Cypress Hill Talks The Gang Culture In East Los Angeles
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Visited East Los this past Saturday. Walked around Whittier and Arizona, ate at Baja Tacos, bought stuff at the Commerce Center, rolled around Maravilla, and visited El Pino. Good weekend!
sounds chill
East LA always feels like home
If you don’t look like a gang member . You’re good to go
@@yeabih5607 I do look like one. 😄 Some old homie was scoping me out. 🤣
Stop lying buster
When I first heard of the group Cypress Hill, I honestly thought they were from Brooklyn. Brooklyn has a neighborhood called Cypress Hill and they also sampled Big Daddy Kane's voice from a song which mentions the neighborhood. They were definitely different. At that time, The West Coast had things on lock with Gangsta Rap. When I heard them rhyme in Spanish I was super amped up. I felt they embraced their culture and hood. Being Puertorican, I liked the fact that they mixed Latin rhythms with rap. They are Legends and future R&RHOFers. Respect. Big Up from Brooklyn.
When they came out, knew they was from LA..
With all due respect, these cats CYPRESS HILL are obviously NOT from Brooklyn! I'm a Haitian-American dude from Flatbush, and I never saw or heard anything in them that was east coast in their style period! I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, so when I first heard these cats, they reminded me of the Chicano street dudes that I grew up with out here in the west coast. They were obviously enfluenced by Black music ( Funk) and Hip Hop culture so my connection with them was instantaneous! During the early 90s, most groups in hip hop wanted that east coast flava. It wasn't until ICE T, KING TEE, and NWA/ EAZY E came into the mix in the late 80s that influenced groups like CYPRESS HILL.
@@zroy9263 lol hater stay mad
@@zroy9263 I grew up in Fort Greene during the inception and evolution of Hip-Hop. Cypress Hill’s derives from where B-Real and Sen grew up, Cypress Ave in South Gate, Cali.
@Steezart Yo homie, I'm from the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn and I was present during the embryonic period of hip hop during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I saw, lived and studied the development of its music and culture. Whether it was the block parties, the rooftop parties, clubs ( Harlem World, Latin Quarter, Disco Fever, Danceteria), Break Dancing, graffiti bombing, Kangol hats, Puma Clydes, Cazals, Adidas sweats, three-finger rings, phat rope chains, the wop, Lee jeans, I absorbed all of that shit!
My family and I later moved to the west coast. That's where I first met Mexican brothers and sisters. The thing is, I could tell that they weren't anything like Puerto Ricans from the east coast. That being said, CYPRESS HILL never had that sound and Flava from the east coast. To me, they sounded like the Chicano brothers that were into Lowriders out here on the west coast. And considering the fact that they are a band from Cali, I think that they would agree that Mexican culture played a huge role in their sound and style. Of course, all of that would have NEVER existed without east coast hip-hop!
It ain't about hating dude. It's about kicking knowledge! You young fools need to recognize and respect game.
I will always remember being in middle school when I heard Cypress Hill's first album and playing my tape til the end and hearing that extra track "Tres Aquis" and my Mom coming to my room like "WTF are you listening to in my house?"🤣
Funny face
I was in high school ( 90s ) when I first heard Cypress Hill , Black Sunday and The Chronic were the first rap albums I bought with my own money ..Live at The Fillmore in my opinion is one of the greatest live albums ever put out ..will forever love these dudes ..
👍
Same 💯
I was also high in school when I first hears Cypress Hill.
I'm going to use this clip to talk about urban density with urban subculture to show the geographical differences within ethnic/racial groups. This is fire Revolt & Drink Champs. Telling ya'll stories is validating a lot of youth that are still ignored. Thank you.
Were gonna use this clip to listen and not read your bs
Dummy
Lol
@@stomper2888 lmfao
Shut that corny shit up bro...
Sin Dog is dark, but he still looks Mexican AF.
