DJ Muggs has claimed that Cypress Hill was the primary group to incorporate lyrics about marijuana in Hip Hop — however historical past proves in any other case.
In an interview with AllHipHop that dropped on Sunday (October 22), the notable producer claimed that rap music was utterly devoid of 420 references previous to the West Coast group’s arrival.
“Back then, everybody was smoking weed, but nobody was talking about in their lyrics,” he claimed. “We were the first ones who started mentioning weed in our lyrics, now everybody does it. Even if you want to go back to the first Source Awards, we were rocking tattoos before anybody. I like to go away from the norm, myself. If nobody’s doing that, then I’m doing that. If everybody’s doing it, then I’m doing something else.”
While Muggs’ claims about tattoos seems to be true, as tattoos didn’t turn out to be fashionable in Hip Hop till the early 2000s because of Mike Tyson’s face tattoo, his claims about weed lyrics in Hip Hop are refuted by such songs as 1983’s “Here We Go (Live At The Funhouse)” by Run-DMC (with the lyric “I keep a bag of cheeba in my locker,” and 1986’s License to Ill by The Beastie Boys (the place they talked about “rolling up a wolly” on “The New Style”), and naturally, “Express Yourself” by NWA, which was launched in 1989 and contained lyrics like “I still express, yo I don’t smoke weed or sess/ ‘cause it’s not known to give a brother brain damage/ and brain damage on the mic don’t manage nothing.”
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In any occasion, over the summer time, Muggs linked with Ghostface Killah, Scarface, and plenty of different high-profile artists for his first Soul Assassins album in 14 years.
The Cypress Hill producer introduced on August 25 that Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley is now obtainable to buy and obtain. The album itself has a slew of options from different top-tier lyricists together with Freddie Gibbs, Westside Gunn, Ice Cube, Method Man, Slick Rick and Boldy James, to call just a few.
“You know you cannot escape death, but immortality can be attained,” DJ Muggs stated in a press release about his newest providing.
Alongside the album, DJ Muggs additionally launched the trailer to his film for Soul Assassins 3: Death Valley which was filmed in Death Valley, California. The film was launched on September 13.
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