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For what I do,
I preserve memories for people.
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When I started shooting,
I only was shooting what I knew.
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Low-riders, the hood,
my friends.
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I took pictures,
and people never saw them.
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The guys were like,
"Hey, homie,
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let me see the pictures
from the tour."
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And I was like, "Ah,
I didn't get that shit
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developed yet,"
and they're like, "Why not?"
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And I was like, "I'm busy.
You know, I got shit to do."
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This right here
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is my-- my negatives.
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From my whole life.
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Somewhere in here,
there is...
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Cypress Hill.
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I've known the group
since day one.
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I met them on the block in 1989.
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I knew Muggs before
from the clubs.
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I mean, I was taking photos
and filming as much as I could.
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Comin' out the slums,
it's the hoodlums
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I'm pullin' my gat out
on all you bums
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So bring it on
when you wanna come fight this
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Outlaw, kickin' like
Billy Ray Cypress Hill...
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Muggs, B-Real, and Senen
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were everything that hip-hop
needed to be.
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There's no other Cypress Hill.
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They're literally one of one.
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Especially from L.A.,
there was nothing like that.
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What up, B-Real?
All right.
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Sen Dog!
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That marriage between
B-Real and Sen Dog's voice
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is just amazing.
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They sound like
the crazy Mexicans
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that were on angel dust,
but it's dope.
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We ain't goin' out like that,
we ain't goin' out like that
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We ain't goin' out!
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The music,
the cultural pedigree,
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everything about them
was just so perfect.
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...out like that,
we ain't goin' out--
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That's not even mentioning
that they were the first ones
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that were literally crusading
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about the legalization
of marijuana
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in a time when it seemed
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like they were just
a bunch of stoners bugging.
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Do you wanna get high
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So high
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I want to get high
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So high...
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B-Real was the first one ever
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to light a joint up on stage,
that I seen.
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The resiliency
that Cypress has,
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B-Real as a vocalist,
Sen Dog as a vocalist,
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they seem to get stronger,
like super cyborgs of weed.
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-Thanks to Dr. Greenthumb.
-Mm-hmm.
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Every nigga out there
wanna be down with the crew
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Some ain't got enough heart,
let me ask you this...
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No, they're a phenomenon,
to be honest.
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Not the music only,
it's the artistry,
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the album covers,
the imagery they use.
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It's crazy that
they're the biggest-selling
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Latin hip-hop group
of all time.
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When I got your back,
you know I got your back
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Each and every time,
throw your set...
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They were really ahead
of their time
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in ways that people
need to think about.
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And they were just
being themselves.
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You had a camera with you
literally 24/7.
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Nobody had
a photographer, videographer,
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social media person.
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There wasn't even
none of that shit back then.
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I became that guy.
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I was taking photos
and video of them every day.
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Here is something
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You can't understand...
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Imagine if I didn't keep
all this?
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We'd be fucked.
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To the one on
the flamboyant tip
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I'll just toss that ham
in the frying pan
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Like spam, get done
when I come and slam
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Damn, I feel like
the Son of Sam
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Don't make me
wreck shit, hectic
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Next, get the chair got me
going like General Electric
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"Aaaant", the lights
are blinking, I'm thinking
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It's all over when
I go out drinking
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Ohh, making my mind slow
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That's why I don't fuck
with the big 4-O
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Bro, I got to maintain
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'Cause a nigga like me
is going insane
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Insane
in the membrane
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Insane in the brain
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Insane
in the membrane
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Insane in the brain
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Insane
in the membrane
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Crazy insane,
got no brain
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Insane
in the membrane
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Insane in the brain
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Insane
in the brain
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Because I'm loco
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Insane in the brain
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Because I'm loco
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Insane in the brain
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Because I'm loco
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Insane in the brain
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--Oh, I think...
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-That's right.
-...we're fucking
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crazy.
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These are some
of the earlier photos
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I took of the band.
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I never thought
we'd be making history.
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And to think it all started
in L.A.
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That's what's crazy to me.
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We came up
with the name Cypress Hill
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because of our love
and our affection
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for that block
that we grew up on.
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We were street kids,
but we always had this thing
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where we wanted to take
our block, Cypress Avenue,
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we wanted to take it worldwide.
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Well, right now we're on
8672 Cypress Avenue
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in South Gate, Cali.
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And this is where
it all started at.
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My mom put that
fucking palm tree in.
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When we moved out of here,
it was like this tall.
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Yeah.
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And then they became some--
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I guess you can't cut trees down
in this fucking city,
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and the fucking thing,
look how big it is, dude.
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My family comes from a place
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called Pinar del Rio, Cuba.
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"Cuba," for those that
don't understand me.
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And my dad had done, you know,
time in the joint there,
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in the penitentiary for,
you know, pro-human beliefs.
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He didn't want that life
for his kids,
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so he moved us
out here to California.
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When we first moved in,
it was very, like, you know,
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everybody to themselves,
and they said "hi"
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and this and that,
but no one really intermingled
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and whatnot,
you know what I mean?
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And then I moved in,
and eventually
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I turned
this whole place around
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and I made it a party block.
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We partied down here, you know.
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-Right here?
-Right here, man.
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And we got raided
by the police.
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Because they always thought
we were selling stuff.
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We were just using stuff.
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You know?
We were getting stoned
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to the bone, like for real, dog.
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You know, and they'd come
and try to, like,
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assault raids
and run through the house.
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And they could never
find nothing, you know,
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and they were like, "Where do
the guys keep their dope at?"
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We're like, we smoked it!
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I was walking down the street
one day over there
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and I seen B-Real and Gregor
were walking up the street
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coming over here.
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And I was like, aw, man,
if these guys
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say anything to me,
I'm just gonna go over there
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and beat 'em down both,
you know?
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B-Real yells at me, he goes,
"Hey, Sen Dog!"
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And I go, "What?"
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He goes, "You wanna
smoke this joint?"
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I'm like, okay.
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So, I went over there,
and then it was--
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we were just friendly
from that point on, like...
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All right, hey, B,
tell us about your mom.
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Son of a bitch.
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Okay, got it.
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Um, yeah, so my mother,
she's originally from Cuba,
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from Havana.
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My father was from Mexico.
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And I met Sen
through his brother Mellow.
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Sen Dog was like 18, 19,
I'm like 15, 16.
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This was before any of us
were rapping, you know.
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'Cause back then
we were listening to groups
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like Black Sabbath,
Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd,
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The Doors, and all that stuff.
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The first time
I heard hip-hop
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was on KDAY.
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50,000 watts!
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H-h-h-hip.
AM Stereo KDAY,
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Santa Monica,
Los Angeles.
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KDAY, you know,
was an AM station
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that we all used to listen to.
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That's how we got it,
through the mix show,
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the KDAY Mix Masters
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with Julio G,
who played a big part
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in putting Cypress Hill
together.
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What I remember
back then,
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that was the only place
you could ever hear hip-hop.
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-Mm-hmm.
-You couldn't see it yet.
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That's true, that's true.
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Yeah, AM radio
at that time
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had, like, those little
breakout stations.
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The music wasn't so big yet,
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but a lot of people
just wanted hip-hop.
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You'd have to find it,
but it was there, you know,
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and people would listen to it.
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So, I'ma go back
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and give you a story
about Cypress Hill.
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So, I met Muggs
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probably, like,
right out of high school,
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or about to graduate
high school.
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I said, "Hey, Muggs,
you should come to the block,
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'cause you smoke a little weed,
they smoke weed.
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They cool dudes, man,
you should just come kick it."
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And Muggs had just bought
some turntables and a mixer.
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And I'm like, "Oh, man.
Technic 1200s you got?"
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"Yeah," 'cause you know,
nobody really had that.
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It was hard to get that
back then.
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You know, if you had those,
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it was a big deal,
it was expensive.
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I go to his house, I said,
damn, this dude is serious,
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'cause all he got
is the records, his dresser,
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turntables,
and his bed right here,
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and like a poster,
that was it.
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And then Muggs started
to come kick it
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'cause he was about hip-hop.
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I was born
in Queens, New York.
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I came from a place
where it was ethnically diverse.
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You know, Greek, Jewish,
Dominican, Puerto Rican,
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Black, Italian.
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Then when I moved
to Los Angeles,
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where I moved it was
pretty much 99% Mexican.
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It was a culture shock, man.
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There was just bars,
funeral home,
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liquor store, church,
on repeat, you know what I mean?
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So, I started tagging
on the walls, breakdancing.
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And then I seen
Jam Master Jay.
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And I was like,
oh, I wanna do that.
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Early '87, I met 7A3.
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My name's Larry Muggerud,
M-u-g-g-e-r-u-d.
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But also known
as the mighty Italiano...
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-Grand Mixer Muggs.
-You know it.
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They had a record called
"7A3 Will Rock You"
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and they was down
with the Syndicate with Ice-T.
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7A3 had DJ Muggs
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as the DJ.
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Some Italian kid from--
he lived outside of L.A.,
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like in another area.
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Never talked.
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But he was dope,
he had this vibe about him.
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And then, you guys started
doing backyard parties?
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Or how did...?
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We just pulled up
into backyard parties
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and just get on the mics.
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Sometimes they wouldn't let us
on the mic,
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sometimes they would.
249
00:12:59,820 --> 00:13:01,489
Sometimes we'd bring
our own mic.
250
00:13:01,530 --> 00:13:03,449
-And just wreck it.
-And just fucking plug it in,
251
00:13:03,491 --> 00:13:05,868
go, take it with us,
252
00:13:05,910 --> 00:13:07,870
so if anybody tried
to get on after us,
253
00:13:07,912 --> 00:13:10,915
you wasn't get-- you better
have brought your own shit.
254
00:13:13,375 --> 00:13:16,462
Prior to you guys'
hip-hop careers taking off,
255
00:13:16,504 --> 00:13:18,005
what were you guys up to?
256
00:13:18,047 --> 00:13:19,673
Basically, I was, you know,
257
00:13:19,715 --> 00:13:22,468
involved with a lot
of negative stuff,
258
00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:25,554
you know, gangster lifestyle
and stuff like that.
259
00:13:25,596 --> 00:13:27,181
Do you miss it?
260
00:13:27,223 --> 00:13:28,724
Gangbanging?
Nah.
261
00:13:28,766 --> 00:13:30,142
I mean, you know,
when I was a kid
262
00:13:30,184 --> 00:13:31,727
and didn't know better,
it was fun, but...
263
00:13:31,769 --> 00:13:33,479
-Mm-hmm.
-Now that I know better,
264
00:13:33,521 --> 00:13:36,190
and what I was doing,
you know, I just realized
265
00:13:36,232 --> 00:13:38,150
it was a learning experience.
266
00:13:38,192 --> 00:13:40,069
I wouldn't change it
because then I wouldn't be
267
00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:41,779
-who I am, you know?
-Yeah.
268
00:13:43,447 --> 00:13:46,325
In the late '80s,
L.A. was a war zone.
269
00:13:46,867 --> 00:13:49,912
It was basically impossible
to live in the hood
270
00:13:49,954 --> 00:13:51,956
and not be gang-affiliated.
271
00:13:53,332 --> 00:13:54,792
Growing up here
in South Gate,
272
00:13:54,834 --> 00:13:57,545
even if you didn't pick a side,
you might catch a beatdown.
273
00:13:57,586 --> 00:13:58,879
Another world, man.
274
00:13:58,921 --> 00:14:00,631
This shit was dangerous
every night.
275
00:14:00,673 --> 00:14:04,301
Gangbanging,
gunshots, scraps.
276
00:14:04,343 --> 00:14:08,597
And see, the problem with L.A.
is everybody got a gun,
277
00:14:08,639 --> 00:14:11,141
and it can escalate real quick.
278
00:14:12,101 --> 00:14:14,478
I'm a chickenhawk,
huntin' for a chicken
279
00:14:14,520 --> 00:14:16,939
Get paranoid when you hear
my Glock clickin'
280
00:14:16,981 --> 00:14:18,858
Speakin' to the punk
that's tweakin'
281
00:14:18,899 --> 00:14:20,776
With the bitch-ass styles
I hit you like Deacon
282
00:14:20,818 --> 00:14:24,905
We were rapping for fun
as a hobby in the beginning,
283
00:14:24,947 --> 00:14:27,533
and then I sort of strayed
away from it all
284
00:14:27,575 --> 00:14:30,995
while the other guys
kept moving forward with it.
285
00:14:31,829 --> 00:14:33,289
I know they were worried
about me
286
00:14:33,330 --> 00:14:34,915
because they knew
who I was running with.
287
00:14:34,957 --> 00:14:36,834
I was running with some real
motherfuckers, you know,
288
00:14:36,876 --> 00:14:42,464
and at any moment, I, you know,
could have been locked up
289
00:14:42,506 --> 00:14:44,216
or popped,
you know what I mean?
290
00:14:44,258 --> 00:14:46,886
And I did get popped,
I got shot.
291
00:14:50,389 --> 00:14:52,892
It was, you know,
typical hangout night
292
00:14:52,933 --> 00:14:56,687
with the homies,
but we went to another hood.
293
00:14:56,729 --> 00:14:59,231
Car pulls up, four dudes in it.
294
00:14:59,273 --> 00:15:02,443
Blue hats,
we're all wearing red.
295
00:15:02,484 --> 00:15:04,653
The gang signs
and the "fuck yous"
296
00:15:04,695 --> 00:15:07,281
and the this-and-that
starts happening,
297
00:15:07,323 --> 00:15:10,701
and then we see the rifle
coming out.
298
00:15:11,368 --> 00:15:12,786
They shot at me four times,
299
00:15:12,828 --> 00:15:15,247
and I could hear three of 'em
right in back of me,
300
00:15:15,289 --> 00:15:17,041
like they're--
they're chasing me.
301
00:15:17,082 --> 00:15:19,835
And I guess on the last one,
maybe he led me a little bit.
302
00:15:19,877 --> 00:15:22,379
-It hit into my back.
303
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:25,341
The bullet,
which was a .22 hollow-point,
304
00:15:25,382 --> 00:15:28,844
had come in,
bursted into three pieces,
305
00:15:28,886 --> 00:15:32,097
one piece putting a hole
in my lung.
306
00:15:35,184 --> 00:15:37,895
When you're living that life,
that's what you expect.
307
00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:40,397
You accept that,
you embrace it.
308
00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:43,192
It was a natural thing for me
until it wasn't,
309
00:15:43,233 --> 00:15:47,947
and the music changed my mind
about what I was gonna be doing.
310
00:15:51,659 --> 00:15:55,329
Sen Dog and DJ Muggs,
they came and asked me,
311
00:15:55,371 --> 00:15:57,122
"Hey, you know,
why don't you come
312
00:15:57,164 --> 00:15:59,291
and write some songs?"
313
00:15:59,333 --> 00:16:00,876
You know, I thought
that would be cool.
314
00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:03,879
You know, I didn't know
if it would work out or not.
315
00:16:03,921 --> 00:16:06,340
But maybe there's another
direction I could go
316
00:16:06,382 --> 00:16:09,426
as opposed to jail
or the grave.
317
00:16:10,678 --> 00:16:13,555
It was everything,
because I started having fun
318
00:16:13,597 --> 00:16:16,767
writing these songs again
and thinking, like, I can do it.
319
00:16:16,809 --> 00:16:19,061
I could actually write a song.
320
00:16:19,103 --> 00:16:20,938
Fuck writing a rap,
I can write a song.
321
00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:23,732
You're doing some stuff
for your own right now too.
322
00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:26,402
Yeah, with-- with me
and my boy Sen Stiff
323
00:16:26,443 --> 00:16:27,695
and Muggs.
324
00:16:27,736 --> 00:16:29,655
-Ho!
-What's happening?
325
00:16:29,697 --> 00:16:30,906
What's up, I'm Sen Stiff,
326
00:16:30,948 --> 00:16:32,533
and I don't carry no gats
'cause I'm known
327
00:16:32,574 --> 00:16:34,493
to drop niggas like flies.
328
00:16:34,535 --> 00:16:36,453
Muggs took that chance
and was like,
329
00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:38,414
"I believe in you two,
you know what I mean?
330
00:16:38,455 --> 00:16:40,040
Like, I think I could do
something with you guys,
331
00:16:40,082 --> 00:16:41,583
but it's gonna take
a couple years,
332
00:16:41,625 --> 00:16:43,377
and you guys
gotta quit your jobs
333
00:16:43,419 --> 00:16:44,670
and move to my apartment."
334
00:16:44,712 --> 00:16:46,213
So, that's what we did.
335
00:16:46,255 --> 00:16:47,506
Hey, Fernando?
336
00:16:47,548 --> 00:16:49,133
What was that shit
I did at Kodak?
337
00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:50,300
What do they call it?
338
00:16:50,342 --> 00:16:51,885
-It was a stacker.
-A stacker.
339
00:16:51,927 --> 00:16:52,886
-Yeah.
-And I worked
340
00:16:52,928 --> 00:16:55,389
in a conveyor line
with, you know,
341
00:16:55,431 --> 00:16:57,224
side pallets here
and pallets upstairs,
342
00:16:57,266 --> 00:17:00,519
as they went into the trucks,
and that's what I did.
343
00:17:00,561 --> 00:17:02,479
And I was good at it too.
344
00:17:02,521 --> 00:17:04,523
Tell 'em
how you stole my job.
345
00:17:04,565 --> 00:17:06,567
'Cause you were lazy,
is that why?
346
00:17:07,735 --> 00:17:10,320
That had something
to do with it.
347
00:17:15,451 --> 00:17:16,952
We was making
our demos,
348
00:17:16,994 --> 00:17:19,872
but they was, like,
on the cassette,
349
00:17:19,913 --> 00:17:21,790
just rapping
on somebody else's beats.
350
00:17:21,832 --> 00:17:24,668
Whatever 12-inch
there was, I'd flip 'em,
351
00:17:24,710 --> 00:17:26,420
and they rap on it.
352
00:17:26,462 --> 00:17:28,422
Sen had swag.
353
00:17:29,465 --> 00:17:31,425
He could rap
better than B at the time,
354
00:17:31,467 --> 00:17:33,135
but his writing was basic.
355
00:17:33,177 --> 00:17:35,721
B-Real could write
different than everybody.
356
00:17:35,763 --> 00:17:37,097
Like, B-Real could
always write, yo,
357
00:17:37,139 --> 00:17:38,515
from the first day,
he could just--
358
00:17:38,557 --> 00:17:39,933
was a good writer.
359
00:17:40,976 --> 00:17:42,936
For two, three years,
that's all we did.
360
00:17:42,978 --> 00:17:46,065
All we did, every day,
all day, every day, you know,
361
00:17:46,106 --> 00:17:48,859
with Muggs at the helm
giving us instructions
362
00:17:48,901 --> 00:17:52,112
on how he wanted us to sound,
or our flows and whatnot.
363
00:17:52,154 --> 00:17:54,281
It wasn't just like
all of a sudden
364
00:17:54,323 --> 00:17:55,657
we just became this band.
365
00:17:55,699 --> 00:17:57,868
Like, it's like
we had to go hungry,
366
00:17:57,910 --> 00:17:59,620
we had to go broke.
