Cypress Hill is an American hip-hop group from South Gate, California. Cypr… Read Full Bio ↴Cypress Hill is an American hip-hop group from South Gate, California. Cypress Hill was the first latino group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums and one of the first rap groups to gain a following with fans of hard rock and metal. The band was originally called DVX, but the name was changed after Mellow Man Ace left in 1988.
Their first album, which was self-titled, was released in August 1991. Its single was "Phuncky Feel One", but it was the B-side "How I Could Just Kill A Man" (formerly "Trigga Happy Nigga") that attracted more airplay on urban radio and college radio. Based on the success of the single and other tracks such as bilingual track "Latin Lingo" and X-rated Spanish track "Tres Equis", the album sold two million copies in the US alone. Subsequently, DJ Muggs produced the first House of Pain album, then worked on other projects like Funkdoobiest. The band made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992.
Black 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. Also with their debut still on the charts they became the first rap artists to have 2 albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. and sold about 3.25 million copies.
Cypress Hill was banned from Saturday Night Live after Muggs smoked cannabis on-air and the band trashed their instruments while playing their second single "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That". 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. In 1993, Cypress Hill also had two tracks on the Judgment Night soundtrack, teamed up with Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth.
The band played at the 1994 Woodstock Festival introducing their new member Eric Bobo, formerly a percussionist with the Beastie Boys. Bobo is the son of salsa musician Willie Bobo. Rolling Stone magazine named the band as the best rap group in their music awards voted by critics and readers. Cypress Hill played at Lollapalooza for two successive years, topping the bill in 1995. They appeared on the The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza".
Their third album Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom was released in 1995 selling 1.5 million copies and reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of the hit single "Throw Your Set in the Air". Cypress Hill also contributed a track "I Wanna Get High" to the High Times sponsored Hempilation album to support NORML.
Feud With Ice Cube
Ice Cube asked to put "Throw Your Set in the Air" on his Friday soundtrack, but B-Real refused, prompting Cube to record a new song "Friday" with a similar chorus; Cypress Hill responded with the track "No Rest For The Wicked." Westside Connection replied with the diss track "King Of The Hill" and "Cross Em Out & Put a K", to which Cypress Hill replied with "Ice Cube Killa," which uses the same beat as "King Of The Hill" and disses Ice Cube and Mack 10. "Ice Cube Killa" has never been released officially. In 1997 B-Real of Cypress Hill and Ice Cube were invited to a late night talk show in order to reconcile their differences for the benefit of the hip hop community, and the feud thus ended. Cube And B-Real would work together later that year as guest features on the track "Men of Steel" for the soundtrack of Shaquille O'Neal's film Steel. B-Real and Cube did even feature as guests in Warren G's single "Get U Down" which also featured Snoop Dogg.
Continued career
Sen Dog took a break from the band to form a Los Angeles based punk-rap band SX-10. Meanwhile in 1996, Cypress Hill appeared on the first 'Smokin' Grooves' tour, featuring Ziggy Marley, The Fugees, Busta Rhymes and A Tribe Called Quest. The band also released a nine track EP Unreleased and Revamped with rare mixes. In 1997, band members focused on their solo careers. Muggs released Muggs Presents ... the Soul Assassins featuring contributions from Wu-Tang Clan members, Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Wyclef Jean and Mobb Deep. B-Real appeared with Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man on "Hit Em High" from the multi-platinum Space Jam Soundtrack. He also appeared with RBX, Nas and KRS-One on "East Coast Killer, West Coast Killer" on Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath album, and released an album entitled "The Psycho Realm" from his side project of the same name. Though the focus that year was not on Cypress Hill, the band played Smokin' Grooves with George Clinton and Erykah Badu.
Cypress Hill released IV in 1998 which went gold in the U.S., even though the reviews were somewhat negative,[citation needed] on the backs of hit singles "Tequila Sunrise" and another tribute to smoking cannabis "Dr. Greenthumb." Sen Dog also released the Get Wood sampler as part of SX-10 on the label Flip. In 1999, Cypress Hill helped with the PC crime/very mature video game Kingpin: Life of Crime. Three of their songs from the 1998 IV album were in the game ( "16 Men Till There's No Men Left", "Checkmate" and "Lightning Strikes"). B-Real also did some of the voices of the people in the game. Also in 1999, the band released a greatest-hits album in Spanish, Los grandes éxitos en español. Cypress Hill then fused genres with their two-disc release, Skull & Bones, in 2000. The first disc, "Skull" was comprised of rap tracks while "Bones" explored further the group's forays into rock. The album reached the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 and number 3 in Canada. The first single was "Rock Superstar" for rock radio and "Rap Superstar" for urban radio. The band also released Live at the Fillmore, a concert disc recorded at the Fillmore (in San Fransico) in 2000. Cypress Hill continued their experimentation with rock on the Stoned Raiders album in 2001. However, its sales were a disappointment, as the disc did not even reach the top 50 of the U.S. album charts. In 2001, the group appeared in the film How High.
