As with many of their peers in the 1990s, Cypress Hill owe a debt of gratitude to the organisers of the touring Lollapalooza festival for helping to catapult them firmly into the centre of the mainstream music industry.
No-one had anticipated quite how successful the inaugural staging of Perry Farrell's alternative rock roadshow would be in the summer of 1991 - "We didn't have a clue about what the hell we were doing," Don Muller, Jane's Addiction's agent, and one of the festival's co-founders, admitted in 2024's excellent oral history Lollapalooza: The Uncensored History of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival. "If anybody says differently, they're lying." - but with rising stars Red Hot Chili Peppers, Pearl Jam, Ministry and Soundgarden on the main stage bill, 1992's event looked like a much safer commercial bet. And so it proved, with even acts on the festival's second stage benefitting from the exposure.
