the words manifest in every way you

heard us [music] talk about it. It's a long road. [singing] See you at the crossro. From the soldier

to a leader, we in boss mode. It's a long road. See you at the [music and singing] crossro. From

the soldier to a leader, we in boss mode. We're one in a million. Making you feel this feeling

[music] you're feeling. You hit the ceiling with one hit of the herbal healing. It's a killing how

we [music] run the set and move the masses. We advance taking chances as the time passes. Never

gamble with your life when [singing] the odds are against you. But if you've been through what I've

been through, then [music] you must continue. And now we pray before we play as we slay the venue.

The cultivation of the fan base not on the menu. Stopping out an option. You get in the way to take

precaution. We're way too heavy and the momentum is jaw dropping. Not very often do you see the

likes of these in common. Herbal shaman here to spread the love and hit the browsing. If you

have a long run, you ain't never done. Never been the one to run away. Never leaving sun. We never

fade away while others getting laid away. Roaches getting sprayed away. Haters you can hate away.

[music] It's a long road. See you at the crossro. From the soldier to a leader, we in boss mode.

It's a long road. See you at the crossro. From the soldier to a leader, we in boss mode. Assassin.