367
00:17:59,661 --> 00:18:00,662
And I think in that apartment
368
00:18:00,704 --> 00:18:02,831
is where we fine-sharpened
our tools
369
00:18:02,873 --> 00:18:05,250
formulating what would be
a Cypress Hill jam.
370
00:18:06,126 --> 00:18:08,170
So, he kinda like masterminded
the whole thing
371
00:18:08,212 --> 00:18:10,380
and made it to where
we could present it
372
00:18:10,422 --> 00:18:12,549
as, you know, as a group.
373
00:18:16,845 --> 00:18:18,889
Check this one out, son.
374
00:18:18,931 --> 00:18:21,517
This is a fucking demo
we did that...
375
00:18:21,558 --> 00:18:23,519
one of our first demo tapes,
check this one out.
376
00:18:23,560 --> 00:18:26,605
This is when I had
the little beat-up BMW?
377
00:18:26,647 --> 00:18:27,815
-The brown one?
-No, that little--
378
00:18:27,856 --> 00:18:29,399
that little primer one.
379
00:18:29,441 --> 00:18:32,694
Beaming, I energize,
stuck on Earth, I tranquilize
380
00:18:32,736 --> 00:18:35,447
B-Real thinks it's def
but I say it's not
381
00:18:35,489 --> 00:18:36,698
B-Real with the appeal
382
00:18:36,740 --> 00:18:38,033
It's the dope beats
that I deal
383
00:18:38,075 --> 00:18:39,993
And after I destroy you,
I annoy you
384
00:18:40,035 --> 00:18:41,870
And I feel if you are tall,
I will be bigger
385
00:18:41,912 --> 00:18:43,205
Have a gun,
don't pull the trigger
386
00:18:43,247 --> 00:18:44,790
If you're pulling out
to take my life
387
00:18:44,832 --> 00:18:45,999
I'll serve you to deliver
388
00:18:46,041 --> 00:18:47,417
Nothing's simple,
this is strange
389
00:18:47,459 --> 00:18:49,086
How it's lyrically
arranged at your disposal
390
00:18:49,128 --> 00:18:51,255
My proposal as it's claimed
for the race
391
00:18:51,296 --> 00:18:52,840
So get it right,
don't get it wrong
392
00:18:52,881 --> 00:18:54,133
How much further or along
393
00:18:54,174 --> 00:18:55,425
Will your basic
understanding...
394
00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:56,885
-Wow.
-And your voice back then
395
00:18:56,927 --> 00:18:58,762
was-- was so, wow.
396
00:18:58,804 --> 00:18:59,972
Yeah, no, it was no...
397
00:19:00,013 --> 00:19:01,849
It was before any of the,
you know, the nasal thing
398
00:19:01,890 --> 00:19:03,142
you developed
and all that thing.
399
00:19:03,183 --> 00:19:05,561
I had the flow,
just the voice wasn't cutting.
400
00:19:05,602 --> 00:19:07,980
But I couldn't sound
like that now if I tried.
401
00:19:08,021 --> 00:19:09,773
I was happy I found
your vocals.
402
00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:12,860
-You got any more old-school?
-Oh, you know I do, baby.
403
00:19:12,901 --> 00:19:14,486
I was just waiting
for the word.
404
00:19:14,528 --> 00:19:15,904
This is the original
"Real Estate."
405
00:19:15,946 --> 00:19:18,907
But the other version's more--
got more energy,
406
00:19:18,949 --> 00:19:21,702
like it's way more hype,
but this is-- this one's funky.
407
00:19:23,162 --> 00:19:25,330
Yo, it's time to hurt her,
sorta like murder
408
00:19:25,372 --> 00:19:27,416
A duck with the public's
favorite rhyme order
409
00:19:27,457 --> 00:19:29,877
I ain't no waiter
or hater of a spectator
410
00:19:29,918 --> 00:19:32,087
Seekin' to find the toys,
with no flavor
411
00:19:32,129 --> 00:19:34,506
See I'm talkin' about those
whose vocals ain't coming off
412
00:19:34,548 --> 00:19:35,799
A skill to kill at will...
413
00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:37,843
That's why I said,
that's the first song we did
414
00:19:37,885 --> 00:19:39,052
that sounds like a record.
415
00:19:39,094 --> 00:19:40,637
That's the demo,
it sounds like a fucking--
416
00:19:40,679 --> 00:19:41,972
like, sounds like a hit, right?
417
00:19:42,014 --> 00:19:43,140
-Yeah.
-Hard.
418
00:19:43,182 --> 00:19:45,350
He needs a G when you
listen to the vocal
419
00:19:45,392 --> 00:19:47,895
I'm not a loco but I'm lookin'
just 'til punk go, ohh
420
00:19:47,936 --> 00:19:49,897
Now you can't see
I'm real great?
421
00:19:49,938 --> 00:19:52,232
Check out the story to
the glory of the real estate
422
00:19:52,274 --> 00:19:53,650
Look.
423
00:19:58,155 --> 00:20:00,324
The Real is the B-est,
sport and you can see this...
424
00:20:00,365 --> 00:20:02,701
That was the first song
I flipped my voice on.
425
00:20:02,743 --> 00:20:04,745
All the demos
previous to that one
426
00:20:04,786 --> 00:20:07,289
I was using that voice
you heard before.
427
00:20:07,331 --> 00:20:10,125
And that's when Sen Dog
comes up with the beta voice
428
00:20:10,167 --> 00:20:13,670
that compliments
that high-pitch style.
429
00:20:15,255 --> 00:20:18,467
That's when we started
developing a different sound
430
00:20:18,508 --> 00:20:20,552
to go along with the type
of music
431
00:20:20,594 --> 00:20:23,013
that Muggs was giving us.
432
00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:26,767
Yeah, that was the entry into
who we were eventually gonna,
433
00:20:26,808 --> 00:20:29,144
you know, evolve into
right there.
434
00:20:29,186 --> 00:20:31,104
That was the first one,
that was the key.
435
00:20:31,146 --> 00:20:33,690
That's like, what,
three years of work,
436
00:20:33,732 --> 00:20:35,067
like working,
you know what I mean?
437
00:20:35,108 --> 00:20:36,735
My beats was wack
for the first year.
438
00:20:36,777 --> 00:20:37,945
Everything was--
I thought it was dope
439
00:20:37,986 --> 00:20:39,613
when I-- I was like, shit,
we was just learning,
440
00:20:39,655 --> 00:20:41,657
we was just figuring it
all out together.
441
00:20:41,698 --> 00:20:42,991
But then one day,
you know what I mean,
442
00:20:43,033 --> 00:20:45,285
all that work,
you just lock in, like...
443
00:20:45,327 --> 00:20:47,037
Oo-wee!
444
00:20:48,247 --> 00:20:50,290
The studio back then,
I remember it
445
00:20:50,332 --> 00:20:53,252
being like unorthodox,
kinda the way we did things.
446
00:20:53,293 --> 00:20:55,837
Muggs ran everything
through an SP-12,
447
00:20:55,879 --> 00:20:58,757
and then he had a ghetto blaster
in the room,
448
00:20:58,799 --> 00:21:00,676
and we got
all the sound out from there.
449
00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:02,844
We kept recording.
450
00:21:02,886 --> 00:21:04,930
Then we had this song
we did one day
451
00:21:04,972 --> 00:21:06,014
called "Trigger Happy."
452
00:21:06,056 --> 00:21:08,225
B-Real said one line
in the song that said,
453
00:21:08,267 --> 00:21:09,851
"Here is something
you can't understand,
454
00:21:09,893 --> 00:21:11,728
how I could just kill a man,"
one time.
455
00:21:11,770 --> 00:21:14,231
And I was like, yo, stop!
That's the fucking hook.
456
00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:16,984
Here is something
you can't understand
457
00:21:17,025 --> 00:21:19,236
How I could just
kill a man
458
00:21:19,278 --> 00:21:23,282
Bro, I couldn't stop playing
that shit all fucking day.
459
00:21:24,199 --> 00:21:25,701
Then, we did "Light Another,"
460
00:21:25,742 --> 00:21:27,995
we did "Psycobetabuckdown,"
"Kill a Man,"
461
00:21:28,036 --> 00:21:29,871
"Phuncky Feel One,"
that was our demo.
462
00:21:29,913 --> 00:21:33,583
Once we did "Real Estate,"
everything started getting dope.
463
00:21:50,892 --> 00:21:52,853
So, I go to New York.
464
00:21:52,894 --> 00:21:57,316
And I walk into Def Jam,
and it was on Prince Street.
465
00:21:57,941 --> 00:22:01,028
Mr. Bill Stephney I believe
was the executive producer
466
00:22:01,069 --> 00:22:02,654
of the first
Public Enemy albums.
467
00:22:05,949 --> 00:22:09,411
"It was all a dream,"
a rapper once said.
468
00:22:11,121 --> 00:22:13,999
I did see that they were looking
for direction,
469
00:22:14,041 --> 00:22:17,002
and I wanted to really
give them some refinement
470
00:22:17,044 --> 00:22:22,466
on how we think about, you know,
artists who are successful.
471
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:26,511
So, he's like,
"All right, fellas,
472
00:22:26,553 --> 00:22:28,889
what's your concept?"
473
00:22:28,930 --> 00:22:31,224
I'm thinking in my head,
what the fuck's a concept?
474
00:22:31,266 --> 00:22:32,434
I never even heard that word,
475
00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:34,936
I didn't have that shit
in spelling class.
476
00:22:34,978 --> 00:22:37,230
So, he breaks it down,
he's like, "Listen, man.
477
00:22:37,272 --> 00:22:40,108
Slick Rick's the storyteller
of rap."
478
00:22:40,150 --> 00:22:43,028
Public Enemy
represent Malcolm X.
479
00:22:43,070 --> 00:22:45,197
Run DMCs
are the gangster of rap.
480
00:22:45,238 --> 00:22:47,115
LL Cool J,
the love guys
481
00:22:47,157 --> 00:22:50,118
who got all the ladies
at the club.
482
00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:53,080
So, you gotta remember, Cypress
comes from our generation
483
00:22:53,121 --> 00:22:56,625
where you had to be different.
484
00:22:56,666 --> 00:22:59,878
You could not be anything
like any--
485
00:22:59,920 --> 00:23:02,381
Ice-T and Ice Cube,
we both got "Ice" names,
486
00:23:02,422 --> 00:23:03,423
but we're different.
487
00:23:03,465 --> 00:23:05,884
You know, when you went
to see the Fat Boys,
488
00:23:05,926 --> 00:23:07,844
you saw some Fat Boys.
489
00:23:07,886 --> 00:23:10,347
Okay, cool.
490
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:13,392
So, you know,
I took all that information.
491
00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:15,102
The minute I got it back
to Cypress,
492
00:23:15,143 --> 00:23:17,062
I was like, damn,
we need a logo, fellas.
493
00:23:17,104 --> 00:23:18,230
We need a concept.
494
00:23:18,271 --> 00:23:19,564
We gotta build
this shit cracking.
495
00:23:19,606 --> 00:23:22,150
They looking at me like,
"This fucking dude's crazy."
496
00:23:22,192 --> 00:23:25,070
I'm like, I got this shit.
497
00:23:25,612 --> 00:23:28,532
One day, I was like,
you know what our concept is?
498
00:23:30,117 --> 00:23:31,701
Y'all gotta be
the Cheech and Chong
499
00:23:31,743 --> 00:23:32,786
of this motherfucker.
500
00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:39,167
Is that a joint, man?
501
00:23:39,209 --> 00:23:40,919
We're Cheech and Chong,
502
00:23:40,961 --> 00:23:43,797
and we discovered B-Real.
503
00:23:43,839 --> 00:23:46,508
-Yeah.
-Breaking into our house.
504
00:23:46,550 --> 00:23:47,968
Mm-hmm.
505
00:23:48,009 --> 00:23:51,304
We managed to convince him
to start rapping
506
00:23:51,346 --> 00:23:53,765
and form a group
called Cypress Hill.
507
00:23:53,807 --> 00:23:55,767
-Oh...
-He took our advice.
508
00:23:55,809 --> 00:23:58,895
Hey, that's the first
wise thing he ever did.
509
00:23:58,937 --> 00:24:00,313
Right.
510
00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:04,276
This was the first
time that we met...
511
00:24:05,735 --> 00:24:08,405
we met Chong.
512
00:24:09,614 --> 00:24:11,324
Papa too...
513
00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:13,034
Somehow, some way,
we met him
514
00:24:13,076 --> 00:24:15,370
at the Chateau Marmont.
515
00:24:15,412 --> 00:24:19,082
Lovin' is all
I know to do...
516
00:24:19,583 --> 00:24:22,085
We were very much
influenced by Cheech and Chong,
517
00:24:22,127 --> 00:24:23,420
'cause you know,
we were stoners,
518
00:24:23,462 --> 00:24:27,007
but you know, we also wanted
information about cannabis.
519
00:24:27,048 --> 00:24:28,258
The thing was is that
520
00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,760
it was very taboo
to talk about it at the time.
521
00:24:31,803 --> 00:24:33,513
One year,
marijuana to heroin,
522
00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:34,598
everybody will tell you,
523
00:24:34,639 --> 00:24:36,308
"Oh, it doesn't lead
to other drugs," right?
524
00:24:36,349 --> 00:24:38,477
When kids ask me, "What are
the worst drugs on the street?"
525
00:24:38,518 --> 00:24:40,479
And you know what answers
they wanna hear, right?
526
00:24:40,520 --> 00:24:41,813
"That's crack, it's PCP,
527
00:24:41,855 --> 00:24:43,940
turn your brain to applesauce."
I say marijuana.
528
00:24:44,858 --> 00:24:47,110
No one else
was really engaging
529
00:24:47,152 --> 00:24:50,155
like we were in hip-hop,
you know.
530
00:24:50,197 --> 00:24:52,908
And they-- some labels
didn't understand it.
531
00:24:52,949 --> 00:24:54,993
I mean, we had motherfuckers
asking us, like,
532
00:24:55,035 --> 00:24:57,329
"What are you guys
talking about?
533
00:24:57,370 --> 00:24:59,748
You guys are talking
about weed?"
534
00:24:59,789 --> 00:25:01,875
And we're like, "Yeah!"
535
00:25:01,917 --> 00:25:04,377
We were all trying
to unlock this,
536
00:25:04,419 --> 00:25:06,087
and you know, get it legal.
537
00:25:06,129 --> 00:25:09,508
And so, we felt
the more of us in hip-hop
538
00:25:09,549 --> 00:25:12,302
that talked about it,
the better.
539
00:25:12,344 --> 00:25:14,429
That was a no-no.
Nobody smoked weed.
540
00:25:14,471 --> 00:25:16,723
Other groups were saying,
"I don't fuck with the herb."
541
00:25:16,765 --> 00:25:19,809
I still express, yo,
I don't smoke weed or sess
542
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:22,187
Cause it's known to give
a brother brain damage
543
00:25:22,229 --> 00:25:24,981
And brain damage on the mic
don't manage nothing
544
00:25:25,023 --> 00:25:27,359
But making a sucker
and you equal
545
00:25:27,400 --> 00:25:30,278
Don't be another sequel,
express yourself
546
00:25:30,320 --> 00:25:32,280
You know, we're not
really bugging on that.
547
00:25:32,322 --> 00:25:34,115
You know,
we believe that, you know,
548
00:25:34,157 --> 00:25:36,409
cannabis, hemp is more--
you know,
549
00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:38,161
good for more
than just smoking.
550
00:25:38,203 --> 00:25:39,538
We could live by it.
551
00:25:39,579 --> 00:25:42,707
And if nobody tells you that,
you'll never know.
552
00:25:42,749 --> 00:25:45,585
Do you feel like
Cypress Hill picked up
553
00:25:45,627 --> 00:25:47,837
where you guys
left off kinda, or...?
554
00:25:47,879 --> 00:25:50,048
Sure, in a lot of ways,
yeah, with music.
555
00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,967
I mean, we influenced
a whole generation
556
00:25:52,008 --> 00:25:53,468
of young musicians coming up,
557
00:25:53,510 --> 00:25:56,763
and they had that mentality
and that outlook on life.
558
00:25:56,805 --> 00:25:58,974
And no extra charge,
Cypress Hill.
559
00:26:01,518 --> 00:26:03,103
I was living
in Hollywood,
560
00:26:03,144 --> 00:26:04,688
and we just kept doing
our demos,
561
00:26:04,729 --> 00:26:05,647
kept doing our demos.
562
00:26:05,689 --> 00:26:08,066
One day, I played it
for Joe the Butcher,
563
00:26:08,108 --> 00:26:10,694
and he was like, "Yo!
564
00:26:10,735 --> 00:26:13,697
You got some shit here.
We wanna sign you."
565
00:26:21,538 --> 00:26:24,332
My name
is Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo.
566
00:26:24,374 --> 00:26:26,876
I-- first and foremost,
I feel like
567
00:26:26,918 --> 00:26:29,713
I'm a record mixer, producer.
568
00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:34,092
But I also owned--
co-owned RuffHouse Records.
569
00:26:34,134 --> 00:26:37,470
We were forging a whole new
different frontier.
570
00:26:37,512 --> 00:26:39,848
We were making records
that the guys
571
00:26:39,889 --> 00:26:41,016
in the lab coats was like...
572
00:26:41,057 --> 00:26:42,225
"It's got total
573
00:26:42,267 --> 00:26:45,520
harmonic distortion,
it's distorted. What?"
574
00:26:45,562 --> 00:26:47,856
Yeah, it's like,
yeah, no shit, Sherlock.
575
00:26:47,897 --> 00:26:50,525
It's distorted.
So?
576
00:26:50,567 --> 00:26:52,902
Okay.
Are we rolling?
577
00:26:52,944 --> 00:26:55,280
-Yeah.
-All right, awesome.
578
00:26:55,322 --> 00:26:56,531
My name is Chris Schwartz,
579
00:26:56,573 --> 00:27:02,078
and I am the CEO and cofounder
of RuffHouse Records,
580
00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,040
a company that I started
with Joe Nicolo
581
00:27:05,081 --> 00:27:08,084
back in the '80s,
like the mid '80s.
582
00:27:08,126 --> 00:27:10,545
And Philly,
for all intents and purposes,
583
00:27:10,587 --> 00:27:12,964
is the birthplace
of gangster rap.
584
00:27:16,217 --> 00:27:18,303
We signed the Outsidaz,
585
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:21,139
which featured Eminem
before he was with Dre.
586
00:27:21,181 --> 00:27:23,767
We signed DMX,
we signed Nas,
587
00:27:23,808 --> 00:27:26,603
Kool Keith, Kris Kross,
The Goats, The Fugees,
588
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,647
Wyclef,
Beanie Siegel, Cool C,
589
00:27:28,688 --> 00:27:30,398
Steady B, State Property,
the Mountain Brothers,
590
00:27:30,440 --> 00:27:32,484
Major Figgas,
of course, Schoolly D.
591
00:27:32,525 --> 00:27:34,110
We did like 75 artists.
