{"id":3315,"date":"2011-08-10T00:42:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3315"},"modified":"2011-08-10T00:42:01","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:42:01","slug":"cypress-hill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/cypress-hill\/","title":{"rendered":"CYPRESS HILL"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CYPRESS HILL<\/h1>\n

The hip-hop pioneers are back in business and ready to rock<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Cypress Hill didn\u2019t intend to wait so long between albums, but the pioneering Los Angeles rap group had some business to attend to between 2004\u2019s Till Death Do Us Part<\/em> and the new Rise Up<\/em>. Among other things, the foursome toured abroad, worked on solo projects, changed management and switched record labels. \u201cWe revamped everything, and it took longer than we thought it would,\u201d says Sen Dog. \u201cLuckily we came out the other side ready to release a new album and take on the world again.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rise Up<\/em> features an array of high-profile guests, including singer Marc Anthony and guitar heroes Slash and Tom Morello. \u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people, especially rock \u2019n\u2019 roll people, that want to get down with Cypress Hill,\u201d asserts Sen Dog (given name: Senen Reyes). He says that he, fellow MC B-Real and DJ Muggs have a long history with rock. \u201cBefore we were into hip-hop as kids, we were listening to rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and punk-funk and heavy metal,\u201d he says. \u201cIt all became part of Cypress.\u201d<\/p>\n

The genre divide isn\u2019t the only boundary Cypress Hill has broken during its more than two decades together. It was the first rap act to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, and the first Latino hip-hop act to sell more than a million records. Its 1993 hit \u201cInsane in the Brain\u201d crossed over to the pop Top 20. Milestones like these have helped Cypress Hill make an indelible influence on hip-hop\u2019s new generation. \u201cWhen other artists tell you, \u2018I started rhyming because of you,\u2019 or \u2018I started DJing because of you,\u2019 that\u2019s when it means something to me,\u201d Sen Dog says. \u201cThat\u2019s when I pay attention. That\u2019s when I think, \u2018OK, we have done\u00a0something important.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

On Rise Up<\/em>, the band, which since 1994 has also included percussionist Eric Bobo, was more concerned with\u00a0re-establishing itself as a musical force. The songs came easily\u2014so easily, in fact, that it took the group by surprise. \u201cThere was no difficult stage, no writer\u2019s block, nothing like that,\u201d Sen Dog says. \u201cWe\u2019ve had very stressful albums, where I didn\u2019t care to be in the studio making them. That was not the case with this.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no overarching narrative thread on the album, though Sen Dog says there is a theme. \u201cThis album is to signify that Cypress Hill is back,\u201d he explains. \u201cWe\u2019re back in a strong way, and we\u2019re not just back for one record. We\u2019re here for the foreseeable future.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Eric R. Danton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

CYPRESS HILL The hip-hop pioneers are back in business and ready to rock Cypress Hill didn\u2019t intend to wait so long between albums, but the pioneering Los Angeles rap group had some business to attend to between 2004\u2019s Till Death Do Us Part and the new Rise Up. Among other things, the foursome toured abroad, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[2370,49,10156],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3317,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3315\/revisions\/3317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}