<Tr> <Th> Members </Th> <Td> B - Real DJ Muggs Sen Dog Eric Bobo </Td> </Tr> <P> Cypress Hill is an American hip hop music group from South Gate, California . Cypress Hill was the first Latino American hip hop recording group to have platinum and multi-platinum albums, selling over 20 million albums worldwide . They are considered to be among the main progenitors of West Coast rap and hip hop in the early 1990s, being critically acclaimed for their first four albums . The band has also advocated for medical and recreational use of cannabis in the United States . </P> <P> Senen Reyes (also known as Sen Dog) and Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (also known as Mellow Man Ace) are brothers born in Pinar del Río, Cuba . In 1971, their family immigrated to the United States from Cuba . They initially lived in South Gate, California . In 1988, the two brothers teamed up with New York City native Lawrence Muggerud (also known as DJ Muggs, previously in a rap group named 7A3) and Louis Freese (also known as B - Real) to form a hip - hop group named DVX (Devastating Vocal Excellence). The band soon lost Mellow Man Ace to a solo career, and changed their name to Cypress Hill, after a street in South Gate . </P> <P> After recording a demo in 1989, Cypress Hill signed a record deal with Ruffhouse Records . Their self - titled first album was released in August 1991 . The lead single was the double A-side "The Phuncky Feel One" / "How I Could Just Kill a Man" which received heavy airplay on urban and college radio . The other two singles released from the album were "Hand on the Pump" and "Latin Lingo", the latter of which combined English and Spanish lyrics . The success of these singles led to the album selling two million copies in the US alone . Cypress Hill contributed the song "Shoot' Em Up" to the soundtrack of the movie Juice . The group made their first appearance at Lollapalooza on the side stage in 1992 . </P>

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