Muggs, when asked about the new member,said: "As The Beastie Boys.Bobo is the son of famous salsa musician WillieBobo. The band played at the 1994 Woodstock Festivalintroducing their new member Eric Bobo who wasformerly a percussionist with Soundtrack,teamed up with Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth. In 1993, Cypress Hill also hadtwo tracks on the Judgment Night With Rage Against the Machine andSeven Year Bitch. The band headlined the"Soul Assassins" tour with House of Pain andFunkdoobiest as support, then performed on acollege tour Smoked ajoint of marijuana and the band trashed theirinstruments while playing their second single "IAin't Goin' Out Like That". With "Insane in the Brain" becominga crossover hit, the album went double platinum inthe U.S.Īs one of the first rappers fighting for thelegalization of marijuana, Cypress Hill was bannedfrom Saturday Night Live after Muggs The band made their firstappearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in1992.īlack Sunday, the group's second album, debutedat number one on the Billboard 200 in 1993,recording the highest Soundscanįor a rap group upuntil that time. Subsequently,DJ Muggs produced House of Pain's first album,then working with the Beastie BoysĪndFunkdoobiest. On the success of thesingle and other tracks such as bilingual track"Latin Lingo" and X-rated Spanish track "Tres equis",the album "How ICould Just Kill a Man" (formerly "Trigga HappyNigga") that attracted more airplay on urban radioand college radio. Its single was"Phuncky Feel One," but it was the B-side Their first album, which was self-titled, wasreleased in November 1991. They have sold up to 17million records worldwide by 2006 The nameĬypress Hill refers tothe place where the first members of the band havelived, who grew up mostly in Cypress Avenue inSouth Cypress Hill formed in 1989 in Los Angeles,California by Latin-American rappers DJ Muggs, B-Real and Sen Dog.
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