Cypress Hill
Hip-Hop Stars Collab With Brands That Will Up Your Cannabis Consumption Game
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vera Vita / Getty Cannabis is very much here to stay whether you like it or not, and ways to consume the products continue to evolve. With several Hip-Hop stars known for their love of the leaf, we’re turning a focus on a trio of artists who collaborated with brands that will help one up their cannabis consumption game. B-Real X Dr. Greenthumbs X G Pen Source: Various / Various Fans of B-Real of Cypress Hill fame, Wiz Khalifa, and Berner are fully aware that these gentlemen are all about cannabis, and below, we’re putting a focus on some of their notable collaborations with brands that will elevate your high. B-Real is the creator of the character Dr. Greenthumb which is also the name of his brand. Dr. Greenthumb partnered with Grenco Sciences for a serie...
Cypress Hill Spark Another One
We live in an era of premature anniversaries and nostalgia-fueled hagiography. But Cypress Hill deserves every glowing retrospective. B-Real, Sen Dog and DJ Muggs have licked shots at pigs, rivals, and the DEA for 30 years. They’ve earned the right to reminisce, to remind you to genuflect before you enter the Temples of Boom or lay a blunt atop their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The Cypress Hill sound was inimitable and irrepressible from the beginning, a bicoastal sonic hybrid complemented with bilingual lyrics and localized slang. Muggs dialed back the Bomb Squad’s sonic maximalism, creating a barrage of psychedelic funk with a West Coast bent that would become progressively stranger and layered with each album, forever toeing the line between ominous and zany. The self-proclaimed...
Cypress Hill Announce New Album, Back In Black, Release New Single, ‘Bye Bye’
Legendary SoCal rappers Cypress Hill have just announced that they’re releasing their 10th album Back In Black on March 18 via MNRK. The album is their first since 2018’s Elephants on Acid and only their second in nearly 12 years. To mark the momentous occasion, the group released a brand new single, “Bye Bye,” as a follow-up to last year’s “Open Ya Mind” and “Champion Sound.” The latest song from the album also happens to include Dizzy Wright as one of only two features on the entire release. “In Cypress Hill tradition, we always try to make a dark song,” B-Real said in a statement about the new track. “It’s what we’ve been known for, especially on our first three albums. This song is a statement. In a roundabout way, we spoke to the politics of today. Being lulled int...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
Cypress Hill Share ‘Open Ya Mind’ From Upcoming Record
West coast hip hop legend Cypress Hill released the second track off their forthcoming record, “Open Ya Mind.” [embedded content][embedded content] The track is off the group’s 10th studio record, which will be out in early 2022 via MNRK!. “Open Ya Mind” was produced by Black Milk. Previously, the group shared “Champion Sound.” “As we celebrate the 30th anniversary of our debut, we wanted to be sure fans knew we weren’t planning on slowing down and can’t wait for them to hear the new album, coming early next year,” Send Dog said in a statement. “‘Open Ya Mind’ gives you a taste of what’s to come and we can’t wait to return to see you on the road in 2022!” Cypress Hill recently wrapped up a co-headlining tour with the Atmosphere, and have a world tour planned in 2022. As for 2021, the group...
Cypress Hill’s B-Real Roasts Steve Harvey For Disrespecting Hip-Hop Music
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: gotpap/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Over the years, Steve Harvey has managed to annoy his fair share of people for various reasons, but more recently Cypress Hill rapper, B-Real has taken issue with the game show host’s lack of love for Hip-Hop music. In a recent sit-down interview with Tony A. Da Wizard on Roadium Radio, the OG Hip-Hop legend explained his beef with the comedian turned game show host and where it stems from. Reminiscing about the time Steve was hired at 92.3 The Beat in Los Angeles to give OG Hip-Hop host Big Boy some competition, B-Real remembers Harvey constantly talking down on Hip-Hop music in the hallways. Detailing how he too was working at The Beat doing the Soul Assassins mix show, Real recalls the time Harvey began working th...
Cypress Hill Release New Tune ‘Champion Sound’
Legendary superstars Cypress Hill surprised fans today with the release of a brand-new song, “Champion Sound.” The track, which was produced/mixed by Black Milk is their first new music since 2018’s Elephants on Acid. The tune is also featured on the soundtrack of the recently released R.B.I. Baseball 21, the eighth installment of the R.B.I. franchise developed by Major League Baseball. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,”height”:”270″,”playlist”:”10315″,”inviewBottomOffset”:”105px”} }); –> The hip-hop legends also recently announced a pa...
Public Enemy Drops New Video for ‘Grid’ Featuring Cypress Hill and George Clinton
In keeping with the dark lyrics of Public Enemy’s single “Grid,” the group dropped an appropriately apocalyptic video featuring pals Cypress Hill and George Clinton. The clip includes footage from PE’s performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Directed by David C. Snyder, the video for “GRID” is the latest from PE’s recent album, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down? which saw the previously released “Public Enemy Number Won” video from the LP. The album marks the lineup’s return to Def Jam after a 20-year-hiatus. SPIN named Public Enemy its #9 artist of the last 35 years. Read the homage here. We also spoke with Chuck D about when the group dropped their surprise new single in June and recently about the new album. Check out the “Grid” clip below: [embe...
Public Enemy Share Animated Video for ‘Grid’ Featuring George Clinton and Cypress Hill
Public Enemy dropped an animated video for “Grid,” the latest from PE’s recent album, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?, the group’s first album in over 20 years for their first label Def Jam. The video was directed by Ice the Endless, with background by ThatOneDudeZach and visual effects by RMELL and ARTJCON. Public Enemy group performed the song along with Cypress Hill and George Clinton on CBS’s special live broadcast of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert immediately following the first presidential debate in September. The song and vid is an excoriation of our screen-addicted society, with lyrics including “Communication breakdown it’s a take down / are you awake now or consumed by a fake clown? / World Wide Web keep the spiders fed / Looking at my feed, trolls everywhere...
BMG Commits to Review of Historic Contracts, Diversity Shakeup In Pledge Against Racism
In the wake of international protests against the death of George Floyd and other Black men and women at the hand of police officers, BMG has committed to action. And timeframes. One week on from “Black Out Tuesday,” BMG has set out its stance on racism and inequality. The music company circulated a message to thousands of its artists and songwriters with a pledge: “We need to play our part in addressing historical injustices inflicted on black people.” Mindful of the music industry’s “record of shameful treatment of black artists,” the message reads, “we have begun a review of all historic record contracts. If any inequities or anomalies are found, BMG will create a plan to address them within 30 days.” BMG also promises to address diversity within its workplace. “...
