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Sen Dog of Cypress Hill on The 30 Year Anniversary of Debut Album and New Doc | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Aug 16, 2021
Cypress Hill has been making an impact on the culture since they first came out in 1991. Now thirty years later, they are a staple in hip-hop history and are celebrating 30 years since their debut. Sen Dog talks with Sway In The Morning about their journey.
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we are celebrating the release
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of the first debut cypress hill album i
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was there when it first came out
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i recall actually having a club called
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the jungle
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on 330 ridge street and working at kmel
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and a lot we became we were promoters as
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well and there was this new group called
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cypress hill that no one knew where they
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were from um but us and they came up to
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the bay and you couldn't tell where they
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were from because of their sound
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you know at that time you really the
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super cat was out at that time and it
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was a bunch of other groups that were
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out at that time and i remember watching
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these guys perform and going man i feel
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like we're on the brink of a new era
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with sound the aesthetic even how they
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performed even having like live
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percussions on stage with them we hadn't
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really saw that rock like that but most
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importantly i think they introduced the
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world to a a bigger variety of which you
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can expect coming from the west coast
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conceptually everything about them what
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cyprus hills stood for
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even being uh advocates of cannabis and
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having to
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take the br the bulk of that backlash
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back in the day
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the grunt they were on list you know
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they were outcasted they were
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stigmatized because of the support of
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cannabis but none of that
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that backlash or whatever that they
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received could supersede the success
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that they had
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from what they contributed to this
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culture and anytime you could be here 30
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years later and people are still excited
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to talk to you excited to see you they
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can sell out concerts to this day tens
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of millions of albums they've sold um
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branding the cypress hill logo was an
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incredible brand that's that to this day
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still stands out everything they've done
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has been successful unique
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distinguishable and they did it their
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own way and we have one of the members
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syndog with us today to celebrate the
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30-year anniversary on the same day that
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we celebrate the birth of hip-hop from
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august 11 1973 they dropped our album
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august 13th
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1991 we got the one and only send dog
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from cypress hills
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cypress hill wow
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wow
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yeah
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thank you for the introduction man you
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make me feel special brother thank you
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man come on sin you are special man i
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yes i get chills man i you know it's
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funny man every time we we all see each
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other and
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sometimes we do these interviews as of
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late i never feel like i walked away
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fulfilled there's so much we could talk
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about because of the decades that we've
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known each other but i could put a lot
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of [ __ ] into context
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you know what i mean like i could i was
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there you know and success
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at that level wasn't easy back then and
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even listening to this story
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that you that you talk about working at
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kodak and mugs convincing you to become
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a member of the group i'm curious to
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when you guys first formed what kind of
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reception did you get did people
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instantly receive you
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no man it was
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it was the opposite actually we we
