Cypress Hill Talks The Gang Culture In East Los Angeles 

When they came out, knew they was from LA..

With all due respect, these cats CYPRESS HILL are obviously NOT from Brooklyn! I'm a Haitian-American dude from Flatbush, and I never saw or heard anything in them that was east coast in their style period! I grew up in the San Fernando Valley, so when I first heard these cats, they reminded me of the Chicano street dudes that I grew up with out here in the west coast. They were obviously enfluenced by Black music ( Funk) and Hip Hop culture so my connection with them was instantaneous! During the early 90s, most groups in hip hop wanted that east coast flava. It wasn't until ICE T, KING TEE, and NWA/ EAZY E came into the mix in the late 80s that influenced groups like CYPRESS HILL.

@@zroy9263 lol hater stay mad

@@zroy9263 I grew up in Fort Greene during the inception and evolution of Hip-Hop. Cypress Hill’s derives from where B-Real and Sen grew up, Cypress Ave in South Gate, Cali.

@Steezart Yo homie, I'm from the streets of Flatbush, Brooklyn and I was present during the embryonic period of hip hop during the late 1970s and early 1980s. I saw, lived and studied the development of its music and culture. Whether it was the block parties, the rooftop parties, clubs ( Harlem World, Latin Quarter, Disco Fever, Danceteria), Break Dancing, graffiti bombing, Kangol hats, Puma Clydes, Cazals, Adidas sweats, three-finger rings, phat rope chains, the wop, Lee jeans, I absorbed all of that shit! My family and I later moved to the west coast. That's where I first met Mexican brothers and sisters. The thing is, I could tell that they weren't anything like Puerto Ricans from the east coast. That being said, CYPRESS HILL never had that sound and Flava from the east coast. To me, they sounded like the Chicano brothers that were into Lowriders out here on the west coast. And considering the fact that they are a band from Cali, I think that they would agree that Mexican culture played a huge role in their sound and style. Of course, all of that would have NEVER existed without east coast hip-hop! It ain't about hating dude. It's about kicking knowledge! You young fools need to recognize and respect game.

sounds chill

East LA always feels like home

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Same 💯

I was also high in school when I first hears Cypress Hill.

Sen dog is a great MC too!

Were gonna use this clip to listen and not read your bs

Dummy

Lol

@@stomper5432 lmfao

Shut that corny shit up bro...

He's Cubano

I was thinking that aswell even tho he's Cuban

E cubanito

He’s Cuban B

Dudes Cuban, so yeah 😂

Sacas la marijuana wey

I got jumped on Randolph one block away from Nimitz Jr High in 1987 walking towards Bell High School at 5:30am by three car load of cowards one of them hit me with a baseball bat on my forehead

Me and B real used to eat at Culichi town

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Egyptian Lover. Ha ha. Brings back memories. 'What is a DJ if he can't scratch, what is an MC if he can't rap, well I can do it all baby just like that'. 'Yes, they're here, the Dream Team is here, oh yes they're here, the Dream Team is here.' 2015?! That's dope.

Did you hear it. They had to join otherwise get beat up everyday

You gotta fit in someway somehow or else you'll be treated as an outsider in LA.

B reals brothers from a Mexican gang tho

@@bryancuevas323 white fence

@@lilSenDog doubt it breal is from the mid part of LA area

@@bryancuevas323 he is from a Mexican and possibly could be white fence they have a hood in bell gardens which isn’t far off but idk

@@KingNoLuv nope it’s Burlington locos or 18 st

Because here we believe you stay here so you have to be down they don’t care about none of that, well many gangs don’t press you like that

Not all gangs force you to join in L.A. Never happened to any of my friends

It's mainly people choose to join if they stay getting fucked with because of where you from. You accept it. I don't know any hoods who would want to force someone on unless you just hanging around everyday and you part of the scenery.

