The band headlined the Soul Assassins tour with House of Pain and Funkdoobiest as support, then performed on a college tour with Rage Against the Machine and Seven Year Bitch. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. Also, with their debut still in the charts, they became the first rap group to have 2 albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. The group made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992.īlack Sunday, the group's second album, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1993, recording the highest Soundscan for a rap group up until that time. The success of these singles led to the album selling two million copies in the US alone. The other two singles released from the album were "Hand on the Pump" and "Latin Lingo", the latter of which combined English and Spanish lyrics. The lead single was the double A-side "The Phuncky Feel One"/"How I Could Just Kill a Man" which received heavy airplay on urban and college radio. Their self-titled first album was released in August 1991. Early works and mainstream success (1989-1995)Īfter recording a demo in 1989, Cypress Hill signed a record deal with the major label, Columbia Records. The band soon lost Mellow Man Ace to a solo career, and changed their name to Cypress Hill, after a street in South Gate. In 1988, the two brothers teamed up with Lawrence Muggerud (also known as DJ Muggs) and Louis Freese (also known as B-Real) to form a hip-hop group named DVX (Devastating Vocal Excellence). In 1971, their family had immigrated to the United States from Cuba. Senen Reyes (also known as Sen Dog) and Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (also known as Mellow Man Ace) are brothers who initially lived in South Gate, California. They are one of the most well-known groups in West Coast rap and Hip Hop in general and are critically acclaimed for their first two groundbreaking albums.
Cypress Hill was the first Cuban-American/Latino hip hop group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 18 million albums worldwide. Cypress HillĬypress Hill is an American hip hop group from South Gate, California.