# Does anyone have any idea which Cypress Hill song this is?

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**Created:** [March 27, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-which-cypress-hill-song-this-is/490975 "2009-03-27T08:45:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-which-cypress-hill-song-this-is/490975/1 "2009-03-27T08:45:40Z")

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I was looking for Youtube videos of Matisyahu (whom I discovered here) and I found the most unlikely of combinations: Cypress Hill and Matisyahu together! Matisyahu doesn’t actually get into the rap. He just walks around on stage in the background. But in the meantime Cypress Hill is busting out a rhyme that I love but cannot seem to identify.

For clarity, it’s the first 1:20 of the song. After that they bust into one of their old standards, “Rock Superstar.” But it’s that intro bit that I want to track down.

Video here:

[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/TqmlfNsjYHE/hqdefault.jpg "Cypress HIll and Matisyahu") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqmlfNsjYHE)

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**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-which-cypress-hill-song-this-is/490975/2 "2009-03-27T08:51:02Z")

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I recognize some of the lyrics, but I seem to recognize them from a few different songs. It might just be a little medley he did strictly for live performance. It’s definitely not anything off of their first 3 albums.

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**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2009, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-have-any-idea-which-cypress-hill-song-this-is/490975/3 "2009-03-27T08:53:27Z")

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I took my life in my own hands and read some of the Youtube comments… it would seem he’s freestyling some Public Enemy amongst other things. Too bad, it’s a good bit.