Chicago is very similar

Not all gangs force you but, that shit is wack aza mf. Straight up. No real unity and a mf won't go at the "real" enemy like they go at one another for wearing a different color

He always looked like a pit but talks like a gentleman haha I sure would like to have a cerveza with him

That’s what I don’t understand about brothas out west. They’ll have the most fatalistic venom against each other while the Mexicans will unite to go against them.

That happened because Cyrus Hill helped Pycho Realm a cholo rap group out. I'm sure their gang automatically offered their support. Just like how the " brown side " gang had Easy E's back for signing them into his label in the 90's

nortenos and surenos are far from united.

@@nl5h yeah that's a différent conversation.

That shit on that DVD was stupid nobody cared about them beefing Cali was about gang banging not rappers. And Southern Cali Mexicans was only unified in jail not on the streets. That shit was stupid nobody was beefing over any of these niggas unless it was their crews

Ha haaaa. Drove past Gage Bowl today. Elks Lodge!?!? Old school!

It's cuban clown but you don't call efn euro cuban😱

@@kkttkkkktkk9286 well the world already know Cubans are white 🤣 people already believe there is no blacks people in Latin America

@@dreeco1762 because of people likeyou

Cuban, no Afro.

@@kkttkkkktkk9286 It's Afro-Cuban.

It was more driven by Mexicans from Mexico, rather than Mexicans from the USA, the other aspect of it was driven by Street/Gang Politics.

How it should be, stick to you’re own!

@@johnnytightlips7878 you….are……exactly….a big part of the problem 🤮

The majority of African Americans and Latin Americans in Los Angeles also embrace each other. You're just looking at it from a small perspective. Especially those that aren't racist or gang related. It's from the gang perspective, their associates and their affiliates that keeps everything separate.

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Anything south of the downtown building is south LA for me.

@@x213ERx Truth.

Neighborhood Family's

@@anttemo41 he from swanns

@@lynorichyy7305 I get that. But on his left hand between his index and thumb he put NF, which stood for Neighborhood Family Bloods. He said that in a Spin Magazine article when Temples Of Boom came out. I used to have the book

@@anttemo41 You right, they were still 89 Neighborhood Family back in the 80's.They weren't Family Swans yet then.

And he left his homies hangn after he got his record deal.

This is also about 5 decades old man. They're talking about the 80s and 90s when they were kids.

And Mellow reps more of that "proper" Cuban style they were referring to early in the video.

bruhh its literally a 15 min drive on the fwy

@@smuggledaudio6121 NOTHING takes 15 minutes in LA bruh

East LA was most violent in the 90s. Especially early 90s, in those days drive bys were so common that schools all over LA had to have drive by drills where students would practice getting under the desk in case there was a drive by, this was due to a large number of different gangs going to the same schools. The Mexican Mafia put out an edict that ordered the street gangs to stop drive bys, (temporarily) it was then shifted know who you are shooting at because at the time, a lot of innocent people were getting shot in the crossfire. The danger began to die down in the mid 2000s, especially after the gang injunctions put in place. Gang injunction mean the police can stop a person or a group of people if they look gang related or suspicious which is why the gangs are more secretive now or sometimes they won't hang out in certain areas for extended periods of time.

Because it's safe now lol

@@rafaelleon115 ok. Must of been scary for a lot of people

@@nightcrawler2717 yes I guess so. I was there 2017, but happened to drive into Vegas as the Mandalay Bay shooting was happening

@@markhillaryclinton7626 lol

That's not East L.A.

Black gangsters are not welcomed.

No that’s not just how the lines were drawn. Don’t you know anything about Los Angeles history. Most Black people first moved out here from the south for two reasons and most of them settled in South Los Angeles. They came out here because of the aerospace industry. Jobs. They created their communities because it was close to the factories that built airplanes. The second reason they moved out here was to worship Jesus. It was about churches churches and more churches. There’s a reason Southern California is called the City of Angels. It had nothing to do with segregation. It had everything to do with closeness to where people lived and their communities were they worshiped and where they worked. It’s not because people are racist and they hate each other.