Cypress Hill recorded "Just Another Victim" for the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a theme song for Tazz. At the time, WWE was using original music for almost all of the wrestlers, so this was an unusual step for the company to take, but it remains one of the more memorable songs to emerge from the wrestling organization. The band released Till Death Do Us Part on March 23, 2004. The album saw the band experiment with reggae especially on the lead single "What's Your Number". The track features Tim Armstrong of Rancid on guitar and Rob Aston of The Transplants on backup vocals. It is based on the classic song "Guns of Brixton" on The Clash's London Calling and has proven to be a success on the modern rock charts. However, the album represented a further departure from the signature sound of their first four albums. The album also features appearances by Damian Marley, son of Bob Marley, Prodigy and Twin of Mobb Deep and producer the Alchemist.
In 2004, the song How I Could Just Kill A Man was included in the popular videogame Grand Theft Auto San Andreas created by Rockstar Games, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos. In December of 2005 a best of compilation album titled Greatest Hits From the Bong was released including 9 hits from previous albums and 2 new tracks. The group's next album was tentatively scheduled for an early 2007 release. In the summer of 2006, B-Real appeared on Snoop Dogg's single "Vato". Pharrell Williams produced the track, and originally sang the hook, but because of the video idea, B-Real was asked to sing the hook. Sen Dog is now currently touring with the Kottonmouth Kings, Kingspade and Dogboy on the Joint is on Fire Tour
In 2007 Cypress Hill toured with their full line up as a part of the Rock the Bells tour, held by Guerilla Union, and headlined with Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and a reunited Rage Against the Machine. Other acts included Immortal Technique, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, EPMD, Pharoae Monch, Jedi Mind Tricks, Erykah Badu, MF Doom, Sage Francis, Brother Ali, The Coup, Blue Print, Lucky I Am, Living Legends, Felt, Cage, Mr. Lif, Grouch & Eligh, and Hangar 18.
Departure from Sony
Having fulfilled their contractual obligations with Sony Music, Cypress Hill will release an as-yet untitled album through a different record label in 2008.
Recently, it was announced that Cypress Hill will be members of the Kannabis Kartel along with the Kottonmouth Kings and Potluck. Their album will be released on Suburban Noize Records.
STYLE
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Production
One of the band's most striking aspects is B-Real's exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals, which fits and emphasizes the lyrics' concentration on parodied gangster stories.
Sen Dog's lyrics are progressively more violent and tend to involve fewer rhyme schemes compared with B-Real's. In addition, as the style is today, some words are emphasized by adding a background voice to say them, however, Sen Dog's emphases are always more prominent, mostly shouted alongside with the rapping.
The sound and groove of their music, produced by Muggs, is also notable for its influence and stoned aesthetic; with its bass-heavy rhythms and odd sample loops ("Insane in the Brain" is notable for having a horse neigh looped in its chorus), it carries a psychedelic value, which lessened in the later albums.
The band is also known for involving rock instruments in their songs. This has caused the band to sometimes be classified as a rapcore group. In IV, there is Lightning Strikes which doesn't truly use electric guitars, but a synthesized version of it. Skull & Bones has an entire disc using such instruments, labeled Bones. As for their later works, their involvement in rock ended with the album Stoned Raiders (the tracks Trouble (also the first single of the album), Amplified and Catastrophe being the songs).
The band's music is constantly subject to change; while the first album follows a more minimalistic and funky sound, Black Sunday, the successor, has a slightly darker side to it. III (Temples of Boom) and IV are mostly influenced by psychedelic music. The band abandoned that on Skull & Bones and got closer to the modern rap as it is today. Stoned Raiders has a more authentic sound than the rest, and Till Death Do Us Part carries reggae influences.
The band is also known to involve horns in their songs, and often have guitar and horns together in the instrumentals. What's Your Number?, Trouble, Tequila Sunrise, and (Rock) Superstar have become some of the bands most popular songs featuring these elements. Cypress Hill's experimenting in different genres of music even includes reggaeton in their track "Latin Thugs" which features Tego Calderon.
Some fans feel that the band has drifted somewhat from the values of their earlier albums. For example in "Strictly Hip Hop" from Temples of Boom, the band complain about hip hop artists who have an album of hardcore tracks but have one or two pop songs which just so happen to be the singles. Cypress have arguably fallen into this trap with the single "What's You Number?"
The sound contribitions of DJ Muggs seems to be clearly influenced by marijuana consumption. Since one of the effects of a cannabis high is an altered audio sensual perception, the often slow paced and deep bass can be better appreciated. Furthermore, psychedelic sequences underly some parts of certain tracks such as "I Wanna Get High" for example. This is an interesting feature of their music, that had also been used before, especially during the 60's and 70's (e.g. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles).
Lyrics
The lyrics of tracks like "How I Could Just Kill A Man" offer an insight into the cultural expression of social stratification in L.A. at that point in history. Many other songs have cited topics such as police brutality, racial profiling, gang violence and anecdotes about invasion of privacy by police.
Furthermore the celebration of marijuana consumption is what they are often associated with in songs like "I Wanna Get High", "Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk" or "Hits From The Bong", the themes of recreational use of marijuana are prevalent.
Many of their songs also protest the current marijuana laws and voice their opinions on the hypocrisy of drug enforcement institutions.
Their lyrics often reflect the hip hop culture of Los Angeles in their earlier work such as their self-titled album and Black Sunday, which were very influential not only to Latino hip hop of the time but to many other hip hop groups around the world as well.
Throughout their career they have commonly incorporated Spanish into their lyrics as well as slang used by some Latinos in Los Angeles on songs like "Latin Lingo". Their album "Los Grandes Exitos En Espanol" features Spanish translations of many of their hit songs.
Years active 1987 - present.
Their first album, which was self-titled, was released in August 1991. Its single was "Phuncky Feel One", but it was the B-side "How I Could Just Kill A Man" (formerly "Trigga Happy Nigga") that attracted more airplay on urban radio and college radio. Based on the success of the single and other tracks such as bilingual track "Latin Lingo" and X-rated Spanish track "Tres Equis", the album sold two million copies in the US alone. Subsequently, DJ Muggs produced the first House of Pain album, then worked on other projects like Funkdoobiest. The band made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992.
Black 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. Also with their debut still on the charts they became the first rap artists to have 2 albums in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 at the same time. With "Insane in the Brain" becoming a crossover hit, the album went triple platinum in the U.S. and sold about 3.25 million copies.
Cypress Hill was banned from Saturday Night Live after Muggs smoked cannabis on-air and the band trashed their instruments while playing their second single "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That". 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. In 1993, Cypress Hill also had two tracks on the Judgment Night soundtrack, teamed up with Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth.
The band played at the 1994 Woodstock Festival introducing their new member Eric Bobo, formerly a percussionist with the Beastie Boys. Bobo is the son of salsa musician Willie Bobo. Rolling Stone magazine named the band as the best rap group in their music awards voted by critics and readers. Cypress Hill played at Lollapalooza for two successive years, topping the bill in 1995. They appeared on the The Simpsons episode "Homerpalooza".
Their third album Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom was released in 1995 selling 1.5 million copies and reaching number 3 on the Billboard 200 on the strength of the hit single "Throw Your Set in the Air". Cypress Hill also contributed a track "I Wanna Get High" to the High Times sponsored Hempilation album to support NORML.
Feud With Ice Cube
Ice Cube asked to put "Throw Your Set in the Air" on his Friday soundtrack, but B-Real refused, prompting Cube to record a new song "Friday" with a similar chorus; Cypress Hill responded with the track "No Rest For The Wicked." Westside Connection replied with the diss track "King Of The Hill" and "Cross Em Out & Put a K", to which Cypress Hill replied with "Ice Cube Killa," which uses the same beat as "King Of The Hill" and disses Ice Cube and Mack 10. "Ice Cube Killa" has never been released officially. In 1997 B-Real of Cypress Hill and Ice Cube were invited to a late night talk show in order to reconcile their differences for the benefit of the hip hop community, and the feud thus ended. Cube And B-Real would work together later that year as guest features on the track "Men of Steel" for the soundtrack of Shaquille O'Neal's film Steel. B-Real and Cube did even feature as guests in Warren G's single "Get U Down" which also featured Snoop Dogg.
Continued career
Sen Dog took a break from the band to form a Los Angeles based punk-rap band SX-10. Meanwhile in 1996, Cypress Hill appeared on the first 'Smokin' Grooves' tour, featuring Ziggy Marley, The Fugees, Busta Rhymes and A Tribe Called Quest. The band also released a nine track EP Unreleased and Revamped with rare mixes. In 1997, band members focused on their solo careers. Muggs released Muggs Presents ... the Soul Assassins featuring contributions from Wu-Tang Clan members, Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Wyclef Jean and Mobb Deep. B-Real appeared with Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J and Method Man on "Hit Em High" from the multi-platinum Space Jam Soundtrack. He also appeared with RBX, Nas and KRS-One on "East Coast Killer, West Coast Killer" on Dr. Dre's Dr. Dre Presents the Aftermath album, and released an album entitled "The Psycho Realm" from his side project of the same name. Though the focus that year was not on Cypress Hill, the band played Smokin' Grooves with George Clinton and Erykah Badu.
Cypress Hill released IV in 1998 which went gold in the U.S., even though the reviews were somewhat negative,[citation needed] on the backs of hit singles "Tequila Sunrise" and another tribute to smoking cannabis "Dr. Greenthumb." Sen Dog also released the Get Wood sampler as part of SX-10 on the label Flip. In 1999, Cypress Hill helped with the PC crime/very mature video game Kingpin: Life of Crime. Three of their songs from the 1998 IV album were in the game ( "16 Men Till There's No Men Left", "Checkmate" and "Lightning Strikes"). B-Real also did some of the voices of the people in the game. Also in 1999, the band released a greatest-hits album in Spanish, Los grandes éxitos en español. Cypress Hill then fused genres with their two-disc release, Skull & Bones, in 2000. The first disc, "Skull" was comprised of rap tracks while "Bones" explored further the group's forays into rock. The album reached the Top 5 on the Billboard 200 and number 3 in Canada. The first single was "Rock Superstar" for rock radio and "Rap Superstar" for urban radio. The band also released Live at the Fillmore, a concert disc recorded at the Fillmore (in San Fransico) in 2000. Cypress Hill continued their experimentation with rock on the Stoned Raiders album in 2001. However, its sales were a disappointment, as the disc did not even reach the top 50 of the U.S. album charts. In 2001, the group appeared in the film How High.
Cypress Hill recorded "Just Another Victim" for the World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) as a theme song for Tazz. At the time, WWE was using original music for almost all of the wrestlers, so this was an unusual step for the company to take, but it remains one of the more memorable songs to emerge from the wrestling organization. The band released Till Death Do Us Part on March 23, 2004. The album saw the band experiment with reggae especially on the lead single "What's Your Number". The track features Tim Armstrong of Rancid on guitar and Rob Aston of The Transplants on backup vocals. It is based on the classic song "Guns of Brixton" on The Clash's London Calling and has proven to be a success on the modern rock charts. However, the album represented a further departure from the signature sound of their first four albums. The album also features appearances by Damian Marley, son of Bob Marley, Prodigy and Twin of Mobb Deep and producer the Alchemist.
In 2004, the song How I Could Just Kill A Man was included in the popular videogame Grand Theft Auto San Andreas created by Rockstar Games, playing on West Coast hip hop radio station Radio Los Santos. In December of 2005 a best of compilation album titled Greatest Hits From the Bong was released including 9 hits from previous albums and 2 new tracks. The group's next album was tentatively scheduled for an early 2007 release. In the summer of 2006, B-Real appeared on Snoop Dogg's single "Vato". Pharrell Williams produced the track, and originally sang the hook, but because of the video idea, B-Real was asked to sing the hook. Sen Dog is now currently touring with the Kottonmouth Kings, Kingspade and Dogboy on the Joint is on Fire Tour
In 2007 Cypress Hill toured with their full line up as a part of the Rock the Bells tour, held by Guerilla Union, and headlined with Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, Nas, and a reunited Rage Against the Machine. Other acts included Immortal Technique, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The Roots, EPMD, Pharoae Monch, Jedi Mind Tricks, Erykah Badu, MF Doom, Sage Francis, Brother Ali, The Coup, Blue Print, Lucky I Am, Living Legends, Felt, Cage, Mr. Lif, Grouch & Eligh, and Hangar 18.
Departure from Sony
Having fulfilled their contractual obligations with Sony Music, Cypress Hill will release an as-yet untitled album through a different record label in 2008.
Recently, it was announced that Cypress Hill will be members of the Kannabis Kartel along with the Kottonmouth Kings and Potluck. Their album will be released on Suburban Noize Records.
STYLE
______________________________________________________________________________________________
Production
One of the band's most striking aspects is B-Real's exaggeratedly high-pitched nasal vocals, which fits and emphasizes the lyrics' concentration on parodied gangster stories.