592
00:27:34,152 --> 00:27:36,488
I can't always remember
all the names.
593
00:27:37,280 --> 00:27:42,035
So then, I got
the Cypress Hill, Muggs demos.
594
00:27:42,077 --> 00:27:44,954
It sounded like
they set up a boombox
595
00:27:44,996 --> 00:27:46,373
and put rap on it.
596
00:27:46,414 --> 00:27:50,251
They were gritty,
but they had punch.
597
00:27:50,293 --> 00:27:54,464
I have never in this business,
as long as I've been in it,
598
00:27:54,506 --> 00:27:59,386
heard a demo where every song
599
00:27:59,427 --> 00:28:01,137
is not only as good
as the last,
600
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:03,098
but they-- it just
kept getting better.
601
00:28:03,139 --> 00:28:05,392
Duke, Duke, Duke, Duke of...
602
00:28:05,433 --> 00:28:07,602
When you come from
where we come from,
603
00:28:07,644 --> 00:28:11,856
and you get a good opportunity,
you don't fuck it up.
604
00:28:12,816 --> 00:28:15,819
And I remember
that first Cypress Hill album
605
00:28:15,860 --> 00:28:17,112
was menacing.
606
00:28:17,153 --> 00:28:19,239
You could hear it now.
It's just the edge,
607
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:21,741
the sonics, the perspective.
608
00:28:22,784 --> 00:28:25,495
Yeah, Muggs,
when I think about that time,
609
00:28:25,537 --> 00:28:28,039
the sound was so rich
610
00:28:28,081 --> 00:28:31,626
and the nuance of it
was so slick.
611
00:28:31,668 --> 00:28:34,713
They were like
beautiful trainwrecks.
612
00:28:34,754 --> 00:28:36,798
Honestly, the first time
I heard it,
613
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,259
I didn't really know
what to think of it.
614
00:28:39,300 --> 00:28:43,388
I was like, damn,
this is Sen and B-Real?
615
00:28:43,430 --> 00:28:45,640
B-Real had changed
his rap style.
616
00:28:45,682 --> 00:28:48,476
Sen Dog, the way they
implemented Sen Dog into it,
617
00:28:48,518 --> 00:28:50,687
it was very unique,
and there was nothing,
618
00:28:50,729 --> 00:28:54,190
you know, especially from L.A.,
there was nothing like that.
619
00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:57,110
Sawed off shotgun,
hand on the pump...
620
00:28:57,152 --> 00:28:58,987
They don't sound
like anybody.
621
00:28:59,028 --> 00:29:00,905
Like New York hardcore.
622
00:29:00,947 --> 00:29:02,240
But the way they were--
623
00:29:02,282 --> 00:29:03,616
the way they were
saying it, man,
624
00:29:03,658 --> 00:29:07,537
was like with
an L.A. swag, okay?
625
00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:09,914
There was just
these infectious hooks
626
00:29:09,956 --> 00:29:14,753
and grooves that I could
just listen to all day long.
627
00:29:15,837 --> 00:29:20,967
But it just was not doing
much of anything.
628
00:29:21,009 --> 00:29:22,635
It was like six months in,
629
00:29:22,677 --> 00:29:24,888
and we had sold
maybe 60,000 records.
630
00:29:24,929 --> 00:29:29,976
And it's just like,
what is wrong with people?
631
00:29:30,018 --> 00:29:31,644
Why aren't they getting this?
632
00:29:31,686 --> 00:29:33,855
This was during a time period
where the East Coast
633
00:29:33,897 --> 00:29:36,775
is, you know,
very, you know, like they--
634
00:29:36,816 --> 00:29:40,445
you know, New York
was the epicenter of hip-hop.
635
00:29:40,487 --> 00:29:42,697
So, anything that didn't have
a New York sound
636
00:29:42,739 --> 00:29:44,991
was kind of written off,
you know?
637
00:29:45,033 --> 00:29:47,452
Cypress Hill came and just
kinda kicked that door in.
638
00:29:47,494 --> 00:29:48,995
Look right here,
Chuck.
639
00:29:50,663 --> 00:29:52,207
First time
I heard Cypress Hill
640
00:29:52,248 --> 00:29:56,085
was actually hearing their music
for the movie Juice.
641
00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:01,966
Damn, yo!
642
00:30:02,008 --> 00:30:03,593
Here is something
you can't...
643
00:30:03,635 --> 00:30:05,887
In the movie Juice,
"Kill a Man" played
644
00:30:05,929 --> 00:30:09,599
for like 98 seconds,
which is a long time
645
00:30:09,641 --> 00:30:10,975
to play in a movie.
646
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:12,894
You could sit there
in the movie theater
647
00:30:12,936 --> 00:30:13,728
and watch people.
648
00:30:13,770 --> 00:30:15,438
When that song came on,
it's like...
649
00:30:15,480 --> 00:30:16,940
You see they start
moving in their seats.
650
00:30:16,981 --> 00:30:19,943
Here is something
you can't understand
651
00:30:19,984 --> 00:30:21,152
It was crazy.
652
00:30:21,194 --> 00:30:23,196
We sat at 32,000 records
653
00:30:23,238 --> 00:30:24,989
for months and months
and months.
654
00:30:25,031 --> 00:30:25,907
Next thing you know,
655
00:30:25,949 --> 00:30:27,826
we're selling 50,000 copies
a week.
656
00:30:27,867 --> 00:30:30,411
Hey, don't,
hey, don't
657
00:30:30,453 --> 00:30:32,497
Hey, don't miss out
on what you're passin'
658
00:30:32,539 --> 00:30:34,666
You're missin', the hoota
of the funky Buddha
659
00:30:34,707 --> 00:30:37,085
Eluder of your fucked up
styles, I get wicked
660
00:30:37,126 --> 00:30:39,587
So come on
as Cypress starts to kick it
661
00:30:39,629 --> 00:30:41,506
'Cause we're like
the outlaw stridin'
662
00:30:41,548 --> 00:30:43,383
When suckers are hidin',
jump behind the bush
663
00:30:43,424 --> 00:30:47,387
When they see me drivin' by
hangin' out the window
664
00:30:47,428 --> 00:30:49,597
With my Magnum
takin' out some putos
665
00:30:49,639 --> 00:30:51,724
Actin' kinda loco,
I'm just another local
666
00:30:51,766 --> 00:30:54,310
Kid from the street
gettin' paid from my vocals
667
00:30:54,352 --> 00:30:56,479
Here is something
you can't understand
668
00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,982
How I could just
kill a man
669
00:30:59,023 --> 00:31:01,734
Here is something
you can't understand
670
00:31:01,776 --> 00:31:03,820
How I could just
kill a man
671
00:31:03,862 --> 00:31:06,698
Here is something
you can't understand
672
00:31:06,739 --> 00:31:08,116
How I could just
kill a man
673
00:31:08,157 --> 00:31:10,994
Here is something
you can't understand
674
00:31:11,035 --> 00:31:13,329
How I could just
kill a man...
675
00:31:17,500 --> 00:31:19,252
I'm like, who are
these motherfuckers?
676
00:31:19,294 --> 00:31:21,045
And this guy
had this squeaky voice.
677
00:31:21,087 --> 00:31:23,506
His vocal delivery
was like Ad-Rock
678
00:31:23,548 --> 00:31:25,341
of Beasties,
but different.
679
00:31:25,383 --> 00:31:26,759
And you know
I had to gat ya
680
00:31:26,801 --> 00:31:28,136
Time for some action...
681
00:31:28,177 --> 00:31:29,345
Summer of '91,
682
00:31:29,387 --> 00:31:31,681
that shit took
all New York City over,
683
00:31:31,723 --> 00:31:34,309
you know what I mean, and then
it took the country over,
684
00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:36,853
then it took over the world.
685
00:31:36,895 --> 00:31:39,397
Our record went from
not in the Top 200
686
00:31:39,439 --> 00:31:41,357
all the way up to number three.
687
00:31:42,275 --> 00:31:43,610
Cypress Hill!
688
00:31:44,944 --> 00:31:47,822
First of all, I'd like to say
thanks to my mother.
689
00:31:47,864 --> 00:31:50,408
I wanna thank all
the college radio stations
690
00:31:50,450 --> 00:31:51,576
for plugging us up.
691
00:31:51,618 --> 00:31:54,245
Last thing I got to say here...
692
00:31:56,039 --> 00:31:58,374
Legalize it.
Peace out.
693
00:32:02,253 --> 00:32:04,631
Hits from the bong
694
00:32:05,924 --> 00:32:07,884
When we first
put out the album,
695
00:32:07,926 --> 00:32:11,095
we didn't really think
to be advocates or activists.
696
00:32:11,137 --> 00:32:13,222
But once it started to hit
697
00:32:13,264 --> 00:32:14,891
and they started hearing
about us
698
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:17,393
and how we were
championing cannabis,
699
00:32:17,435 --> 00:32:21,064
a lot of the publications
and the advocacy groups
700
00:32:21,105 --> 00:32:22,523
started to come at us like,
701
00:32:22,565 --> 00:32:25,860
"Hey, we wanna partner up
with you guys."
702
00:32:25,902 --> 00:32:27,528
First of all,
I like the music,
703
00:32:27,570 --> 00:32:29,781
and second of all, they seemed
to be all about weed,
704
00:32:29,822 --> 00:32:33,660
and it was just a perfect fit
for High Times.
705
00:32:34,619 --> 00:32:36,371
Well, and not to mention
taking a lot of chances,
706
00:32:36,412 --> 00:32:39,832
smoking out in public,
on stage every night
707
00:32:39,874 --> 00:32:43,711
in places where it was not
accepted by the law at all,
708
00:32:43,753 --> 00:32:45,505
and generally
getting away with it.
709
00:32:45,546 --> 00:32:47,757
Every place is not New York
and L.A.
710
00:32:47,799 --> 00:32:50,760
You know, they're playing
Alabama and Kansas.
711
00:32:50,802 --> 00:32:53,554
You know, and they're pushing
the envelope.
712
00:32:53,596 --> 00:32:56,474
As I take hits
from the bong
713
00:32:56,516 --> 00:32:58,768
When they asked us
to do the High Times cover,
714
00:32:58,810 --> 00:33:00,937
I mean, that was like one
of our first milestones,
715
00:33:00,979 --> 00:33:04,148
'cause I mean, we grew up
off High Times Magazine.
716
00:33:04,190 --> 00:33:06,442
It was important to us.
717
00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:11,030
Aside from reggae music,
718
00:33:11,072 --> 00:33:14,450
no one was holding up weed
like that.
719
00:33:14,492 --> 00:33:17,537
It was an important bridge
for hip-hop.
720
00:33:20,832 --> 00:33:23,334
It's such a long
span of time
721
00:33:23,376 --> 00:33:25,878
that they've been
on that mission.
722
00:33:26,796 --> 00:33:30,008
This blunt's for these
motherfuckers!
723
00:33:30,049 --> 00:33:31,551
They transcended hip-hop.
724
00:33:31,592 --> 00:33:34,220
You know, they went
beyond hip-hop.
725
00:33:34,262 --> 00:33:36,723
Look at B-Real's look, you know,
726
00:33:36,764 --> 00:33:39,350
which also was so important
to me.
727
00:33:39,392 --> 00:33:42,395
As a kid, we cared about
how rappers looked.
728
00:33:42,437 --> 00:33:44,480
Their look was monumental.
729
00:33:44,522 --> 00:33:46,774
When you think back,
the Cypress Hill look.
730
00:33:46,816 --> 00:33:50,236
And it's funny,
because it was a mixture
731
00:33:50,278 --> 00:33:53,364
of California and New York.
732
00:34:01,622 --> 00:34:04,375
Well, this is
the world's famous Greenspan's
733
00:34:04,417 --> 00:34:06,502
in South Gate, California.
734
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:09,338
This is where we crafted
all our first looks
735
00:34:09,380 --> 00:34:10,840
as Cypress Hill.
736
00:34:10,882 --> 00:34:12,008
'Cause back
in those days,
737
00:34:12,050 --> 00:34:13,593
we used to go look
through the shelves,
738
00:34:13,634 --> 00:34:15,094
and the racks,
and all that stuff,
739
00:34:15,136 --> 00:34:17,889
and just find those pieces
that were hard to find.
740
00:34:17,930 --> 00:34:19,265
And that was the best part
about it,
741
00:34:19,307 --> 00:34:23,352
was like, the actual searching
and looking for stuff.
742
00:34:23,394 --> 00:34:24,604
That's fresh, dog.
743
00:34:24,645 --> 00:34:26,481
I'll take this one.
That one's tight.
744
00:34:26,522 --> 00:34:28,024
You know, you wanted to be
a fly gangster,
745
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:30,568
that's bowling shirt gangster
right there.
746
00:34:30,610 --> 00:34:31,861
See, this is how we do it
in Cuba,
747
00:34:31,903 --> 00:34:33,654
see if the pants fit your neck.
748
00:34:33,696 --> 00:34:35,031
-They fit.
-Is that it?
749
00:34:35,073 --> 00:34:36,657
Yeah.
If they go all the way
750
00:34:36,699 --> 00:34:39,994
around your neck, they'll go
around your waist comfortably.
751
00:34:40,036 --> 00:34:41,621
There he is.
What's up, Evan?
752
00:34:41,662 --> 00:34:42,789
Good to see you, man.
753
00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:43,915
-Good to see you.
-Yeah.
754
00:34:43,956 --> 00:34:46,876
So, I actually met Evan here
back in 1978.
755
00:34:46,918 --> 00:34:47,960
I was a little dude.
756
00:34:48,002 --> 00:34:50,046
I think I just came
to buy shoes or something.
757
00:34:50,088 --> 00:34:51,964
And every time I would come
in the store, you've always been
758
00:34:52,006 --> 00:34:54,717
-a regular part of the stores.
-Uh-huh.
759
00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:56,010
You know, everything
I tell you is true.
760
00:34:56,052 --> 00:34:58,721
There goes the original
8x10 photos
761
00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:01,349
that House of Pain
and Cypress Hill did
762
00:35:01,390 --> 00:35:04,435
back in the '90s,
or 1990, or something.
763
00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:05,770
Yeah, this place
was key
764
00:35:05,812 --> 00:35:09,065
to all of our first looks
in our first videos.
765
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:12,485
This is where Sen Dog
crafted his, you know,
766
00:35:12,527 --> 00:35:14,654
perro loco look, Pendletons,
767
00:35:14,695 --> 00:35:17,448
and you know,
the creased-up shit.
768
00:35:18,324 --> 00:35:22,203
If you wanted that West Coast,
L.A. gangster look,
769
00:35:22,245 --> 00:35:24,914
you can always find something
you would fuck with.
770
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:26,791
Like, when I walked in,
I saw a hat
771
00:35:26,833 --> 00:35:28,668
that I'm gonna leave with.
772
00:35:36,092 --> 00:35:38,052
This was all
pre-internet.
773
00:35:38,094 --> 00:35:40,429
There was no Instagram,
no Soundcloud,
774
00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:42,515
no Myspace,
none of that shit.
775
00:35:42,557 --> 00:35:45,226
Bands could only rely
on touring,
776
00:35:45,268 --> 00:35:48,479
getting their video
played on MTV or the radio.
777
00:35:48,521 --> 00:35:52,233
But radio, it just
wasn't playing
778
00:35:52,275 --> 00:35:54,152
that level of hip-hop yet.
779
00:35:54,193 --> 00:35:55,736
It was getting there.
780
00:35:55,778 --> 00:35:57,822
It was more the M.C. Brains,
781
00:35:57,864 --> 00:36:00,158
the M.C. Hammers,
the Vanilla Ices.
782
00:36:00,199 --> 00:36:03,161
Hero, hero, rap,
hero, hero...
783
00:36:03,202 --> 00:36:07,582
Those were the 1990/91 records
that were really on the radio,
784
00:36:07,623 --> 00:36:09,125
because they were more
like commercial.
785
00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:12,461
My, my, my, my beat
is ever booming
786
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:14,630
Now, "Kill a Man," off the gate,
787
00:36:14,672 --> 00:36:16,674
it's very difficult,
because even back then
788
00:36:16,716 --> 00:36:18,301
they would have had
to edit that out.
789
00:36:18,342 --> 00:36:21,804
They didn't wanna use words
like you're killing somebody.
790
00:36:21,846 --> 00:36:23,514
Today, you just hear the radio,
791
00:36:23,556 --> 00:36:25,349
and they just say drugs,
and guns,
792
00:36:25,391 --> 00:36:27,518
and it's just regular.
793
00:36:27,560 --> 00:36:29,687
Well, back then
it was a no-no.
794
00:36:29,729 --> 00:36:30,938
How do you feel
about that?
795
00:36:30,980 --> 00:36:32,023
Do you care about airplay?
796
00:36:32,064 --> 00:36:33,316
-We don't.
-No, we...
797
00:36:33,357 --> 00:36:35,151
We don't really care about it,
'cause for some reason
798
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:38,946
people tend to shy away from us
and not give us that airplay,
799
00:36:38,988 --> 00:36:40,573
to where the other groups
who have, like,
800
00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:42,200
they're easier
to play them groups
801
00:36:42,241 --> 00:36:44,660
'cause they don't take
that stand like we do.
802
00:36:44,702 --> 00:36:47,622
But we do take the stand,
and some costs of it
803
00:36:47,663 --> 00:36:50,124
is that they're not gonna
wanna play us on some stations.
804
00:36:50,166 --> 00:36:52,460
But, like, it's no big deal
to us, you know.
805
00:36:52,501 --> 00:36:54,253
-Right.
-Still sell records.
806
00:37:03,262 --> 00:37:05,097
If you didn't feel
like you were getting
807
00:37:05,139 --> 00:37:08,809
enough MTV support
or radio support,
808
00:37:08,851 --> 00:37:12,480
you had to get out there
and win people over.
809
00:37:12,521 --> 00:37:14,148
And our way
of winning people over
810
00:37:14,190 --> 00:37:16,817
was for us to play,
so we went out and toured
811
00:37:16,859 --> 00:37:19,111
with anyone who would
tour with us.
812
00:37:19,153 --> 00:37:21,405
Standing on the corner
close to the real estate...
813
00:37:21,447 --> 00:37:23,199
We understood one thing,
though, at the beginning,
814
00:37:23,241 --> 00:37:26,035
was the only way
to get exposure to the fans
815
00:37:26,077 --> 00:37:28,454
is be like a motherfucking
punk rock band,
816
00:37:28,496 --> 00:37:31,123
and get on the road
and get in front of the people.
817
00:37:31,165 --> 00:37:32,875
So-called MC's
with a roll call
818
00:37:32,917 --> 00:37:34,752
Then you gotta close
your eyes, you can't stand...
819
00:37:34,794 --> 00:37:36,837
So, to be able to lock
into a Lollapalooza,
820
00:37:36,879 --> 00:37:39,840
and then to be on stage
with whoever.
821
00:37:39,882 --> 00:37:42,009
We didn't care.
We was like, let's go.
