Perhaps the best track of the L.A. brood’s Rise Up gets the video treatment. The streets of New York provide the backdrop, perhaps in homage to the Pete Rock beat. Heavy on the live action shots, “Light Up” proves Cypress still has quite the rambunctious energy, an accompanying following and a continuing love for cannabis, despite Prop 19’s failures. Read the rest of this entry »

– After all the posturing and jive talk, Jim Jones & Co. took home the Band Of Ballers Crown for the second straight year. Best part is nobody was tased like in Philly. So much for all Black functions ending in violence.

– Is this the cover of the most anticipated Rap album of the year?

– Back like it never left The Boondocks (& Uncle Ruckus) had the internet going nuts with their antics.

– This Just In: Kobe Bryant Is Not Gay. Wish we could say the same about the first round of the NBA playoffs. Read the rest of this entry »

Rise Up, the latest album from High Times cover boys Cypress Hill, is an exercise in meeting expectations,. Multiple odes to marijuana? Check. Token attempts at rap-rock crossover? Of course. Cheech and Chong in the interludes? What do you think? Read the rest of this entry »

Latins coming together to Rise Up in Hip-Hop is always a welcomed look. Still smokin’ after all these years, B-Real & The Gang bring the joyous salsa vibes to flavor the summer season with a video that only adds to the song’s increasing popularity. Read the rest of this entry »

Damn. Cypress Hill’s lead single from their upcoming eighth album, Rise Up, is not what I expected at all and I mean that in a very good way. Reiterating a classic Crosby, Stills, Nash refrain and maximizing output from Latin pop staples Pitbull and Marc Anthony, these three stoned raiders have emerged from the ashes once again to reinvent themselves for radio. Read the rest of this entry »