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didn't come up with our strongest single
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when we first came out we came out with
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a song called funky field one with
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hockey just killer man on the b side
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and uh the record didn't really sell
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that much man for the first you know six
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seven months that's why he was out there
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with third base and naughty by nature
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and tim dawg just humping every night
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trying to get noticed and people that
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recognize our our record and whatnot
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so it was it was it was like you know a
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little bit of hard going tough sledding
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if you will you know those first few
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months before before killer man happened
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you know we were out there paying our
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dues like people don't see that part of
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it they just see when your record blows
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up and you know you're on mtv and you're
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touring and whatnot
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you know we had a lot of months of uh
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you know mcdonald's and waffle house and
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all four of us and one motel room and
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all that all that good stuff you know so
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it was it wasn't it wasn't easy by all
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means you know four four men in one room
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who got the bed
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you're right well
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well you slept you slept head to toe you
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know the one guy snicked one guy the
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other way sleeps the other way so like
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head to toe from you know the these feet
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were by my my head and my feet were by
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his head just so i'm going to do it man
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that's the way to do it uh let me ask
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you this you mentioned you know naughty
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by nature
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um
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you mentioned tim dawg tim dawg at that
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time had a song called [ __ ] compton
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and this was in the heat of the
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so-called farce west coast east coast
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controversy
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um how
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did did did john talk to tim dawg about
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that song what did john say to him
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being from the west coast
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yeah actually when we got to the label
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to roughhouse
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tim dog was already one of the signed
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artists there and uh he already had this
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song they played it
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you know us guys on cyprus you know
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we're not really shocked by anything or
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anything like that you know we're just
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like oh wow he's gonna catch some [ __ ]
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behind us
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but uh we weren't really like shocked or
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any you know surprised or anything like
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that um so what they had the idea of us
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of tim and cypress and
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going on the road with third base you
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know we were with it we were hungry we
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just wanted to get out there and do
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something it did didn't even matter what
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you know so if what the fact that tim
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was going up there singing that song
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i mean to us didn't really mean nothing
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to us because you know we're from l.a
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and a lot of people say that in l.a
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but
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you know so because it was called [ __ ]
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compton and y'all was from l.a it didn't
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bother you
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is that what you said yeah
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what's up it's heather how you doing
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like it's crazy that you touching on
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that because i used to be at shows in
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cali and didn't understand um just
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geographical what that all meant i was
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like yo people can say that out here but
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then you you go back a few years early
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like when
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krs said the bridge is over you could
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play that everywhere except for in
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queensbridge you understand it was just
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like a regional kind of thing sway yeah
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but you know heather compton and la are
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so close
