Cypress Hill hops on the dubstep wagon

[Undrig]

I honestly was hoping to find the glass half full with this. Cypress hill was always making real dark and minimal quality hiphop. Why they didn't scratch below the surface and get ahold of someone like Pinch confounds me.


Imagine this


with some of this



but instead we end up with this

[Maccaveli]

Yeah its a real missed opportunity for something great, I've always wanted to hear the vibe of Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (imo the best Cypress Hill album) in a dubstep record. Then again, I guess a few Pinch, Matty G and Loefah tunes already do that

Either way, imagine this with a really thick sub-bass in it:

[llennnn16]

Truthfully, neither the combined Cypress Hill / Pinch track or the Rusko track that the OP posted sound good. the flow on that cypress track from the OP is too different from that Pinch track posted. doesn't sound good at all. The Rusko track is too bro to roll with the deepheads.

the only one that sounds good would be the one Maccaveli posted. i can hear a broken more 2-step percussive version with deep phat sub bass and vocals snippets.

[topmo3]

Truthfully, neither the combined Cypress Hill / Pinch track or the Rusko track that the OP posted sound good. the flow on that cypress track from the OP is too different from that Pinch track posted. doesn't sound good at all. The Rusko track is too bro to roll with the deepheads.

the only one that sounds good would be the one Maccaveli posted. i can hear a broken more 2-step percussive version with deep phat sub bass and vocals snippets.

i'm sure OP didn't mean exactly that vocal on top of that pinch track. haven't heard the particular cypress hill tune (can't listen either, at work) but i'm pretty sure it's somewhere from 90 to 100 bpm whereas the pinch track is a lot faster. still i feel like understand where he's coming from with that idea and it would definately be amazing. it's a disappointment, feels like these hip hop legends (mobb deep wanted to do something over skream's rutten, was it?) don't know shit about dubstep and just get excited about the shitty stuff as a pathetic try to stay relevant.

[Maccaveli]

Nah, just Prodigy of Mobb Deep did a verse over Filth by Skream, which is hardly a bad choice but he didn't know how to flow to it.

Other than that, I agree with you topmo3, its not about literally mixing them together, more just combining the atmospheres and vibes

[Sonika]

Didn't Snoop Dogg do a verse over a bunch of dubstep and brostep tunes on a mixtape called throw your dubs up?

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Didn't Snoop Dogg do a verse over a bunch of dubstep and brostep tunes on a mixtape called throw your dubs up?

half well known bro tunes, half 70bpm hiphop tunes.... the hiphop ones are pretty good.

[Sonika]

I haven't checked it out but didn't some old school producers make/give some tracks for that mixtape?

[Electric_Head]

Wu Tang did an entire album of remixes & collabs
some good some gash

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002TC ... =dm_sp_alb

[Sonika]

Yeah I got that album has some decent material on it

[BananaClips]

Nah, just Prodigy of Mobb Deep did a verse over Filth by Skream, which is hardly a bad choice but he didn't know how to flow to it.

Other than that, I agree with you topmo3, its not about literally mixing them together, more just combining the atmospheres and vibes

i thought his flow was pretty nice on that one actually.

[Trifficspurs]

http://sbtv.co.uk/2011/10/snoop-dogg-x- ... e-mixtape/

There's the Snoop mixtape. Pretty shit imo

[Undrig]

Yeah, topmo3 summed up my feelings perfectly. I never meant literally mashing up the two songs together. Vibe only. You'd think Cypress would have it together enough to realize the potential of a collab with that sorta vibe being built upon in a new way. Could you imagine how off the hook it would be to combine those two worlds? With the korn/skrillex thing nobody really had high hopes from the start. This was a missed opportunity imo.

[Maccaveli]

Yeah, topmo3 summed up my feelings perfectly. I never meant literally mashing up the two songs together. Vibe only. You'd think Cypress would have it together enough to realize the potential of a collab with that sorta vibe being built upon in a new way. Could you imagine how off the hook it would be to combine those two worlds? With the korn/skrillex thing nobody really had high hopes from the start. This was a missed opportunity imo.

But remember Cyrpress Hill haven't been really successful since the 90s, so of course they're gonna go for the option that'll get them the most money

[Undrig]

I guess once you get older and you feel like you have the street cred you went for originally, it's time to pay the utility bill.

[TheTornado]

Matty G should have produced it lol

[tacospheros]

this doesnt tell the whole story tho. an article was posted recently interviewing their dj, Muggs i think. he says he has been into dubstep for a while and incorporating it into his sets. i guess that's just the vibe he likes. but yeah, that Rusko shit was complete garbage. i blame him for that though. i mean , dude sat down at his computer and was like "OK, i have to make a beat for Cypress Hill............ BWAMP YUG YUG SNARE YUG YUG YUG YUG YUG YUG SNARE jesus christ those were some big obnoxious snares.

[TheTornado]

^this

I don't know how someone can listen to an album like "Black Sunday" or "Temples of Boom" - arguably their two best - and produce some mid-range cack for them to spit on. Geez, "Temples of Boom" is one of the darkest sounding hip-hop albums ever.

[tge]

This new stuff is generic... how disappointing.

[Sexual_Chocolate]

Matty G should have produced it lol

that would be an increadible EP if that was the case.

sigh.

maybe next time