He's Cubano
I was thinking that aswell even tho he's Cuban
E cubanito
He’s Cuban B
Dudes Cuban, so yeah 😂
I'm from Maywood and back in 97 I seen Cypress Hill at a house party in Bell,CA on Randolph st, at one point I remember seeing them in the front porch sitting on a couch drinking beers and smoking weed just talking, it was actually more like a hangout everyone was just chill even tho they were a Big deal already.
Sacas la marijuana wey
I got jumped on Randolph one block away from Nimitz Jr High in 1987 walking towards Bell High School at 5:30am by three car load of cowards one of them hit me with a baseball bat on my forehead
Me and B real used to eat at Culichi town
They were a big deal since the late 80s
Yeah I ate taco bell with B one time chill Chicano times...
Cypress and Wu is for life!
👍👍🔥🔥🔥😎💯
one of the best hip hop groups of all time
Sen dog is a great MC too!
@@divisionunion1658 it isn't a 3rd. Neither with su
This is a amazing program for everyone who loves rap/hip-hop, also the less commercial artist get this podium, rightfully!! Flowers to who deserves them
I can definitely hear that Sen Dog is from L.A, in the way he speaks.
He's a black essay
Been listening back to Temples of Boom this week and I think Mugg’s production on that is perfect, also gives a good impression of what he’s gone on to do with The Black Goat stuff
Big Up to Cypress Hill....🙏🏼🙏🏽🙏🏾🙏🏿
Sen Dog a real one ive had so many run in with him I lost count. He's really out there
He always looked like a pit but talks like a gentleman haha I sure would like to have a cerveza with him
alameda st divides south central LA from the south east cities like vernon, Huntington park, south gate, lynwood, etc...
No Alameda is the tracks divides watts from south Gate. Going up yes LA from H.P. then you have Maywood
Cypress Hill is the shit! Original Gangstas 1000❤️🔥💫🥇✨🚀🛸
B real from 89 family swans. His homie Sinister was a known ryda n killer. Sinister older brother Big Evil is one of the most notorious bloods in LA history n was basically a serial killer...
B reals brothers from a Mexican gang tho
@@bryancuevas323 white fence
@@lilSenDog doubt it breal is from the mid part of LA area
@@bryancuevas323 he is from a Mexican and possibly could be white fence they have a hood in bell gardens which isn’t far off but idk
@@KingNoLuv nope it’s Burlington locos or 18 st
Nore was on wet himself 🤣😂truth
It's crazy hearing this bc I remember on the beef II dvd in 2004 when they documented Cypress Hill's falling out w Ice Cube how the Mexican Gangs were ready & willing to ride on Cube & West Side Connection if it went to the streets (even tho WC didn't get involved).
That’s what I don’t understand about brothas out west. They’ll have the most fatalistic venom against each other while the Mexicans will unite to go against them.
That happened because Cyrus Hill helped Pycho Realm a cholo rap group out. I'm sure their gang automatically offered their support. Just like how the " brown side " gang had Easy E's back for signing them into his label in the 90's
nortenos and surenos are far from united.
@@nl5h yeah that's a différent conversation.
That shit on that DVD was stupid nobody cared about them beefing Cali was about gang banging not rappers. And Southern Cali Mexicans was only unified in jail not on the streets. That shit was stupid nobody was beefing over any of these niggas unless it was their crews
LA just different with that gang culture. Detroit is wild but we would never "force" or recruit someone who didn't wanna be down . Gangs never been big here anyway
Because here we believe you stay here so you have to be down they don’t care about none of that, well many gangs don’t press you like that
Not all gangs force you to join in L.A. Never happened to any of my friends
It's mainly people choose to join if they stay getting fucked with because of where you from. You accept it. I don't know any hoods who would want to force someone on unless you just hanging around everyday and you part of the scenery.
Chicago is very similar
Not all gangs force you but, that shit is wack aza mf. Straight up. No real unity and a mf won't go at the "real" enemy like they go at one another for wearing a different color
SouthGate isn’t that close to east l.a. though. It’s closer to Downey and bell gardens.