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yeah brooklyn and queens are close it
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may be like yo the bridge is over so
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okay all
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right with that that's facts
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yo so send dog is here from cyprus hill
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so let me ask you this sin um yeah
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the funky feel one was that was the
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joint man
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that's what we started playing on the
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wake up show that thing the funky
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feeling
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that was the joint i'm curious yeah
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right and so what's the did the
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did y'all have a hard time because y'all
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were what is everybody's background you
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you're cuban right what's your
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background
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yeah i'm afro cuban and uh be real is
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half afro cuban and half mexican and
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uh volvo's puerto rican and mugs is
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italian
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yeah so it was uh a hodgepodge a melting
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pot of people how was that received when
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people saw y'all and the way be real and
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you guys rapped
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it was you know did people did y'all
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catch them off guard
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i think so man yeah man we caught a way
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off guard because the formula had not
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been seen or heard or you know even
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experienced at any given point so people
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are like why is this guy's voice like
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that you know talking about be real
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voice you know and we just thought you
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know we thought it was dope from the
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first second we heard it we were like oh
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my god this kid's flown now it's
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incredible with this nasal thing you
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know but it had it took a while for it
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to catch on you know and it wasn't until
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you know the label started releasing or
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more you know rebellious and dangerous
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material like you know pigs the stone is
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the way of the walk and how could just
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kill a man and hand on the pump and
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things like that that we got
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the better reaction like i'm not saying
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[ __ ] feeling wasn't a great song it
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was a good song and everything but how i
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could just kill a man and pig just got
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their own vibes you know what i mean
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and i think that's what the world was
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waiting for for us to do something that
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would shake them in other words you know
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i mean like get a hold of get a hold of
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their bodies and move them around
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physically you know and that's what how
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i could just kill them that's what i
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could just kill a man
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for for the world i think
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hmm
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don't go there [ __ ] no i said thank you
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for clearing that i thank you for just
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correcting something my ignorance for
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some reason i just thought all of y'all
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were mexican and i don't know why i
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thought that but
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they from l.a
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i just and i just thank you for that
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that history lesson there culturally um
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were you guys discriminated against um
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because people may have thought like i
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thought especially being from the east
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coast um about for your heritage and
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secondly when you hear like sway said 20
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million albums over 20 million albums so
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yeah yeah there's always more but when
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you hear people talk about some of the
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greatest hip-hop groups of all times
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have you guys ever felt slighted just on
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a larger scale if y'all's name wasn't
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mentioned because listening to you talk
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right now i mean my goodness it's
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historic with all the things that y'all
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done and all the ground that y'all
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broken
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yeah well you know um
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i think i don't i don't know if we ever
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had like a like a serious like amount of
