Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill formed in South Gate, California - just outside of Los Angeles - in 1988. The group signed a deal with Columbia Records in 1989 after the label heard their first demo. Black Sunday, Cypress Hill's second album, came out in 1993 and went straight to #1 on Billboard's Top 200 chart. It spent two weeks at the top spot, displacing Zooropa by U2 and getting knocked off by the Sleepless in Seattle soundtrack.

Cypress Hill was banned from playing Saturday Night Live in 1993 after they smoked marijuana onstage and trashed the some drums while performing the song "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That."

In 1996, Cypress Hill appeared on The Simpsons, performing at a fictional festival called Homerpalooza. The episode poked fun at Lollapalooza and Woodstock 1994, two festivals the hip-hop group had recently headlined.