“The first four Cypress Hill albums I love. I grew bored after those. It becomes like auto-pilot. You don’t have to think about it. It’s so easy. And it was keeping me away from doing a lot of other things I wanted to do. There were a lot of opportunities, producing other people’s albums, and doing movie stuff, that got shut down because [of my commitment to the group].

“Those are my boys, and I wanted to keep it going. We always said, ‘We’re never gonna stop. We’re gonna be Led Zeppelin. We’re never gonna quit.’ We didn’t want to fall into the shit that [all the other groups typically would get into that would lead them to breaking up].