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like backlash or anything like that like
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i think we just stood our ground
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and refused to see anything else you
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know what i mean
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okay so it was all it was go ahead it
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was all all cypress hill or nothing and
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we just whatever bad review we got we
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kind of just shook it off and it kept
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right on pushing and i think you have to
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have that mentality that you know you
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can't be delicate in this business you
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can't be sensitive or any of that
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because you're never gonna last you know
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what i mean so you just gotta whatever
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they say about you keep up just keep it
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moving keep it pushing whether it's bad
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or it's good just keep your own going
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and moving and pushing you know
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and
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as far as as far as like the record
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sales like you know we never thought
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that we'd seen millions of refugee sales
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or for 30 years in the game or anything
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like that so all that kind of like
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caught us by surprise especially with
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the success of the first album
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you know and then the success of the
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second album we were we were like quite
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blown away we were like whoa what's
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going on around here
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you know and
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when you when stuff like that happens
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you know first of all you have to you
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know thank the musical god you know for
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for blessing you with talent and
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and the right people around you because
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no band does it on their own you have to
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have lawyers managers labels
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accountants you know good homeboys that
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got good
10:54
that got good ideas for you not like let
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me just get in with cmb and let me see
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what i can get off of them and what i
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can make out for them type thing you
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know what i mean yeah
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you got to have this whole unit around
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you of people that help you become a
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success you never do it by yourself
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so when the when the records when the
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record sale started coming
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um you know i always looked at it like
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as a blessing you know my mom always
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would always tell me like you know
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that's a blessing son you have to you
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know give thanks for your blessings
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because not everybody can sell records
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like that and not everybody gets a
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chance to
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so we looked at it as you know uh these
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fans have you know blessed us by buying
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our album let's go hit the road and
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as much as we can and show them that we
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appreciate them and you know show up for
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concerts no matter where at but book us
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we go we do it you know and it's a it's
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a beautiful thing to think that
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that 30 years ago we started something
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that would eventually sell millions of
11:47
records
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and it would uh and would help you know
11:50
latinos artists you know open up doors
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for latino artists and whatnot
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you know
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and to what you said heather uh about uh
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you thought we were all mexican um
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you know we all grew up we all grew up
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right there near east l.a and all that
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stuff and where we all were i grew up at
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and where mugs grew up at it's
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predominantly a mexican neighborhood
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okay
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yeah you adapter styles of dressing
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talking or dancing whatever it is
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because
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i mean mexican's got style bro you know
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what i mean right right right yeah so
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yeah so you kind of like adapt to what
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to what their get down is and and before
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you know it your that's your way of
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surviving through those concrete jungles
