B-Real

“During the course of our career, we've always managed to go outside of even our own box. We started experimenting with the heavier sound, with live instruments and rock.”

“I liked Guns n' Roses in the old form.”

“NatGeo always has great photographs and photographers. There's always something interesting to look at.”

“My whole thing is, I love music. If I can find someone that can put their own flag up in the game and make a career for themselves and say what they want to say and do what they love, that's a great contribution to the game.”

“We might sort of do our music, talk about experiences that we've been through, but we would never tell the full story that might get someone twisted up because we realize it would affect another life.”

“Bands get passed down as a tradition because people say to their kids: 'You want to hear this, because this right here shaped what you're listening to now.' It happened with lots of bands before us. You'd say: 'This is Led Zeppelin,' 'This is the Beatles' and 'This is The Rolling Stones.' As it relates to hip-hop, you say: 'This is Cypress Hill.'”

“Fortunately, Ruffhouse Records and Sony allowed us to be ourselves. More importantly, they allowed Muggs to command the ship. They didn't try to throw other producers at us or undermine him.”

“With Public Enemy, they were doing such a different thing in terms of what they were talking about - .social content, political content - and the style of production they were doing. It's something that myself and a couple of the other guys from Cypress, we all gravitated to it.”

“2Pac was a homie, y'know, we met him through the Digital Underground squad.”

“We were basically making Spanish songs for the people that loved Hip Hop already but that knew Spanish because at that time, the people that knew Spanish weren't fans of Hip Hop music.”

“If you let record companies mold you into what they think you should be, your career won't last no matter how good your music is.”

“As a kid, I spent more time running around in the streets than I did at home, running around aimlessly with my friends and stuff like that, and getting into all sort of mischief, if you will.”

“We tried to take different roads to get to where we wanted to go to satisfy our creativity as artists.”

“It's much like football. You've got your regional teams and then they ask the best players to come and play for the national team - the all-stars. That's what this is. We still play for Public Enemy and Cypress Hill, but when it's time to go for the world championship it's Prophets of Rage.”

“We could sit back and be complacent and do the formula that we know works. To an artist, that gets old to recycle.”

“After 'Insane In The Brain' came out, we started doing our own tours, headlining stuff. It just pretty much changed our situation all together. But the important thing is that even though your situation changes, you have to check yourself so that you don't change with that situation.”

“To flip from being virtually unknown to not being able to walk in the mall was quite an experience.”

“I've got nothing but love and respect for Cube. When I started, he was my benchmark.”

“In terms of breaking an artist traditionally, it was in the form of radio. You had to pop your record off there. Now you don't have to rely on radio. That traditional route, it was a hard climb. I think it's a little bit easier now to break yourself if the record companies ain't knocking on your door.”

“Cypress and House of Pain were pretty much a tight-knit unit. We would go on tour with them, they would go on tour with us and we'd just go back and forth like that.”