“We always try to make a place where we can constantly be creative,” says Cypress Hill. He is talking about his center study, where bandmates have made most of their recording during the last decade.
In any case, he is certainly cozy. He is curled up on a black leather couch along with his friends and members of the lifelong group during a zoom interview. Eric Bobo rests on the camera on his right, putting on a leather jacket and hiding his eyes under a cube hat and a combo of black sunglasses. Sen Dog is on his left, wearing as quiet as ever and smiling from time to time. Dj Lord hangs on the edge of the sofa, his hat leans to the side.
The walls behind them are adorned with platinum photos and records collected during their almost 40 years races. A lighter film resonates when B-Real turns on a joint and takes a breath.
The group's last effort takes them to the world of concert movies, but with a turn.
You may remember sinking into a reclining armchair and kicking your feet at some point during '95. You take the remote control, go to Fox and tune the last episode of “The Simpsons.” This episode takes the spectators to the “Hullabalooza” Summer Festival, where Marge and Co. encounter some mischief behind the stage.
“Hello, bands,” shouts an impatient scenario manager, “Who is playing with the London Symphony Orchestra?”
The camera goes to Cypress Hill, who whispered with each other: “Yes, man, do we order an orchestra?”
Eric Bobo, Left, B-Real, Dj Lord and Sen Dog of Cypress Hill.
(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)
“Yes, yes, we believe we did,” says a yellow version of B-Real. “Do you know 'crazy in the brain'?”
“We mostly know classic … but we could try,” replies a violinist. What follows is an iconic clip of them dancing to a symphonic version of the song.
It is a hilarious moment in the history of television that could easily have been lost in time. But thanks to DJ Muggs, the idea stayed with the members for a long time. He floated for a while, but won impulse after his teammates on the east coast, the Wu-Tang clan, assumed an orchestral performance in the Red Rocks amphitheater in 2021.
“We were like, 'Well, if they did, let's do it,” B-Real joked. “We thank” The Simpsons “for writing that, because it became part of our history, and now even more.”
The group began to prepare for something special, interpreting “Black Sunday” in its entirety with the Symphony of Colorado in July 2023 for its 30th anniversary and going to make four more symphonic shows. They also rehearsed with the LSO, a “surreal” moment that “no rapper never thinks they will have.”
On July 10, 2024, their work took them to Royal Albert Hall. In an unknown territory, the four stopped from head to toe with black suits, accompanied by the London Symphony Orchestra, playing with an exhausted crowd of more than 5,000 fans.
“It was like one of those 'What the F—” Moments like,' Oh, my God, I can't believe that this is happening, “said B-Real.” When we started more than 30 years ago, there was no way you could tell me that we would ever do something with a symphony, much less LSO. “
The show was a great success, and they went out with theirs with only a “f-up” that B-Real promises that he covered very well: “I will not let anyone know where it is!”
“We are happy that it has worked,” he said, laughing. “Especially being in the costumes and doing all these things and not being able to move with the energy with which we normally move.”
Translating it to the screen was without problems, since the members received routinely “daily” production to make their opinions. But, as Bobo admits, “they really nailed it … we were surprised by the first cut.”
“When you work with a great team, it makes it much easier,” Chimes, while Bobo takes a second to illuminate. “It was a mutual respect.”
Coordination and perfect production can really be seen in the final product. As heard during a bath conversation in an early prime minister: “Holy S – I should have canceled my trip to Tokyo and have been there … but seeing it seems that I am there anyway!”
It is a surprising version of an album already acclaimed by critics. B In the front of the orchestra is Troy Miller, who orders his musicians as an army. Notably, you can't stop smiling as your cane elegantly shakes.
Fans are invited to stand up and dance, which is equally admirable and hilarious. There is something undeniably fun to see people twisting under the red velvet curtains of their cash seats, shouting from one place to another with the group. In a 154 -year place that demands the label, it is a testimony of the sound whenever there is Alluring Cypress Hill.
DJ Lord, Left, B-Real, Sen Dog and Eric Bobo de Cypress Hill.
(Jason Armond/Los Angeles Times)
The central songs now sound completely different: Funky Classics as “Dr. Greenthumb” become dark and mysterious with a symphonic support. Cypress Hill even makes “Cuban Corbito”, a relentless song that becomes even more intense with violins that transport the cadence of b-real between bars.
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of acting, however, is that no member illuminated an articulation throughout the show. B-real attributes it to the “prestige and history” of the place and respects its rules. Even during the trials, they would make sure to go to smoking.
“During our first essay together, when the people of LSO began to come, they immediately smelled of the grass and said: 'Oh, they are here!' Bobo remembers, distinguishing his words in his attempt from an elegant British accent.
Of course, in London, where marijuana is still illegal, sometimes they were “punished” by passersby, but “we did not give AF …, because this is what we do!”
Group fans can see all the performance as “Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall” makes a limited theatrical career in the USA. UU. On March 30 and 31 and April 2. They will have to wait until June 6 to have their physical launch of CD, LP and Cassette in their hands.
Someday, Angelen could see him in person, since Cypress Hill has been actively talking with the Los Angeles Philharmonic about taking the show home. The two have struggled to block anything, but give the angels of the angels who experience “is the work.”
Meanwhile, an album in Spanish is apparently on the horizon. Maybe even another album or EP of Cypress Hill, but “it will not necessarily be hip-hop.”
“We feel that we have done enough hip-hop for AF life: life,” says B-Real. “We love it, but as a group, as a band, we feel that we can put in anything. And that is what we are going to do, it is to enter anything.”