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is adapting to the language and the
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looks and all that stuff so when they
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see you coming and you got your pants
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creased and you got your chuck taylor's
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on you know and you got your bct hey uh
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t-shirt on and it's creased up and
12:46
everything they know you're no joke just
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by the way what you got on
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wow
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i don't i don't we never we never took
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an offense that people thought you know
12:56
we were all mexican or this or that yeah
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that never bothered us because you know
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we grew up we grew up right there with
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them so did you grow up in southgate
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where did you grow up
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yeah i why i lived in cuba uh for my
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first seven years of life
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and then you know my my dad wanted to
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get out of there um brought us to uh the
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united states and then we were yeah
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pretty much southgate from that point on
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so mellow man ace
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right yeah that's now you that's your
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brother
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that's that that's my younger brother
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and people get it twisted because you
13:29
know he came out before i did yeah they
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think that he's the older one but in
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reality i'm the i'm the oldest [ __ ] out
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of all of us
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let's get it right yeah that's the way
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it is yo yeah so a mellow man ace had
13:45
the song hb you remember this yeah menta
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rosa and that thing was huge and so the
13:51
younger brother blew up before the older
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brother did he used to rub it in your
13:55
face
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uh no you know not really so much
13:59
rubbing in my face but like uh
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you know when you go on tour with julio
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g and you know i would stay behind shout
14:06
out drop them off at the airport and
14:08
pick them up at the airport and i kind
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of felt like that was a little bit you
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know uh
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too much but my mom was like uh one day
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i was complaining to my mom about man
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what am i a limousine driver or a taxi
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driver or something she's like
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she said you know what for all you know
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when your bag comes out it's gonna be
14:24
the biggest thing in the world now go
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get in the [ __ ] car and pick up your
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brother
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shout out to julio g uh k day uh west
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coast radio julio g is a straight up
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pillar
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in the game has always been solid
14:44
breaking a lot of and supporting a lot
14:46
of the culture and the artists that that
14:48
have come from the west coast we got
14:50
syndog from cypress hill hill ladies and
14:52
gentlemen tracy you want to ask them
14:54
something yeah i absolutely do what up
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son congratulations on 30
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motherfreaking years bro i'm wondering
15:03
we were speaking about um beyonce shows
15:05
on the cover of harper's bazaar and she
15:07
was sharing how it takes her like a year
15:09
of listening to thousands of production
15:12
and just
15:13
new um instruments etc for her to decide
15:16
what the sound of that album is going to
15:18
be and so i wonder if
15:20
having you know a team if that makes
15:23
that process of figuring out your sign
15:25
your sound for that moment faster or
15:28
does it make it slower because there's
15:30
more you know chefs in the kitchen
15:33
well i i'll tell you what with cypress
15:35
hill guys
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it's always been that's always been a
15:38
way for us to move faster because we
15:41
have we have one guy in charge of that
15:43
whole area being dj mugs
15:46
you know and i kind of would look at
15:47
mugs kind of like uh
15:49
you know the jimmy page from led
15:51
zeppelin of hip-hop at that time you
15:53
know what i mean because he was just
15:54
that mysterious and you know he give us
15:57
beats we do songs we come back a couple
16:00
days later and the songs are completely
16:01
turned around
16:02
you know so muds were musk was the the
16:06
the guy that was on on point for us
16:09
during throughout all those years and we
16:11
never had to worry about you know
16:13
musical tracks or anything like that
16:14
because we had you know in my opinion
16:17
you know one of the top five guys
16:19
producing for us in japan so it was like
16:22
uh you know what mug says he's got the
16:24
music he's got the music okay let's go
16:27
listen to it until then you know go on
16:30
go on and ride your low rider ride your
16:33
motorcycle spend time with your kids
16:34
because what he calls this is work work
16:37
work work work so
16:39
yeah in that aspect you know we were
16:41
very very very blessed to to have you
16:44
know a guy that uh you know would turn
16:46
into like a you know a producing kind of
16:49
genius if you will
16:50
you know
16:51
after after a minute i felt like he
16:53
could do it with his eyes closed or
16:54
while he took a nap he could produce
16:56
beats or you know i was like man he's
16:58
just really feeling his game right now
16:59
and he's filling it out well you know
17:01
so that's how that's how the the whole
17:04
for me
17:05
that that whole thing takes shape and
17:07
like i have to listen to like all my
17:09
favorite rappers of all time before i go
17:11
and make a record like i gotta listen
17:13
like to rock him chuck d
17:15
krs
17:17
you know you tell me like like e40 and
17:19
all that
17:20
i got to play i gotta listen to all
17:21
those guys to make me feel me to hype me
