Cypress Hill are making a Simpsons prediction from nearly 30 years ago come true: they’re headed across the pond to perform with the London Symphony Orchestra.
In a May 1996 episode of the famed cartoon, the group accidentally booked the orchestra “while high” and planned to perform together despite the classical instrumentalists having no experience with the Hip Hop group’s songs.
On July 10, the scenario will become real – except the orchestra will be prepped to play Cypress Hill’s revered album Black Sunday as well as other hits from their extensive catalogue.
Going down at London’s Royal Albert Hall, tickets go on sale Wednesday (March 27) at 10am here.
“We are thrilled to be performing with the London Symphony Orchestra in such a prestigious venue as the Royal Albert Hall,” the group said in a statement. “It’s a dream come true, a collaboration only The Simpsons could have predicted.”
London Symphony Orchestra Managing Director Kathryn McDowell DBE added: “After years of social media teasing it, many fans may have started to believe it would only be a pipedream – but the LSO is delighted to finally be joining Cypress Hill on stage and in person, and look forward to creating an unforgettable musical moment!
“Many thanks to the creators of The Simpsons for the idea and to AEG Artisitc and PolyArts for making it all happen.”
In other Cypress Hill news, DJ Muggs recently claimed that the guys were the first group to include lyrics about marijuana in Hip Hop — but history proves otherwise.
In an interview with AllHipHop that dropped in October, the notable producer claimed that rap music was completely devoid of 420 references prior to the West Coast group’s arrival.
“Back then, everybody was smoking weed, but nobody was talking about in their lyrics,” he claimed. “We were the first ones who started mentioning weed in our lyrics, now everybody does it. Even if you want to go back to the first Source Awards, we were rocking tattoos before anybody. I like to go away from the norm, myself. If nobody’s doing that, then I’m doing that. If everybody’s doing it, then I’m doing something else.”
While Muggs’ claims about tattoos are closer to being true, as tattoos didn’t really become popular in Hip Hop until the early 2000s thanks to Mike Tyson’s face tattoo, his claims about weed lyrics in Hip Hop are refuted by such songs as 1983’s “Here We Go (Live At The Funhouse)” by Run-DMC (with the lyric “I keep a bag of cheeba in my locker“), and 1986’s License to Ill by The Beastie Boys (where they talked about “rolling up a wolly” on “The New Style”).
Then there was “Express Yourself” by N.W.A, which was released in 1989 and contained lyrics like “I still express, yo I don’t smoke weed or sess/ ’cause it’s not known to give a brother brain damage/ And brain damage on the mic don’t manage nothing.“
