Through a haze of smoke Cypress Hill rose from Los Angeles in the early 1990s to
become one of the first Latino hip-hop acts, mixing rolling loops and strutting
beats with alternative rock stylings, going on to notch up album sales of over
18 million.
Using both Spanish and English lyrics their eponymous debut album in 1991 became
a landmark crossover of rap and rock, inspiring the nu-metal scene and acts as
diverse as Dr Dre and Limp Bizkit. Its follow-up 'Black Sunday' (1993) sent the
band global, topping the US charts, producing the international hit 'Insane in
the Brain'...