This is Flashback, the place we’re reminiscing about a number of the most iconic and obscure moments in alt-rock historical past. This week, we’re when Cypress Hill and Travis Barker performed “(Rock) Superstar” in 2010.
Cypress Hill are the hip-hop crew extra possible to attract followers of metallic and punk than rap. So, it is smart that they launched 2000’s Skull & Bones — an album that was half hip-hop (“Skull”) and half rock (“Bones”) — as nü metallic was reaching its apex. That document contained their smash single “(Rock) Superstar,” a cathartic rager that proved Cypress Hill nonetheless knew the right way to write successful as enduring as “Insane in the Brain.”
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Back in 2010, a decade after the album’s launch, the hip-hop outfit invited blink-182’s Travis Barker onstage to drum on the music at their very own Smokeout Festival in San Bernardino, California. (The band are, in spite of everything, ardent advocates of marijuana legalization.) Serving as their explosive nearer, the efficiency noticed Cypress Hill in excessive kind. B-Real purifies the stage with a joint that’s thicker than a bundle of sage. There’s a man ripping on an upright bass. Barker tears it up on the drums. It’s a nice efficiency that is still fascinating all these years later.
Check it out beneath.
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