Cypress Hill.DJ MUGGS Lawrence Muggerud (born January 28, 1968 in Queens, New York), and better known as DJ Muggs (or simply Muggs), is Cypress Hill's DJ and producer. He is Italian-American/Norwegian-American, with his surname being of Norwegian origin. WAS LIKE "Look, it's that muthafucka from Thrasher thrasher: see mimic thrush. thrasher Any of 17 species (family Mimidae) of New World songbirds that have a downcurved bill and are noted for noisily foraging on the ground in dense thickets and for loud, varied songs. !." A quick minute back, I was over in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. at DJ Muggs' studio for the listening party of Cypress Hill's new album 'Til Death Do Us Part. It was Rolling Stone rolling stone Noun a restless or wandering person and us, and I certainly was repping Thrasher correct. I had stitches in my eye, a swollen black and blue forehead and cuts all over my face. And that was from partying and spinning the night before at Skaties? No wonder Muggs kept his baseball bat in hand while his pitbull mean-mugged me all funny. As Shelblack shot Cypress outside, I posted up in the studio and blazed an el with Soul Assassin Chase Infinite and listened to Mugg's new Eminem track he was remixing for his Power 106 radio show. After a green minute I sat down with Muggs, B Real and Sen Dog Sen Dog (born Senen Reyes on November 20 1965, in Havana, Cuba) is an Afro-Cuban rapper, and member of the well known rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace. , exchanged mix CDs and rapped about the new album featuring banging tracks like "Latin Thug," produced by the Alchemist; "What's Your Number," the new single with the Clash sample "Guns of Brixton;" and a thumping Tony Kelly Tony Kelly is an Australian politician representing the Australian Labor Party in the New South Wales Legislative Council. He currently serves as minister for lands, emergency services, rural affairs, juvenile justice and justice. dancehall dance·hall n. 1. or dance hall A building or part of a building with facilities for dancing. 2. See ragga. dancehall Noun a style of dance-oriented reggae track with Damian Marley Damian Marley (born July 21, 1978 in Kingston, Jamaica), is a three time Grammy-winning reggae artist and is the youngest son of reggae legend Bob Marley. Damian was two years old when his father died, and is the only child born to Marley and Cindy Breakspeare, Miss World 1976. . West Coast bounce to this, West Coast smoke an ounce to this. B REAL What's up B Real? Oh, just getting ready to release this album and start the Cypress Hill This article or section has multiple issues: * It needs additional references or sources for verification. Please help [ improve the article] or discuss these issues on the talk page. machine back up. So talk about the new album. We got together about a year and a half ago and started recording a bunch of stuff, mainly hip-hop in the beginning. At some point in the recording process I felt we needed to change direction as far as the production goes; you know, experiment with different-sounding shit. One of the things that came about was the reggae. I used to live in Brixton, and I see you sampled the "Guns of Brixton" for the new single. You got Tony Kelly on there too. Yeah. Is this the first time you moved into recording dancehall? Well, it's always been a big influence on us so it's only natural to go in that direction and see how we would sound over that shit. So when Muggs gave it to me I automatically knew what it was. The Clash, right? Everybody knows that. So we fucked around and came up with the track. After we did that song it gave us more confidence to move on to other tracks like the Tony Kelly track. It gave me the confidence to deliver the shit over that type of music. So this is the first time you flowed over a reggae beat? Yeah. You record in Jamaica or in LA? We recorded it here in LA. We didn't have time to go out to Jamaica. The "Latin Thug" track is taking things back to your roots. We'd been wanting to do that for a while. We've been experimenting with a lot of new stuff; in music, when you got ideas, you got to give them a shot. Whether they work or not you never know until you lay the track down. Any plans to do a Latin dancehall track? They've been doing that shit in Puerto Rico Puerto Rico (pwār`tō rē`kō), island (2005 est. pop. 3,917,000), 3,508 sq mi (9,086 sq km), West Indies, c.1,000 mi (1,610 km) SE of Miami, Fla. . I am definitely familiar with it, so yeah. You've got Prodigy on the album. You a big Mobb fan? Yeah, I have been all the time. They come with hardcore reality shit. It sounds good; the way they instrument their tracks is good. Did Muggs do that beat or was it Alchemist? Muggs did that. How do you anticipate the reaction when the album comes out? I think a lot of people are going to be really surprised. Some people are going to love it and some people are going to hate it, but for the most part people will find something on it they like. There is something for everybody on there. Who you feeling from the West Coast? The only thing I like from the West Coast is what Dr Dre does or Westside Connection, And Snoop Dogg, Daz Dillinger Daz Dillinger (born Delmar Arnaud on May 25 1973 in Long Beach, California), is an American hip hop producer and rapper mostly known for his work with Death Row Records at the height of West Coast rap's popularity. . There's a shortage of talent out here. It's hard right now 'cause the East Coast and the South are running hip-hop now, so it's hard for any LA artist to even get out there. Who you feeling from the South? I like David Banner dablink|This article is about a musician. For information about the Marvel Comics character, see Hulk.