17:25
up okay these are my generation guys
17:27
yeah what i mean like yeah their rhymes
17:29
still kick ass so let's go make some you
17:32
know some bad ass music you know
17:34
absolutely
17:35
dj mugs we had him all not too long ago
17:38
his sound cypress hill everlast funk
17:40
dubious soul assassins gizza planet asia
17:43
ill bill all these different folks he's
17:45
worked with incredible
17:47
uh you named a lot of these guys man i'm
17:50
curious because cypress hill you know
17:52
you guys uh had tremendous success
17:54
you've had some you've had some
17:55
controversy you've had some beefs and i
17:58
know this has been talked about before
18:00
but i'm curious to at one point when um
18:02
ice cube and be real were going at it
18:05
um because be real felt uh ice cubes um
18:08
took some things from him and it's been
18:11
it's well documented i'm curious to now
18:13
that we're older and we're grown and
18:15
everybody's successful
18:17
do y'all ever did y'all ever get a
18:19
chance to sit and talk with him and how
18:20
did that come turn out since then what's
18:22
the relationship like
18:25
well yeah you know we actually have
18:27
we've actually uh we've actually done
18:29
concerts with ice cube you know in the
18:31
in the distant uh in the distant past
18:34
you know and whatever whatever be real
18:37
and ice cube talked about
18:38
um i wasn't i wasn't there at that
18:41
conversation
18:42
all i know is that uh
18:44
you know one day uh b tells me like hey
18:47
we're you know we're not beating anymore
18:49
we're good and i'm like okay cool deal
18:51
you know whatever and at that point we
18:53
still had a long ways to go before
18:56
we actually got back on stage together
18:58
you know i mean just squashing the beef
19:00
was one part and then
19:02
you know the healing and everything and
19:04
then okay now we're good we're good to
19:06
hang out let's do some shows you know
19:08
but it was it was never
19:10
i don't think
19:11
i don't know man i never really felt
19:13
like it was a thing that it was gonna
19:16
you know take birth physically and guys
19:18
were gonna get into each other's faces
19:19
and knock each other out and and whatnot
19:21
i just felt like you know these are two
19:23
top notch mc's having a you know a
19:26
little bit of a tiff or whatever
19:28
you know and we'll figure it out and
19:29
keep on moving um so you know with the
19:33
when uh
19:34
you know you got to remember too that
19:36
ice cube was one of cypress biggest
19:38
supporters yeah when cyprus first came
19:40
out early on we were that he yeah early
19:42
on everywhere that he went he made sure
19:44
cyprus was with him you know so i could
19:47
never really i can i can i just can't
19:50
turn my back on stuff like that you know
19:51
what i mean like yeah the guy helped the
19:53
guy helped us out i'm not friend you
19:55
know what i mean so um i'm just glad
19:58
that that whole thing passed and and no
20:01
one you know got you know messed up or
20:02
hurt or anything like that because i
20:04
honestly really you know honestly really
20:07
did have respect for cube and i'm glad
20:09
that you know that i can say that i
20:11
still do because you know we were able
20:13
to get past all the stuff that we went
20:15
through and everything and all the name
20:17
calling and bad words and whatnot you
20:19
know it's uh when you're when you're
20:21
young guys you know you're a young man
20:23
and you got a bit of a little bit of
20:25
power and some popularity and
20:27
you know sometimes things get out of
20:29
control and out of hand and whatnot and
20:31
you know as you get older you get to
20:33
realize that like you know what that's a
20:35
real stupid [ __ ] we've done and just try
20:37
to fix it you know i mean so
20:38
um picking up ice cube and and dub c and
20:40
all those guys you know you know we got
20:42
respect for them and you know we know we
20:44
got they got respect for us and and you
20:46
never know when we're going to turn up
20:48
on stage and do a show together so i'm
20:50
i'm just happy that it's all good like
20:52
that now and uh
20:54
you know we could uh
20:55
actually get a chance to see each other
20:57
and perform and whatnot you know and
20:58
what it's all about yep
21:01
look back and appreciate these legacies
21:03
everybody built and appreciate this
21:05
future that we're stepping into 30 years
21:07
later we're celebrating cypress hill the
21:09
debut album they've had plenty of albums
21:12
every every year we're going to be
21:13
coming back celebrating the 30 year now
21:15
now that this happened
21:18
no doubt you know
21:20
so soon we gonna be celebrating 30 years
21:22
and you're gonna be like yo this is 30
21:24
black sunday 30 year anniversary you
21:27
know what i mean yeah so um i want to
21:30
take some callers uh real quick
21:33
and and send dog is here this is
21:36
legendary we got jay on the line from
21:37
l.a.j grand rises jay what's up jay why
21:41
yo what's up morning peoples good
21:43
morning good morning grand ryan good
21:45
morning son
21:47
hey brother what's going on man i just
21:48
wanna i i just wanna give you your props
21:51
brother i'm from southgate too one of
21:53
the little homies this is aka turtle you
21:56
know what's up all right i'm talking to
21:58
you for a minute bro what up turtle
22:01
what's up bro i just want to give a miss
22:03
props you know uh street legend you guys
22:06
mentioned the you know the academy's not
22:08
giving them their awards but the streets
22:11
gave them their awards that's why
22:12
they're in the game for 30 years they
22:14
don't need all them accolades from from
22:16
other
22:17
uh higher ups the streets gave them
22:19
their credibility
22:20
sand b mugs they've been in the game for
22:23
over 30 years that speaks volume on the
22:26
work they put in not only for the for
22:28
the culture but for the city of los
22:30
angeles yeah
22:33
yeah i love that turtle hey man
22:36
who's who's that oh that's uh who's
22:38
somebody radio's up hey turtle uh man we
22:41
appreciate you you gotta turn your radio
22:42
down though okay
22:44
i meant turtle aka turp mint turtle
22:49
turtle aka turtle
22:52
i'm pretty sure i'm pretty sure i know
22:53
turtle there uh that turtle guy i'm
22:56
pretty sure
22:57
it's southgate somewhere yeah well he he
22:59
said he knew you so i i thought i'll
23:01
make a reunion sometimes it could get
23:03
scary though after 30 years
23:08
here's a good question right here this
23:10
is carlos from north carolina go ahead
23:12
lord
23:13
hey hey what's going on y'all um i was
23:16
listening to lord said the other day and
23:17
your um one of the affiliates of cyprus
23:19
here was on there they were asking him
23:22
uh who would be a good versus for you
23:24
guys right and he he couldn't think of
23:26
anybody and i was thinking like the only
23:28
per only group that i could think of
23:30
that would share the aversions with you
23:32
was probably routine
23:34
had you ever considered a a versus for
23:38
cyprus here
23:40
you know what we've talked we talked
23:42
about that briefly and we came to the
23:44
same conclusion it would have to be like
23:47
wu tang or
23:48
or like red meth or something like that
23:50
i think that would pair up well i really
23:53
do okay
23:54
all right that's interesting random math
23:56
they did theirs thanks very much that's
23:59
interesting hey carlos thank you man
24:00
you're a citizen let's think about that
24:03
cypress hill who would they go up
24:05
against
24:06
um
24:07
let's go to the phone lines we got dre
24:09
on the line dre is from texas grand
24:12
rises dre
24:13
hey dre good morning good morning good
