Cypress Hill: How I Could Just Kill A Man and Hand On The Pump
The music world is abuzz about Cypress Hill’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert. As much as the set was musically fresh and tight, I thought the real jewel was B-Real’s storytelling between tracks.
Nestled between “When The Sh— Goes Down” and “Hand On The Pump” were these ditties about the making of two Cypress Hill videos.
We were on tour with Naughty by Nature, opening for them, getting booed most nights until Treach came out and said “These are our homies. Show them love.” And then they sort of opened up to us. As this was happening “Kill A Man” was being played in mixshows.
Sony decided to pull us off the road for a couple of says or a weekend to film “How I Could Just Kill A Man” and to get an extra video.
We did one all over Manhattan, Harlem, and Brooklyn. Then in Red Hook, Brooklyn, we did “Hand On The Pump.”
We didn’t expect that to be a single because all this music is kind of aggressive and we didn’t think they would pick that one. But they did.
Cameos from Ice Cube, Q-Tip, and Tim Dog!
Directed by Shadi Perez, who also did “Jump Around” and “Hot Sex.”
Did this come out before Pharcyde’s “Drop,” which I think is hip-hop’s best video ever? It’s been forever since I watched this and didn’t realize that it also had the reverse backward walking to make forward walking. Interesting!
I couldn’t find who directed Hand On The Pump but noticed in my research how many amazing directors the Hill have worked with. F. Gary Gray, who directed I Ain’t Goin Out Like That, would direct Friday. McG, who directed Throw Your Set In The Air and Throw Your Hands In The Air directed Terminator: Salvation.
Locations from both of these videos have been added to my interactive map of music video locations.