Ahead of their new album, TheeMaxB spoke with cypresshill about their stories career and what lies ahead ahead of their album that's out tomorrow
— touring the world with their percussionist Eric Bobo and appearing on bills as diverse as Woodstock ‘94 and Hullabalooza. Their stamp on rap and pop culture is indelible.
Since the 30th anniversary of their self-titled 1991 debut last year, Cypress Hill has reflected on their career in the studio and on screen. Their new album, the Black Milk-produced, casts a wistful and chest-beating glance to their formative years and many achievements. Black Milk’s lugubrious boom-bap also scores the group’s commentary on our pandemic present and pro-marijuana rhetoric informed by their respective forays into the cannabis industry.
We were just being ourselves. Fortunately, Ruffhouse Records and Sony allowed us to be ourselves. More importantly, they allowed Muggs to command the ship. They didn’t try to throw other producers at us or undermine him. They actually saw the vision that we had and the talent that Muggs had as a producer to put an album together and make it a journey. That was key. If they hadn’t believed in our vision, we would have probably sounded way different and flamed out in year three or four.
There were [metal] bands everywhere in South Gate. When you went to parties, it might be a DJ party or a rock and roll party with guys playing their instruments in the backyard. The music levels in that city were incredible at that point because you had metalheads, hard rock dudes, b-boys breakdancing and pop-locking, and some people just barely starting to rap. I went to these metal parties just to get drunk or smoke, but I started paying attention to the music.
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