“Every time we played it, a circle-pit would open up – hip hop kids spinning with punks and heavy metal guys”: The weed-fueled 90s rap song that became a huge hit after it was adopted by metal fans

Cypress Hill posing for a photograph in 1992.

Rap and metal had occasionally flirted with each other through the 80s, but it wasn’t until the early 90s when they finally got into bed together.

Faith No More’s breakthrough single Epic and Anthrax’s Chuck D-assisted cover of Public Enemy’s Bring The Noise had laid the groundwork for the rap-metal movement that would explode a few years later with Rage Against The Machine’s righteously incendiary debut album.