Or, as Cypress Hill’s B-Real (born: Louis Mario Freese) told England’s Guardian newspaper in a 2022 interview: “We were a Latino group singing about cannabis, so there were enough obstacles without being misogynistic. Unlike such Los Angeles contemporaries as N.W.A, and Snoop Dogg, the group’s lyrics largely eschewed the rampant sexism that was de rigueur in the 1980s and 1990s. ![]() ![]() The biggest Latino group in hip-hop history, Cypress Hill has worldwide album sales of more than 20 million and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. “If it wasn’t for (“Simpsons’ creator) Matt Groening putting us in ‘Homerpalooza,’ I don’t know if any of this would be happening now. “That we’re performing with a symphony orchestra is more surprising,” he replied. He laughed when asked if, in 1993, it would have been more surprising to learn pot would eventually become legal in California and other states - or that Cypress Hill would this year team with orchestras to perform the group’s top-selling 1993 album, “Black Sunday,” in its entirety? “We believe the world would be a better place if cannabis was legalized in every country.” ![]() “We’re stoners, we’re pot heads, and believe in the power of the plant, the power of the flower,” Sen Dog, 57, said. Sen Dog rose and Cypress Hill rose to international prominence with such songs as the Grammy Award-nominated “Insane in the Brain,” “Hits from the Bong” and “I Wanna Get High.”
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