Members of Cypress Hill don’t hide their frustration in the film. By the late 1990s, Sen Dog could be a spectral presence during tours, disappearing just before flight takeoffs or from hotel rooms after changing his mind about performing. But we were able to have an impact in the mainstream.”Īs outlined in Oriol’s documentary, the Cypress Hill story has been marked with the occasional pothole. “You’d hear bands make little references in hip-hop before us,” said B-Real, “and reggae and the early forms of jazz music were referencing cannabis. Alongside tattoo artist Mister Cartoon, Oriol’s narrative helped drive a “story of two Chicanos that changed culture forever.” It’s one so compelling that it’s the subject of the 2020 Netflix documentary “LA Originals,” which Oriol directed. Oriol’s film follows this evolution while providing a context for their ascent - and sharing a little bit of his own story. Instead, B-Real, Sen Dog, DJ Muggs and Bobo said, ‘You know what? Let’s put some fat beats under that PTSD and let’s rock out.’ Next thing you know, 16-year-olds in Düsseldorf are screaming, ‘How I could just kill a man!’” “Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain” executive producer and Mass Appeal creative director Sacha Jenkins described the group by email as “homies who came together under tough circumstances to express themselves simply because if they didn’t let it out … they would have imploded. The opening couplet on its 1991 debut album takes unobstructed aim at the LAPD: “This pig harassed the whole neighborhood / Well this pig worked at the station / This pig he killed my homeboy / So the f- pig went on a vacation.” B-Real does so over a DJ Muggs-produced beat that’s driven by an electric guitar lick and a boom-boom-bap rhythm. The recurrent image of Cypress Hill lost in a haze of THC masks a musical legacy dense with innovative, bracing sounds and snapshots of a city on the cusp of breakdown. Each is as precisely rolled as a Gitanes and tipped with a glass filter bearing the Greenthumb logo: a caricature of an afro- and sunglasses-wearing B-Real.ī-Real says that the loosening of cannabis laws and the proliferation of product offers “another opportunity for us outside of music.” Despite already owning his own brand, he adds, “I believe when we actually put it together and create the business of Cypress Hill in the cannabis industry - which we haven’t really officially done yet - that’s going to make a big impact.” He calls the project “probably one of the next things we’re going to do.” Directing his attention to his bandmates, he adds with a smile, “I’m manifesting right now, guys. He hands out joints like they’re business cards. Greenthumb, named for a Cypress Hill song. Greenthumb” with Bobo as a regular, keeps a kind of joint humidor in the Cypress Hill compound and owns successful cannabis brand Dr. The rapper, who hosts a raucous weed- and rap-focused podcast called “Dr. Combined with Oriol’s documentary and a return to touring, Cypress Hill is entering its fourth decade by celebrating its legacy as Los Angeles’ most enduring rap group. In March, the group released its 10th studio album, “Back in Black.” Issued three decades after its self-titled debut and its multi-platinum 1993 follow-up, “Black Sunday,” propelled the South Gate group onto the charts through hits including “How I Could Just Kill a Man,” “ Hits From the Bong” and “ Insane in the Brain,” the new album is a compact 10-song invective. The film is part of a busy 2022 for Cypress Hill.
Since their formation in the early 1990s, members of Cypress Hill have regularly infused tracks with rhymed odes to THC, gangsta-driven boasts about moving pounds of product and barb-tongued protests against harsh drug sentencing. That this insiders’ account of Cypress Hill arrives on April 20, cannabis culture’s high holy day, shouldn’t come as a surprise. In her new musical memoir, Danyel Smith plumbs the underappreciated genius of Gladys Knight, and her group’s forlorn masterpiece, ‘Midnight Train to Georgia.’ Music Why Gladys Knight and the Pips’ ‘Midnight Train to Georgia’ is still the perfect pop song
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