Artist · chart history · #99 in alternative artist polls
Cypress Hill
Band South Gate United States Formed 1988
Cypress Hill formed in 1988 in South Gate, United States. Cypress Hill has 93 chart appearances on 75 radio countdowns from 36 stations on RockLists, spanning 1993–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Insane in the Brain”, which appears on 30 lists with a best position of #8. The station that charted Cypress Hill most often is KROQ (Los Angeles, CA), with 15 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 2000.
Cypress Hill rolled out of South Gate, California, sounding like nobody else in hip-hop: B-Real, Sen Dog and DJ Muggs at the core (Mellow Man Ace was gone almost before it started), rhymes bouncing over beats as murky and woozy as a basement full of smoke. They were one of the first Latino crews to break through to hip-hop's mainstream, and they never hid their agenda. Every member has spoken up for legal marijuana, recreational and medical, and the records made the point loudly enough.
The self-titled 1991 debut carried the menace of "How I Could Just Kill a Man", and Black Sunday, in 1993, turned the haze into a sales pitch: "Insane in the Brain" lurches like a funhouse ride with the brakes cut, while "Hits from the Bong" and "I Wanna Get High" leave no room for interpretation. Eric "Bobo" Correa joined that year, and the psychedelic rap kept mutating. IV brought "Dr. Greenthumb" in 1998, and Skull & Bones, in 2000, pushed them toward rap-rock crunch with "Rock Superstar", the song that gave rock radio its best excuse to play them.
Stoned Raiders followed in 2001, Till Death Do Us Part in 2004 with "What's Your Number", and Rise Up in 2010. Mix Master Mike came aboard in 2018, and a year later Cypress Hill became the first hip-hop group to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Cypress Hill on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Insane in the Brain | 30 | #8 | – | 1993 | |
| 2 | Rock Superstar | 23 | #4 | – | 2000 | |
| 3 | Rise Up | 12 | #46 | – | 2010 | |
| 4 | What's Your Number | 8 | #43 | – | 2004 | |
| 5 | Insane in the Brain/Loco En El Coco | 2 | #15 | – | – | |
| 6 | Dr. Greenthumb | 3 | #106 | – | – | |
| 7 | Hits from the Bong | 3 | #17 | – | 1993 | |
| 8 | How I Could Just Kill a Man | 2 | #232 | – | – | |
| 9 | Superstar | 1 | #308 | – | – | |
| 10 | Can't Get the Best of Me | 2 | #51 | – | 2000 | |
| 11 | I Wanna Get High | 1 | #495 | – | – | |
| 12 | Trouble | 1 | #103 | – | 2001 |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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