Sen Dog's lyrics are progressively more violent and tend to involve fewer rhyme schemes compared with B-Real's. In addition, as the style is today, some words are emphasized by adding a background voice to say them, however, Sen Dog's emphases are always more prominent, mostly shouted alongside with the rapping.
The sound and groove of their music, produced by Muggs, is also notable for its influence and stoned aesthetic; with its bass-heavy rhythms and odd sample loops ("Insane in the Brain" is notable for having a horse neigh looped in its chorus), it carries a psychedelic value, which lessened in the later albums.
The band is also known for involving rock instruments in their songs. This has caused the band to sometimes be classified as a rapcore group. In IV, there is Lightning Strikes which doesn't truly use electric guitars, but a synthesized version of it. Skull & Bones has an entire disc using such instruments, labeled Bones. As for their later works, their involvement in rock ended with the album Stoned Raiders (the tracks Trouble (also the first single of the album), Amplified and Catastrophe being the songs).
The band's music is constantly subject to change; while the first album follows a more minimalistic and funky sound, Black Sunday, the successor, has a slightly darker side to it. III (Temples of Boom) and IV are mostly influenced by psychedelic music. The band abandoned that on Skull & Bones and got closer to the modern rap as it is today. Stoned Raiders has a more authentic sound than the rest, and Till Death Do Us Part carries reggae influences.
The band is also known to involve horns in their songs, and often have guitar and horns together in the instrumentals. What's Your Number?, Trouble, Tequila Sunrise, and (Rock) Superstar have become some of the bands most popular songs featuring these elements. Cypress Hill's experimenting in different genres of music even includes reggaeton in their track "Latin Thugs" which features Tego Calderon.
Some fans feel that the band has drifted somewhat from the values of their earlier albums. For example in "Strictly Hip Hop" from Temples of Boom, the band complain about hip hop artists who have an album of hardcore tracks but have one or two pop songs which just so happen to be the singles. Cypress have arguably fallen into this trap with the single "What's You Number?"
The sound contribitions of DJ Muggs seems to be clearly influenced by marijuana consumption. Since one of the effects of a cannabis high is an altered audio sensual perception, the often slow paced and deep bass can be better appreciated. Furthermore, psychedelic sequences underly some parts of certain tracks such as "I Wanna Get High" for example. This is an interesting feature of their music, that had also been used before, especially during the 60's and 70's (e.g. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles).
Lyrics
The lyrics of tracks like "How I Could Just Kill A Man" offer an insight into the cultural expression of social stratification in L.A. at that point in history. Many other songs have cited topics such as police brutality, racial profiling, gang violence and anecdotes about invasion of privacy by police.
Furthermore the celebration of marijuana consumption is what they are often associated with in songs like "I Wanna Get High", "Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk" or "Hits From The Bong", the themes of recreational use of marijuana are prevalent.
Many of their songs also protest the current marijuana laws and voice their opinions on the hypocrisy of drug enforcement institutions.
Their lyrics often reflect the hip hop culture of Los Angeles in their earlier work such as their self-titled album and Black Sunday, which were very influential not only to Latino hip hop of the time but to many other hip hop groups around the world as well.
Throughout their career they have commonly incorporated Spanish into their lyrics as well as slang used by some Latinos in Los Angeles on songs like "Latin Lingo". Their album "Los Grandes Exitos En Espanol" features Spanish translations of many of their hit songs.
Years active 1987 - present.
Mary Jane
Cypress Hill Lyrics
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LOOK WHO'S BACK ON THE PROGRAM
HOOKIN UP ANOTHER FLY JOINT WHEN I FLOW ON THE SLOW JAM.
WHEN I SHIFT I KICK TO GO
LIKE I FAT DRUNK AND I LIGHT UP A FAT SPLIFF.
TAKE A WIFF CAN YOU SMELL THAT IN THE AIR
WHEN THE SMOKE COME OUT THE BUILDING FROM EVERY WHERE.
SHIT I STILL GET DOWN SO JUST SIT DOWN
WHEN MY THOUGHTS STOPS CRAWLING
TIME TO SIT DOWN WITH
YET I GO WRONG YOU GOT TO HIT MY BONG
LATER ON THEN I4LL BE GETTING HIGH ALL ALONE
YOU GOT A FRIEND NAMED MARY JANE
AND SHE MAKE ME FEEL STANGE,
NOW I'VE GOT TO CALL OUT HER NAME.