Are you from Los Angeles yourself? Don’t you know that the reason California has such a strong economy was because of all the industry that was out here? And now it’s all gone because of what the Democrats have done.

Haven’t you ever noticed all the churches in South Los Angeles? All you have to do is drive down Normandie from Hollywood and count the churches. Haven’t you ever heard of the Azuza street revival? You need to do a little more research before you make stupid comments.

@@samuelplacensia9979 I’m from Boyle Heights I know my history from here and know the history with black and brown gangs. You don’t need to school me on that. Like I said before they’re not welcomed.

Everywhere is like that because of Latin immigration. I can feel it in New York.

It's like that everywhere ...the "minority" coalition is a joke because everyone is selfish in a highly capitalist society

It's not like that everywhere bro. Philly isn't so much racially divided. Not in the Hoods anyway.

I’m glad it’s like that. Nothing like SoCal L.A

@@adamneme4613 Yes.

Someone sounds like they’re not from California 🤣

They're ignorantly generalizing it just because there's a lot of our people there. They Might as well call california east la and sound even more stupid 🤣

Shut fool. You probably live in Connecticut

@@x213ERx , You sound confused! I can see you obviously don't know where East LA is and have 213 as part of your profile name 😂 .My girl was raised in East Los on Ford St and went to Garfield HS. I bet you don't know where Garfield is at 🤣.How can you say Bell Gardens and Lynwood are a part of East LA? Come correct, or don't comment what you don't know.

@@hectorp86 100. I got schooled by my girl who lived her whole life in East LA.

About what.

One El Salvadorian, one black Cuban, and one white boy.

In the system of white supremacy both of them are considered as black

@@Polostar79 B Real is Mexican/Cuban, Sen is full Cuban, and Muggs is an Italian from Queens, that's why alot of their shit had that east coast boom bap even tho they're considered a westcoast group.

@@DonYoGi8331 okay thanks for the correction on B-Real. I thought I read somewhere before that he was Salvadorian but maybe it was someone else.

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oh you know them personally do you

Ice Cube knows lol

They are talking about GANGS, not people in East LA in general. You're not going to get hit up in ELAC lol smh

@@la-do-ra-ch6810 Only you out-of-town clowns and squares think, “well I’m not a gang banger, I can go anywhere in LA, and wear whatever color because I don’t do GANGS.” Lol You’ll be the first non-gang civilian banged on and the first non “GANGS” clown robbed and laid out. You must have been born yesterday or you’ve never been to jail or you must have watched this video, but you’re deaf. For you slow short-yellow-bus riders, Cypress Hill confirmed what Nore noticed….LOS ANGELES is separated by RACE just Iike in jail and prison. So in other words square short-yellow-bus rider or deaf boy, in LA….YOUR RACE is A GANG. You might be one these black and “brown” clowns that buries your head underground to pretend that “in-general” it’s Black Americans vs Latinos, especially black men vs Mexican men and that’s “in-general”, in the streets, in the job market, in anywhere in LA. Brothas and sistas who take advice from a non-black American like you and/or somebody who is from out-of-town will end up regretting underestimating how real it is in LA, especially right now. You must not watch the news or understand English either. Lol SMH Plus why would I feel comfortable being the only brotha on a college campus? Have you ever heard of the movie, “Get Out”? Smh Lol So now watch this video again, clean out your waxed ears, read my post again, get a translator, and get a clue. Lol SMH Lol

@@la-do-ra-ch6810 it’s well known ELA isn’t welcoming to black people.

What’s sad is we as black folks welcome everyone into our communities yet others have strict no-go zones for us.

@@Polostar79 that don’t mean shit Hispanics except everybody too It’s like in Atlanta a lot of blacks hardly any Hispanics When I go there I feel out of place or like a Hispanic guy going to hbcu I’m going to feel out of place.. But if your black in east LA I’m sure nothin will happen to you Only if your tryin to sell dope then that’s when it’s a problem.. But living there nobody will trip

I do