August 13, 2023
Cypress Hill Drop Self-Titled Debut Album – Today in Hip-Hop
[ad_1] XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment:Aug. 13, 1991: The legendary rap trio Cypress Hill dropped, on this day, their eponymous debut album.For B-Real of Cypress Hill, the "Eureka!" moment occurred when he decided to pitch-up his vocal delivery. In Ice-T's documentary, From Something To Nothing: The Art Of Rap, B-Real spoke of being relegated to ghostwriter's duty for the group because his voice wasn't strong enough to carry a song by his own. However, when he decided to change to pitch his voice into a nasally, hyperkinetic delivery, it worked and several million records sold later, Cypress Hill remains one of hip-hop's most beloved hip-hop groups of the 1990s.Cypress Hill's...