Cypress Hill doesn’t always get the credit they deserve for their impact on hip-hop history, but they’ve been honored forever with a revered star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
With a career of 30 years, the legacy of the four-man group of B-Real, DJ Muggs, Sen Dog, and Eric Bobo (along with former member Mellow Man Ace) includes six platinum albums and 90s zeitgeist songs like “How I Could Just Kill A Man,” “Insane In The Brain,” and “Hand On The Pump.” They released their self-titled debut in 1991 and the chart-topping follow-up Black Sunday two years later, and have continued creating ever since, releasing their ninth and latest album Elephants On Acid in September 2018. Cypress Hill are considered West Coast rap legends, and the first Latino rap group to have multiple gold and platinum records. Anchored by Muggs’ gloomy, gritty production and B-Real’s nasal, charismatic rhymes, Cypress Hill is as much a part of rap history as anyone.
The group’s ceremony included speeches from Latino comedian George Lopez and fellow West Coast rap legend Xzibit, who said ‘it’s about time’ before detailing the group’s illustrious career.
Xzibit pointed out Cypress Hill not only brought Latino representation in an industry that largely lacked it, but that they were staunch marijuana advocates way before today’s growing legalization.
“The Grammy-nominated group showed us stoned is indeed the way of the walk. Long before the days of legal dispensaries and medical marijuana, Cypress Hill were advocates of that sticky icky icky oooh wee!” Xzibit shared. “…Cypress Hill are pioneers in their own right. Their accomplishments and accolades reach deep in the roots and history books of hip-hop, and today is another chapter in that saga. Yo B-Real, Sen Dog, Muggs, Bobo: you are our Rolling Stones, Ungrateful Dead, you are the West Coast Public Enemy.”
Lopez insisted that out of all the 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, “there are none more important than the one we’re about to unveil for Cypress Hill. There’s a lot of actors, there’s a lot of comedians, there’s a lot of entertainers who are on this (Walk of Fame). But there’s only one cypress hill, the first Latino hip-hop group. But to everyone who lives the American dream, not the last Latino hip-hop group to ever be on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.”
Cypress Hill’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame is unveiled pic.twitter.com/cNtpIUd8Xg
— Variety (@Variety) April 18, 2019
Xzibit says “it’s about time” that Cypress Hill gets their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame pic.twitter.com/DHap9UkzXq
— Variety (@Variety) April 18, 2019
George Lopez says there are 2,600 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but “none more important than the star we are about to unveil for Cypress Hill” pic.twitter.com/wuaakjKp6u
— Variety (@Variety) April 18, 2019