822
00:37:42,051 --> 00:37:44,345
Didn't just break out,
the sucker got cracked out
823
00:37:44,387 --> 00:37:46,597
Hit the pipe and blacked out,
with the shit from back down
824
00:37:46,639 --> 00:37:48,975
So much more integrity,
greatest deal I hook up
825
00:37:49,016 --> 00:37:51,435
Was a funky looker, but that's
another story black
826
00:37:51,477 --> 00:37:54,438
Cause we're the real ones,
yes, the phuncky feel ones...
827
00:37:54,480 --> 00:37:57,233
My favorite time
still remains those years
828
00:37:57,275 --> 00:38:00,152
that we toured with Nirvana,
and Soundgarden, and Pearl Jam,
829
00:38:00,194 --> 00:38:03,281
and in the middle of those guys,
they stuck us in there.
830
00:38:03,906 --> 00:38:06,033
Remember, we watched
Kurt Cobain
831
00:38:06,075 --> 00:38:07,994
and all those guys
perform every night,
832
00:38:08,035 --> 00:38:10,913
you know, sometimes backstage
and with Courtney
833
00:38:10,955 --> 00:38:12,415
and you know, Dave Grohl.
834
00:38:12,456 --> 00:38:14,875
And we were, you know,
somehow we figured out,
835
00:38:14,917 --> 00:38:17,378
you know, how to get ourselves
in the position with,
836
00:38:17,420 --> 00:38:20,006
you know, the biggest bands
at that time.
837
00:38:20,631 --> 00:38:23,175
It wasn't just work.
For us, we're very competitive.
838
00:38:23,217 --> 00:38:27,638
We wanted to go out and blow
other fucking groups out,
839
00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:29,974
and make them, you know,
have to deal
840
00:38:30,016 --> 00:38:32,101
with coming on after us.
841
00:38:32,893 --> 00:38:35,604
We went from playing
in front of 16 people
842
00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:38,024
to 300, 400, 500, 600,
843
00:38:38,065 --> 00:38:40,109
till we was doing
European festivals.
844
00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:44,655
We was the first group
to headline Reading Festival,
845
00:38:44,697 --> 00:38:46,907
first rap group, 150,000.
846
00:38:46,949 --> 00:38:49,535
And I was like, damn.
When you playing in Europe
847
00:38:49,577 --> 00:38:50,870
and they're doing
the soccer chants,
848
00:38:50,911 --> 00:38:52,246
and everybody's waving
the flags,
849
00:38:52,288 --> 00:38:54,707
you know what I mean,
you're like, "Fuck!"
850
00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:10,639
You wanna know
what tours I've been on?
851
00:39:11,932 --> 00:39:13,517
These ones.
852
00:39:13,559 --> 00:39:17,813
These are the little
handbooks that we would make
853
00:39:17,855 --> 00:39:19,857
to go on tour.
854
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:24,820
They would have the venue,
the promoter, the hotel.
855
00:39:24,862 --> 00:39:28,783
"Crew, after show,
departure for Irvine, 418 miles.
856
00:39:28,824 --> 00:39:32,328
Van, sleep in San Francisco."
857
00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:38,751
This was our life
for fucking many, many years.
858
00:39:40,378 --> 00:39:43,589
I wasn't just a photographer
or video guy.
859
00:39:43,631 --> 00:39:45,383
I was the tour manager.
860
00:39:45,424 --> 00:39:48,427
I'd set up the shows,
I'd set up the press.
861
00:39:48,469 --> 00:39:49,970
I'd set up the travel.
862
00:39:50,012 --> 00:39:52,056
I took care
of the bus drivers.
863
00:39:52,098 --> 00:39:54,767
Most of the time, I was always
the first one awake
864
00:39:54,809 --> 00:39:57,228
and the last one
to go to sleep.
865
00:39:59,230 --> 00:40:03,109
Lollapalooza '94,
Dominguez Hills,
866
00:40:03,150 --> 00:40:04,735
with the Beastie Boys.
867
00:40:04,777 --> 00:40:06,529
Bobo was playing here.
868
00:40:09,156 --> 00:40:11,534
Bobo played for both bands.
869
00:40:11,575 --> 00:40:12,993
Believe it or not.
870
00:40:28,008 --> 00:40:29,885
The tour that I did
with the Beastie Boys,
871
00:40:29,927 --> 00:40:33,013
the first one was 1992
Check Your Head Tour,
872
00:40:33,055 --> 00:40:35,516
the last leg in the States.
873
00:40:35,558 --> 00:40:39,353
And the bill was, you know,
Beastie Boys, Rollins Band,
874
00:40:39,395 --> 00:40:41,730
and the last two weeks,
they were replaced
875
00:40:41,772 --> 00:40:43,357
with Cypress Hill.
876
00:40:43,399 --> 00:40:46,026
I remember going in,
being in the lobby,
877
00:40:46,068 --> 00:40:47,862
and then here comes Sen Dog.
878
00:40:47,903 --> 00:40:51,157
And me and him
kinda like lock eyes.
879
00:40:51,198 --> 00:40:53,159
I'm in the elevator,
but this time,
880
00:40:53,200 --> 00:40:56,495
I'm frying on acid, right?
881
00:40:56,537 --> 00:40:58,998
And I kinda can't talk
'cause I'm, "Mm!"
882
00:40:59,039 --> 00:41:00,749
All over the place, right?
883
00:41:00,791 --> 00:41:02,293
So, Bobo walks in
the same elevator
884
00:41:02,334 --> 00:41:05,171
and I recognize him,
but I more than recognize him.
885
00:41:05,212 --> 00:41:06,964
I recognize him from his dad.
886
00:41:13,637 --> 00:41:18,309
My pops was Latin jazz
icon Willie Bobo.
887
00:41:19,518 --> 00:41:21,812
Legendary percussionist.
888
00:41:21,854 --> 00:41:24,356
He played with people
like Tito Puente
889
00:41:24,398 --> 00:41:28,819
and Miles Davis, and 14 albums
under his own credit.
890
00:41:29,987 --> 00:41:33,782
Known as one of the best
percussionists ever.
891
00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:40,706
First time on stage,
I was five years old.
892
00:41:41,290 --> 00:41:44,251
That was at a jazz club in
North Hollywood called Donte's.
893
00:41:44,293 --> 00:41:46,003
I didn't even have
a rehearsal, you know,
894
00:41:46,045 --> 00:41:48,047
but he knew that the music
was in me
895
00:41:48,088 --> 00:41:49,924
'cause I'd be beating
on pots and pans,
896
00:41:49,965 --> 00:41:51,675
and beating on stuff
all around the house.
897
00:41:51,717 --> 00:41:56,013
So, to be from a club size,
to maybe like 20 people,
898
00:41:56,055 --> 00:41:59,350
to like, Playboy Jazz Festival
that's like all cheering
899
00:41:59,391 --> 00:42:02,645
and everything like that,
it's like, it's a rush.
900
00:42:06,565 --> 00:42:09,860
How 'bout these guys?
You played with any of them?
901
00:42:09,902 --> 00:42:11,362
Oh, yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah.
902
00:42:11,403 --> 00:42:15,407
I mean, of course,
Tito Puente, the maestro,
903
00:42:15,449 --> 00:42:20,579
he kinda took me under his wing
after my pops passed.
904
00:42:22,957 --> 00:42:25,000
Willie Bobo!
905
00:42:26,168 --> 00:42:28,003
These are heavyweights, man.
906
00:42:28,963 --> 00:42:30,673
Big time.
Big time.
907
00:42:30,714 --> 00:42:34,969
All the artists that, you know,
eventually were sampled a lot
908
00:42:35,010 --> 00:42:38,013
in hip-hop, I knew all of it.
909
00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,978
So, eventually, when it was
about time to, like,
910
00:42:44,019 --> 00:42:48,607
make that crossover musically,
I already knew it.
911
00:42:50,359 --> 00:42:52,861
After that
Beastie Boys tour,
912
00:42:52,903 --> 00:42:54,488
so I started, like,
nudging him to, you know,
913
00:42:54,530 --> 00:42:56,407
"Come play with Cypress,
come do a song with us."
914
00:42:56,448 --> 00:42:59,660
And at that point,
we had-- we had a single out
915
00:42:59,702 --> 00:43:02,413
called "Latin Lingo,"
and Bobo loved that song
916
00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:04,498
because of the Latin
percussion work on it
917
00:43:04,540 --> 00:43:05,666
and all that.
918
00:43:05,708 --> 00:43:07,710
So, he was like, "I'll play
on that song with you."
919
00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:10,379
So, we started bringing him out.
920
00:43:10,421 --> 00:43:12,506
We got my homeboy
throwing down.
921
00:43:12,548 --> 00:43:15,634
Eric Bobo,
what the fuck's up, homie?
922
00:43:15,676 --> 00:43:17,219
The Latinos
always been around
923
00:43:17,261 --> 00:43:19,054
since the inception of hip-hop.
924
00:43:19,096 --> 00:43:20,431
Always, right?
925
00:43:20,472 --> 00:43:23,267
And never really had
too many prominent voices.
926
00:43:24,351 --> 00:43:25,811
Cypress Hill comes out.
927
00:43:25,853 --> 00:43:28,897
Freak to the funk
that no one else is bringing
928
00:43:28,939 --> 00:43:31,025
Not only were they Latin,
they're representing
929
00:43:31,066 --> 00:43:33,652
the Latin culture
on the West Coast.
930
00:43:33,694 --> 00:43:36,822
When they added Eric Bobo
into the mix,
931
00:43:36,864 --> 00:43:38,449
that was a whole
'nother dimension.
932
00:43:38,490 --> 00:43:41,619
I'm down,
another proud Hispano
933
00:43:41,660 --> 00:43:44,121
The fact that
you have a Black man
934
00:43:44,163 --> 00:43:46,790
who is, guess what, Latin.
935
00:43:46,832 --> 00:43:48,417
What?
936
00:43:48,459 --> 00:43:49,627
'Cause of my language
937
00:43:49,668 --> 00:43:51,128
I have to tell 'em
straight up
938
00:43:51,170 --> 00:43:52,504
It's called Spanglish
939
00:43:52,546 --> 00:43:54,089
That's what made
Cypress Hill so dope,
940
00:43:54,131 --> 00:43:55,966
is because they sort of
represented the diversity
941
00:43:56,008 --> 00:43:57,968
of what California represented.
942
00:43:58,010 --> 00:43:59,887
You know, the fact
that they were good at it,
943
00:43:59,928 --> 00:44:01,847
pssh, is a bonus.
944
00:44:03,265 --> 00:44:06,352
What was cool is that
the schedules didn't conflict.
945
00:44:06,393 --> 00:44:08,896
So, it was like, when I was done
with the Beastie Boy tour,
946
00:44:08,937 --> 00:44:10,439
and it was, okay, we're done,
947
00:44:10,481 --> 00:44:13,317
Cypress tour,
world tour was starting up.
948
00:44:13,359 --> 00:44:16,862
Eric Bobo
taking hits from the bongos!
949
00:44:16,904 --> 00:44:19,615
Everything was cool until...
950
00:44:20,824 --> 00:44:23,410
Woodstock '94.
951
00:44:27,331 --> 00:44:29,958
I'm on tour with
the Beastie Boys.
952
00:44:30,000 --> 00:44:31,335
Cypress called me up
and said,
953
00:44:31,377 --> 00:44:35,047
"Yo, we're gonna do Woodstock.
We're gonna play on Sunday."
954
00:44:35,089 --> 00:44:37,841
I said,
"Great, that's my day off."
955
00:44:38,592 --> 00:44:41,970
Somehow, that shit got switched
to Saturday.
956
00:44:44,473 --> 00:44:47,851
So, I proceeded
to write a note to Mike D.
957
00:44:47,893 --> 00:44:51,980
"I left to go to Woodstock
to play with Cypress,
958
00:44:52,022 --> 00:44:55,109
but I'll be back
before the show."
959
00:44:55,150 --> 00:44:58,070
I slip it under his door.
I'm out.
960
00:45:01,657 --> 00:45:05,160
...motherfucking
check this out.
961
00:45:07,121 --> 00:45:09,331
I remember us flying in
962
00:45:09,373 --> 00:45:12,042
and seeing traffic for miles.
963
00:45:12,084 --> 00:45:13,502
-Yeah.
-Like people forever.
964
00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:14,920
We couldn't even fucking
see the end of 'em.
965
00:45:14,962 --> 00:45:19,383
It's the same lineup basically.
966
00:45:19,425 --> 00:45:23,053
That's the Woodstock joint,
right?
967
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:38,193
-Somebody say ho!
-Ho!
968
00:45:40,070 --> 00:45:43,407
Woodstock 1994!
969
00:45:45,659 --> 00:45:50,164
If you wanna get ready
to rumble in this house tonight,
970
00:45:50,205 --> 00:45:54,168
everybody, scream!
971
00:45:57,004 --> 00:46:01,717
Check, check, check!
Unh! Unh! Unh!
972
00:46:02,509 --> 00:46:04,803
Check, check,
check, check it out
973
00:46:04,845 --> 00:46:07,306
Check, check, check,
check it out
974
00:46:07,347 --> 00:46:10,100
Check, check,
check, check it out
975
00:46:10,142 --> 00:46:12,770
When I come with the static
cling, it's no thing
976
00:46:12,811 --> 00:46:14,980
Make ya sing the blues
like B.B. King
977
00:46:15,022 --> 00:46:18,650
But when Cypress came out,
it was like a fucking explosion.
978
00:46:18,692 --> 00:46:21,779
It was like, and the people
just went buck-wild.
979
00:46:22,821 --> 00:46:26,617
It was like, yo, a'ight,
we hit another level now.
980
00:46:26,658 --> 00:46:28,410
I just had to sit back
and look at this shit,
981
00:46:28,452 --> 00:46:30,162
like is this shit
really fucking happening?
982
00:46:30,204 --> 00:46:32,122
'Cause I know I'll never see
a crowd that big again
983
00:46:32,164 --> 00:46:33,415
the rest of my life.
984
00:46:33,457 --> 00:46:37,252
We ain't going out,
no, we ain't going out
985
00:46:37,294 --> 00:46:40,088
Yo, no, we ain't
going out
986
00:46:40,130 --> 00:46:42,382
We ain't going out
987
00:46:42,424 --> 00:46:45,385
Comin' out the slums,
it's the hoodlums
988
00:46:45,427 --> 00:46:47,638
I'm pullin' my gat out
on all you bums
989
00:46:47,679 --> 00:46:50,057
Bring it on when
you wanna come fight this
990
00:46:50,098 --> 00:46:53,560
Outlaw, kickin' like
Billy Ray Cypress Hill
991
00:46:53,602 --> 00:46:55,646
This is the day
that B and Sen,
992
00:46:55,687 --> 00:46:57,606
they kind of announced me
as like, you know,
993
00:46:57,648 --> 00:47:00,984
a new edition to Cypress Hill,
like, officially, like...
994
00:47:01,568 --> 00:47:03,612
I wanna say
what's up to the Beastie Boys
995
00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:06,865
down in Lollapalooza right now.
996
00:47:06,907 --> 00:47:08,242
Oh, yes.
997
00:47:08,283 --> 00:47:10,536
And we kinda have
the same thing in common.
998
00:47:10,577 --> 00:47:12,996
It's this motherfucker
right here.
999
00:47:14,998 --> 00:47:19,419
That's the new addition
to Cypress Hill, Eric Bobo,
1000
00:47:19,461 --> 00:47:22,714
on the motherfucking percussions
at this time.
1001
00:47:22,756 --> 00:47:25,133
Yeah, you know,
we stole Eric Bobo
1002
00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:26,468
from the Beasties.
1003
00:47:26,510 --> 00:47:28,929
You know, we decided
we're gonna snatch him up,
1004
00:47:28,971 --> 00:47:32,558
and we knew we would win
that fight all day.
1005
00:47:33,308 --> 00:47:35,143
We had the better weed.
1006
00:47:37,646 --> 00:47:39,231
Any chance
the band got,
1007
00:47:39,273 --> 00:47:40,983
they pressed the issue.
1008
00:47:41,024 --> 00:47:42,442
People gave them shit for it,
1009
00:47:42,484 --> 00:47:44,736
but they always smoked weed
on stage.
1010
00:47:44,778 --> 00:47:46,780
Every show was a smoke-out.
1011
00:47:46,822 --> 00:47:49,324
What happened on
Saturday Night Live?
1012
00:47:49,366 --> 00:47:50,409
Yeah, so...
1013
00:47:50,450 --> 00:47:52,536
Ladies and gentlemen,
Cypress Hill.
1014
00:47:55,706 --> 00:47:57,749
I'm sitting
in the dressing room,
1015
00:47:57,791 --> 00:47:59,793
early, during rehearsal,
rolling a joint.
1016
00:47:59,835 --> 00:48:02,296
And Sony Music comes in,
and is like,
1017
00:48:02,337 --> 00:48:04,047
"You can't light no weed
on stage tonight."
1018
00:48:04,089 --> 00:48:05,424
I'm like, no problem.
1019
00:48:05,465 --> 00:48:08,677
They came in, like, 10 times
to tell me the same shit.
1020
00:48:09,386 --> 00:48:10,679
So, I was like,
you know what?
1021
00:48:10,721 --> 00:48:13,015
Once again, Cypress Hill.
1022
00:48:15,517 --> 00:48:16,935
Yo, New York City,
1023
00:48:16,977 --> 00:48:18,562
they said I couldn't
light my joint,
1024
00:48:18,604 --> 00:48:19,897
you know what I'm saying?
1025
00:48:19,938 --> 00:48:21,398
But we ain't going out
like that.
1026
00:48:21,440 --> 00:48:23,525
We say...
1027
00:48:23,567 --> 00:48:25,569
We ain't going out
1028
00:48:25,611 --> 00:48:27,487
And I lit
that motherfucker.
1029
00:48:27,529 --> 00:48:30,532
They said the phones
went on right away.
1030
00:48:30,574 --> 00:48:32,326
Everybody started
calling on there,
1031
00:48:32,367 --> 00:48:34,119
calling and calling and calling.
1032
00:48:35,120 --> 00:48:36,580
I wouldn't have lit it,
1033
00:48:36,622 --> 00:48:37,831
but the fact
they kept pushing me
1034
00:48:37,873 --> 00:48:39,249
and kept pushing me,
and kept pushing me,
1035
00:48:39,291 --> 00:48:40,876
and I'm like, man, fuck this,
we punk rock.
1036
00:48:40,918 --> 00:48:43,253
About to light
this motherfucker right now.
1037
00:48:44,504 --> 00:48:46,214
Sen and B were mad at me.
1038
00:48:46,256 --> 00:48:47,424
They was like, "Why the fuck
did you do this?
1039
00:48:47,466 --> 00:48:49,676
We're banned, we can't
go on the show no more."
1040
00:48:49,718 --> 00:48:51,303
You know, I didn't give a fuck.
1041
00:48:51,345 --> 00:48:55,807
We're banned,
and didn't hurt us all.
1042
00:48:55,849 --> 00:48:58,310
We ain't going out like that.
1043
00:48:58,352 --> 00:49:01,063
Cypress Hill,
we coming at you, dog!
1044
00:49:02,147 --> 00:49:03,482
Peace.
