B Real

With his work in the pioneering {hip-hop} group Cypress Hill, rapper B Real became something of a {hip-hop} legend for several reasons. Most immediately, his trademark rhyming style, featuring an exaggeratedly nasal whine and a {jazz} singer's skill at staying just behind Dj Muggs' already sluggish beats, was one of the most instantly recognizable flows of the 1990s. Furthermore, B Real and his partners Sen Dog and Dj Muggs were the first Latino {hip-hop} stars, ushering in a richly varied subgenre of {hip-hop} that thrives to this day. Finally, Cypress Hill's fervent proselytizing on the subject of marijuana legalization both brought the subject to its highest public awareness since the days of Cheech & Chong and paved the way for a generation of weed-happy middle-class high-school kids to discover and identify with {hip-hop} to an even greater degree than before. However, that B Real therefore is indirectly responsible in part for Kevin Federline should not be held against him.

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