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Cypress Hill Complete Much-Anticipated Fourth Album Sen Dog rejoins as rap group prepares for upcoming Smokin' Grooves tour. "This is the head-slammin' shit," Muggs said shortly after completing the album in his L.A. loft studio last week. "We still got a dark, sinister mood on our record, but it's a lot more uptempo. It's kind-of a rock feel." Now, with all three charter members back behind the wheel, Cypress Hill are preparing to hit the road in July for the Smokin' Grooves concert tour, where they'll debut a number of cuts from Cypress Hill IV. "Sen Dog's the missing link to the group," the DJ said. "It's like having a formula without one of the fucking ingredients. He brought back that flavor we needed for us to be a full, cohesive unit. We got our old vibe back." "Everything's up to 110-112 beats per minute on the new album," Muggs said as he prepared to complete the record's final sequencing on Tuesday (May 26). "That ain't going on in rap right now. We're trying to bring shit back to how it was in '88-'89. Our music's breakin' up and changin' up a lot, like it was on the first album. We're coming with different styles, different flavors, different vocal tones." Fans who've been waiting patiently for the latest Cypress offering will be rewarded by an album packed with 18 numbers (23 cuts total, including non- musical interludes). Among the songs that will be featured are "Clash Of The Titans," "Audio X," an homage to a particularly successful ganja grower named "Dr. Green Thumb," plus a Sen Dog solo piece called "Looking Out My Window." Another track, "Looking Through The Eye Of A Pig," includes a role reversal for the hard-hitting street rappers. "B-Real places himself as the police officer," Muggs said. "Instead of talking shit about the cop, he's being the cop, talking shit about people on the street and how scandalous they are." Conversely, "Riot Starter" revolves around old-fashioned MC boasting. "It's about how we go to your town and just tear shit up, police barricades and everything," Muggs said. "That's a regular, everyday thing for us -- when we come to the city, riots just start to break off." re: Smoking Grooves: "This lineup is the best ever," he said. "That's the only reason I did the tour." | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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After the "Smokin' Grooves," group members took time to undertake a number of special projects and recharge their creative batteries. Muggs recorded the Muggs Presents...The Soul Assassins solo album recruiting the likes of Wu Tang Clan, Dr. Dre, KRS-One, Wyclef (from the Fugees), Mobb Deep, and the rest of Cypress Hill to rap over some of his most hard hitting and innovative grooves yet. Muggs Presents...The Soul Assassins was released in March '97 to overwhelming critical acclaim. In the meanwhile, B-Real had collaborated with Busta Rhymes, Coolio, LL Cool J & Method Man on "Hit 'Em High" from the Space Jam soundtrack album as well as with Dr. Dre, Nas and KRS-One on "East Coast Killer, West Coast Killer," on Dre's Aftermath album. He then teamed up with two other L.A. based Latino rappers, Duke and Jacken, to record a eponymous debut album, The Psycho Realm; Duke had rapped with on-stage with Cypress Hill throughout the '96 "Smokin' Grooves" shows with Jacken appearing with the group on a number of these dates as well. The Psycho Realm is slated for summer release on RuffHouse/Columbia. Duke and Jacken will perform again with Cypress Hill on this year's edition of "Smokin' Grooves" which features Cypress Hill as well as George Clinton And The P-Funk All Stars, Erykah Badu and others. Cypress Hill is currently in Los Angeles working on recording the group's fourth album with an eye towards release later this year. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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TOUR DATES | 8-21-1998 MINNEAPOLIS, MN TARGET CENTER, ARENA 8-22-1998 MARYLAND HEIGHTS, MO RIVERPORT AMPHITHEATRE 8-23-1998 INDIANAPOLIS, IN DEER CREEK MUSIC CENTER 8-26-1998 CHARLOTTE, NC BLOCKBUSTER PAVILION, STADIUM 8-28-1998 VIRGINIA BEACH, VA GTE AMPHITHEATRE 8-29-1998 BRISTOW, VA NISSAN PAVILLION AT STONE RIDGE
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