In collaboration with Ishtar Music
Founded in 1988, the three original members of Cypress Hill are Cuban-born rapper Sen Dog, rapper of Mexican and Cuban ancestry B-Real, and Italian American DJ Muggs. They were the first Latino American hip-hop group to go platinum and multi-platinum. B-Real’s higher-pitched nasal voice and Sen Dog’s gruffer delivery combined with DJ Muggs’ slow, rolling bass-and-drum loop rhythms influenced the future sound of hip-hop in the 1990s, especially West Coast hip-hop and rap. Cypress Hill was the first major hip-hop music group to include Spanish and Latin slang in their lyrics. They also openly supported the use of marijuana, popularizing the rhetoric for other musicians for years to come.
