Cypress Hill Talks The Gang Culture In East Los Angeles

Visited East Los this past Saturday. Walked around Whittier and Arizona, ate at Baja Tacos, bought stuff at the Commerce Center, rolled around Maravilla, and visited El Pino. Good weekend!

When I first heard of the group Cypress Hill, I honestly thought they were from Brooklyn. Brooklyn has a neighborhood called Cypress Hill and they also sampled Big Daddy Kane's voice from a song which mentions the neighborhood. They were definitely different. At that time, The West Coast had things on lock with Gangsta Rap. When I heard them rhyme in Spanish I was super amped up. I felt they embraced their culture and hood. Being Puertorican, I liked the fact that they mixed Latin rhythms with rap. They are Legends and future R&RHOFers. Respect. Big Up from Brooklyn.

I was in high school ( 90s ) when I first heard Cypress Hill , Black Sunday and The Chronic were the first rap albums I bought with my own money ..Live at The Fillmore in my opinion is one of the greatest live albums ever put out ..will forever love these dudes ..

I'm going to use this clip to talk about urban density with urban subculture to show the geographical differences within ethnic/racial groups. This is fire Revolt & Drink Champs. Telling ya'll stories is validating a lot of youth that are still ignored. Thank you.

I'm from Maywood and back in 97 I seen Cypress Hill at a house party in Bell,CA on Randolph st, at one point I remember seeing them in the front porch sitting on a couch drinking beers and smoking weed just talking, it was actually more like a hangout everyone was just chill even tho they were a Big deal already.

I will always remember being in middle school when I heard Cypress Hill's first album and playing my tape til the end and hearing that extra track "Tres Aquis" and my Mom coming to my room like "WTF are you listening to in my house?"🤣

Dope interview!

This is a amazing program for everyone who loves rap/hip-hop, also the less commercial artist get this podium, rightfully!! Flowers to who deserves them

alameda st divides south central LA from the south east cities like vernon, Huntington park, south gate, lynwood, etc...

Big Up to Cypress Hill....🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿

I can definitely hear that Sen Dog is from L.A, in the way he speaks.

Sen Dog a real one ive had so many run in with him I lost count. He's really out there

one of my favorite groups!

Love hearing the history of the music

Good interview

one of the best hip hop groups of all time

Been listening back to Temples of Boom this week and I think Mugg’s production on that is perfect, also gives a good impression of what he’s gone on to do with The Black Goat stuff

Being from Jersey and being stationed in Cali, I appreciated their whole culture and vibe...... They have their own unique culture out there...Shout out to Riverside , La Puente, Visalia, East Los and SanDiego....cant forget them wild times in TJ. !!

I’m from Canada, my dad would send me to L.A. when school was out for the summer. I’d spend summer with cousins, It was so crazy. Good memories. Glad I made it out. I know a lot didn’t 🪦

Cypress and Wu is for life!