CAN I CALL MARI JUANNA
IF YOU WANNA PARTY
WIILE SHIT I'M GONNA AS SOON AS SHE COMES OUT
ROUND TO MY NEIGHBERHOOD
DAMM AND SHE ALWYAS SMELLS GOOD
LET ME MAKE THIS UNDERSTOOD
ARE YOU EXPIRIENCED
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED
NOT FOR THE LIFE..... MAKE YOU DELERIOUS
WHY IS THE ROOM SPINNIN
I CAN'T STOP NOW
I'VE MUST HAVE BEEN DRINKING
CAUSE THIS AIN'T POT
THAT'S DOING ME LIKE THIS
I FEEL ILL NOW I'M CALLING OUT TO MARY
CAUSE I JUST CAN'T DEAL .
HOOKIN UP ANOTHER FLY JOINT WHEN I FLOW ON THE SLOW JAM.
WHEN I SHIFT I KICK TO GO
LIKE I FAT DRUNK AND I LIGHT UP A FAT SPLIFF.
TAKE A WIFF CAN YOU SMELL THAT IN THE AIR
WHEN THE SMOKE COME OUT THE BUILDING FROM EVERY WHERE.
SHIT I STILL GET DOWN SO JUST SIT DOWN
WHEN MY THOUGHTS STOPS CRAWLING
YET I GO WRONG YOU GOT TO HIT MY BONG
LATER ON THEN I4LL BE GETTING HIGH ALL ALONE
YOU GOT A FRIEND NAMED MARY JANE
AND SHE MAKE ME FEEL STANGE,
NOW I'VE GOT TO CALL OUT HER NAME.
CAN I CALL MARI JUANNA
IF YOU WANNA PARTY
WIILE SHIT I'M GONNA AS SOON AS SHE COMES OUT
ROUND TO MY NEIGHBERHOOD
DAMM AND SHE ALWYAS SMELLS GOOD
LET ME MAKE THIS UNDERSTOOD
ARE YOU EXPIRIENCED
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED
NOT FOR THE LIFE..... MAKE YOU DELERIOUS
WHY IS THE ROOM SPINNIN
I CAN'T STOP NOW
I'VE MUST HAVE BEEN DRINKING
CAUSE THIS AIN'T POT
THAT'S DOING ME LIKE THIS
I FEEL ILL NOW I'M CALLING OUT TO MARY
CAUSE I JUST CAN'T DEAL .
The lyrics to Cypress Hill's song "Mary Jane" speak to the intoxicating power of marijuana and its ability to transport the user to another realm. The first verse sets the scene - the singer is back on the program, and when his thoughts start to crawl, it's time to sit down and get high. The familiar smell of marijuana smoke fills the air, and as the song progresses, the singer becomes increasingly immersed in the experience. He references the Jimi Hendrix song "Are you Experienced?" and calls out to Mary Jane, personifying the drug as a friend and companion.
The second verse continues to explore the effects of the drug, with the singer asking if he can call marijuana to the party. He comments on how good she always smells and asks if the listener has ever experienced anything like this before. The verse takes a darker turn as the room starts to spin and the singer realizes he may have been drinking something other than marijuana. He begins to feel ill and calls out to Mary in desperation.
Overall, the song speaks to the powerful hold that marijuana can have on a person, both positive and negative. It portrays the drug as a friend, a party accessory, and a source of comfort, but also acknowledges the dangers of using it recklessly and without control.
Line by Line Meaning
LOOK WHO'S BACK ON THE PROGRAM
I'm back to create another great song
HOOKIN UP ANOTHER FLY JOINT WHEN I FLOW ON THE SLOW JAM.
Making a great song, while smoking marijuana
WHEN I SHIFT I KICK TO GO
Kicking off a great song
LIKE I FAT DRUNK AND I LIGHT UP A FAT SPLIFF.
Smoking marijuana while feeling good and enjoying myself
TAKE A WIFF CAN YOU SMELL THAT IN THE AIR
Can you smell the marijuana smoke in the air?
WHEN THE SMOKE COME OUT THE BUILDING FROM EVERY WHERE.
Smoking marijuana everywhere in the building
SHIT I STILL GET DOWN SO JUST SIT DOWN
I'm still making great music, so sit back and enjoy
WHEN MY THOUGHTS STOPS CRAWLING
When my creativity slows down
TIME TO SIT DOWN WITH
Time to relax and take a break
YET I GO WRONG YOU GOT TO HIT MY BONG
If I'm feeling bad, just take a toke from my marijuana pipe
LATER ON THEN I4LL BE GETTING HIGH ALL ALONE
Later, I'll smoke marijuana alone to relax
YOU GOT A FRIEND NAMED MARY JANE
Marijuana is my friend
AND SHE MAKE ME FEEL STANGE,
Marijuana makes me feel different
NOW I'VE GOT TO CALL OUT HER NAME.