@user7up-ef5gqits more South. East Los is east of downtown, southgate is next to Watts which is South Central. Totally different part of l.a not close to E. LA. 20 mins by car with no traffic
East is like Boyle heights and maybe Lincoln heights
Dope interview!
Cypress really changed the scene. It’s great to hear the back in the day stories. Good conversion.
I’m from Canada, my dad would send me to L.A. when school was out for the summer. I’d spend summer with cousins, It was so crazy. Good memories. Glad I made it out. I know a lot didn’t 🪦
I used to LOVE Frios, Kools, Wet daddies, lovlies, whatever you want to call it. So, so, fun. LOL We saw Cypress, Funkdoobiest and House of Pain in San Diego in the 90's on Lovelies and it was the greatest experience. Ahhhhh to be young IN THAT TIME again.
Bust out the mint leaves
SOUTH GATE is NOWHERE near East Los Angeles!!!!!!!!!!!
bruhh its literally a 15 min drive on the fwy
@@smuggledaudio6121 NOTHING takes 15 minutes in LA bruh
I saw Egyptian lover and la dream team in Hollywood on sunset party, performing. Dope af! And it was like 2015 lol... dj yella spun too
Egyptian Lover. Ha ha. Brings back memories.
'What is a DJ if he can't scratch, what is an MC if he can't rap, well I can do it all baby just like that'.
'Yes, they're here, the Dream Team is here, oh yes they're here, the Dream Team is here.'
2015?! That's dope.
My daughter Cypress is named after this legendary group! 💪😎
I was hanging in East LA. I had no idea about any gangs there or anything. I never felt like I was in danger once. I'm Australian, people were more fascinated by my accent than anything
East LA was most violent in the 90s. Especially early 90s, in those days drive bys were so common that schools all over LA had to have drive by drills where students would practice getting under the desk in case there was a drive by, this was due to a large number of different gangs going to the same schools. The Mexican Mafia put out an edict that ordered the street gangs to stop drive bys, (temporarily) it was then shifted know who you are shooting at because at the time, a lot of innocent people were getting shot in the crossfire. The danger began to die down in the mid 2000s, especially after the gang injunctions put in place. Gang injunction mean the police can stop a person or a group of people if they look gang related or suspicious which is why the gangs are more secretive now or sometimes they won't hang out in certain areas for extended periods of time.
Because it's safe now lol
@@rafaelleon115 ok. Must of been scary for a lot of people
@@nightcrawler2717 yes I guess so. I was there 2017, but happened to drive into Vegas as the Mandalay Bay shooting was happening
@@markhillaryclinton7626 lol
Haha loved Cypress Hill man I remember jumping the fence at great woods 30 strong. White boy from Boston Irish proud too ngl. Haha for real, I like hearing all the culture notes.
That not East L.A. That's South Central L.A.
This is also about 5 decades old man. They're talking about the 80s and 90s when they were kids.
That’s South East LA. Real locals don’t consider that SC
SELA don’t play!!
Being from Jersey and being stationed in Cali, I appreciated their whole culture and vibe......
They have their own unique culture out there...Shout out to Riverside , La Puente, Visalia, East Los and SanDiego....cant forget them wild times in TJ. !!
With all the success B Real had, the one accomplishment I give props to is pulling in Carmen Electra when she was fine asf. Damn, she still is fine.
Gangs died when the young generation in music destroyed everything.
...Sen need his bucket hat.
the LA/SoCal gang culture is just something else -- no other city/region like it
I'm English age 59. I live in West Sussex, but get this. I was born in Lynwood, lived on East Gage Avenue. Worked at Gage Bowl and the Elks Lodge. We had friends of my Aunt & Uncle I lived with over in Bell Gardens. Friends from Gage Bowl Rich Machado, Farren Dieter and others. Rich used to carry a red leg Tarantuala around with him. Good Times !!!
Ha haaaa. Drove past Gage Bowl today. Elks Lodge!?!? Old school!
That's crazy... I lived in Lynwood in the late mid 70's early 80'. I use to go to Gage Bowl in the early 70's. I lived in every city in the SouthEast area.