1045
00:49:12,032 --> 00:49:14,993
Right here real quick.
One-- one second.
1046
00:49:18,580 --> 00:49:20,290
Hold-- hold on, B.
1047
00:49:21,458 --> 00:49:22,668
B, don't blink.
1048
00:49:22,709 --> 00:49:24,461
I got my eyes closed,
papi, you can't tell?
1049
00:49:26,880 --> 00:49:29,841
I've had 'em closed
this whole time.
1050
00:49:29,883 --> 00:49:31,718
Yeah, right there.
1051
00:49:31,760 --> 00:49:33,428
Perfect,
are we ready to go?
1052
00:49:33,470 --> 00:49:34,680
-Yeah.
-Yeah.
1053
00:49:34,721 --> 00:49:37,557
That's one thing I could
always say about the unit here,
1054
00:49:37,599 --> 00:49:39,935
is that we could always
get down on stage.
1055
00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:43,480
From the very first beginnings
to, like, what we turned into,
1056
00:49:43,522 --> 00:49:45,148
we were always, like,
I almost feel like
1057
00:49:45,190 --> 00:49:47,484
we were, like, naturals
on the stage at one point,
1058
00:49:47,526 --> 00:49:49,861
'cause no rehearsal,
get off a flight,
1059
00:49:49,903 --> 00:49:51,905
go to the stage and kill it,
you know what I mean?
1060
00:49:51,947 --> 00:49:53,448
-That's the shit.
-Snap in--
1061
00:49:53,490 --> 00:49:55,617
-just snap right into it.
-Snap right into it.
1062
00:49:55,659 --> 00:49:58,036
You know, we were always,
you know, pushing things,
1063
00:49:58,078 --> 00:50:02,374
like to try to do what others
wouldn't expect us to do,
1064
00:50:02,416 --> 00:50:03,917
or what they weren't
doing right.
1065
00:50:03,959 --> 00:50:07,045
And one of those things was,
I think one of the Smoke Outs,
1066
00:50:07,087 --> 00:50:09,798
we planned it to where
on the "Get High" portion
1067
00:50:09,840 --> 00:50:13,468
of the show, that we were gonna
have two of the homeboys
1068
00:50:13,510 --> 00:50:16,555
dressed in cop suits
come and pull me off
1069
00:50:16,596 --> 00:50:18,265
like I had violated something.
1070
00:50:18,306 --> 00:50:20,142
What the fuck's
going on, y'all?
1071
00:50:21,268 --> 00:50:22,978
Can't hear that shit!
What?!
1072
00:50:23,020 --> 00:50:25,772
And you all stirred
the crowd up like crazy.
1073
00:50:25,814 --> 00:50:28,400
And then, I came out
looking like...
1074
00:50:28,442 --> 00:50:29,860
-A pig.
-And then the fucking--
1075
00:50:29,901 --> 00:50:31,486
yes, looking like the pig.
1076
00:50:31,528 --> 00:50:33,321
What the fuck?
1077
00:50:35,490 --> 00:50:37,701
Fuck you, pig!
1078
00:50:37,743 --> 00:50:40,203
The fuck's going on here?
1079
00:50:41,997 --> 00:50:43,373
I wake up every morning...
1080
00:50:43,415 --> 00:50:44,666
It was kinda theatrics,
1081
00:50:44,708 --> 00:50:46,710
and that shit was effective,
'cause everybody
1082
00:50:46,752 --> 00:50:48,545
was talking
about that after, right?
1083
00:50:48,587 --> 00:50:51,590
So, it's not just a show,
it's an experience.
1084
00:50:51,631 --> 00:50:53,842
And we always put
those extra efforts
1085
00:50:53,884 --> 00:50:57,929
that, you know, the folks that
came to see us didn't expect.
1086
00:51:00,557 --> 00:51:02,726
Like, at that time,
hip-hop artists
1087
00:51:02,768 --> 00:51:05,854
hadn't figured out
how to have a stage presence.
1088
00:51:06,813 --> 00:51:09,900
But Cypress, we did it
like a fucking punk rock show,
1089
00:51:09,941 --> 00:51:12,402
combined with a cannabis
convention,
1090
00:51:12,444 --> 00:51:13,862
mixed with Pink Floyd,
1091
00:51:13,904 --> 00:51:17,199
not to mention
the giant inflatable Buddha.
1092
00:51:17,741 --> 00:51:19,951
Right before fucking
"I Wanna Get High,"
1093
00:51:19,993 --> 00:51:22,954
they used to black out the crowd
and smoke up the stage,
1094
00:51:22,996 --> 00:51:26,374
and then I used to have
to creep in and fill up
1095
00:51:26,416 --> 00:51:28,543
this big-ass Buddha with air,
1096
00:51:28,585 --> 00:51:32,005
and the Buddha would just
arrive in the smoke.
1097
00:51:32,047 --> 00:51:35,425
And then, "I Wanna Get High"
beat would drop.
1098
00:51:36,510 --> 00:51:38,512
And then I used
to shake the Buddha
1099
00:51:38,553 --> 00:51:40,722
so it looked like it was dancing
to the beat.
1100
00:51:40,764 --> 00:51:42,307
Bobo!
1101
00:51:43,517 --> 00:51:46,394
Bring forth Excalibur!
1102
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:54,236
Ohhh!
1103
00:51:58,323 --> 00:51:59,199
Shit!
1104
00:51:59,241 --> 00:52:01,284
-Yeah, no.
-You remember hitting Excalibur
1105
00:52:01,326 --> 00:52:02,619
for the first time?
1106
00:52:02,661 --> 00:52:03,787
Yes, I do.
1107
00:52:07,040 --> 00:52:08,708
-That's the, "oh."
-Mm-hmm.
1108
00:52:08,750 --> 00:52:09,876
'Cause you and I were trading,
1109
00:52:09,918 --> 00:52:12,170
'cause I was doing it first,
right?
1110
00:52:12,212 --> 00:52:15,715
And then, you wanted
to try it one day.
1111
00:52:15,757 --> 00:52:17,926
And I was like,
"Yeah, come on, Bobo,"
1112
00:52:17,968 --> 00:52:19,636
and fucking Bobo did it.
1113
00:52:19,678 --> 00:52:21,429
And he became
Big Lung Bobo.
1114
00:52:21,471 --> 00:52:22,639
Big Lung, baby.
1115
00:52:28,687 --> 00:52:32,107
Fucking hit it,
hold it in even.
1116
00:52:32,149 --> 00:52:33,650
How you did that,
I don't know,
1117
00:52:33,692 --> 00:52:36,236
and then fucking blow
all that shit out slowly.
1118
00:52:36,278 --> 00:52:38,155
It was like art.
1119
00:52:40,949 --> 00:52:44,744
Pick it, pack it,
fire it up, come along
1120
00:52:44,786 --> 00:52:46,705
And take a hit
from the bong
1121
00:52:46,746 --> 00:52:49,040
Put the blunt down
just for a second
1122
00:52:49,082 --> 00:52:51,710
Don't get me wrong,
it's not a new method
1123
00:52:51,751 --> 00:52:54,671
Inhale, exhale
1124
00:52:54,713 --> 00:52:56,840
I sent you an ounce
in the mail
1125
00:52:56,882 --> 00:52:58,091
We're gonna
bronze your lungs
1126
00:52:58,133 --> 00:52:59,593
and put 'em
in the cannabis museum.
1127
00:52:59,634 --> 00:53:01,052
Yep, we're taking
your lungs.
1128
00:53:01,094 --> 00:53:02,512
Watch him have
perfect lungs, when he's done,
1129
00:53:02,554 --> 00:53:05,265
they're still pink
and looking all pretty.
1130
00:53:05,307 --> 00:53:07,475
Notice the resin build-up.
1131
00:53:08,602 --> 00:53:11,396
Plug it, unplug it,
don't strain
1132
00:53:11,438 --> 00:53:13,648
I love you, Mary Jane!
1133
00:53:13,690 --> 00:53:14,983
Sing my song
1134
00:53:15,025 --> 00:53:17,068
Puff all night long
1135
00:53:17,110 --> 00:53:18,862
As I take hits
from the bong
1136
00:53:18,904 --> 00:53:22,824
Hits from the bong
1137
00:53:22,866 --> 00:53:24,451
Hits from
the bong
1138
00:53:24,492 --> 00:53:25,785
Hits from the bong
1139
00:53:25,827 --> 00:53:27,787
Hits from
the bong
1140
00:53:30,957 --> 00:53:32,626
If you even notice,
1141
00:53:32,667 --> 00:53:36,004
this beat
doesn't really lock.
1142
00:53:36,046 --> 00:53:39,174
I mean, it's like...
Okay?
1143
00:53:39,216 --> 00:53:42,969
And so, at the time,
people would be like,
1144
00:53:43,011 --> 00:53:45,222
"The beat's fucked up, man,
you can't use that,
1145
00:53:45,263 --> 00:53:46,264
the beat's fucked up."
1146
00:53:46,306 --> 00:53:48,600
But it's just like, well,
no, it's not,
1147
00:53:48,642 --> 00:53:50,685
because when you...
1148
00:53:51,645 --> 00:53:53,355
When you put it in with...
1149
00:53:55,190 --> 00:53:58,985
This kinda just, you know,
it sits lazy.
1150
00:53:59,027 --> 00:54:01,488
Here.
But lock 'em together...
1151
00:54:04,991 --> 00:54:07,994
You got that loopy kinda...
1152
00:54:09,955 --> 00:54:12,082
And that's where
when you go, like...
1153
00:54:12,123 --> 00:54:16,253
If you weren't like...
you'd be like, "It's fucked up."
1154
00:54:16,294 --> 00:54:18,296
"No, man, that shit
ain't fucked up.
1155
00:54:18,338 --> 00:54:20,632
That shit's--
that shit's perfect, man.
1156
00:54:20,674 --> 00:54:23,134
That's-- that's feel."
And then...
1157
00:54:23,176 --> 00:54:24,803
Making those records stoned--
1158
00:54:24,844 --> 00:54:27,180
and I know it's a shock
to everyone
1159
00:54:27,222 --> 00:54:29,849
that we made
those records stoned.
1160
00:54:29,891 --> 00:54:34,729
I mean, those sessions, man,
we would blaze really hard.
1161
00:54:34,771 --> 00:54:39,526
But it did make a difference
in the production
1162
00:54:39,567 --> 00:54:41,611
of the way
the records were made.
1163
00:54:41,653 --> 00:54:43,488
So, it's like...
you know, like...
1164
00:54:43,530 --> 00:54:45,115
"Okay," and you're listening,
1165
00:54:45,156 --> 00:54:47,742
and it's just like,
"Oh, gotta start fading,"
1166
00:54:47,784 --> 00:54:50,787
and it's like, "No, no, no.
Don't fade it yet.
1167
00:54:50,829 --> 00:54:53,832
We gotta let it keep--
let it go, man, let it go.
1168
00:54:53,873 --> 00:54:56,084
This is feeling good-- no!
1169
00:54:56,126 --> 00:54:58,837
Okay.
Now, now we can start.
1170
00:54:58,878 --> 00:55:03,008
Slow. Slow.
Fade it slow. Slow."
1171
00:55:03,049 --> 00:55:05,760
That's the kind of shit
that happens when you're stoned.
1172
00:55:05,802 --> 00:55:10,932
Production choices
were definitely enhanced
1173
00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:13,476
by, you know, being in
an altered state.
1174
00:55:14,185 --> 00:55:17,230
This right here has
every laminate
1175
00:55:17,272 --> 00:55:19,190
from every tour.
1176
00:55:19,232 --> 00:55:23,903
These are what we'd give you
if you were like a friend,
1177
00:55:23,945 --> 00:55:27,449
a family member,
or even a hot chick,
1178
00:55:27,490 --> 00:55:29,993
if we didn't know you,
and just give you one of these.
1179
00:55:30,035 --> 00:55:31,661
Put it right there,
1180
00:55:31,703 --> 00:55:33,496
and let's roll.
1181
00:55:33,538 --> 00:55:37,042
Every nigga out there
wanna be down with the crew...
1182
00:55:37,083 --> 00:55:38,877
We're in Melbourne,
1183
00:55:38,918 --> 00:55:41,921
home of Crocodilo Dundee.
1184
00:55:41,963 --> 00:55:45,175
I'm right here chilling.
Got the bong.
1185
00:55:46,301 --> 00:55:49,721
I remember
we got to Australia,
1186
00:55:49,763 --> 00:55:52,349
and Public Enemy,
they were playing.
1187
00:55:52,390 --> 00:55:54,309
This was a time that you
and Flavor,
1188
00:55:54,351 --> 00:55:57,687
y'all were just going, like,
back and forth, freestyling,
1189
00:55:57,729 --> 00:56:01,608
like the two best
hype men ever.
1190
00:56:01,649 --> 00:56:02,776
What's cracking, big dog?
1191
00:56:02,817 --> 00:56:05,820
-Nothing, dog.
-What's tonight's forecast?
1192
00:56:05,862 --> 00:56:10,200
420, heavy smoke.
Much wreckage on the stage.
1193
00:56:15,914 --> 00:56:18,416
High as you can 'cause
you can't fuck with this
1194
00:56:18,458 --> 00:56:21,169
Nigga, when I got the Glock,
you better duck quick
1195
00:56:31,054 --> 00:56:32,764
Fuck you.
1196
00:56:36,851 --> 00:56:38,603
But we always
did sprinkle
1197
00:56:38,645 --> 00:56:40,188
a little bit of Latin flavor.
1198
00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:42,440
And when we'd go
to Latin-speaking countries,
1199
00:56:42,482 --> 00:56:45,610
they'd want us to play
those songs specifically.
1200
00:56:47,821 --> 00:56:49,739
That's what made us decide
1201
00:56:49,781 --> 00:56:51,408
to put a Spanish album
out there.
1202
00:56:51,449 --> 00:56:55,662
And we didn't expect
the impact the album would have.
1203
00:56:55,703 --> 00:56:56,996
It sort of opened the door
1204
00:56:57,038 --> 00:56:59,874
for other Spanish-speaking
hip-hop albums.
1205
00:57:09,384 --> 00:57:12,137
Oh, I must be over here.
1206
00:57:12,178 --> 00:57:14,222
Born to get busy
1207
00:57:14,264 --> 00:57:16,683
Born to get busy, baby
1208
00:57:16,724 --> 00:57:18,810
Japan, scandalous.
1209
00:57:18,852 --> 00:57:20,854
Got the camera.
This is how we do it.
1210
00:57:20,895 --> 00:57:23,398
Hey, look, we got
one more song to do.
1211
00:57:23,440 --> 00:57:25,859
Born to get busy, baby
1212
00:57:25,900 --> 00:57:28,111
Born to get busy
1213
00:57:28,153 --> 00:57:30,155
Born to get busy, baby
1214
00:57:30,196 --> 00:57:33,074
If B-Real knew that
we were gonna be somewhere,
1215
00:57:33,116 --> 00:57:35,118
and he knew that there wasn't
gonna be no weed,
1216
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:37,662
he would have the shit
Fed Ex-ed out there
1217
00:57:37,704 --> 00:57:38,913
ahead of time.
1218
00:57:38,955 --> 00:57:42,459
Could this be
what they call...
1219
00:57:42,500 --> 00:57:44,043
weed?
1220
00:57:44,085 --> 00:57:47,797
I am the international
smuggler extraordinaire.
1221
00:57:49,924 --> 00:57:51,551
This is beautiful.
We in Africa, baby.
1222
00:57:51,593 --> 00:57:53,845
That motherfucker's slowly
coming over, bro.
1223
00:57:55,138 --> 00:57:57,974
How's that for Soul Assassins
worldwide?
1224
00:57:58,016 --> 00:58:01,102
Buck-fucking-wild right now!
1225
00:58:01,144 --> 00:58:04,314
Put your fists
in the air like this!
1226
00:58:04,355 --> 00:58:06,399
I remember
our first time in Europe,
1227
00:58:06,441 --> 00:58:08,818
when there was a lot of
build-up 'cause, you know,
1228
00:58:08,860 --> 00:58:10,195
on our first album,
we hadn't gone there.
1229
00:58:10,236 --> 00:58:14,782
Unh! Unh! Unh! Unh!
Unh! Unh! Unh! Unh!
1230
00:58:14,824 --> 00:58:18,453
Unh! Unh! Unh! Unh!
Unh! Unh!
1231
00:58:19,496 --> 00:58:22,957
Live, let's just
talk about live stage show.
1232
00:58:22,999 --> 00:58:24,834
Not many people
could fuck with B-Real
1233
00:58:24,876 --> 00:58:26,419
and Sen Dog on stage,
you know what I mean?
1234
00:58:26,461 --> 00:58:30,215
Like, their camaraderie,
B-Real's showmanship.
1235
00:58:30,256 --> 00:58:32,258
They got respect
from the East Coast,
1236
00:58:32,300 --> 00:58:35,053
from the South,
from the North, overseas.
1237
00:58:35,094 --> 00:58:37,222
They got respect
across the map.
1238
00:58:37,263 --> 00:58:40,016
We're in Germany right now.
1239
00:58:40,058 --> 00:58:42,185
We're in Berlin, Germany,
that is,
1240
00:58:42,227 --> 00:58:45,396
home of Adolfo Shitler.
1241
00:58:45,438 --> 00:58:48,942
We're here, you know,
being tourists, you know?
1242
00:58:56,699 --> 00:58:59,869
I remember we had just
done a show in Amsterdam,
1243
00:58:59,911 --> 00:59:01,996
so we were stocked up
on weed, and hash,
1244
00:59:02,038 --> 00:59:03,289
and all this other shit, right?
1245
00:59:03,331 --> 00:59:05,959
See, and then you can buy
this kind of stuff here,
1246
00:59:06,000 --> 00:59:07,335
you know,
in the coffee shop.
1247
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:08,962
That's how you can do it.
1248
00:59:09,003 --> 00:59:11,047
Look at that.
Beautiful.
1249
00:59:11,089 --> 00:59:12,507
And we had
stashed it up.
1250
00:59:12,549 --> 00:59:16,886
And they search all our bags,
but they don't find anything.
1251
00:59:16,928 --> 00:59:18,137
And they come to Bobo,
1252
00:59:18,179 --> 00:59:20,056
and they look
at Bobo's passport,
1253
00:59:20,098 --> 00:59:23,268
the hash ball's stuck
on the face of his picture.
1254
00:59:23,309 --> 00:59:25,478
That shit was everything.
1255
00:59:25,520 --> 00:59:27,230
And homeboy's like,
"What is this?"
1256
00:59:28,982 --> 00:59:30,400
I don't know.
I don't know.
1257
00:59:30,441 --> 00:59:32,569
I don't know
how that got there, bro.
1258
00:59:33,236 --> 00:59:35,572
He's a pro at that, man.
1259
00:59:35,613 --> 00:59:38,408
He's a motherfucking pro
at that, man.
1260
00:59:39,409 --> 00:59:43,121
-What's your name?
-Dr. Greenthumb.
1261
00:59:43,162 --> 00:59:46,749
Hello, Dr. Greenthumb?
