Source – LA Weekly
Credit – toomerj
Returning with a new album, Cypress Hill discusses legalization, where you can get the best strains, and how great it feels to work for a stoner boss. (Daron says a few things about smoking too!)
Rise Up is the group’s first under a new deal with Priority, under the auspices of the label’s creative chief exec Snoop Dogg, another well-known smoker. “We’re all stoners,” says Sen Dog. “All of us in that world understand each other. I look forward to having meetings with my boss now.”
Much of the album was recorded at B-Real’s home studio in Northridge, as tracks collide hard-rock guitars with hip-hop vocals and samples (echoing the grinding riffs of 2000′s “Rock Superstar”). Mad metal shredding comes from local fire starters Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) and Daron Malakian (System of a Down). “I don’t smoke,” says Morello, who contributes the title track, “but whenever I’m in a room with them, I always have a second-hand blast-off that takes a few days to shake.”
During sessions for “Trouble Seeker,” Malakian provided drums, guitar, bass and backing vocals, spending many blissed-out hours in the Cypress studio fog. “There’s quite a bit of weed smoking going on,” says Malakian. “Any room that I’m in is gonna have weed, so if you put me and those guys together, it’s a pretty smoke-filled room.”
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