"The reception from the crowd was insane their first debut show 1991, and you can see it in the documentary, the crowd were singing along, right off the jump. "We became friends," said Oriol, who started photographing the band in their early days. with his friends, where he met B Real and Sen Dog. As he recalls, he visited their namesake Cypress Avenue in South Gate, Calif. Oriol first met the group just as they formed a band in the late '80s.
Composed of beatmaker DJ Muggs, rappers B Real and Sen Dog, and drummer Eric "Bobo" Correa, the members of Cypress Hill are still together 30 years later, despite a few breaks in between. Oriol, best known as the director of the Netflix tattoo documentary, LA Originals, shares behind-the-scenes footage, old photos and intimate interviews with the band dating back to their origins.Ĭypress Hill is a snapshot of West Coast culture: A rap group with Latin roots cannabis activists long before it was trendy. Now, this very footage Oriol took has been compiled into a documentary called Cypress Hill: Insane In The Brain, which premieres on April 20 on Showtime. "As soon as they started playing, it was like a storm," recalls Oriol. "That feeling was next level it hasn't been matched to that day."Īfter landing backstage, Oriol made sure the band’s microphones were set up, and all the mixers were working before they walked out onstage. "You can’t get any more of a golden memory than that," says Oriol. The tour manager and photographer was so blown away by the crowd below - roughly 500,000 people gathered to see the band - that he pulled out his video camera and started shooting. In 1994, Estevan Oriol was riding in a helicopter above Woodstock on his way to work with Cypress Hill.
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