B-Real, real name Louis Mario Freese, said he and his bandmates were “blown away” when they first saw themselves portrayed on the long-running US cartoon. And he said they had been planning the performance, which will take place at the Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday, ever since. Cypress Hill formed in 1988, and shot to worldwide fame with 1993’s Black Sunday, which featured singles such as Insane In The Brain and I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That.
They have since sold 20 million albums. The band is made up of B-Real, Sen Dog and Eric Bobo. Speaking of first seeing the Simpsons episode, Homerpalooza, the 54-year-old rapper told the PA news agency: “When we got invited we were excited, just because it was the Simpsons and we were all fans of it.
“When it came out, all our friends that were Simpsons fans were elated, because it’s not something we’d ever thought about. “We weren’t thinking about being on TV or any of that, we were just being musicians and doing our shows, that was the expectancy of it, let’s go out and play our music and represent. “As our popularity is growing, we’d done Lollapalooza, and we’d done really well, so we started getting people’s attention, and then they invite us on the Simpsons.
“We were blown away by it, so when it comes out finally, it’s like when your album comes out. “It was like, what’s it going to do? How are people going to react? “We got a great reaction from it, and it was a hilarious episode. “It just.
