[dropcap size=big]C[/dropcap]louded in wafts of weed smoke, just two days before 4/20, Cypress Hill became the first Latino hip hop group to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
“Nobody believed in us for a long time,” the longtime producer of the group, DJ Muggs, said at the ceremony Thursday morning. “But look at us now! We got a star!”
The group – consisting of Muggs, Mexican and Cuban rapper B-Real, and Cuban-born rapper Sen Dog – is originally from South Gate. They were one of the most successful hip hop groups in the 1990s, especially with their first two albums. Cypress Hill released a self titled debut in 1991, and followed that up two years later with Black Sunday, which included the massive hit “Insane in The Brain.”
With an eerie sound that combined gangster rap, occasional Spanish and Spanglish lyrics, and weed centric themes, the group found crossover success with all hip hop and rock music demographics—and apparently with L.A. City Councilman Mitch O’Farrell, who said at the ceremony, “I may not look like I like a Cypress Hill fan, but let me say, ‘I’m insane in the membrane!’”
Watch the full ceremony below.