I need more marijuana
CAN I CALL MARI JUANNA
Can I smoke marijuana?
IF YOU WANNA PARTY
If you want to have fun
WIILE SHIT I'M GONNA AS SOON AS SHE COMES OUT
I'm going to smoke marijuana as soon as I have it
ROUND TO MY NEIGHBERHOOD
In my neighborhood
DAMM AND SHE ALWYAS SMELLS GOOD
Marijuana always has a good smell
LET ME MAKE THIS UNDERSTOOD
I want to be clear
ARE YOU EXPIRIENCED
Have you smoked marijuana before?
HAVE YOU EVER BEEN EXPERIENCED
Have you ever felt the effects of marijuana?
NOT FOR THE LIFE..... MAKE YOU DELERIOUS
Marijuana won't make you crazy
WHY IS THE ROOM SPINNIN
I'm feeling dizzy
I CAN'T STOP NOW
I can't stop smoking marijuana
I'VE MUST HAVE BEEN DRINKING
Maybe I mixed marijuana and alcohol
CAUSE THIS AIN'T POT
This isn't a normal marijuana high
THAT'S DOING ME LIKE THIS
Something is making me feel this way
I FEEL ILL NOW I'M CALLING OUT TO MARY
I'm feeling sick and need more marijuana
CAUSE I JUST CAN'T DEAL
I can't handle this feeling
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Sugar come by and get me high [Repeat x9]
Look who's back on the program
Hookin' up another fly joint
When I flow on the slow jam.
When I shift I kick to go
Like a fat drunk and I light up a fat spliff
Take a wiff
Can you smell that in the air?
When the smoke come out the building from every where
Shit I still get down
So just sit down
When my thoughts stops crawling
Time to sit down
With yet I go wrong
You got to hit my bong
Later on then I'll be getting high all alone
You got a friend named Mary Jane
And she make me feel strange
Now I've got to call out her name
I love you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you Mary Jane
Can I call Marijuana
If you wanna party
While shit I'm gonna as soon as she comes out
Round to my neighborhood
Damm and she always smells good
Let me make this understood
Are you experienced
Have you ever been experienced
Not for the life, make you delirious
Why is the room spinnin'
I can't stop now
I've must have been drinking
Cause this ain't pot
That's doing me like this
I feel ill now, I'm calling out to Mary
Cause I just can't deal
I love you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you Mary Jane
I lLove you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
made with love
[Chorus: Cypress Hill & Sonic Youth]
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
[Verse 2: Cypress Hill]
Can I call mari-juana
If you wanna party
Well, shit, I'm gonna as soon as she comes
Around to my neighborhood
Damn and she always smells good
Let me make this understood
Are you experienced
Have you ever been experienced
Not for the lightweight... make you delirious
Why is the room spinnin'?
I can't stop!
Now I must have been drinking
Cause this ain't pot
That's doing me like this
I feel ill, now I'm calling out to Mary
Cause I just can't deal
[Chorus: Cypress Hill & Sonic Youth]
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you, Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
Sugar come by and get me high
made with love
Look who's back on the program
Hookin' up another fly joint
When I flow on the slow jam
When I shift I kick the gift
Like a fat drunk and I light up a fat spliff
Take a whiff! Can you smell that in the air
When I'm smokin' up the building from everywhere
Shit I still get down so just sit down
When my thought starts clownin'
Time to skip town when
Yet I go wrong I got to hit my bong
Later on then I'll be getting high all along
I got a friend named Mary Jane
And she makes me feel strange
Now I've got to call out her name
Catlett Mayer
to/d/ay
Dearest Mary Jane,
Thank you for being there for me in every way when i feel lonely and abused by society and family. You Yank my excruciating emotional pain out of me in an instant like clever magic pulls the table cloth off, leaving everything still there, set perfectly as before, champagne glasses and all. Sonic Youth and Cypress Hill I LOVE YOU LOVE YOU LOVE YOU for your Spot on Music So Very Much Yeshua may be coming back as YOU an Astoundingly Amazing Plant rather than in human form. Mary Jane YOU are the Coolest*Kindest Healing*Soft*Brilliant*Vibrant Protective*Deep*Miraculous* & LOVING Angelic Being. You make me feel like i am part of something so much Greater, like Holding Hands with All Forms of God all over this World. Yeshua said he would be coming back in & with the clouds and that is what i see before me, Mary Jane, when i pull you in and let you out. Look up at the actual clouds these days, they seem to be Very "Monumental" Benjy*My Love. Please Please Please keep growing everyday more and more until the whole world is saved by you. Mary Jane, will you help me buy this farm i want in Washington State so I can grow you and get to know you. My boyfriend has intimate knowledge about you and how to make you flourish. Oh how We Love being with you. Absurdly Abused as a child and as an Adult Onset Huntington's Disease Patient with cruel post-traumatic stress disorder intact, I need you Growing all around me because I want to be surrounded by Your Love. I have a go fund me page, look me up Mary Jane I'll be there waiting for you amongst all the other precious tortured Huntington's Patients under the name Catlett Mayer. I Sincerely Love You & Truly Appreciate All You've Done For My Heart. When I'm with you it's like Heaven Sinking In. I Offer You A Great & Full Abundance of My Gratitude for Helping Me. I Hope to have drawers of you some day. I LOVE YOU Eternally Mary Jane* I will see you later tonight*
"I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you
I want you so bad
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
I want you
I want you so bad, babe
I want you
I want you so bad
It's driving me mad
It's driving me mad
She's so heavy
Heavy, heavy, heavy, heavy
I want you
I want…"
*The Beatles
Love,
Catlett
Instazome ASMR
That voice effect at 1:57 gives me chills every time. Such a brilliant track.
