Artist/Group: Cypress Hill
Album: Black Sunday
Released: 1993
Label: Ruffhouse/Columbia
Watch the Official Video of this song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RijB8wnJCN0
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“Insane in the Brain” is a 1993 single by the American hip hop group Cypress Hill. In addition to hitting number one on the US rap chart, the song also was a mainstream hit, reaching number 19 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1993. It earned a gold certification from the Recording Industry Association of America and sold 600,000 copies domestically. The song was released on the group’s Black Sunday album.
The popular lyric “Insane in the membrane” is sometimes confused for the title.
According to B-Real, the song was actually a diss song aimed at Chubb Rock. The group felt Chubb had ridiculed their style on his 1992 album I Gotta Get Mine Yo.
It is claimed that DJ Muggs produced the song “Jump Around” by House of Pain, which was later used to produce this song, with minor changes.
The song is built around many samples: a repeating sample of a horse from Mel and Tim’s “Good Guys Only Win in the Movies”; a drum break from organist George Semper’s cover version of Lee Dorsey’s “Get Out of My Life, Woman”; a sample of James Brown grunting from the opening of his song “Say It Loud – I’m Black and I’m Proud”; a sample of the line “insane in the brain” from Cypress Hill’s own song “Hole in the Head”; the opening keyboard from Sly & the Family Stone’s “Life” and a sample of the line “I think I’m going crazy” from The Youngbloods’ “All Over the World (La La),” which concludes the track. In 2007, it was ranked number 85 on VH1’s 100 Greatest Songs of the 90’s.
According to a live interview aired on Double J during a feature of the Black Sunday album, ‘insane in the membrane’ was a localised gang term used at the time by the Crips when doing something crazy. It was then appropriated into this song. The interview also notes that B-Real was a member of the Bloods.
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