“We wanted people to say, ‘Wow, that's Cypress Hill?’”: Cypress Hill’s beat-master Eric Bobo tells us why the band recorded their new album entirely in Spanish

Cypress Hill.

Now well into their fourth decade, few hip-hop artists have pushed the boundaries of what the genre can sound like quite like Cypress Hill. With their eleventh album, Dios Bendiga, the Los Angeles pioneers are shaking things up once more by returning to their Latino roots and releasing their first full-length album recorded entirely in Spanish.

At the heart of that journey is Eric ‘Bobo’ Correa, who joined Cypress Hill as a touring percussionist in 1994 and became an official member that year, before appearing on the more sonically subdued LP, Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom.