It Happened: Cypress Hill Performed With The London Symphony Orchestra, Fulfilling The Simpsons 1996 Prediction

Hollywood Reporter - The Simpsons has once again predicted the future, as Cypress Hill finally performed with the London Symphony Orchestra.

The long-running Fox cartoon, in the classic season seven episode "Homerpalooza," in a short scene depicted the California rappers collaborating with the LSO - a happy accident resulting from thinking they may have booked the orchestra while high. We then all-too-briefly see Cypress Hill and the LSO performing a classical version of "Insane in the Brain."

On July 10, at London's prestigious Royal Albert Hall, life imitated art as Cypress Hill took the stage backed by the full LSO.

Dressed in suits, the group performed the Black Sunday album, their second studio LP which celebrated its 30th anniversary last year. The album, which was a huge commercial and critical success, topped the Billboard album charts in 1993 and has sold over 4 million copies in the U.S. alone.

Black Sunday contains many of Cypress Hill's most well-known songs, and the group performed "I Wanna Get High," "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That," "When the Shit Goes Down," "Lick a Shot" and of course "Insane in the Brain" with full orchestral accompaniment.

"It's been something that we've talked about for many years since The Simpsons episode first aired," Cypress Hill rapper B-Real told the BBC. "So it's very special for us. And it's coming off the heels of our 30th anniversary for our Black Sunday album."

He added, "We've played a lot of historical venues throughout our career and stuff like that, but nothing as prestigious as this."

If The Simpsons were around back in the 1600's,  Matt Groening would be burned at the stake for being thought a witch. I know a lot of the "The Simpsons predicted this" shit you see on twitter and instagram is fake and doctored, but the show is also right an awful lot.

And yes I realize this came to fruition because everybody has been in on the joke for 28 years, and they wanted to make it happen, but just the fact that the show has that much clout and sway, that it can put something out into the universe as ridiculous as a Mexican gangsta rap group performing with the London Symphony Orchestra, and it happened might be even more impressive.

(Sidebar- growing up I was always kind of scared by Cypress Hill. B Real had that tone in his voice that sounded like he was always yelling, and just seemed like a fucking psycho. I had the image in my head of the guy from the bathtub scene in Training Day everytime I heard him for some reason. 

But then, after like 20 years of that, I heard the song the did with Marc Anthony. "Armada Latina" (beautiful), and realized that was ridiculous. 

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p.s. - this song still bangs