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Cypress Hill hail from South Gate, California. The three original members formed a group called DVX in 1986 with Sen Dog's brother Mellow Man Ace (Ulpiano Sergio Reyes). When Mellow Man Ace left in 1988, they decided to rename themselves Cypress Hill after a street running through their neighbourhood.
The band played mainly to Latino audiences in Los Angeles and recorded early versions of songs such as the "Phuncky Feel One" and "Trigga Happy Nigga." In 1991, they signed to Philadelphia's Ruffhouse label with distribution by Columbia Records.
Their first self-titled album was released in November 1991. Their first single was "Phuncky Feel One" but it was the B-side "How I Could Just Kill a Man" (formerly Trigga Happy Nigga) attracted more airplay on urban radio and college radio. Based on the success of the single and other tracks such as "I Wanna Get High", bilingual track "Latin Lingo" and X-rated Spanish track "Tres Equis", the album sold two million copies. DJ Muggs then produced the first album by the House of Pain then working with the Beastie Boys and Funkdoobiest. The band made their first appearance at LollapaloozaLollapalooza is an American traveling music festival featuring alternative rock, rap, and punk rock bands, dance and comedy performances, and craft booths. Organized in 1991 by Perry Farrell, singer for the band Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza ran annually on the side stage in 1992.
Black SundayBlack Sunday is an album by a rap band Cypress Hill. They released it on July 20, 1993. Track listing # "I Wanna Get High" # "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" # "Insane in the Brain" # "When the Shit Goes Down" # "Lick a Shot" # "Cock the Hammer" # "Lock Down, the group's second album, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200Billboard 200 is a listing of the top 200 selling music albums of the week. It is often used as a tool to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists. Often, a musical group will be remembered by the number of "number ones" achieved, or the nu in 1993, recording the highest Soundscan for a rap group up until that time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went double platinum in the US and sold 3.25 million albums.
As the first rappers fighting for the legalization of marijuana, Cypress Hill was banned from Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live SNL is a weekly late-night ninety-minute live comedy- variety show which has been broadcasted every Saturday night on the American NBC network since 1975. It is one of the longest-running network entertainment programs in American tele after Muggs lit up a joint and the band trashed their instruments while playing their second single "Ain't Going Out". The band headlined the "Soul Assassins" tour with House of Pain and Funkdoobiest as support, then performed on a college tour with Rage Against the MachineThich Quang Duc, a Vietnamese Buddhist monk who burnt himself to death as a protest against Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem's administration's practices against the Buddhist religion, features on the cover of the first Rage Against the Machine album. Rage Ag and Seven Year Bitch . In 1993, Cypress Hill also had two tracks on the Judgement NightThe 1993 thriller Judgement Night stars Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding Jr. Denis Leary and Stephen Dorff. A group of friends riding to the big game in an RV get lost in the ghetto. soundtrack teamed up with Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth.
The band played at the 1994 Woodstock Festival introducing their new member Eric Bobo who was formerly a percussionist with the Beastie Boys. Bobo is the son of famous salsa musician Willie Bobo . Rolling Stone Magazine named the band as the best rap group in their music awards voted by critics and readers. Cypress Hill played at Lollapalooza for two successive years topping the bill in 1995. They appeared on an episode of the Simpsons where Homer Simpson became a performer at a freakshow appearing on a similar tour to Lollapalooza.
Their third album III (Temples of Boom) was released in 1995 selling 1.5 million copies and reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200 despite not having a hit single. Cypress Hill also contributed a track "I Wanna Get High" to the High Times sponsored Hempilation album to support NORML.
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