However, it did perform better on the R&B charts than it did on the pop charts. A darker, gloomier affair than their first two records, Temples of Boom was greeted with mixed reviews upon its fall 1995 release, and while it initially sold well, it failed to generate a genuine hit single. In1994 the group brought on former Beastie Boys percussionist Eric Bobo, and toured with the fifth Lollapalooza prior to the release of their third album, Temples of Boom. Cypress Hill followed the album with Black Sunday in the summer of 1993, and while it sounded remarkably similar to the debut, it nevertheless became a hit, entering the album charts at number one and spawning the crossover hit "Insane in the Brain." Black Sunday entered the charts while the group's debut was still charting in the top ten, a first for any rap artist. The singles "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and "The Phuncky Feel One" became underground hits, and the group's public pro-marijuana stance earned them many fans in the alternative rock community. With its stoned beats, B Real's exaggerated nasal whine, and epic portrayals of street violence, the group's eponymous debut became a sensation in early 1992, several months after its initial release. Renaming themselves Cypress Hill after a local street, the group continued to perform around L.A., eventually signing with Ruffhouse/Columbia in 1991. The group began pioneering a fusion of Latin and hip-hop slang, developing their own style by the time Mellow Man Ace left the group in 1988. They dabbled in rap-rock as early as their 2000 album Skull & Bones, and they experimented with changes in style on releases like 2018's production-focused Elephants on Acid and 2022's Back in Black, their tenth studio album and a return to the group's hip-hop beginnings.ĭVX, the original incarnation of Cypress Hill, formed in 1988 when Cuban-born brothers Sen Dog (born Senen Reyes, November 20, 1965) and Mellow Man Ace hooked up with fellow Los Angeles residents Muggs (born Lawrence Muggerud, January 28, 1968) and B Real (born Louis Freese, June 2, 1970). Cypress Hill's original lineup splintered and regrouped at various times as the years went on, but the group remained active long after their commercial peak in the '90s. Dre's G-funk to the chilly layers of English trip-hop.
Apart from that album and its 1993 follow-up Black Sunday both going platinum two or three times over, the group's sound became extraordinarily influential in '90s hip-hop, showing up in everything from Dr. DJ Muggs' repetitive, gnawing production, B Real's nasal flows, and Sen Dog's bellowing barks all came together under clouds of gun smoke and pot smoke for a sound unlike anything before it on the group's self-titled 1991 debut.
Throughout the '90s, Cypress Hill grew to be a defining presence in both hip-hop trends and vocal enthusiasm for weed, and their cacophonous, paranoid beats and stoned lyrics made them a multi-million-selling group and the first Latino rap superstars.
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