Showtime continues its HIP HOP 50 series, devoting two years leading up to the 50th anniversary of the musical genre with two documentaries near and to my heart over the next two week. Back in 1991, Cypress Hill released their debut album and the very next month, the Geto Boys released their seminal album with the controversial cover, We Can’t Be Stopped. Premiering on 4/20 (obviously) is Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain. Later this year is the premiere of Bushwick Bill: Geto Boy (date TBD).
Insane in the Brain comes from photographer and director
Estevan Oriol, who was the group’s personal videographer who filmed plenty of
footage that has gone unseen until now.
It follows the group from being one of the first to mix Latin music with
hip-hop to being the first rap group to play the Reading Festival. The doc features a firsthand account and archival
footage of everyone in the group as well as new interviews from Ice-T, Chuck D,
Fred Durst, and, of course, Cheech and Chong.
But maybe the most noteworthy statement in the doc comes from Ruffhouse
Records founder Chris Schwartz who absurdly claims, “For all intents and
purposes, Philly is the birth place of gangsta rap.” What?
I am not sure about that.
Cypress Hill: Insane in the Brain premieres tomorrow at 8:00 on Showtime.
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