“How I Could Just Kill a Man” by Cypress Hill

"How I Could Just Kill a Man" was Cypress Hill's opening shot: the first single from their self-titled 1991 debut and their first major hit, issued as a double A-side with "The Phuncky Feel One". DJ Muggs produced and arranged it and mixed it with engineer Joe "The Butcher" Nicolo; Sen Dog and Louis Freese wrote the words, with the music credited to Larry Muggerud. Near the end, somebody drops in a line lifted from Suicidal Tendencies' "Institutionalized".

It landed in the 1992 film Juice, and with "The Phuncky Feel One" it topped Billboard's year-end Hot Rap Singles for 1992. The group kept coming back to it: a 1999 reissue redone with Spanish lyrics, plus a new video, and a 2001 sequel on Stoned Raiders, "Here Is Something You Can't Understand", which kept the chorus and added fresh verses from B-Real, Sen Dog and Kurupt.

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