Real Facts.
He grew up with them family swan bloods
Neighborhood Family's
@@anttemo41 he from swanns
@@lynorichyy7305 I get that. But on his left hand between his index and thumb he put NF, which stood for Neighborhood Family Bloods. He said that in a Spin Magazine article when Temples Of Boom came out. I used to have the book
@@anttemo41 You right, they were still 89 Neighborhood Family back in the 80's.They weren't Family Swans yet then.
And he left his homies hangn after he got his record deal.
Took my black NYC friend to East LA recently, and was telling him you won't find black people out there. Not because they're not welcomed, but thats just how the lines were drawn, so to say. He was trippin' out on that.
Black gangsters are not welcomed.
No that’s not just how the lines were drawn. Don’t you know anything about Los Angeles history. Most Black people first moved out here from the south for two reasons and most of them settled in South Los Angeles. They came out here because of the aerospace industry. Jobs. They created their communities because it was close to the factories that built airplanes. The second reason they moved out here was to worship Jesus. It was about churches churches and more churches. There’s a reason Southern California is called the City of Angels. It had nothing to do with segregation. It had everything to do with closeness to where people lived and their communities were they worshiped and where they worked. It’s not because people are racist and they hate each other.
Are you from Los Angeles yourself? Don’t you know that the reason California has such a strong economy was because of all the industry that was out here? And now it’s all gone because of what the Democrats have done.
Haven’t you ever noticed all the churches in South Los Angeles? All you have to do is drive down Normandie from Hollywood and count the churches. Haven’t you ever heard of the Azuza street revival? You need to do a little more research before you make stupid comments.
@@samuelplacensia9979 I’m from Boyle Heights I know my history from here and know the history with black and brown gangs. You don’t need to school me on that. Like I said before they’re not welcomed.
4:06 starting you car in cold weather
King Tee " Bass" 🔥
They didn't speak on the white supremacy racism in Latino culture against blacks in Los Angeles
They don't want no problems
Exactly 💯🙏🏾
B-Real touched on it a little bit, Sen show up at a party getting mad dawgged until he spoke...that's racist.
That’s only in jail not on the streets you don’t see no skin heads running around in those hoods like that
@@Raiderfred you don't get it. They are talking about the Latinos being the "white Supremacist".
Cypress is being kind. Los Angeles and NY are two separate cities. On the east coast Latinos and blacks embrace each other. Its, to some degree not like that in Los Angeles.
It was more driven by Mexicans from Mexico, rather than Mexicans from the USA, the other aspect of it was driven by Street/Gang Politics.
How it should be, stick to you’re own!
@@johnnytightlips7878 you….are……exactly….a big part of the problem 🤮
The majority of African Americans and Latin Americans in Los Angeles also embrace each other. You're just looking at it from a small perspective. Especially those that aren't racist or gang related. It's from the gang perspective, their associates and their affiliates that keeps everything separate.
@@johnnytightlips7878impossible
He ain't from East LA, he's from South Gate
Mellow man Ace who did “ mentirosa” is Sen Dog’s Brother
And Mellow reps more of that "proper" Cuban style they were referring to early in the video.
one of my favorite groups!
I thought Cypress Hill was from Southgate? Southgate is not East Los Angeles.
they are... i don't know why they refer to it as "lower east side". I think they were just trying to pinpoint it geographically.
Wish they would talk about psycho realm as well
Latinos well represented here
L- Wood to Downey, respect fellas!
Lynnwood Assasins represent 🙌 cypress hill foe life
Revolt tv is the best
People forget how dope, and how influential King Tee was. He actually had a heavy influence on Biggie’s style.
Love hearing the history of the music
The world never rated King T the way he should be rated.
R.I.P Sinister. From same hood as B Real.
East los been on the map no kap
That's not East L.A.
I bought Black Sunday when it came out, on Tape, I wore that tape out, it was almost a complete album.. its hard to get a complete album...
