Video: Cypress Hill – “Rise Up”

As pretty much the exact target demographic for goofy/scary rap music about getting high and being insane, I was fairly psyched when this showed up in my inbox: a new video from Cypress Hill featuring guitar work by none other than Tom Morello. I’ve long been of the opinion that rap and rock should stay separate until everybody forgets about Limp Bizkit, but it might just be about time for someone to do it right. Could it be Cypress Hill? I don’t know about that, but I do relish the image of Mr. Leftypants Morello passing blunts with B-Real in the studio. Anyways, this shit is tight – I think they’re throwing some props at John Carpenter’s They Live in the intro, which is the best movie of all time (and not just because it inspired the infamous cripple fight on South Park). The new Cypress Hill disc, also called Rise Up, drops on (of course) April 20. Blaze it up:

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