Paging Dr. Greenthumb!
1262
00:59:55,925 --> 00:59:58,094
Dr. Greenthumb
is a character
1263
00:59:58,136 --> 01:00:00,096
I created from a song.
1264
01:00:00,138 --> 01:00:02,098
We were working on
Cypress Hill IV,
1265
01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:04,767
and you know,
I heard this beat,
1266
01:00:04,809 --> 01:00:06,811
and it was infectious.
1267
01:00:08,104 --> 01:00:10,565
I realized I had
something there,
1268
01:00:10,607 --> 01:00:13,735
you know, in terms of a song
that our fans were gonna love.
1269
01:00:13,776 --> 01:00:16,154
Dr. Greenthumb,
come on back one time.
1270
01:00:16,195 --> 01:00:18,531
People can't live
without the herb, man
1271
01:00:18,573 --> 01:00:20,783
If not, they'd be drinking
and driving and swerving
1272
01:00:20,825 --> 01:00:23,036
But thanks to Dr. Greenthumb,
weed grow
1273
01:00:23,077 --> 01:00:25,413
In the backyard
or inside with hydro
1274
01:00:25,455 --> 01:00:26,831
And more than anything,
1275
01:00:26,873 --> 01:00:28,541
what gave life to it
was the video.
1276
01:00:28,583 --> 01:00:30,335
People knew we were
talking about weed,
1277
01:00:30,376 --> 01:00:31,461
but we couldn't show it
1278
01:00:31,502 --> 01:00:34,130
if we were gonna get MTV
or BET play,
1279
01:00:34,172 --> 01:00:36,132
or any kind of play, so...
1280
01:00:36,174 --> 01:00:38,301
So, we got
Little Shop of Horrors,
1281
01:00:38,343 --> 01:00:40,011
the original guy
that made the puppet,
1282
01:00:40,053 --> 01:00:42,805
and he came and did
the puppetwork.
1283
01:00:43,681 --> 01:00:45,433
That song
started catching,
1284
01:00:45,475 --> 01:00:46,893
it became a cult classic.
1285
01:00:46,934 --> 01:00:49,812
And what it did for me
was allow me
1286
01:00:49,854 --> 01:00:50,813
to create my alter ego.
1287
01:00:50,855 --> 01:00:53,274
Hello, my name
is Dr. Greenthumb
1288
01:00:53,316 --> 01:00:55,610
Hello, my name is
Dr. Greenthumb
1289
01:00:55,652 --> 01:00:57,904
Hello, my name
is Dr. Greenthumb
1290
01:00:57,945 --> 01:01:00,323
That song, it's a part
of who I am,
1291
01:01:00,365 --> 01:01:03,117
it's a part of my history,
a part of my legacy.
1292
01:01:03,159 --> 01:01:05,370
I started throwing events
under Dr. Greenthumb,
1293
01:01:05,411 --> 01:01:07,872
and Dr. Greenthumb's
Spring Gathering,
1294
01:01:07,914 --> 01:01:12,335
and all this other shit
that led me to eventually making
1295
01:01:12,377 --> 01:01:14,796
the Dr. Greenthumb brand
in cannabis.
1296
01:01:16,130 --> 01:01:18,299
And it gave me
a different identity
1297
01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:20,051
than B-Real, the rapper.
1298
01:01:20,093 --> 01:01:21,302
Doctor.
1299
01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:23,137
-Is it now?
-What's in there?
1300
01:01:23,179 --> 01:01:25,098
-What's in there?
-What's in the black box?
1301
01:01:25,139 --> 01:01:26,891
-Ha-ha!
-Oh, shit.
1302
01:01:26,933 --> 01:01:28,935
I called it.
Mushrooms.
1303
01:01:28,976 --> 01:01:30,269
Get the fuck out.
1304
01:01:30,311 --> 01:01:31,479
Aw, you-- hey, yo.
1305
01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:35,316
That's a lot of 'em, man.
That's a lot of 'em.
1306
01:01:35,358 --> 01:01:38,069
We had many relationships
with these mushrooms,
1307
01:01:38,111 --> 01:01:39,153
-just like these.
-Oh, boy.
1308
01:01:39,195 --> 01:01:41,406
Well, I'm banned
from those, so...
1309
01:01:42,573 --> 01:01:45,410
You remember--
you remember what happened
1310
01:01:45,451 --> 01:01:47,203
with Sen Dog.
1311
01:01:47,245 --> 01:01:48,413
He had some shrooms,
1312
01:01:48,454 --> 01:01:50,289
somebody threw a hat
up on stage,
1313
01:01:50,331 --> 01:01:53,042
and then Sen Dog
looks at the hat.
1314
01:01:53,084 --> 01:01:55,962
And he stops the song,
he said, "Stop! Stop!
1315
01:01:56,003 --> 01:01:58,089
Stop! Stop!
1316
01:01:58,131 --> 01:02:01,092
Who threw this hat
up on stage?
1317
01:02:01,134 --> 01:02:03,261
Who threw this?
This is fucked up."
1318
01:02:03,302 --> 01:02:05,221
Get the fuck up!
1319
01:02:07,432 --> 01:02:10,810
And me, B, we were looking
at each other like,
1320
01:02:10,852 --> 01:02:13,938
"Yo, what the fuck?
What the fuck did the hat say?"
1321
01:02:15,356 --> 01:02:18,568
We go into the next song,
which is "Insane in the Brain."
1322
01:02:18,609 --> 01:02:20,403
B does his verse
and everything like that.
1323
01:02:20,445 --> 01:02:21,571
We're shroomed out.
1324
01:02:21,612 --> 01:02:24,282
And all of a sudden,
Sen Dog gets to his verse,
1325
01:02:24,323 --> 01:02:26,367
and he's doing the verse
like this...
1326
01:02:26,409 --> 01:02:27,994
"Do my shit undercover,
now it's time
1327
01:02:28,035 --> 01:02:31,497
for the blubber, blabber--"
like this to the dude, right?
1328
01:02:31,539 --> 01:02:33,499
After the show,
Sen Dog's tripping.
1329
01:02:33,541 --> 01:02:35,752
Sen Dog does not let go
of this hat.
1330
01:02:35,793 --> 01:02:38,045
And then we see him...
1331
01:02:38,087 --> 01:02:40,339
We see him around
this trashcan,
1332
01:02:40,381 --> 01:02:43,050
and he's like,
talking to the hat.
1333
01:02:43,801 --> 01:02:45,470
"Motherfucker, fucker,"
like this.
1334
01:02:45,511 --> 01:02:48,222
And then, finally, he throws
the hat in the trashcan,
1335
01:02:48,264 --> 01:02:50,224
and then he walks off.
1336
01:02:50,266 --> 01:02:52,351
We all fucking think,
all right, this is our chance.
1337
01:02:52,393 --> 01:02:54,771
Let's see what the fuck
this hat says.
1338
01:02:54,812 --> 01:02:58,232
And we's expecting it
to say "Fuck Sen Dog,"
1339
01:02:58,274 --> 01:03:00,234
"Fuck Cypress," whatever.
1340
01:03:00,276 --> 01:03:05,072
The hat said
"Banana Boat Tanning Company."
1341
01:03:07,200 --> 01:03:08,201
That was it.
1342
01:03:08,242 --> 01:03:11,454
This fool thinks that this guy
1343
01:03:11,496 --> 01:03:13,456
was talking about
the Cuban refugees
1344
01:03:13,498 --> 01:03:16,626
that were coming on the boats,
and they called 'em banana boat.
1345
01:03:16,667 --> 01:03:20,004
It's a damn tanning company,
but he flipped.
1346
01:03:22,924 --> 01:03:25,510
Those days,
we used to tour like hell.
1347
01:03:27,261 --> 01:03:29,931
We had to be out on the road.
1348
01:03:29,972 --> 01:03:33,351
And I remember one day,
we had just got home,
1349
01:03:33,392 --> 01:03:35,853
we were in LAX,
and we're picking up our bags.
1350
01:03:35,895 --> 01:03:38,481
We just got home from touring,
I hear B-Real say,
1351
01:03:38,523 --> 01:03:41,275
"Man, I can't wait
to get back out there."
1352
01:03:42,693 --> 01:03:45,655
And I looked at him like, fuck,
why don't I feel like that?
1353
01:03:46,697 --> 01:03:49,158
This is when Sen Dog...
1354
01:03:51,160 --> 01:03:52,537
wanted to have a good time.
1355
01:03:52,578 --> 01:03:53,788
-Get it on video.
-Look over to first.
1356
01:03:53,830 --> 01:03:55,581
Can the video keep up
with the donut?
1357
01:03:55,623 --> 01:03:57,875
The high leg kick.
1358
01:03:57,917 --> 01:04:00,419
--Strike, you're out!
1359
01:04:00,461 --> 01:04:05,466
The promoter came over and said,
"Hey, man, how's it going?"
1360
01:04:05,508 --> 01:04:06,801
And I go, "It's going great.
1361
01:04:06,843 --> 01:04:09,679
Fucking, we're having
the time of our life.
1362
01:04:09,720 --> 01:04:14,475
It only took us like 27 hours
to get here, but we love it."
1363
01:04:14,517 --> 01:04:16,894
He goes, "Everything's cool?"
And I go, "Yeah."
1364
01:04:16,936 --> 01:04:18,771
He goes, "Are you sure?"
I go, "Yeah, yeah.
1365
01:04:18,813 --> 01:04:20,648
Everything's great, man.
Love it."
1366
01:04:20,690 --> 01:04:24,151
He goes, "Um... the reason
I'm asking
1367
01:04:24,193 --> 01:04:26,821
is 'cause one of the guys...
1368
01:04:28,656 --> 01:04:31,325
destroyed one
of the dressing rooms."
1369
01:04:31,367 --> 01:04:33,995
And I go, "No way.
Let me see."
1370
01:04:34,036 --> 01:04:36,706
And I went over there,
and I was like, whoa!
1371
01:04:37,456 --> 01:04:39,959
Okay, and he go--
I go, "So, now what?"
1372
01:04:40,001 --> 01:04:42,628
He goes, "So, now what, this."
1373
01:04:42,670 --> 01:04:45,214
And he hands me a bill,
and it was $4,000.
1374
01:04:47,049 --> 01:04:49,093
Think all I really
needed was a rest,
1375
01:04:49,135 --> 01:04:50,219
but we didn't do that, man.
1376
01:04:50,261 --> 01:04:52,138
You know, we were,
you know, tour,
1377
01:04:52,179 --> 01:04:53,514
put an album out, we'd tour.
1378
01:04:53,556 --> 01:04:55,975
Another album, and we'd tour,
another album, and we'd tour,
1379
01:04:56,017 --> 01:04:57,393
it was a cycle.
1380
01:04:57,435 --> 01:05:00,021
You know, I got
kinda sick of it.
1381
01:05:01,772 --> 01:05:04,609
So, I would do things
like leave when I wanted to,
1382
01:05:04,650 --> 01:05:06,903
come a day late,
leave a day early.
1383
01:05:06,944 --> 01:05:09,405
I remember one time
that were all at the airport,
1384
01:05:09,447 --> 01:05:11,574
and he said,
"I'll be right back."
1385
01:05:12,533 --> 01:05:15,828
And this fool had called up
somebody to pick him up.
1386
01:05:15,870 --> 01:05:18,289
And we're waiting for him
to come back from the bathroom,
1387
01:05:18,331 --> 01:05:21,083
and he leaves,
he goes back home.
1388
01:05:21,125 --> 01:05:22,585
And we're going to Europe.
1389
01:05:22,627 --> 01:05:24,378
One time
we was going to Japan
1390
01:05:24,420 --> 01:05:26,130
and Sen was on the plane
right in front of me,
1391
01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:29,300
and then we started taking off,
and Sen wasn't on the plane.
1392
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:32,428
Sometimes he'd stay
on the full tour,
1393
01:05:32,470 --> 01:05:33,721
sometimes he wouldn't.
1394
01:05:33,763 --> 01:05:35,306
You know,
I was the tour manager,
1395
01:05:35,348 --> 01:05:37,391
so I go in to get Sen Dog,
1396
01:05:37,433 --> 01:05:39,810
calling the room,
he don't answer.
1397
01:05:39,852 --> 01:05:42,438
I tell the people,
hey, I need a key to the room,
1398
01:05:42,480 --> 01:05:45,274
you know, 'cause maybe
this guy overslept.
1399
01:05:46,484 --> 01:05:47,777
It's like, fucking empty.
1400
01:05:47,818 --> 01:05:51,405
No clothes, no bags,
no Sen Dog.
1401
01:05:54,575 --> 01:05:56,577
What was the points
where, you know,
1402
01:05:56,619 --> 01:05:58,329
where you would leave?
1403
01:05:58,371 --> 01:06:02,083
Was it something we said,
or something we did, or...?
1404
01:06:02,124 --> 01:06:03,167
-Mm.
-Was there something
1405
01:06:03,209 --> 01:06:05,878
that pissed you off,
or just was, and you were...?
1406
01:06:05,920 --> 01:06:09,507
No, man, it was nothing
that any of the brothers did
1407
01:06:09,548 --> 01:06:10,967
on the tour bus
or anything like that.
1408
01:06:11,008 --> 01:06:14,553
It was, I can honestly say
it was all really me.
1409
01:06:14,595 --> 01:06:16,389
You know what I mean?
I just didn't wanna be out there
1410
01:06:16,430 --> 01:06:18,557
anymore, you know what I mean,
I wanted to go out.
1411
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:20,518
And if we were out
for six weeks,
1412
01:06:20,559 --> 01:06:21,811
and somewhere around
the third week
1413
01:06:21,852 --> 01:06:23,688
I decided I'm done,
I'm leaving,
1414
01:06:23,729 --> 01:06:26,315
and there's nothing anybody
could do to hold me back.
1415
01:06:30,695 --> 01:06:34,657
As you can see, Sen Dog
is not with our crew no longer,
1416
01:06:34,699 --> 01:06:37,785
and we want y'all,
as well as us,
1417
01:06:37,827 --> 01:06:40,579
we're gonna give him
a peace, and much props,
1418
01:06:40,621 --> 01:06:42,957
and good luck in his new career.
1419
01:06:48,045 --> 01:06:52,967
No matter what, he will always
be a part of Cypress Hill,
1420
01:06:53,009 --> 01:06:55,594
because that's what
homeboys are about.
1421
01:06:55,636 --> 01:06:57,805
-Pretty much.
-If your homeboy or homegirl
1422
01:06:57,847 --> 01:07:01,350
needs a change in their lives,
it's up to you as friends
1423
01:07:01,392 --> 01:07:04,145
to accept the change
and help them move on
1424
01:07:04,186 --> 01:07:07,523
-and be understanding.
-That's right.
1425
01:07:07,565 --> 01:07:08,983
You all know
what I'm saying?
1426
01:07:09,025 --> 01:07:10,776
It took a little bit
of wind out of the sails,
1427
01:07:10,818 --> 01:07:12,361
'cause it felt like
we were invincible,
1428
01:07:12,403 --> 01:07:14,363
we could not be stopped,
you know?
1429
01:07:14,405 --> 01:07:16,824
We're a force together.
1430
01:07:17,908 --> 01:07:21,412
And here's the fucking
psycobeta,
1431
01:07:21,454 --> 01:07:25,958
the big bad fucking Sen Dog,
he's, pfft, he's gone.
1432
01:07:26,000 --> 01:07:30,046
Peace to Sen Dog
who is also not here.
1433
01:07:30,087 --> 01:07:33,049
I didn't have Sen,
but I had Bobo,
1434
01:07:33,090 --> 01:07:37,136
and we just put 110% effort
into each show.
1435
01:07:37,178 --> 01:07:39,972
Some people tell me
that I need help
1436
01:07:40,014 --> 01:07:42,600
Some people can fuck off
and go to hell
1437
01:07:42,641 --> 01:07:44,727
God damn,
why they criticize me
1438
01:07:44,769 --> 01:07:47,521
Now shit is on the rise
so my family despise me
1439
01:07:47,563 --> 01:07:49,815
The pressure
was fucking on,
1440
01:07:49,857 --> 01:07:51,776
but I never thought
that we were gonna quit,
1441
01:07:51,817 --> 01:07:56,447
because B wasn't gonna quit,
and I was gonna be there.
1442
01:07:56,489 --> 01:07:58,616
And I'm hooked on chronic
1443
01:07:58,657 --> 01:08:01,869
He got behind the turntables,
and then we would get someone
1444
01:08:01,911 --> 01:08:04,246
to kinda like do backups
with B and everything.
1445
01:08:04,288 --> 01:08:06,540
If I had to do Sen's
whole verse, I would do it.
1446
01:08:06,582 --> 01:08:09,001
Lay ya six feet underground
1447
01:08:09,043 --> 01:08:12,046
I'm havin' illusions,
all this confusion's
1448
01:08:12,088 --> 01:08:14,090
Drivin' me mad inside
1449
01:08:14,131 --> 01:08:17,426
I'm havin' illusions,
all this confusion's
1450
01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:19,678
Fuckin' me up in my mind
1451
01:08:19,720 --> 01:08:22,640
I'm havin' illusions,
all this confusion's
1452
01:08:22,681 --> 01:08:24,767
Drivin' me mad inside
1453
01:08:24,809 --> 01:08:27,895
I'm havin' illusions,
all this confusion's
1454
01:08:27,937 --> 01:08:29,897
Fuckin' me up in my mind
1455
01:08:29,939 --> 01:08:34,610
For a few years
it was pretty much me, Bobo,
1456
01:08:34,652 --> 01:08:37,571
and B-Real that kept
the group together,
1457
01:08:37,613 --> 01:08:41,826
'cause Muggs was home
doing remixes
1458
01:08:41,867 --> 01:08:43,786
and Sen was home kicking it.
1459
01:08:43,828 --> 01:08:45,329
He didn't wanna tour
no more,
1460
01:08:45,371 --> 01:08:47,998
so we gotta do
what we gotta do.
1461
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:51,502
'Cause they let a nigga
back on the streets somehow
1462
01:08:51,544 --> 01:08:53,045
We were a little upset
and disappointed
1463
01:08:53,087 --> 01:08:55,256
because you know, we wanted
our brother to be there with us.
1464
01:08:55,297 --> 01:08:59,051
But we understood,
because we were all learning
1465
01:08:59,093 --> 01:09:03,264
how to deal with what
this was becoming for us
1466
01:09:03,305 --> 01:09:04,682
as artists, as young men.
1467
01:09:04,723 --> 01:09:06,725
Cypress por vida, man.
1468
01:09:06,767 --> 01:09:08,644
The fame,
the responsibility
1469
01:09:08,686 --> 01:09:10,563
of having to show up
on these tours
1470
01:09:10,604 --> 01:09:14,650
and go away from your family
for six to eight weeks,
1471
01:09:14,692 --> 01:09:17,862
dealing with some shit
that there is no school for.
1472
01:09:17,903 --> 01:09:20,698
I'm having illusions
1473
01:09:20,739 --> 01:09:22,867
I love you.