According to L.A. gangs South Gate, Lynwood, Bell Gardens, Maywood, Compton, Watts, etc are South Side Los Angeles. South East is Whittier, Norwalk, Artesia, Pico Rivera Hawaiin Gardens, etc. But yes technically South Gate, Lynwood, Bell Gardens are South East Los Angeles.
Anything south of the downtown building is south LA for me.
@@x213ERx Truth.
“According to L.A. gangs”☝️🤓
South East Los is considered all the gateway cities leading to the beach line. Hence, gate way city. That considered South East Los according to LA county.
Yup yup. But foos their age would still call that area south east. It’s weird. But in varrio politics they claim ss, and Downey,pico, Norwalk, sfs, etc claim se.
C H might be my favorite group ever! And I'm from Detroit.
the ending where he brought up "unique LA sound" when in reality they sounded like they bit the originators for their sound... a mexican group called "PSYCHO REALM" 2 brothers, one high pitched voice and the other was a deep raspy voice...if you pay attention they tensed up and vibe got weird when he started to explain that detail of "no one else had that sound but them" that should tell yall who really came up with the sound
Was yall on Angel dust😂
Cypress Hill tapes was all I can afford as a kid growing up
I didn't realize Southeast LA County had a Cuban enclave. South Gate. I makes sense. I guess Southeast LA is where they put it down. Sen Dog being Afro-cuban, was able to fall in with the Mexicans. And B-Real being Cuban and an actually half-mexican, but being down with the bloods is interesting as well. Crazy how every nationality kinda fell in where they did, within the LA Gang Culture.
Cypress hill gonna wax onyx this comin verzuz...sonny seeza better be there too 💯
I remember when I drove out to East LA to register for a class at ELAC back in ‘09. My counselor from my home school told me not to even use the gasoline stations because there wasn’t too many brothas or sistas in East LA and she was worried that something might pop off. I went out there and I didn’t see one single brotha or one sista anywhere, not on the sidewalks, bus stops, or anywhere on the ELAC campus. Fk that. I bounced and never came back.
They are talking about GANGS, not people in East LA in general. You're not going to get hit up in ELAC lol smh
@@la-do-ra-ch6810 Only you out-of-town clowns and squares think, “well I’m not a gang banger, I can go anywhere in LA, and wear whatever color because I don’t do GANGS.” Lol You’ll be the first non-gang civilian banged on and the first non “GANGS” clown robbed and laid out. You must have been born yesterday or you’ve never been to jail or you must have watched this video, but you’re deaf. For you slow short-yellow-bus riders, Cypress Hill confirmed what Nore noticed….LOS ANGELES is separated by RACE just Iike in jail and prison. So in other words square short-yellow-bus rider or deaf boy, in LA….YOUR RACE is A GANG. You might be one these black and “brown” clowns that buries your head underground to pretend that “in-general” it’s Black Americans vs Latinos, especially black men vs Mexican men and that’s “in-general”, in the streets, in the job market, in anywhere in LA. Brothas and sistas who take advice from a non-black American like you and/or somebody who is from out-of-town will end up regretting underestimating how real it is in LA, especially right now. You must not watch the news or understand English either. Lol SMH Plus why would I feel comfortable being the only brotha on a college campus? Have you ever heard of the movie, “Get Out”? Smh Lol So now watch this video again, clean out your waxed ears, read my post again, get a translator, and get a clue. Lol SMH Lol
@@la-do-ra-ch6810 it’s well known ELA isn’t welcoming to black people.
What’s sad is we as black folks welcome everyone into our communities yet others have strict no-go zones for us.
@@Polostar79 that don’t mean shit
Hispanics except everybody too
It’s like in Atlanta a lot of blacks hardly any Hispanics
When I go there I feel out of place or like a Hispanic guy going to hbcu I’m going to feel out of place..
But if your black in east LA I’m sure nothin will happen to you
Only if your tryin to sell dope then that’s when it’s a problem..
