I remember reading somewhere that Low Profile, Cypress Hill, and Comptons Most Wanted were all cuttin their demos in the same apartment at the same time. Thats a crazy thought.
Yup. To be a fly on the wall in that apartment watching classics being made
DJ Muggs on "No Rest For the Wicked":
Cypress Hill "No Rest for the Wicked" (1995)
Album:
III: Temples of Boom
Label: Columbia, Ruffhouse Records
DJ Muggs: “That was a direct message to Ice Cube. He had called us to work on a song for
Friday, for the soundtrack. And we had recorded our album, and already had ‘Throw Your Set in the Air.’ So Cube came to the studio, and we played him ‘Roll It Up, Light It Up, Smoke It Up.’ We were like, ‘This is for you, for the
Fridaysoundtrack,’ because it was dope.
“Then, he was like, ‘What are you guys working on? Play me a few cuts.’ So we played him ‘Throw Your Set in the Air.’ And he was like, ‘Yo! That’s ill. Let me get that for the movie. Play it again, let me hear it.’ We played it again, and he was like, ‘Let me get that one.’ But we were like, ‘Nah, that’s our shyt. Fall back.’
We played him ‘Throw Your Set in the Air.’ And he was like, ‘Yo! That’s ill. Let me get that for the movie. Play it again, let me hear it.’ We played it again, and he was like, ‘Let me get that one.’ But we were like, ‘Nah, that’s our [song]. Fall back.’ Two, three weeks later, we’re driving, and we hear [his new song for Friday on 106, where he says ‘throw your neighborhood in the air’ on the chorus].
“Two, three weeks later, we’re driving, and we hear [his new song for
Friday on 106, where he says ‘throw your neighborhood in the air’ on the chorus]. We’re like, ‘fukking cocksucker!’ B-Real called him, and he was like, ‘I didn’t take your shyt.’ B-Real was like, ‘fukk you, man.’ B-Real was hot. Then B-Real went in on ‘No Rest for the Wicked.’
“The reaction was that Cube came back with Westside Connection, and wrote [a diss song] on the Westside Connection album.
See, I used to live with DJ Aladdin, and WC and Coolio were in the Maad Circle. And we were all homies, doing demos. When I was in my bedroom doing the Cypress demos, they were in their bedroom doing the Low Profile demos. So when it came time for them to do the diss record against us, WC was like, ‘No, those are my boys. I’m not jumping on the track with you.’ But Mack 10 didn’t know us. He had to back up his boy, so Mack 10 jumped on the record.
“But it got to the point where Westside Connection would be playing at the Power Jam, and Mexicans were throwing bottles at them and shyt. Real racial tension. They were on the radio talking, and B would call up on the radio, grab his gun, and drive down to the fukkin’ radio station looking for him. It got a little heated.
It got to the point where Westside Connection would be playing at the Power Jam, and Mexicans were throwing bottles at them. Real racial tension. They were on the radio talking, and B would call up on the radio, grab his gun, and drive down to the radio station looking for him. It got a little heated.
“And then, Cube kind of made up with B-Real. They squashed it at some point, eventually. It’s funny because, a lot of Cube’s people were calling us at that time, like, ‘Yo, he took your shyt.’ King Sun called us. Kam called us. You know, that whole Muslim shyt that he was into, that was Kam’s whole life. And then, the Torture Chamber called us, saying they never got paid for ‘Wicked.’ J-Dee was calling us, from Da Lench Mob. We were like, ‘It is him. This really happened.’