This episode we welcome on yet another Cypress Hill legend, Eric Bobo, to talk…

💨 Smoking with Dan Aykroyd

🔥 Cypress Hill's X-Factor

📈 The incredible rise of The Alchemist

🧢 Working with Beastie Boys

😳 How jazz community treated 1990s hip hop

💥 The new 'Back in Black' Cypress Hill album

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Show Notes:

• Least hip hop thing in the last 24 hours? (00:40)
• Talking Cypress Hill's debut album and their X factor (02:15)
• How Bobo joined Cypress Hill, touring with Beastie Boys and meeting a young Alchemist (06:41)
• Speaking on the incredible rise of Alchemist (11:05)
• Why does Black Sunday stand out? (12:50)
• How the jazz community treated 1990s hip hop (16:45)
• The differences between working with Beasties and Cypress (19:55)
• What's it like smoking with Dan Aykroyd? (24:44)
• Temples of Boom and the studio smoke sessions(28:50)
• Breaking down the new album Back in Black (32:00)
• Why he loves SAULT, touring UK and the new Cypress Hill documentary (41:10)

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