In recent years, DJ Muggs, the production visionary behind Cypress Hill, has been doing a lot of cool underground shit, teaming up with rappers like Roc Marciano and Mach-Hommy for full-album collaborations. Recently, Muggs announced plans to release the new album Soul Assassins 3, the follow-up to the guest-heavy albums that he dropped in 1997 ...

Cypress Hill are the subject of a new documentary called Cypress Hill: Insane In The Brain, which will debut next month on Showtime on April 20. It was directed by photographer Estevan Oriol, and will track the rise of the West Coast hip-hop group and examine their legacy using archival footage and new interviews with B-Real, Sen Dog, Eric Bobo,...

In 2020, the Queens rap snarler Flee Lord released 12 mixtapes, one for every month of the year, and he still found time to deliver scene-stealing guest verses on multiple Griselda records. Today, Flee Lord has another full-length out, but this one is different. Flee Lord made this one with DJ Muggs, the legendary producer behind Cypress Hill, w...

In 2018, DJ Muggs went to Egypt. Muggs was the longtime production mastermind behind Cypress Hill, but in their later years, Cypress Hill had moved away from Muggs’ musical blueprint. They’d gone hit-chasing. Cypress Hill’s previous album, 2010’s Rise Up, had a single with Pitbull and Marc Anthony, and it ...