She taught me how to breathe differently and how to come from down here instead of up here to preserve my voice, then the breathing technique so I’m not struggling to push the line out. Someone referred me to this vocal coach who was an opera singer, she’d train opera singers and regular singers. I’m overcompensating and yelling the verses, as opposed to saying them the way they’re on record.
I’d hear the recordings of some of our shows like “Damn, that s# sounds f# up.” I don’t sound like I sound on the record. I got tired of sounding like s#, to be quite frank. I was blowing my voice out for the first couple of years midway through the tour, but we’d still carry on because that’s not going to stop us from doing the shows. A lot of the tour, I’d be rapping like this, and it’s not supposed to sound like that. When you’re smoking blunts and drinking Jack Daniels every f# night, I was blowing out my voice. Now, I’m yelling the lyrics instead of being controlled and sounding like I do on the record. That was tough in the beginning, doing that high-pitched voice live and letting my adrenaline, excitement, and energy take over. In developing that voice, I developed it for recording but not necessarily for doing live shows. As I got older then I flipped the voice, I could bear it more. You’re going to get lit no matter what, it’s going to be easy on your lungs.ĪllHipHop: You went to a vocal coach to give fans a better show, how was that experience? You were saying earlier you couldn’t stand hearing your voice.ī-Real: I had a totally different voice than the one I’d make records with, and that’s the voice I could not f# with. Inhale exhale: let that come in, go right the f# out. That’s why people get bent off the dabs, because they’re trying to hold that s# in. I could hold it in longer than most, but why do that? Let it ride the f# out.ĪllHipHop: I really be dying when I take bong rips though.ī-Real: Inhale exhale, just like dabs. I get high as f#, no matter if I hold it in or not. You ain’t gotta do none of that s# man.” Ever since then, I preserve my lungs.
He saw me doing the big hit, holding it in and coughing it all out all crazy, he’s like “f# you doing? Inhale exhale, easy. He was a long-time smoker, smoking since he was 13. You don’t get all that build up in your lungs from holding that s# in too long.Īn older m# told me that when I was very young, I was 18 or 19 and he was 65. Realistically, in out preserves your lungs more. It makes you feel a little bit different in that way because you’re holding your f# breath. The only difference that happens is you hold that s# in longer and you’re withholding oxygen to your head. That had me shook!ī-Real: No, it’s the same. That was due to your hookup, so thank you.ĪllHipHop: I interviewed you for Flaunt Magazine and you told me that holding the smoke in your lungs more doesn’t get you higher. He got a song called “Let Me Welcome You to the Smokebox,” based on his experience in our Smokebox. He made the theme to the Smokebox on that one album. He f# killed that song! “Bye Bye,” he f# murdered it. Let no one say that Cypress Hill doesn’t embrace the generations coming up, because realistically, no one expected a collab with us and Dizzy. I got on some of his recent stuff, which we’re going to do a video for pretty soon.Īnd not for nothing, he’s on that f# Back in Black Cypress Hill album. On one of my solo albums, he did a song called “Dabs With Me.” We did a video and built a friendship and a relationship from that. I’ve been able to collaborate with him on a number of things. Not only as a rapper is he f# dope as f#, but he’s a dope person. Greenthumb Show every day from Monday through Friday, 2pm to 4pm PST.ĪllHipHop: So crazy, I first met you when I brought you Dizzy Wright on Smokebox!ī-Real: Thank you for that, that’s a solid dude. And to celebrate his successes, B-Real hosts his own podcast called The Dr. The long list of accomplishments Cypress Hill has obtained throughout their 3-decade long career comes as no surprise, from being the first Latino rap group to go Platinum to even having their own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Greenthumb,” which even had E-40 referencing the song in “Tell Me When To Go.” He also launched his own cannabis line called Insane OG, named after the group’s viral smash hit “Insane In The Brain.”
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Talk about full circle, B-Real named his dispensaries after Cypress Hill’s standout single from 1998, “Dr. Greenthumb dispensaries throughout California.
Not only is he the lead vocalist of legendary hip-hop group Cypress Hill, who just announced their upcoming VERZUZ against Onyx on May 14th, the West Coast spitter is a force to be reckoned with in the cannabis industry.īorn and raised in Los Angeles, B-Real has somehow bridged the gap between music and cannabis, creating his own empire and opening up multiple Dr.
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