Cypress Hill

Throughout the '90s, Cypress Hill grew to be a defining presence in both hip-hop trends and vocal enthusiasm for weed, and their cacophonous, paranoid beats and stoned lyrics made them a multi-million-selling group and the first Latino rap superstars. DJ Muggs' repetitive, gnawing production, B Real's nasal flows, and Sen Dog's bellowing barks all came together under clouds of gun smoke and pot smoke for a sound unlike anything before it on the group's self-titled 1991 debut. Apart from that album and its 1993 follow-up Black Sunday both going platinum two or three times over,...