24:15
morning heather b good morning good
24:18
morning good morning good morning grant
24:20
rogers oh we got a citizen
24:22
hey hey true indeed i just want to say
24:25
to send dog i'm a latina from corpus
24:27
christi home hometown of salinas
24:31
anything for salinas so anyways i just
24:34
want to say i'm a latina i went and saw
24:36
i went to lollapalooza 95. i met cypress
24:39
hill they were outside with a video
24:41
camera i hope to see that on the
24:43
documentary and
24:46
i'm i'm going to get the book i i'm
24:48
going to get the album the new one that
24:50
just came out
24:52
i just want to say thank you sun dog so
24:53
much
24:55
it's just from latinos you and be real
24:58
and the whole crew dj mugs it's it's
25:00
such an honor to share the atheistic
25:04
simplicity with you gentlemen
25:07
it is it is amazing and um i just hope
25:10
to see the documentary soon guys i
25:11
really want to see it
25:14
all i can say
25:16
thank you
25:17
thank you drake right
25:19
right talk about the talk about the doc
25:21
in the book and the things she
25:23
mentioned sindol
25:25
well the the documentary is being
25:27
directed by the world famous estefan
25:30
oriole who uh you know he toured with us
25:32
for many years he was our tour manager
25:35
our photographer our video guy our
25:37
counselor our head shrink everything
25:39
that he everything that in a in a person
25:42
you know that you're going to trust out
25:43
on the road with he did for us
25:45
and uh
25:46
it's gonna i it's gonna come out really
25:48
good because that's the amount of
25:49
perfectionist so i just you know want to
25:51
give him a big shout out there and you
25:53
know the the graphic novel is going to
25:55
come out soon too and it's also uh based
25:58
on the early years of cypress hill
26:00
um like around the first album you know
26:02
before we took off and how that process
26:05
was
26:05
and there's some really good stories in
26:07
there some great uh some great graphics
26:10
as well um you know and then we have a
26:12
deal with the stat socks
26:14
that were you know uh where uh that they
26:17
we did a cyber still collab with them
26:19
and those are pretty fly
26:21
and then we have uh you know we're
26:23
working with montejo beer on uh you know
26:25
on a collab with them too and and and
26:28
and getting out there and
26:30
building up their company and and trying
26:32
to get you know people to recognize and
26:33
this and that so we're busy man you know
26:35
we're we're we're trying to make our
26:38
keep our our hyperstill
26:40
you know brand alive and well you know
26:42
throughout the whole thing you know
26:43
we're
26:44
you know we're we're that bad you know
26:46
it's hard for uh it's hard for us to
26:48
just all of a sudden
26:50
uh let go of our work ethics and say you
26:53
know whatever it doesn't happen that way
26:55
the more the more older we get the more
26:58
the more you know uh consistent we are
27:00
on you know nurturing our brand
27:02
so it's you know
27:04
it's to me it's like uh
27:06
it's the it's the best thing that's ever
27:08
happened to me in my life besides the
27:09
birth of my kids and i want to take care
27:11
of it i want to nurture it i want to see
27:13
it grow and grow and grow
27:14
you know wow
27:16
that's amazing man uh send dog here
27:19
we're celebrating 30 years
27:21
the 30-year anniversary of the cypress
27:24
hill release the debut album um damn
27:27
syndog's line just cut out
27:30
that's great oh there you go well he
27:31
just called right back let me see if i
27:33
could pull them up yeah
27:36
let me see if i could pull them up
27:38
yeah uh hold up let me see if i got mike
27:41
mules is that mike news mike
27:43
hey it's me oh that ain't seen dawg
27:45
that's mike muse guys that's mike news
27:47
hold on mike my dog
27:51
okay
27:52
dog sling dog you there yo there you go
27:55
i'm sorry about that i'm at a truck stop
27:57
in el paso
27:59
where uh we're on our tour right now and
28:01
uh and we're stopping uh that we stopped
28:03
so the reception's a little dodgy here
28:06
okay that's okay man um but what you
28:08
were saying was you protect your brand
28:10
as you know it's the best thing next to
28:12
your child being born and it's it's fed
28:14
a lot of people and
28:16
you know you've inspired a lot of people
28:18
around the world i'm i'm just curious
28:20
when you travel and we heard drake call
28:22
and talk about a latino representation
28:25
how are you received around the world
28:28
oh man that's you know well
28:31
you know
28:32
wow when we go to europe it's like uh
28:35
you remember run dmc in their heyday at
28:37
the top of their game yeah and how big
28:40
they were yeah i kind of feel when we go
28:41
to europe you know and uh and
28:45
yeah and uh in south america
28:48
uh well you know man they treat us like
28:49
gods over there like kings you know like
28:51
you know they're we're they're dudes you
28:53
know like
28:54
you're the guys that you're the guys
28:55
that represent for us we're their voice
28:57
and they let you know that they they
28:59
bring you their babies to hold them and
29:01
take pictures with them and whatnot
29:04
and uh
29:05
i love it yeah he's on tour right now
29:07
y'all
29:13
that was my tour bus driver guy he saw
29:15
me he's moving the bus so
29:16
yeah
29:17
so you know they the treatment around
29:19
the world is really nice man and we've
29:21
been able to
29:22
you know do big festivals and you know
29:24
perform with bands like kiss and
29:27
metallica and
29:28
along with them with all of our all of
29:30
our heroes like epmd and you know and
29:33
chuck d and flame and all public enemy
29:35
guys we've been able to do all that
29:36
stuff so we're that one band that could
29:38
cross that line and you know and
29:40
entertain on different levels like that
29:42
and
29:43
that makes me very proud of our guys you
29:44
know because
29:45
we all grew up
29:47
you know listening to
29:49
everything that that was on the radio
29:51
not just you know r b soul and hip hop
29:53
we listen to you know rock and roll and
29:55
everything and and in my house and we're
29:57
all they were always playing salsa music
29:59
and all that stuff so we always
30:01
wanted to you know i always wanted to
30:03
just stay be a well-rounded musician
30:06
instead of just listening to one thing i
30:08
want to listen to everything and my band
30:10
mates are the same way
30:12
i'm curious because you guys came out in
30:14
91 and i remember um
30:18
joe release flo joe
30:21
the represent album in 93 fat joe
30:24
uh
30:24
and being from new york and then big pun
30:27
of course uh kane and right after fact
30:30
joe
30:30
what was your relationship like just
30:32
from a latino connection
30:35
back then um
30:36
oh yeah it was good man like when you
30:39
know when when we come across each other
30:41
it was like it was almost like we were
30:43
from the same hood kind of because we
30:45
had so many things in common you know
30:47
not just being latino but also you know
30:49
being latinos are trying to break into
30:50
the hip-hop game and whatnot and you
30:52
know uh pun was always very nice to us
30:55
and you know treating us with respect
30:57
and kindness you know what i mean and
30:58
that's one thing i've always remember
31:00
about him was that as big as he ever got
31:03
if he's seen you somewhere and he could
31:04
be 100 yards for you he's going to shout
31:06
you out like yo
31:07
you know
31:08
you know and you got to love that kind
31:10
of attitude towards life
31:12
because not everybody has it you know
31:14
what i mean so when you see it you gotta
31:15
