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THE GUESTLIST NETWORK | MARCH 2010
Cypress Hill Q&A
Cypress Hill, the American hip hop group from South Gate, California were the first Latino group to
have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. Oshi catches up
with B Real as they prepare to ´´Rise Up´.
Where are you at right now? ally can’t stay in that type of situa- Where are the edgiest areas in but the attitude was ‘I don’t give a we picked out like our favorite tracks Any tour moments you will nev-
I’m in Los Angeles right know, you tion cause your gonna find yourself LA? fuck’ like Punk Rock. You know that we’d like to do and we went with er forget?
know our home town, we’re currently in a compromising position trying Uh well you know that’s always like anti-establishment shit. Punk that. We have to send this album Yeah Treatch from naughty by na-
home gearing up for everything for to you know either defend yourself been the places like South Central, is street shit, you what I mean. So off first, you know. We haven’t had ture and one of the girls from Salt
when we release the new records. or getting in some type of shit with Compton, Linwood, Watts, um er I think that’s pretty much, I think it’s something tangible in the market and Pepa, we all did a bungee jump
your enemies so you know why risk places in Riverside in the Empire I that appeal. It’s like when you watch for a while and I think this would be together.
Are you with the rest of the everything you’ve worked hard for. mean Hollywood! There’s places a gangster movie every body routes the perfect time to knock this album
group? You know. that are, you know, virtual fucking for the gangster even though he’s out, go hard and reacquaint people Wow that would have been a
Not right now I just came out of the war zones out here in Los Angeles, the bad guy right, haha. with what Cypress Hill is. funny sight, bet that’s not up on
gym. I’m sure your still good in depending, you know, what side of YouTube?
hood... the tracks your from. Your fan base crosses a few You are on tour soon right? No that was way before the days of
How I Could Jus Kill A Man…In- Yeah, no for sure, you know just be- races…is any part of your fan I believe in May is our first little YouTube. That was way before You-
sane In The Membrane... Clas- cause we don’t live there don’t mean Do you hang out with other leg- base more important then the small run, but definitely we have Tube, that was in 1991.
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shit...do you feel recognised we aint there. I mean we still hang in ends in LA…Snoop, Dre etc? other? tour plans, we’re working on it now.
as living legends? the streets with our boys and stuff The only dude who I really hang out No. They’re all important. They’re all Trying to figure out which way we’re We have just been sent one of
Umm I mean I don’t really throw like that. People can find us very with that much like on that circuit is the same to us, because you know, gonna go. People are gonna see us these iolite vaporisors, have
those words around. I mean people easily man, that’s what’s different a very close friend of mine, Ever- we obviously are in a few positions pretty soon actually. you used one of these what do
have their opinions of what we are. about us. We don’t, we’re not dudes last. You know obviously Everlast having a few different fan-bases. you think of them?
I definitely think that we did good that hide away in big mansions that’s he comes from our family tree so Obviously the hip Hop fan-base you You going come to the UK? Yeah I’ve used one of those before.
over the course of our years. But not how we live we’re not video rap- Everlast and Xzibit are pretty much know from the earliest albums to Oh yeah, for sure. That’s always That’s pretty much the best way to
yeah I think those two songs are pers like that, we didn’t grow up like are the people well known Hip Hop our more alternative fan-base which been one of our biggest markets smoke it if you gonna smoke it, but
classics. that so we’re very in tune with shit artists, rappers, icons, whatever that is the 13, 14, 16 year old white kids, out there you know. The kids out you pretty much have to keep that at
out here. I hang out with constantly you know. are more the skateboarders or BMX there have always come out and home. It’s pretty cool though.
You have sold a few million re- Xzibit works out of my studio, so you type of kids, you know what I’m say- had a good time to our shows and
cords you still been living in the LA is still home for you...Is it know, we’re currently working on a ing? appreciated the music that we’ve Thanks for that
hood? still on edge since the riots? record together. put out. Word out brother!
Ahhh nah nah, we couldn’t really Hahaha, certain places definitely For sure...You’ve got entire We should be over there in a few
live in our hood at the level we’re at. man. People out here they bottle When I was growing up you tracks that you put out in differ- Is there anywhere in particular months.
You have so many enemies at that shit up, in Los Angeles you know were successful with everyone ent languages, what percent- you’d like to play, home town
point, you know one thing you gotta they bottle shit up, they’ve been put- including 13 year old white kids, age of your music do you put maybe? I am sure The Guestlist Net-
understand is that when you start ting up with fucked up government, why do you think that is? out in two languages? Well aside from LA, you know New work will be there too.
making money and becoming a suc- the state government and law en- I think because our music even For us it’s more of a feeling. We York, Chicago. England is good, like
cess and all this other type of thing forcement and all that stuff, I mean though it was Hip Hop it had a don’t necessary do it just to do it, it we used to do shows in over at Brix- Cypress Hill return April 6th with
that goes with it, enemies get a little obviously since the sixties. So yeah combination of Punk Rock and um has to be like the right situation for ton, those were some of the best RISE UP (Priority/EMI)
bit more envious and they hate you people are still on edge man. Metal mentality. You know real dark us, like if the song calls for it then shows for us, the Astoria. Get that.
a little bit more. So you know you re- and mysterious, like Metal imagery we’ll do it. There was an album when
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