zerc1
I don't smoke anymore, i still love CH slow jam. I first heard the track on the Sound track of judgement night. Makes my eyes red just listening to it! :_)
Steve 75
same mate dont smoke anymore but always good to come back hear
Mateusz
Widze, ze i nawet drogie Polki wiedza, co to prawdziwy rap.. Klimat idealny na odplyniecie :D
raideon17
It's almost impossible to not bob your head to the beat of this song.
Tiagão Lindão
gar venha e me deixe chapado [Repeat x9] Olha quem está de volta ao programa Conectando outro baseado Quando eu fluir no congestionamento lento. Quando eu mudo eu chuto para ir Como um bêbado gordo e acendo um baseado gordo dê uma espiadinha Você pode sentir o cheiro disso no ar? Quando a fumaça sai do prédio de todos os lugares Merda, eu ainda desço Então apenas sente-se Quando meus pensamentos param de rastejar Hora de sentar Com ainda eu vou errado Você tem que acertar meu bong Mais tarde então eu estarei ficando chapado sozinho Você tem uma amiga chamada Mary Jane E ela me faz sentir estranho Agora eu tenho que chamar o nome dela te amo mary jane Açúcar venha e me deixe chapado te amo mary jane Posso chamar de maconha Se você quer festa Enquanto merda eu vou assim que ela sair Volta para o meu bairro Damm e ela sempre cheira bem Deixe-me fazer isso entendido Você tem experiência Você já foi experiente Não para a vida, fazer você delirar Por que a sala está girando eu não posso parar agora eu devo ter bebido Porque isso não é maconha Isso está me fazendo assim Eu me sinto mal agora, estou chamando por Mary Porque eu simplesmente não consigo lidar te amo mary jane Açúcar venha e me deixe chapado te amo mary jane Eu te amo Mary Jane Açúcar venha e me deixe chapado
Sock Puppet
Sugar come by and get me high [Repeat x9]
Look who's back on the program
Hookin' up another fly joint
When I flow on the slow jam.
When I shift I kick to go
Like a fat drunk and I light up a fat spliff
Take a wiff
Can you smell that in the air?
When the smoke come out the building from every where
Shit I still get down
So just sit down
When my thoughts stops crawling
Time to sit down
With yet I go wrong
You got to hit my bong
Later on then I'll be getting high all alone
You got a friend named Mary Jane
And she make me feel strange
Now I've got to call out her name
I love you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you Mary Jane
Can I call Marijuana
If you wanna party
While shit I'm gonna as soon as she comes out
Round to my neighborhood
Damm and she always smells good
Let me make this understood
Are you experienced
Have you ever been experienced
Not for the life, make you delirious
Why is the room spinnin'
I can't stop now
I've must have been drinking
Cause this ain't pot
That's doing me like this
I feel ill now, I'm calling out to Mary
Cause I just can't deal
I love you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
I love you Mary Jane
I lLove you Mary Jane
Sugar come by and get me high
Wonka9944
One of the best songs on the "Judgement Night" soundtrack...Cypress Hill & Sonic Youth...
Bob Pinciotti
I usually don't really like rap (not that I have anything against it) 'cause I'm a standard rock'n'roller, but I never get tired of hearing this. Peace out, I believe is the expression.
LILSDKAT
My wife, my gf, my baby mama, my lover, my mind stimulater, my 100% on my exams, my one true love that will never leave me heartbroken=Mary Jane<3