1474
01:09:22,908 --> 01:09:24,910
I'm having illusions
1475
01:09:24,952 --> 01:09:27,538
Peace up to the rest
of the Cypress Hill crew.
1476
01:09:27,580 --> 01:09:29,373
Peace out to you.
1477
01:09:30,791 --> 01:09:32,793
No, no, I definitely
felt conflicted, man.
1478
01:09:32,835 --> 01:09:34,962
Like, I feel--
I would feel bad
1479
01:09:35,004 --> 01:09:37,047
because I left the team
in the middle of a game,
1480
01:09:37,089 --> 01:09:39,049
in the middle of a season,
you know what I mean?
1481
01:09:39,091 --> 01:09:40,676
Of course, that played
on my guilt side,
1482
01:09:40,718 --> 01:09:41,927
you know what I mean?
1483
01:09:41,969 --> 01:09:44,638
But at the same time,
I felt like I couldn't breathe
1484
01:09:44,680 --> 01:09:46,348
while I was out there,
you know what I mean,
1485
01:09:46,390 --> 01:09:48,434
and I just had to go somewhere
where I could be like...
1486
01:10:03,616 --> 01:10:05,868
I actually went
to a psychiatrist lady
1487
01:10:05,910 --> 01:10:08,746
that, like, put my head on
straight.
1488
01:10:08,787 --> 01:10:11,624
The way she spoke to me
was profound,
1489
01:10:11,665 --> 01:10:13,584
and it kinda like
straightened me back up
1490
01:10:13,626 --> 01:10:15,544
and put me back
where I needed to be.
1491
01:10:16,795 --> 01:10:18,339
And I recommend that
to any artist,
1492
01:10:18,380 --> 01:10:20,925
that if you feel,
you know, that you can't sleep,
1493
01:10:20,966 --> 01:10:22,843
or you can't eat,
or you're stressed out,
1494
01:10:22,885 --> 01:10:25,304
and you know, you're worried
or whatever,
1495
01:10:25,346 --> 01:10:29,058
talk to somebody, or not,
just take a break.
1496
01:10:30,809 --> 01:10:32,394
You know, take a break
and learn to miss it,
1497
01:10:32,436 --> 01:10:33,520
learn to love it again.
1498
01:10:40,236 --> 01:10:43,072
The bike club is called
the Cypress Hillbillies.
1499
01:10:43,113 --> 01:10:45,407
Down for my barrio,
enter my villa
1500
01:10:45,449 --> 01:10:48,160
The Hill cartel
taking over your area
1501
01:10:48,202 --> 01:10:50,537
Pretty much everybody
in the club
1502
01:10:50,579 --> 01:10:53,624
has an extension
to the block from South Gate.
1503
01:10:55,376 --> 01:10:58,170
Back when we started, like,
you know, 11, 12 years ago,
1504
01:10:58,212 --> 01:11:03,175
I was big into, like, NASCAR
and professional bull riding.
1505
01:11:03,217 --> 01:11:05,344
You know, so the guys
would come over to the house
1506
01:11:05,386 --> 01:11:07,554
or call me, and they'd be like,
"Hey, man, what are you doing?"
1507
01:11:07,596 --> 01:11:10,057
I'd go, "Man, I'm getting ready
to watch this race at Talladega,
1508
01:11:10,099 --> 01:11:12,268
and Dale Earnhardt's racing,
and so-and-so."
1509
01:11:12,309 --> 01:11:14,019
And they're like,
"Man, you're such a hillbilly."
1510
01:11:14,061 --> 01:11:16,438
And that's where it all started,
from there.
1511
01:11:16,480 --> 01:11:18,899
People were like, "Hillbillies?
What kind of name is that?"
1512
01:11:18,941 --> 01:11:21,193
But you know, frankly,
I don't give a damn
1513
01:11:21,235 --> 01:11:22,945
what people think, so.
1514
01:11:22,987 --> 01:11:24,989
Tequila sunrise,
bloodshot eyes
1515
01:11:25,030 --> 01:11:27,950
Realize we're all born to die,
so get the money, money
1516
01:11:27,992 --> 01:11:30,327
Tequila sunrise,
bloodshot eyes
1517
01:11:30,369 --> 01:11:33,122
Realize we're all born to die,
so get the money, money
1518
01:11:33,163 --> 01:11:35,082
I started to grow more
as an artist
1519
01:11:35,124 --> 01:11:38,085
when I kinda like stepped out
of the Cypress Hill thing
1520
01:11:38,127 --> 01:11:41,463
and started a punk-rap band
called SX-10.
1521
01:11:43,924 --> 01:11:47,094
Back up off me
'fore I lose my mind
1522
01:11:47,136 --> 01:11:50,014
I've always liked
metal and rock,
1523
01:11:50,055 --> 01:11:54,101
but when I tried it,
then I fell in love with it.
1524
01:11:59,857 --> 01:12:02,901
I would be the only one
writing the songs there,
1525
01:12:02,943 --> 01:12:04,570
you know what I mean,
so when I got there,
1526
01:12:04,611 --> 01:12:05,863
I had to really apply myself
1527
01:12:05,904 --> 01:12:08,198
and learn how to, you know,
write complete songs
1528
01:12:08,240 --> 01:12:10,784
with verses, and hooks,
and you know,
1529
01:12:10,826 --> 01:12:12,161
and everything in 'em,
you know what I mean?
1530
01:12:12,202 --> 01:12:13,996
And them guys
helped me do that.
1531
01:12:17,082 --> 01:12:20,502
The whole freedom of it all
I think is what I dig the most.
1532
01:12:21,295 --> 01:12:23,797
It helped me find me
as an artist.
1533
01:12:23,839 --> 01:12:26,133
I felt like alive again.
1534
01:12:31,221 --> 01:12:34,350
I remember, it was like
a couple years later,
1535
01:12:34,391 --> 01:12:37,770
I saw Cypress Hill,
it was a festival in Canada
1536
01:12:37,811 --> 01:12:40,689
that they were showing live
on MTV.
1537
01:12:42,649 --> 01:12:44,068
And as I'm watching the show,
1538
01:12:44,109 --> 01:12:45,319
I was like,
let me see these guys
1539
01:12:45,361 --> 01:12:46,987
and see what they're up to,
and you know,
1540
01:12:47,029 --> 01:12:48,489
how they're doing these days,
whatever, right?
1541
01:12:48,530 --> 01:12:50,616
Cypress Hill!
1542
01:12:50,657 --> 01:12:53,952
Cypress Hill!
Cypress Hill! Cypress Hill!
1543
01:12:53,994 --> 01:12:56,538
I could almost smell
the festival through the TV,
1544
01:12:56,580 --> 01:12:59,458
you know, the grass, the people,
you know, the air and all that.
1545
01:12:59,500 --> 01:13:03,712
When B-Real smokes his joint,
I could almost smell it.
1546
01:13:03,754 --> 01:13:07,674
Lala, la, la, lala, la, la
1547
01:13:11,929 --> 01:13:13,555
I think that was my first
indication
1548
01:13:13,597 --> 01:13:15,516
that I was like,
I wanted it again.
1549
01:13:24,983 --> 01:13:27,986
Finally, rapper Sen Dog
has reunited with Cypress Hill
1550
01:13:28,028 --> 01:13:30,864
and will join them on their
fourth album, due in August,
1551
01:13:30,906 --> 01:13:32,533
and on this summer's
Smokin' Grooves Tour
1552
01:13:32,574 --> 01:13:36,078
launching in July with Wyclef,
Gang Starr, and Public Enemy.
1553
01:13:36,120 --> 01:13:38,330
Sen Dog left Cypress Hill
back in 1995
1554
01:13:38,372 --> 01:13:40,874
after their third album,
"Temple of Boom."
1555
01:13:40,916 --> 01:13:43,794
He's been working
with his own rock band SX-10,
1556
01:13:43,836 --> 01:13:45,170
which will release
its debut album
1557
01:13:45,212 --> 01:13:47,548
on an independent label
later this year.
1558
01:13:47,589 --> 01:13:49,758
How permanently had Sen Dog
left the group?
1559
01:13:49,800 --> 01:13:51,593
I mean, was he--
did it take much persuasion
1560
01:13:51,635 --> 01:13:52,761
to get him back, or...?
1561
01:13:52,803 --> 01:13:55,055
You know,
I think what it was,
1562
01:13:55,097 --> 01:13:56,473
was us reaching out to him,
1563
01:13:56,515 --> 01:13:59,184
expressing to him that we wanted
him to be a part of it,
1564
01:13:59,226 --> 01:14:00,936
that he was always
a member of this group,
1565
01:14:00,978 --> 01:14:03,147
no matter what
he decided to do.
1566
01:14:03,939 --> 01:14:06,108
I think that convinced him
that, you know,
1567
01:14:06,150 --> 01:14:07,317
he still had family here.
1568
01:14:07,359 --> 01:14:08,986
Then one day he just
came in and said,
1569
01:14:09,027 --> 01:14:10,195
"I'm ready to do this."
1570
01:14:10,237 --> 01:14:12,322
So, we started banging songs out
the next day.
1571
01:14:12,364 --> 01:14:14,116
It's something
we definitely wanted.
1572
01:14:14,158 --> 01:14:16,910
We wanted, you know,
him to get back, you know,
1573
01:14:16,952 --> 01:14:19,163
into the swing of things,
but you know,
1574
01:14:19,204 --> 01:14:21,290
he had to feel ready himself,
1575
01:14:21,331 --> 01:14:23,167
you know, and get
that confidence up.
1576
01:14:23,208 --> 01:14:26,920
And he came back with a bang,
you know, reenergized.
1577
01:14:30,799 --> 01:14:33,135
Name of the most high.
1578
01:14:33,177 --> 01:14:34,595
Name of the most high,
we thank you
1579
01:14:34,636 --> 01:14:37,055
for another good opportunity
to show off our talent.
1580
01:14:37,097 --> 01:14:38,265
All the believers
say amen.
1581
01:14:38,307 --> 01:14:39,975
-Amen.
-Let's do this.
1582
01:14:40,017 --> 01:14:44,271
Sen did finally return,
and Muggs came,
1583
01:14:44,313 --> 01:14:46,064
and it was us four
on the road,
1584
01:14:46,106 --> 01:14:49,109
and you were back
to doing tour manager.
1585
01:14:49,151 --> 01:14:53,655
It was like, we were able
to continue on.
1586
01:14:54,281 --> 01:14:58,952
Any great group
has had issues with one another
1587
01:14:58,994 --> 01:15:00,412
in spite of having a great run.
1588
01:15:00,454 --> 01:15:01,997
That's sort of what
makes it great,
1589
01:15:02,039 --> 01:15:04,082
'cause you get
through all the shit
1590
01:15:04,124 --> 01:15:06,877
and still, you know,
have this brotherhood,
1591
01:15:06,919 --> 01:15:08,795
and still have this chemistry.
1592
01:15:09,546 --> 01:15:11,965
If you didn't know,
now you know.
1593
01:15:12,007 --> 01:15:15,219
If you don't care,
I don't give a fuck either.
1594
01:15:15,260 --> 01:15:19,306
'Cause in the meantime,
we will hit you like this.
1595
01:15:28,398 --> 01:15:31,610
So you wanna be a rap
superstar and live large
1596
01:15:31,652 --> 01:15:34,488
A big house, five cars,
you're in charge
1597
01:15:34,530 --> 01:15:36,782
Comin' up in the world
don't trust nobody
1598
01:15:36,823 --> 01:15:39,076
Gotta look over
your shoulder constantly
1599
01:15:39,117 --> 01:15:41,703
I remember the days when I was
a young kid growin' up
1600
01:15:41,745 --> 01:15:44,373
Looking in the mirror
dreamin' about blowin' up
1601
01:15:44,414 --> 01:15:46,250
The rock crowd, make money,
chill with the honies
1602
01:15:46,291 --> 01:15:49,211
Sign autographs or whatever
the people want from me
1603
01:15:49,253 --> 01:15:51,088
So, we got to, like,
1604
01:15:51,129 --> 01:15:54,299
I think it was our fifth album,
and you know,
1605
01:15:54,341 --> 01:15:56,176
the climate was changing,
we was doing rock shows.
1606
01:15:56,218 --> 01:15:58,345
We wanted to kind of do
a rock record for fun,
1607
01:15:58,387 --> 01:16:01,056
but then we didn't wanna step
on what we had already created.
1608
01:16:01,098 --> 01:16:02,849
You know, and then
we was like, yo,
1609
01:16:02,891 --> 01:16:04,434
let's just record two albums.
1610
01:16:04,476 --> 01:16:07,104
Let's record a rock album
and a rap album,
1611
01:16:07,145 --> 01:16:09,022
and we'll put 'em
as a double album,
1612
01:16:09,064 --> 01:16:10,607
but they'll be--
we won't mix 'em together.
1613
01:16:10,649 --> 01:16:12,484
So, if you don't want to hear
the rock, you have the choice.
1614
01:16:12,526 --> 01:16:14,611
If you don't wanna hear the rap,
you have the choice, so...
1615
01:16:14,653 --> 01:16:17,239
Still filling your head
with fantasies, come with me
1616
01:16:17,281 --> 01:16:18,615
Show the sacrifice
it takes...
1617
01:16:18,657 --> 01:16:22,035
I walked into Columbia,
and I had "Rap Superstar,"
1618
01:16:22,077 --> 01:16:25,080
and I think
"Can't Get the Best of Me"
1619
01:16:25,122 --> 01:16:27,249
was supposed to be
the rock single.
1620
01:16:27,291 --> 01:16:30,836
Donny Ienner was like,
"No, this is the single.
1621
01:16:30,877 --> 01:16:33,213
'Rap Superstar,'"
and that was it.
1622
01:16:33,255 --> 01:16:35,382
I went back to L.A.
and I started working
1623
01:16:35,424 --> 01:16:37,217
on the remix for
"Rock Superstar."
1624
01:16:37,259 --> 01:16:38,468
I had B-Real come in,
1625
01:16:38,510 --> 01:16:40,220
he just had to say
one word-- "Rock."
1626
01:16:40,262 --> 01:16:42,431
You wanna be
a rap superstar
1627
01:16:42,472 --> 01:16:45,267
So you wanna be a rock
superstar and live large
1628
01:16:45,309 --> 01:16:48,437
A big house, five cars,
you're in charge
1629
01:16:48,478 --> 01:16:51,106
Comin' up in the world,
don't trust nobody
1630
01:16:51,148 --> 01:16:53,358
Gotta look over
your shoulder constantly
1631
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:55,277
That left the beginning
hip-hop.
1632
01:16:55,319 --> 01:16:58,196
Change the "rap" to "rock,"
and then built it,
1633
01:16:58,238 --> 01:17:01,366
and just turned into this
orchestral, fucking,
1634
01:17:01,408 --> 01:17:05,537
mega-fucking Metallica,
Led Zeppelin fucking piece,
1635
01:17:05,579 --> 01:17:08,040
you know what I mean,
that was just bigger than life.
1636
01:17:08,081 --> 01:17:10,292
-Say Sen Dog!
-Sen Dog!
1637
01:17:10,334 --> 01:17:12,461
-Say Cypress Hill!
-Cypress Hill!
1638
01:17:12,502 --> 01:17:14,588
Cypress Hill
is the first band I ever seen
1639
01:17:14,630 --> 01:17:17,215
that was a hip-hop band,
they were stagediving
1640
01:17:17,257 --> 01:17:18,467
into the audience.
1641
01:17:18,508 --> 01:17:20,010
Oh, shit.
1642
01:17:20,052 --> 01:17:22,304
Like, these motherfuckers
are rock stars.
1643
01:17:24,514 --> 01:17:27,934
When that came out,
and they added in that element
1644
01:17:27,976 --> 01:17:29,227
of doing the live stuff
on stage,
1645
01:17:29,269 --> 01:17:31,229
I think it just
took them even further.
1646
01:17:31,271 --> 01:17:35,442
They were on the edge
of that musically anyways,
1647
01:17:35,484 --> 01:17:37,402
'cause it wasn't
traditionally rap,
1648
01:17:37,444 --> 01:17:40,530
wasn't traditionally rock,
but had elements
1649
01:17:40,572 --> 01:17:42,532
from the samples
that Muggs would use,
1650
01:17:42,574 --> 01:17:45,118
or just the energy
of their live shows.
1651
01:17:46,161 --> 01:17:47,162
Peace up!
1652
01:17:47,204 --> 01:17:49,331
Hip-hop is a copycat genre.
1653
01:17:49,373 --> 01:17:51,375
What works for one is gonna,
you know,
1654
01:17:51,416 --> 01:17:54,211
there's gonna be
like 1,000 to follow.
1655
01:17:54,252 --> 01:17:58,674
The fact that Cypress Hill
went deeper into it,
1656
01:17:58,715 --> 01:18:01,343
like the Black Sabbath,
you know, influence,
1657
01:18:01,385 --> 01:18:03,011
and really, like, rock,
1658
01:18:03,053 --> 01:18:04,554
you know, as well
as with the hip-hop,
1659
01:18:04,596 --> 01:18:09,017
made it like a no-brainer
for the areas that they touched
1660
01:18:09,059 --> 01:18:13,063
that few hip-hoppers
have ever gone before.
1661
01:18:13,105 --> 01:18:15,607
Come on, cock the hammer
1662
01:18:15,649 --> 01:18:18,151
Cock the hammer,
it's time for action
1663
01:18:18,193 --> 01:18:20,404
That's when
we started, you know,
1664
01:18:20,445 --> 01:18:23,323
recruiting Sen Dog's boys
from SX-10.
1665
01:18:23,365 --> 01:18:25,992
I'm a chickenhawk
huntin' for a chicken
1666
01:18:26,034 --> 01:18:28,620
Get paranoid when you hear
my Glock clickin'
1667
01:18:28,662 --> 01:18:30,831
Speakin' to the punk
that's tweakin'
1668
01:18:30,872 --> 01:18:33,917
With the bitch-ass styles
I hit you like...
1669
01:18:33,959 --> 01:18:35,335
Jones house...
1670
01:18:35,377 --> 01:18:37,295
I'm trying
to think of who else.
1671
01:18:37,337 --> 01:18:39,798
Well, I know DMX
played rock stages.
1672
01:18:39,840 --> 01:18:42,259
Wu-Tang does too.
1673
01:18:42,300 --> 01:18:44,720
I guess it's just gotta be
a certain kind of hardcore.
1674
01:18:44,761 --> 01:18:46,388
I guess that's the trick.
1675
01:18:47,097 --> 01:18:50,016
Hardcore rap
translates to rock
1676
01:18:50,058 --> 01:18:53,061
better than softcore rap.
1677
01:18:55,230 --> 01:18:56,773
For a group
to be on their fifth album
1678
01:18:56,815 --> 01:19:00,485
and be brand-new and hit,
and be on the top of the world,
1679
01:19:00,527 --> 01:19:03,780
it just gets bigger
and bigger and bigger.
1680
01:19:09,536 --> 01:19:10,704
That's a sick one.
1681
01:19:10,746 --> 01:19:14,249
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1682
01:19:14,291 --> 01:19:16,501
Streaming was brand-new.
