Live At The Fillmore [PA]

Performer: Cypress Hill
Engineer: Richard McKernon; Troy Staton
Producer: Muggs
Distributor: Sony Music Distribution (

Notes: Cypress Hill: B-Real, Sen Dog (rap vocals); Eric Bobo (drums); DJ Muggs (turntables). Additional personnel: Jeremy Fleener, Andy Zambrano (guitar); Frank Mercurio (bass). Recorded at The Fillmore, San Francisco, California on August 16, 2000. Cypress Hill exploded onto the rap scene 10 years ago proclaiming their hatred of police officers ("Pigs"), and love of the sticky green stuff ("Stoned is the Way of the Walk"). The band hasn't deviated much from these topics in the intervening years. After all, they're precisely what make for great crowd chants and live albums. Cypress Hill's last album, SKULL & BONES, showed the group's metal side, which has carried over to its live shows. That album's "Can't Get the Best of Me" and the infectious hit "(Rock) Superstar" work well, both live and in comparison with Cypress's previous two albums. Reinvented classics from that era, such as "Cock the Hammer" also benefit from their new live metal sound. "A to the K," new to the band's live set, is equally as thunderous. Never short on stage dialogue, B-Real makes the requisite request of the San Francisco crowd ("who's got some green northern Cali in their pocket tonight?") before launching into "I Wanna Get High." Being masters of the bong doesn't detract from Cypress Hill's legitimacy as the premier hip-hop/rock group, though, as LIVE AT THE FILLMORE clearly attests.

Rolling Stone (1/18/01, p.57) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "...B-Real, Sen Dog, Bobo and DJ Muggs are in top form here..." Q (1/01, p.105) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...Captures [them] in somewhat ebullient mood....on the pumped and primed beats...they sound at their most relaxed and...their most potent." Melody Maker (12/12/00, p.52) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Intense lunacy and sonic dementia....It must've been mad - absolutely insane." NME (Magazine) (12/2/00, p.49) - 7 out of 10 - "...The frenzy of the crowd feeds back into the immediacy of the performance and - BOOM SHANKA! And there are moments of such delicious madness here..."

Cross hardcore rap, alternative rock, and a defiantly pro-marijuana agenda, and you get groundbreaking hip-hoppers Cypress Hill. The band's genre-bending approach, as well as its English-Spanish bilingualism and rapper B-Real's distinctive nasal style, has earned them a wide and varied following. They debuted in 1991, but hit the big time two years later with the crossover hit "Insane in the Brain." Along the way, they've managed to work with the likes of Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth without ever losing their hip-hop credibility.

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