But then, once we recorded Tom’s song and came up with the title for it - ‘Rise Up’ - we knew instantly that had to be the title for the whole RECORD! Because it basically summed up what we were DOING! Like we’ve been doing this for so long, and here we are now getting back up and trying to get this Cypress Hill movement on the roll again! Plus ‘Rise Up’ also ties in obviously with the climate of the country right now. And so fortunately Tom - who’s a friend of ours - listened, liked what he heard - and ended up giving us a great TRACK! And, though at the time we had a few possible album titles prepared that we liked, at that point none of them had actually STUCK. And we got to a point where we were like ‘Maybe we should call Tom Morello to see if he’d be interested in taking a listen to this album and perhaps contributing to it’. €œWell, Sen Dog and myself had been working on the album for quite some time.
Titling their new album ‘Rise Up’ after its powerful first single, which features Rage Against The Machine’s Tom Morello Which - recorded over the last three years at B-Real’s Los Angeles studio The Temple - interestingly also marks their debut release for the Snoop Dogg-helmed, EMI-affiliated Priority Records. With Cypress Hill (whose current line-up comprises original emcees B-Real and Sen Dog plus percussionist Eric Bobo) also due in the UK to for high-profile festival dates and headline shows in June, a forthcoming and articulate B-Real hooks up with Pete Lewis to discuss the group’s aforementioned new album. As is indeed reflected in tracks ranging from the percussion-driven, infectious Latin anthem ‘Armada Latina’ and powerfully-aggressive title track to the old skool soul groove of ‘Armed And Dangerous’ plus the hauntingly reflective ‘Carry Me Away’. One of the most successful and influential hip hop/rock groups in history with more than 18 million worldwide sales and a massive international fan-base, the California outfit (famed for their championing of marijuana before it became fashionable and for making it acceptable for rappers to use Spanish in their rhymes) have also on their new album for the first time (in addition to using longstanding collaborator DJ Muggs) brought on board numerous outside producers including such “name†studio bods as Pete Rock, Jim Jonson and System Of A Down’s Daron Malakian.Īll of which has in turn resulted in a diverse-yet-cohesive set that incorporates the traditional Cypress Hill grittiness while injecting an updated, more varied twist in the group’s sound. An album whose compulsive mix of deep grooves and hard riffs is amplified by diverse guest appearances from the likes of Rage Against The Machine guitarist Tom Morello Linkin Park vocalist Mike Shinoda Latino singer/songwriter Marc Anthony Miami rapper Pitbull plus seasoned comic legends Cheech & Chong. After a six-year hiatus, West Coast hip hop icons Cypress Hill return this month with their eighth studio LP ‘Rise Up’.
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