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Issue 41 / 2012

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Issue 41 / 2012 CYPRESS HILL Throughout their twenty year career, these legendary Californian rappers have continued to push boundaries with their music. Here on their tour, we hooked up with rapper Sen Dog and got the lowdown on their new dubstep collaboration with Rusko. WE STILL WORK AS A TEAM, WE JUST GET TOGETHER AND BREAK OUT THAT NEXT LEVEL SHIT, IT'S KINDA LIKE A GOOD SENSATION ADE ADEOSUN | ade@guestlist.net Hello Sen Dog how's it going on brother? I'm very cool. That's good to hear how've you been spending your time in the UK? It was really good man, I've had a good time out there, been going to a lot of restaurants, it's all been perfect. Now I've been following you on Twitter and I've noticed you've been in Amsterdam a couple of days ago. We know you're a big smoker, so how did it go down out there? Yeah, yeah it was good man, for us guys, that's a little piece of heaven. Yeah I know what you mean. You have a good time at the coffee shops out there yeah? Yeah man, we have a lot of friends over there that we've made over the years, it's always a good time there. How does it feel to be the kings of the West Coast and have Snoop creatively sign you? It's been perfect man, there are a lot of us out here close to hip-hop, and we're doing extraordinary work. I don't really know how many records are being sold - I know it's a lot. Anyway, I'm not into that West Coast East Coast thing, I look at it a bit differently - it's all one big happy family for me and in all families somebody gets shot once in a while so... the tours we're doing are just incredible, at times overwhelming, but we're having a blast. Now you're about promoting the new Cypress Hill and Rusko EP. What's your favourite track in the making of that EP? All of them are great, the collaboration with Rusko really pushed it out there, we got great feedback, it's still a heavy dose of hip hop, and it's like whooo! What was it like making the track with Damian Marley? Well Damian Marley and us go back a long time so we hit it right off... You've been in the game a long time now, you're one of those veterans who just keep coming back, what's it like in the studio now, after all this time? We still work as a team, we just get together and break out that next level shit, it's kinda like a good sensation because now we are so used to it that we can channel that special energy like professionals. Have you been to any dubstep raves lately? Nah man, not yet...Actually I went to a couple of them out in L.A; Rusko invited me and the guys to come out and hang out with him... I'm listening to a lot of dubstep obviously even more since the EP with Rusko, but as soon as we free up a little time we'll definitely hit the dubstep dance floors. Have you been watching any of the football? Yeah we actually did, all of us as a crew have been getting into football whilst in the UK - we went to pubs had loads of beer and watched the game like they do over here, it's a really cool thing. What do you think about the new school of rap like ASAP rocky? I like to still listen to old school stuff, I definitely feel that rap is now more widely accepted and it no longer carries that certain kind of stigma it used to have back in the day. I did get round to listening to the new school stuff - it's very creative and hip hop is now going in a different direction than we we're used to, but it's all good. We're big fans of your music here and we hope you're not gonna stop producing those good hits? Yeah, thanks we've been writing constantly, the inspiration we've been getting is great, I'm gonna keep writing no matter what. That's real talk right there. Thank you for your time, have a good day. Thank you too man have a good one. Keep upto date with Cypress Hill at www.cypresshill.com HIP HOP / RNB 39 www.guestlist.net 7

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