}} David Banner (born Levell Crump in 1973 in Jackson, Mississippi) is an American rapper, occasional actor, record producer, record label executive, and , Bone Krusher. I didn't really like it before but it's grown on me. Shouts? Big up to everybody out there who supported throughout the years. Big ups to Tim Westwood Tim Westwood (born 3 October 1957 in Lowestoft, Suffolk),[1][2][3]is a British rap DJ and presenter of the BBC Radio 1 Rap Show. He also presents the UK version of the MTV show Pimp My Ride. in London. Big ups to Thrasher and the skateboard industry for always being there behind us. Shouts to Block? We go way back. He photographed lots of moments in our career. He's basically one of us. SEN DOG How goes it? Thrasher magazine, my favorite My Favorite is an independent synthpop band from Long Island, New York. They released two CDs: Love at Absolute Zero and Happiest Days of Our Lives. My Favorite broke up on September 14, 2005, when singer Andrea Vaughn left the band. magazine. Yeah, dog. Who did the beat on the "Latin Thug" track?. That's Alchemist right there. NYC NYC abbr. New York City NYC New York City Alchemist; we been wanting to work with him for a long time. He's one of our kids. Al came down and busted a couple of tracks on the album, which is cool 'cause we had him since he was 12 or 13 years old. Now he's all established as a big-shot hip-hop producer. How do you feel about the new album? I feel good about it 'cause my bandmates feel good about it. When the band, management and the label are happy, you know you're doing something right. On this album we threw everything out of the window. We had no set game plan; we didn't do what the record company executives wanted us to do. We just did what we felt. For a long time we'd been wanting to rhyme over some Jamaican beats. How did you hook up with Tony Kelly? Muggs hooked it up through his producer world. We covered hip-hop, rock, hardcore hip-hop, so it's only natural to start messing with reggae. You feeling dancehall reggae? I always felt dancehall had a good scene to it. The dancing is exciting. The MCs are colorful and have so much flavor. They're like human cartoons. You got mad heads featured on the album? We've got Damian Marley doing a cut, Prodigy from Mobb Deep doing a cut, and we got Tim from Rancid ran·cid adj. Having the disagreeable odor or taste of decomposing oils or fats. rancid having a musty, rank taste or smell; applied to fats that have undergone decomposition, with the liberation of fatty acids. doing a cut. The rest is Muggs, Sen Dog and B Real. This is going to put LA back on the map. All the different flavors on the album make it a culturally diverse record. I mean, I want to hit the Latin market 'cause we do all our songs in Spanish, too. We go down to Panama or South America South America, fourth largest continent (1991 est. pop. 299,150,000), c.6,880,000 sq mi (17,819,000 sq km), the southern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. and we rap in Spanish. That's bananas that hip-hop is worldwide now. It's huge everywhere. Hip-hop is the number one music in the world. In every country they got their own rappers that are large as fuck. In India, Japan, England--everywhere. All we gotta do is keep coming with records and keep coming out with the music. Shouts? Snoop Dogg, Slash, Everlast, my brother Mellow Mayonnaise, Christine Aguilera--'cause I think she is fine--Jay Z, P Diddy; they're hip-hop billionaires, gotta respect that. You fucking with Christina Aguilera  Some statements may be disputed, incorrect, , biased or otherwise objectionable. I never met her yet but I plan to, 'cause she is so fine. Hopefully it will happen real soon. Real soon. DJ MUGGS Muggs. This guy's crazy. Fucking Ali G Ali G (Alistair Leslie Graham)1 is a satirical fictional character invented and played by British comedian Sacha Baron Cohen. Originally appearing on Channel 4's Eleven O'Clock show, Ali G is the title character of Channel 4's Da Ali G Show ? It's Aki G. So how did you go about producing the new Cypress joint? The album on one side is dark, hardcore rap music rap music or hip-hop, genre originating in the mid-1970s among black and Hispanic performers in New York City, at first associated with an athletic style of dancing, known as breakdancing. , and the other side is a lot of reggae, party joints, and good times. It shows both sides of our personalities. It's like going from an Ozzy Osbourne record to a Bob Mariey record. Those are the two emotions we tapped in to for this album. I like the dancehall on this joint. I wanted a dancehall track on the album so I went to the best, Tony Kelly. I had a different plan to do the song, but the young MC cat never showed up and Damian Marley was in the studio, so we did it with Damian. I think it worked out better in the end. What young dancehall MC was it originally? I forgot his name, a young gangsta Noun 1. gangsta - (Black English) a member of a youth gang AAVE, African American English, African American Vernacular English, Black English, Black English Vernacular, Black Vernacular, Black Vernacular English, Ebonics - a nonstandard form of American English cat. The song was originally gonna be a shoot 'em up song. You got Mobb on there too? Prodigy appears on a chorus on one track, "Last Laugh." I thought the music and the style of this track being dark would suit Prodigy's voice perfectly. Plus he's part of the family, with Alchemist and us. You also sampled the Clash's "Guns of Brixton." You a Clash fan? I have been a fan of the Clash forever and I never thought about using the sample 'cause it was too commercial. So I was listening to the Clash and I figured I would do a song called the "Guns of LA," playing off the tension. How you feeling about LA/West Coast rap these days? LA rap is pretty much similar--similar styles, similar subject matter. And Cypress has always been about doing our thing in LA. We repping LA just as hard, in fact. I always think of LA as our town. We just keep it moving like that. We just trying to move like that, bringing our own flavor to the game. We ain't trying to sound like anyone else. Now you got backpack rappers trying to be gangsta in order to sell records. We ain't about any of that; we just doing our thing. Shouts? All the soldiers, boy; all the DJs, boy. Chase Infinite, Soul Assassins. |
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