![]() ![]() Are we going to make good money rapping?’ But something told me to give it a shot. That’s the South Central lifestyle.”ī-Real says: “At first, I was resistant. We were worried anything could happen at any time. “It was a war down there, so me and Muggs went together. “It took a couple trips to convince him,” says Sen, whose parents are Cuban. Several interventions by Sen Dog, his younger brother Ulpiano (Mellow Man Ace) and Muggs were unsuccessful in getting B-Real, the son of Mexican and Cuban parents, off the streets and into the studio. He suffered a punctured lung and internal bleeding. “While they were trying to make music, I was out there fucking up.”Īs a member of the Bloods, at 18, B-Real was shot by a Crip spraying bullets with an Uzi. “I was in the gangbanging wars of the ’80s,” he recalls. But B-Real wasn’t all in he had other aspirations on the mean streets of South Gate and Compton, where he disappeared for a couple of years. The aspiring musicians met in 1988 and started making rhymes and beats. Muggs migrated from Queens with his mother when he was 14. B-Real and Sen Dog grew up in South Gate they named the group after a local street. 1 and featured their lone Top 40 single, “Insane in the Membrane.” Along for the ride are B-Real and Sen Dog (Senen Reyes), two of Cypress Hill’s three founders (Lawrence “DJ Muggs” Muggerud, who no longer tours with the group and was interviewed separately, is the other) and Eric “Bobo” Correa, who joined in 1994.Ĭypress Hill’s backstory plays like a John Singleton movie. A designated roller in the bus keeps the joints flowing as we chronicle a history that includes three Top 10 albums, among them “Black Sunday” in 1993, which hit No. ![]()
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