{"id":792527,"date":"2019-01-30T07:26:40","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:26:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=786387"},"modified":"2019-01-30T07:26:40","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T14:26:40","slug":"watch-cypress-hill-play-psychedelic-crazy-band-of-gypsies-on-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-cypress-hill-play-psychedelic-crazy-band-of-gypsies-on-kimmel\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cypress Hill Play Psychedelic \u2018Crazy,\u2019 \u2018Band of Gypsies\u2019 on \u2018Kimmel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-30-at-9.08.25-AM.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cypress-hill\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cypress-hill\" data-tag=\"cypress-hill\">Cypress Hill<\/a> performed \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cBand of Gypsies,\u201d two tracks from their acid-soaked, psychedelic ninth LP, <em>Elephants on Acid<\/em>, on Tuesday\u2019s <em>Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The hip-hop group \u2013 including newly recruited turntablist and former Beastie Boys member Mix Master Mike \u2013\u00a0kept things simple onstage, with emcees B-Real and Sen-Dog bouncing around while percussionist Bobo pounded out simple beats in the background. Both songs fit into their druggy aesthetic, full of stoner-friendly rhymes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cUp all night on this road\/Feels like my head is gonna explode\/Vision all fucked up, man, I\u2019m gone\/Dead in the middle of the twilight zone\/Losin\u2019 my mind, so high, no lie,\u201d B-Real rapped on \u201cCrazy\u201d over murky guitar riffs and scratches. On \u201cBand of Gypsies,\u201d laced with Egyptian chants and droning electric guitars, he proclaimed, \u201cYou\u2019re lookin\u2019 at the last of a dyin\u2019 breed\/ Weeded up, please, speed it up\/Sittin\u2019 in the Cali sun heated up\/Inked arm needled up\/Rocket style, Don Cheadle\u2019d up\/I put the fear of God in people, what.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sDOdJXbwmEI?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Cypress Hill issued <em>Elephants on Acid<\/em> in September, marking their first LP since 2010\u2019s Rise Up. Producer Muggs <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cypress-hill-preview-new-lp-elephants-on-acid-with-psychedelic-song-band-of-gypsies-706128\/\">spoke to <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> about the album\u2019s psych-rock influence, saying the genre \u201chas been a big influence\u201d on him. \u201cI\u2019ve been listening to it since it was in my mother\u2019s and my uncle\u2019s collection,\u201d he said. \u201cI had the idea what the name of this record was going to be and then I just started building the whole sound around [it]. Just a whole sound like feeling like you\u2019re high on hallucinogenic drugs \u2013\u00a0but you\u2019re not on no drugs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cypress-hill-crazy-band-of-gypsies-kimmel-786387\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cypress Hill performed \u201cCrazy\u201d and \u201cBand of Gypsies,\u201d two tracks from their acid-soaked, psychedelic ninth LP, Elephants on Acid, on Tuesday\u2019s Jimmy Kimmel Live. The hip-hop group \u2013 including newly recruited turntablist and former Beastie Boys member Mix Master Mike \u2013\u00a0kept things simple onstage, with emcees B-Real and Sen-Dog bouncing around while percussionist Bobo pounded [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-792527","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 04:00:35","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=792527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/792527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=792527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=792527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=792527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}