But living there nobody will trip
Cypress were a whole new deal when they came out. Nothing like them at the time
Yea they were wannabe Mid City Stoners not gangsters
Nice talk
Real man 🙏🍍
Keep it up! I am dropping 1 song a week for the next 3 years straight. It has never been done in music. Come along for the ride if you want. Stay blessed ! - Bryan
King Tee & Mix Master Spade
The true OG’s straight outta Compton
I grew up in El Sereno and Highland Park, with family in Boyle Heights,and a lot of my cousins were in Gangs. I managed to stay out of the Gangs, ironically by my cousins, who were very protective of their younger cousins. Because of them, when I was in high school, I was considered “Untouchable”, because of who my family was.
I’m from Scotland and now live in Australia but spent time in Venice 1988 at 14 years old working in east la strengthening earthquake damage saw a police helicopter for the first time chasing a car past our job site it was like being in a movie for me but know body else give a shit that was even more crazy
South Gate is not that close to East LA
"It was nothing but crips and bloods" bruh latinos from LA started all that shit, nothing to be proud of but get your facts straight
Sen Dog got a brother named Mellow Man Ace.
Portland, JAMAICA in The Building !!!!!!!!!!!
King of the Hill, one of the best diss songs of all time.
It's fucked up that Cali is like that
Everywhere is like that because of Latin immigration. I can feel it in New York.
It's like that everywhere ...the "minority" coalition is a joke because everyone is selfish in a highly capitalist society
It's not like that everywhere bro. Philly isn't so much racially divided. Not in the Hoods anyway.
I’m glad it’s like that. Nothing like SoCal L.A
@@adamneme4613 Yes.
Man this dope as hell.
You got 10-15 gangs in a 2 mile radius in Boyle Heights
Yup
Not possible maybe 10 mile radius
Unless the gangs are really really small or are sleeping on top of each other
South Gate and Downey got a good amount of cubanos. Atleast since I was a kid.
I grew up in East la California
Afro Cuban 🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺🇨🇺
It's cuban clown but you don't call efn euro cuban😱
@@kkttkkkktkk9286 well the world already know Cubans are white 🤣 people already believe there is no blacks people in Latin America
@@dreeco1762 because of people likeyou
Cuban, no Afro.
@@kkttkkkktkk9286 It's Afro-Cuban.
Good interview
Cypress Hill was straight up universal Hip-Hop. It's not about where you're from its where you're at. Even the....
Na it’s from where you from other than that you’re a claimer
San José Cali ... boricua power 👊🏼👊🏼🇵🇷🇵🇷🔥🔥
Chiacno power🤎💪🏽🇲🇽🇺🇸
Way better than "Chuck and Flava" 💯
¡Sen Perro por vida!
Love cypress hill
I always thought Cypress Hill was one Mexican and one Black American …
One El Salvadorian, one black Cuban, and one white boy.
In the system of white supremacy both of them are considered as black
@@Polostar79 B Real is Mexican/Cuban, Sen is full Cuban, and Muggs is an Italian from Queens, that's why alot of their shit had that east coast boom bap even tho they're considered a westcoast group.
@@DonYoGi8331 okay thanks for the correction on B-Real. I thought I read somewhere before that he was Salvadorian but maybe it was someone else.
😭😭
.........Phuncky Feel One.....
🔥✊️🔥
Never seen a Cuba that looked like him, unless they had an American dad.
Black culture, embarrassed by nothing, yet offended by everything !
Colors film was East Los Angeles
Colors was filmed on all side
That foo isn’t from my side of L.A. there’s no bloods in ELA then and now period.
He clearly said southgate...pay attention
@@DJ-ep2dc I seen many of his interviews he never corrects them.
@@x213ERxhe said lower east side
Idk why ppl say “Mexicans and blacks don’t live together!”
Yeah they do. Places like Compton and South Central, blacks and Mexicans live in the same communities. There’s a bunch of Mexican gangs k in n Compton!
BUT ALSO…… there are some exclusively Mexican and Black communities.
And THAT’S what people pay attention to
Southgate is not East L.A.
If you know, you know.
3:40 it's the system, is a way to break us apart and hate each others.
9:22 smoke alarm