How we made Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain
‘It took a day to do the beat, three hours to write the lyrics, and an hour to record. There was a lot of weed being smoked’
I came up with the beat in my apartment in Queens, New York. At first, it was slower, but the stone-age drum machine we had could only go up or down in increments of six BPM. So when B-Real started rapping on it, I had to speed it up from 96 to 102. It went from being a slow groove to a club banger.