you know you know take you know
31:17
appreciate it and we've always we always
31:19
got to this day we're still good with
31:20
fat joe
31:21
um
31:22
whenever we would see each other or
31:24
anything like that which you know
31:25
reminds me of a
31:27
of a dinner that we had in new york uh
31:30
many years ago
31:31
and it was all the cypress hill guys and
31:33
estevan was there
31:35
fat joe was there and i think so was big
31:37
pun and so was eminem all at the same
31:40
dinner i was looking around the table
31:42
like wow how did i get this lucky man
31:45
went from i went from kodak i went from
31:48
taking pictures to making pictures right
31:51
exactly
31:52
exactly
31:53
why what would y'all talk about like who
31:56
was
31:56
do you recall that i'm just nosy
31:59
well i remember be real
32:02
be real and eminem and joe were talking
32:04
about
32:05
who the group the world's greatest mc
32:07
was at the time and
32:08
and things like that you know just
32:10
everybody giving in their opinion on who
32:12
was their favorite who they thought was
32:14
the best and whatnot
32:15
and uh you know you know uh me back in
32:18
those days all i cared about you know my
32:20
was my next beer you know hurry up and
32:22
bring it to me so
32:24
yeah but we were it was all about
32:26
hip-hop and the love of hip-hop and
32:29
you know where guys thought that hip-hop
32:30
was going to go to next and what region
32:33
of the country was we thought was you
32:35
know was going to blow up next and who
32:36
was going to make that next impact and
32:38
and whatnot and
32:40
and um it was all about hip-hop the
32:41
industry you know the the business
32:43
everything you know and that's and
32:45
that's why all those guys that i just
32:47
mentioned
32:48
fat joe and eminem like they're still
32:50
around like they're still doing things
32:51
that's because they're they're hip-hop
32:53
addicts you know what i mean so
32:55
there's no reason it's no wonder you
32:57
know the reason that they've been on top
32:59
for so long
33:00
man send dog cypress hill mike you want
33:02
to ask him a question before he's on
33:03
tour we got to let him go he about to
33:05
hit stage but mike you got a question
33:06
for him
33:09
yeah uh what it's great to talk with you
33:11
and i keep hearing how you're saying you
33:13
know what i'm hearing his representation
33:14
matters and how everyone comes up to you
33:16
in south america and holds the you know
33:18
babies i wanna take pictures with you
33:20
but i'm just curious in particular with
33:21
the latin the lady who called from
33:22
latinx and said you know what you mean
33:24
to her what does that make you guys feel
33:26
like what do you feel i know you talk
33:28
about how
33:29
you make people feel but how does that
33:31
feel when you hear that caller who uh
33:34
who is latinx and talks about what the
33:36
impacts you guys had in her life what
33:38
does that do to your soul
33:40
man yeah i'll tell you what if a black
33:42
man could blush i'd have been blushing
33:43
all over the place because you know she
33:45
really said some really you know
33:46
heartfelt things there and her words are
33:48
very kind and very honest and
33:50
you know the part where she says you
33:52
know that you know she's latina and you
33:54
know she we made her feel as like you
33:57
know her her race mattered her person
33:59
mattered you know that type of thing
34:01
that's the most kind of special you know
34:03
compliment you could get you know ever
34:06
is that you uplifted somebody's life and
34:08
you made them feel you know good or
34:10
better about themselves
34:11
you know and that really to really
34:13
really that's what it's all about it's
34:15
making people feel good about their
34:17
situation
34:18
and
34:19
you write these songs not knowing that
34:22
they might help someone down the line
34:24
you know who might be in peril or or in
34:27
a serious situation and it might be
34:29
thinking about doing something stupid
34:31
you know
34:32
you get those you get those moments
34:34
where like you know um
34:36
that moment of clarity it all comes
34:38
together
34:39
all of a sudden you see a picture it
34:41
might be just for a few seconds but you
34:43
see it all come together it's like oh i
34:45
see why people are saying that you know
34:47
our band has helped their life and
34:50
whatnot is it's not just a cannabis
34:52
thing it's a spiritual thing it's a
34:53
human being thing it's you know that
34:56
that kind of
34:57
that kind of a situation
34:58
so i always look at it like uh when i
35:01
sit down to write something you know
35:03
don't just write a rhyme you know
35:05
try to write something that means
35:06
something to you in your head and your
35:08
brain because it's gonna affect someone
35:10
else's life down the line and that's the
35:12
beautiful thing about music and hip-hop
35:14
in general is that
35:16
you don't even know what it's going to
35:17
help how it's going to help people or
35:19
uplift people you're just trying to
35:21
you're just trying to create the best
35:23
thing that you could create to be on
35:25
your record and down the line it's going
35:27
to be something that helps people
35:29
survive and that's i think that's the
35:32
most beautiful thing about what we do is
35:34
the the the whole human aspect of it and
35:38
what it means to for kids in like quito
35:41
ecuador to have their favorite band
35:43
cypress still travel all the way down or
35:45
just do a show for them
35:46
you know
35:48
it means a lot more to them than it does
35:50
to us but when i'm on that stage
35:52
i kind of feel as i'm one of them
35:55
like i'm part of that city for that
35:56
night and so i gotta i gotta get i gotta
35:59
get on down for them you know what i
36:00
mean i gotta be there that's like a v
36:02
man you gotta break it come on sin you
36:04
gotta bring it bro and you've done it
36:06
for 30 years man and we want to say
36:07
salute to you your legacy
36:10
um and continued success y'all my
36:12
brothers so
36:14
you know what it feel like man to know
36:15
to know what it was what it was then and
36:17
what it is now and still being able to
36:20
be here and celebrate it with you it was
36:22
amazing feeling saying and tell the
36:23
fellas um i know they're on the road
36:25
with you too tell them we love them
36:27
congratulations can't wait to see y'all
36:29
in person all right hold on one second
36:31
wait a minute wait a minute okay fellas
36:33
swaying heather b said what's up
36:36
what's up y'all hey hey
36:38
what's up y'all what up man that's mugs
36:42
mugs what up
36:44
b what up hey
36:45
hey what are you guys hey seeing be real
36:48
with you right now
36:49
yeah
36:50
it's uh bobo sin and be real bobo what
36:53
up baby
36:55
what's going on
36:56
hey you already know it family good to
36:59
hear your voice hey hey hey tell b
37:02
remember the gift he gave me when he
37:04
came to the studio last time the the
37:06
little the the skull i need another
37:09
skull
37:11
i got you
37:12
okay as a matter of fact i got several
37:14
other flavors for you
37:16
oh
37:17
okay i didn't you be out you went a
37:20
little too deep we live on there b um
37:22
[Laughter]
37:26
it's lollipops bruh
37:29
okay cool b i'm gonna get at you all
37:31
right
37:32
and congratulations hey fellas
37:34
congratulations when you get down this
37:36
way you already know it man i love y'all
37:39
bro congratulations man i'm glad i'm a
37:42
member of cypress hill let's continue to
37:44
celebrate all right
37:45
[Applause]
37:46
all right 30 years in the game give it
37:48
up for cypress hill
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