1683
01:19:16,543 --> 01:19:18,879
Like, if you didn't
wanna hear the radio,
1684
01:19:18,920 --> 01:19:20,255
you had to buy the album.
1685
01:19:20,297 --> 01:19:24,050
But now, these guys
called Napster
1686
01:19:24,092 --> 01:19:26,470
were coming out with an idea
1687
01:19:26,511 --> 01:19:30,098
of, we're gonna put
all the music on the internet
1688
01:19:30,140 --> 01:19:34,102
and we're gonna let everybody
play it for free.
1689
01:19:34,144 --> 01:19:36,938
And the music industry
went crazy.
1690
01:19:38,273 --> 01:19:40,400
But Cypress
thought about it different.
1691
01:19:40,442 --> 01:19:42,611
Like, they paid us
a good amount of money
1692
01:19:42,652 --> 01:19:44,321
to go on tour with Limp Bizkit,
1693
01:19:44,362 --> 01:19:46,782
and they're like, "We're gonna
pay you this much money,
1694
01:19:46,823 --> 01:19:50,952
we're gonna have you go on tour,
and every show is free."
1695
01:19:51,703 --> 01:19:54,498
So, for the first time
in the history,
1696
01:19:54,539 --> 01:19:56,833
music was being
given away for free
1697
01:19:56,875 --> 01:19:59,669
and concerts were being given
away for free.
1698
01:19:59,711 --> 01:20:02,631
And we are the ones
that did it with Limp Bizkit,
1699
01:20:02,672 --> 01:20:04,925
and people were pissed.
1700
01:20:04,966 --> 01:20:07,219
We wanted to remove
everything that people know
1701
01:20:07,260 --> 01:20:11,056
about the tours of, you know,
hip-hop and rock shows.
1702
01:20:11,097 --> 01:20:12,307
So, we removed--
as you remember--
1703
01:20:12,349 --> 01:20:14,100
we removed security,
all security,
1704
01:20:14,142 --> 01:20:15,310
and put up a fence.
1705
01:20:21,316 --> 01:20:24,486
Motherfucking Chicago!
1706
01:20:27,030 --> 01:20:29,825
Watching Cypress Hill
every night from the side,
1707
01:20:29,866 --> 01:20:33,495
just going, holy shit,
I can't fucking believe
1708
01:20:33,537 --> 01:20:38,458
that that's those guys right
in front of me on this stage.
1709
01:20:38,500 --> 01:20:40,627
And the crowds, you remember,
you were there.
1710
01:20:40,669 --> 01:20:43,380
It was some of the greatest.
1711
01:20:43,421 --> 01:20:45,632
I get chill bumps
just talking about it.
1712
01:20:45,674 --> 01:20:47,551
B was ruthless, man.
1713
01:20:47,592 --> 01:20:50,846
Sen too, they-- you know,
I don't know what they are
1714
01:20:50,887 --> 01:20:54,349
in their hearts, but if it's
stagediving punk rockers,
1715
01:20:54,391 --> 01:20:58,728
they have it in 'em,
because they were crazier
1716
01:20:58,770 --> 01:21:01,940
than anybody there,
having a blast.
1717
01:21:01,982 --> 01:21:05,402
Break your fucking
face tonight
1718
01:21:05,443 --> 01:21:07,195
I think you guys
used to buy pizzas
1719
01:21:07,237 --> 01:21:08,363
for all the kids
in the crowd.
1720
01:21:08,405 --> 01:21:09,698
-Yeah.
-'Cause I have photos
1721
01:21:09,739 --> 01:21:12,826
of all the guys carrying,
like, big boxes of pizza...
1722
01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:14,411
-No shit.
-...and giving 'em out
1723
01:21:14,452 --> 01:21:16,496
-to the fans in the line.
-Oh, man, I gotta see that.
1724
01:21:16,538 --> 01:21:18,623
Well, they were waiting
and camping out for days
1725
01:21:18,665 --> 01:21:20,000
to see Cypress Hill
and Limp Bizkit.
1726
01:21:20,041 --> 01:21:24,754
And, so you know, we felt
like we had to feed these guys.
1727
01:21:24,796 --> 01:21:26,548
You know, what could we do?
1728
01:21:26,590 --> 01:21:29,342
Pizzas are cheap.
Let's do it.
1729
01:21:29,384 --> 01:21:31,303
Cypress Hill pizza,
...pizza,
1730
01:21:31,344 --> 01:21:33,305
so don't trip.
1731
01:21:33,346 --> 01:21:36,725
-Fucking outrageous, dude.
-Oh, hell yeah.
1732
01:21:36,766 --> 01:21:38,560
-Whoo!
-Oh my God!
1733
01:21:38,602 --> 01:21:41,229
-Fuck yeah, dude.
-Yeah, yeah.
1734
01:21:41,938 --> 01:21:44,149
No other bands
were doing that.
1735
01:21:44,190 --> 01:21:45,609
And we went--
it wasn't like we went
1736
01:21:45,650 --> 01:21:46,818
with all this security.
1737
01:21:46,860 --> 01:21:49,029
We didn't go out
with no security,
1738
01:21:49,070 --> 01:21:50,614
we just-- it was just us.
1739
01:21:50,655 --> 01:21:52,407
Sometimes it was just you and I,
1740
01:21:52,449 --> 01:21:54,284
you know what I mean, and no one
ever tripped on us,
1741
01:21:54,326 --> 01:21:56,411
or you know,
people always treated us right.
1742
01:21:56,453 --> 01:21:58,538
But we also showed
that we're not scared
1743
01:21:58,580 --> 01:22:00,457
of anybody either,
so you know,
1744
01:22:00,498 --> 01:22:02,876
it was that, you know,
mutual respect.
1745
01:22:03,710 --> 01:22:07,339
Any show we did,
we walked out in the crowd
1746
01:22:07,380 --> 01:22:09,174
to meet with fans, you know.
1747
01:22:09,215 --> 01:22:13,470
And that was one of the keys
to the longevity that we have,
1748
01:22:13,511 --> 01:22:15,513
was being able to be
on the road,
1749
01:22:15,555 --> 01:22:17,474
giving them
a good show every time,
1750
01:22:17,515 --> 01:22:19,309
and then connecting
with them after.
1751
01:22:20,352 --> 01:22:22,646
Because it's like Chuck D
told me one time
1752
01:22:22,687 --> 01:22:24,439
when I met him
for the first time.
1753
01:22:24,481 --> 01:22:26,483
And I was like,
"Yo, Chuck, what's good, man?
1754
01:22:26,524 --> 01:22:28,860
I just wanna tell you, man,
we're all fans of you
1755
01:22:28,902 --> 01:22:31,613
on our block,
and hopefully one day
1756
01:22:31,655 --> 01:22:33,323
we're doing what you do."
1757
01:22:33,365 --> 01:22:35,367
And he was like,
"Hey, man, good luck,
1758
01:22:35,408 --> 01:22:37,702
and thanks for the love,
and hopefully, you know,
1759
01:22:37,744 --> 01:22:39,663
you keep doing this
and one day
1760
01:22:39,704 --> 01:22:41,247
you will be doing this shit."
1761
01:22:41,289 --> 01:22:43,541
You know, he gave me
five minutes of his time,
1762
01:22:43,583 --> 01:22:45,752
and I thought, man,
if I ever get where he's at,
1763
01:22:45,794 --> 01:22:49,422
I'm gonna be with my fans
the way he was with me.
1764
01:22:49,464 --> 01:22:54,135
It's really--
it epitomizes what Cypress Hill
1765
01:22:54,177 --> 01:22:55,428
has always been about.
1766
01:22:55,470 --> 01:22:57,764
They're inseparable
with their fan base.
1767
01:22:57,806 --> 01:23:01,434
They're the greatest group
to do it, you know.
1768
01:23:01,476 --> 01:23:03,561
And when you're the greatest
group to do that,
1769
01:23:03,603 --> 01:23:05,522
then you're in the runnings
for the greatest group ever,
1770
01:23:05,563 --> 01:23:08,775
because you got a fan base
that's gonna fight for that.
1771
01:23:24,749 --> 01:23:26,126
Can I get a handshake?
1772
01:23:26,167 --> 01:23:27,627
Sen Dog!
1773
01:23:34,426 --> 01:23:36,720
There are 2,600 stars
1774
01:23:36,761 --> 01:23:39,139
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame,
1775
01:23:39,180 --> 01:23:41,766
but there is none more important
1776
01:23:41,808 --> 01:23:44,144
than the star
that we're about to unveil
1777
01:23:44,185 --> 01:23:45,979
for Cypress Hill.
1778
01:23:47,564 --> 01:23:50,400
Cypress Hill is the first
hip-hop group to have a star
1779
01:23:50,442 --> 01:23:52,819
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
1780
01:23:52,861 --> 01:23:56,239
That's just fun.
1781
01:23:56,281 --> 01:23:58,158
And fantastic.
1782
01:23:58,199 --> 01:24:00,368
Everybody, make some noise
for the Hill, y'all.
1783
01:24:00,410 --> 01:24:01,619
All you fans out here,
1784
01:24:01,661 --> 01:24:03,663
we could not have done this
without you.
1785
01:24:03,705 --> 01:24:05,623
You know, when they said
we wasn't gonna get
1786
01:24:05,665 --> 01:24:07,375
a record deal...
1787
01:24:07,417 --> 01:24:09,210
Who's got
the last laugh now, homeboy?
1788
01:24:15,050 --> 01:24:17,969
Cypress, it's like
they're literally an anomaly.
1789
01:24:18,011 --> 01:24:20,305
They're pivotal
on the West Coast front,
1790
01:24:20,346 --> 01:24:21,848
pivotal as Latinos in hip-hop.
1791
01:24:21,890 --> 01:24:25,226
They created something
so special and so unique
1792
01:24:25,268 --> 01:24:27,437
in a really crowded genre.
1793
01:24:27,479 --> 01:24:28,730
That's what allowed
Cypress Hill
1794
01:24:28,772 --> 01:24:32,358
just to have a dominant reign
over hip-hop.
1795
01:24:32,400 --> 01:24:33,693
And they're still
here to this day,
1796
01:24:33,735 --> 01:24:34,944
and that's a beautiful thing.
1797
01:24:34,986 --> 01:24:38,156
I admire that,
with an envious smile.
1798
01:24:38,656 --> 01:24:40,784
Long before the days
of legal dispensaries
1799
01:24:40,825 --> 01:24:44,496
and medical marijuana,
Cypress Hill were advocates
1800
01:24:44,537 --> 01:24:46,915
of that sticky-icky-icky oo-wee!
1801
01:24:46,956 --> 01:24:49,334
Cypress Hill
has definitely contributed
1802
01:24:49,375 --> 01:24:51,461
to legalizing marijuana
in the U.S.
1803
01:24:51,503 --> 01:24:54,464
The sound of marijuana
is Cypress Hill.
1804
01:24:54,506 --> 01:24:56,007
Trailblazers.
1805
01:24:56,049 --> 01:24:58,343
There, you get it?
Trailblazer, "blazer"?
1806
01:24:58,384 --> 01:24:59,594
Blazers, yeah.
1807
01:24:59,636 --> 01:25:02,680
This is gonna be
an altar for all stoners,
1808
01:25:02,722 --> 01:25:05,642
for all cannabis culture
right here.
1809
01:25:05,683 --> 01:25:08,061
Come light your candles,
dump your blunts,
1810
01:25:08,103 --> 01:25:11,106
dump your joints,
dump your bongs right here.
1811
01:25:11,147 --> 01:25:15,401
Pray for a great harvest,
and thank you fucking very much.
1812
01:25:20,490 --> 01:25:22,784
I preserve
moments in time,
1813
01:25:22,826 --> 01:25:24,828
and sometimes
that's all you got.
1814
01:25:25,954 --> 01:25:28,915
Sometimes you don't know what
you got until you look back.
1815
01:25:31,000 --> 01:25:34,504
And you see what you've been
doing for 30 years.
1816
01:25:34,546 --> 01:25:37,715
All these good times
and bad times,
1817
01:25:37,757 --> 01:25:39,592
and all these memories.
1818
01:25:39,634 --> 01:25:43,346
And you realize, like,
fuck, man, like...
1819
01:25:43,388 --> 01:25:45,306
I really got some shit here.
1820
01:25:51,312 --> 01:25:53,815
This palm tree
was nowhere near this when...
1821
01:25:53,857 --> 01:25:55,859
Yeah, it was like,
I didn't even remember it.
1822
01:25:55,900 --> 01:25:58,486
This was a little-ass tree
when this guy was here.
1823
01:25:58,528 --> 01:26:01,447
-Fuck, 30 years later?
-Yeah, fuck.
1824
01:26:03,032 --> 01:26:05,118
We spent a lot
of time on this block,
1825
01:26:05,160 --> 01:26:10,123
you know, talking about
what we wanted to do.
1826
01:26:10,165 --> 01:26:12,375
You know, and having a belief
in ourselves
1827
01:26:12,417 --> 01:26:13,793
when no one else did,
1828
01:26:13,835 --> 01:26:16,296
'cause we were just
trying to make music
1829
01:26:16,337 --> 01:26:18,256
that related to us.
1830
01:26:18,298 --> 01:26:20,800
And if anybody else
could relate, great.
1831
01:26:20,842 --> 01:26:24,470
But we did not know
the impact it would have.
1832
01:26:25,096 --> 01:26:27,599
You know, I tell you
that it's beyond a brotherhood.
1833
01:26:27,640 --> 01:26:29,184
It's a familia,
you know what I mean?
1834
01:26:29,225 --> 01:26:30,810
And we made special things
happen,
1835
01:26:30,852 --> 01:26:32,103
and we got upset
with each other,
1836
01:26:32,145 --> 01:26:33,938
and you know, made up,
and came back
1837
01:26:33,980 --> 01:26:36,357
and did the whole thing
all over again.
1838
01:26:38,651 --> 01:26:41,029
You know, it's one
of those eternal flames
1839
01:26:41,070 --> 01:26:43,114
that we keep lit,
by all of us going
1840
01:26:43,156 --> 01:26:45,074
and just being masters
in our crafts.
1841
01:26:45,116 --> 01:26:48,536
Better men, better friends,
better at our arts,
1842
01:26:48,578 --> 01:26:50,413
better at business.
1843
01:26:50,455 --> 01:26:51,873
I mean, look at us.
1844
01:26:51,915 --> 01:26:55,210
Thirty years later.
1845
01:26:55,251 --> 01:26:57,086
It was all organic.
1846
01:27:24,822 --> 01:27:26,366
Assassin
1847
01:27:34,082 --> 01:27:37,377
We rise and fall
in the rat race to win it all
1848
01:27:37,418 --> 01:27:40,380
Standing tall as we ever did,
and if you recall
1849
01:27:40,421 --> 01:27:42,924
That very moment
you seek an opponent
1850
01:27:42,966 --> 01:27:45,551
You better own it
like you're seeking atonement
1851
01:27:45,593 --> 01:27:47,053
Or you've blown it
1852
01:27:47,095 --> 01:27:49,472
Time after time,
haters pray for all decline
1853
01:27:49,514 --> 01:27:53,017
They could never dim the light
that shines in this paradigm
1854
01:27:53,059 --> 01:27:55,937
The vibe intertwined the
love and hate frame of mind
1855
01:27:55,979 --> 01:27:57,230
Living in the balances
1856
01:27:57,272 --> 01:27:58,982
I'm dancing
with the devil's kind
1857
01:27:59,023 --> 01:28:00,400
Reminded by the thin line
1858
01:28:00,441 --> 01:28:02,110
We walking as we lead
the blind
1859
01:28:02,151 --> 01:28:04,362
Step into the stairway
to heaven
1860
01:28:04,404 --> 01:28:05,613
Where we all resign
1861
01:28:05,655 --> 01:28:08,616
What you find is the vision
of the grand design
1862
01:28:08,658 --> 01:28:10,159
We are eternal
in this journal
1863
01:28:10,201 --> 01:28:11,536
You might find the sign
1864
01:28:11,577 --> 01:28:14,539
Live free, tell it
how you see it, you can be it
1865
01:28:14,580 --> 01:28:15,832
See your dream and seize it
1866
01:28:15,873 --> 01:28:17,792
Unlock your dream
and release it
1867
01:28:17,834 --> 01:28:20,586
It ain't a secret,
we believe it, never doubt it
1868
01:28:20,628 --> 01:28:21,921
Watch the words manifest
1869
01:28:21,963 --> 01:28:23,798
In every way
you heard us talk about it
1870
01:28:23,840 --> 01:28:26,426
It's a long road,
see you at the crossroads
1871
01:28:26,467 --> 01:28:29,512
From a soldier to a leader,
we in boss mode
1872
01:28:29,554 --> 01:28:32,849
It's a long road,
see you at the crossroads
1873
01:28:32,890 --> 01:28:35,977
From a soldier to a leader,
we in boss mode
1874
01:28:36,019 --> 01:28:37,562
We're one in a million
1875
01:28:37,603 --> 01:28:39,480
Making you feel this feeling
you're feeling
1876
01:28:39,522 --> 01:28:42,608
You hit the ceiling with
one hit of the herbal healing
1877
01:28:42,650 --> 01:28:45,987
It's a killing how we run
the set and move the masses
1878
01:28:46,029 --> 01:28:49,157
We advance taking chances
as the time passes
1879
01:28:49,198 --> 01:28:52,160
Never gamble with your life
when the odds are against you
1880
01:28:52,201 --> 01:28:53,995
But if you've been through
what I've through
1881
01:28:54,037 --> 01:28:55,330
Then you must continue
1882
01:28:55,371 --> 01:28:58,333
And now we pray before we play
as we slay the venue
1883
01:28:58,374 --> 01:29:01,210
The cultivation of
the fan base not on the menu
1884
01:29:01,252 --> 01:29:02,503
Stopping not an option
1885
01:29:02,545 --> 01:29:04,464
You get in the way,
then take precaution
1886
01:29:04,505 --> 01:29:07,592
We're way too heavy and
the momentum is jaw-dropping
1887
01:29:07,633 --> 01:29:10,720
Not very often do you see
the likes of these in common
1888
01:29:10,762 --> 01:29:14,140
Herbal shaman here to spread
the love and hit the...
1889
01:29:14,182 --> 01:29:16,726
If you have a long run,
you ain't never done
1890
01:29:16,768 --> 01:29:20,229
Never been the one to run
away, never leaving, son
1891
01:29:20,271 --> 01:29:23,191
We never fade away while
others getting laid away
1892
01:29:23,232 --> 01:29:25,985
Roaches getting sprayed away,
haters, you can hate away
1893
01:29:26,027 --> 01:29:28,988
It's a long road,
see you at the crossroads
1894
01:29:29,030 --> 01:29:32,075
From a soldier to a leader,
we in boss mode
1895
01:29:32,116 --> 01:29:35,203
It's a long road,
see you at the crossroads
1896
01:29:35,244 --> 01:29:38,748
From a soldier to a leader,
we in boss mode
1897
01:29:38,790 --> 01:29:41,209
Assassin
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