Name: B-Real on The Reason for Cypress Hill's Distinct Sound
Uploaded: 2023-02-09T19:14:23.000Z
Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'B-Real on The Reason for Cypress Hill's Distinct Sound' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-09. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'B-Real on The Reason for Cypress Hill's Distinct Sound' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2023-02-09. Transcript available.

The Joe Rogan experience. How many times does a dude come up to you went insane
in the membrane? Oh, man
Almost almost where everywhere we go if I catch eye contact
And sometimes if I don't catch eye contact the way for me to walk by and they'll
and then those those
They'll sing it or they'll or they'll call me Cypress. Yo Cypress
That's been my name in New York for a long time. Yo Cypress
Because sometimes they don't know the all of our names that but they they know
what group we're in so you know
They won't say be real or dr. Green. Yo Cypress. That's crack it
That's kind of awesome though. Yeah, I got a lot of names
Man, I remember when you guys first came out I was like this is a totally new
kind of sound
You guys had a totally new kind of sound I remember I found out about it
Like I wasn't even into weed back then I was like, why is this weed symbol
everywhere?
What are these guys doing these rappers with weed? What the hell's happening
over there?
But I remember listening. I'm like this is it you guys had a completely
different kind of sound
Yeah, you know
The thing was is that mugs was from New York is from flushing so a lot of his
influence was from New York
You know his favorite production was like the bomb squad which were producing
public enemy and all their shit
They had like some of the most complex
Production at the time with bridges and breaks and these crazy sounds and stuff
like that
So, you know, that's what mugs got down with now when he moved out here and we
we start hanging out
He's introducing us to New York music, you know hip-hop music that we we heard
we heard some of it
Via the radio on KDAY am station. It was playing a lot of hip-hop in the mix
and some of it
Mixed with R&B and soul throughout the day
So this is where we got our first introduction to hip-hop
But mugs being from New York whenever we'd go back he'd come back with new
records and he'd introduce us to stuff like that
And so when it came time to to to working on an album
He had all that influence and you know being from New York and absorbing all
that culture
It sounded sort of like New York style production
Mixed with a little bit of LA influence, especially with you know, what Sen and
I were kicking in terms of vocals because we were using a combination of
LA and New York slang, you know merged as one so that's why a lot of people
were confused like where are these guys from?
You asked people in New York. They thought we were from East New York and they
were from Cypress Hills, New York and
People that that were from LA. They were like, well, wait a minute. They kind
of sound west coast ish
I think they're from out here, but they didn't really know
Until we came out and said, you know, yeah, we're from LA our boys from New
York and we're sort of a bridge
You know between LA and New York with the sound so yeah, it was always a
New York influenced sound because I mean that's where it was from but I think
that that's what added to us being different because
most things that were coming out of Los Angeles in that time or Southern
California
Sounded like gangster rap sounded like you know
A version of NWA or Compton's most wanted or something like that and we didn't
we wanted to be different
We didn't want to be in that lane. You know, we felt that was their lane. We
need to make our own so
We didn't want to sound like anything
Else that was in Cali. We didn't get signed by a
California label like whether it was Sony or any of it
We got turned down here because we didn't sound like we were from from
California. Isn't that funny?
Yeah, and how short-sighted people are and it turned out that like our our our
Well, we call him uncle Joe Joe the butcher who was based out of Philly
He had a you know his label with rough house with Chris Schwartz
He he had worked with mugs on a on an album that when mugs was in a group
called 783
He knew mugs his potential he liked mugs. He saw that, you know, he was
evolving as a producer
He heard about our thing and he wanted to take a chance on us
Where we were getting turned down from every goddamn label in in la
They just didn't understand us that you guys are talking about weed
How does this make sense? What have you got any other songs? We're like no, we're
cool
And yeah, I want to get
They're eating lunch listening to a song about getting high. They're like what
the fuck is this um
Or no, we didn't even have that song yet. It was that we were talking about. It
was uh, the get high song on there was um
Light another and something else but light another was a main one and we're
talking about it. That's one of the demos that played and
You know that you could see the execs just scratching their head like what do
we do with this?
I mean like
Isn't it funny that everybody wants everything to be cookie cutter?
Yeah, like the idea that rap didn't even exist a few decades prior, right?
It wasn't even a common thing and now all of a sudden
It's huge and they can't see that maybe there's another branch of this that
could I mean
It's funny that they wouldn't be they wouldn't recognize how good it is
That's what's weird
What it is is as they don't want to take a chance on trying to develop it
because if it fails it's on their back
You know what I mean?
So they want something that's easy that oh like oh, it's this sounds like this
we can market it in this lane
This is already a successful
Template let's use this. Oh, they're not using that shit. We can't do nothing
with it
So, you know, like it's the development and fortunately, you know when we got
assigned to roughhouse
colombia we had the power of of of colombia backing us up
Because they sort of believed in what what we were doing
Well, they not sort of believed they believed in what we're doing
And got behind it and allowed us to be as creative as we wanted to be and and
and pushed us and and uh
You know along with having joe and chris on our side
Creatively like pushing our line and saying hey with these guys are doing great.
We don't want to intervene and
You know change anything they're doing just let them fucking go
I mean that was everything because you know most of the time they want an easy
layup
so
if
Let's just say
You know, there's a group over here that's doing well. Hey, how come why don't
we make a record like this over here?
Right, it's like well, why don't you go sign that shit over there?
This is not who we are. So, you know, they want you to make it easy, but
realistically it's nothing good is ever easy
You got to work toward it and develop it
Unfortunately, you know, we got on the team that that believed in that and man
It was the biggest fuck you
To all those that turned us down and didn't get what we were doing
They got it now. Y'all got it now, right?
You got it now
Thank you.