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\n\tAlmost three decades since it was the subject of a throwaway joke on The Simpsons<\/em>, and more than seven months after it became a reality, Cypress Hill are issuing their 2024 performance<\/a> with the London Symphony Orchestra as a live album and concert film.<\/p>\n \n\tThe eagerly-anticipated show, which took place on July 10, 2024, has its roots in a 1996 episode of The Simpsons<\/em> which sees the titular family\u2019s patriarch going on tour as a member of a Lollapalooza-style music festival.<\/p>\n \n\tThe \u201cHomerpalooza\u201d episode aired on May 19, 1996, as the penultimate installment of season seven. Homer, Marge and the Simpson family head backstage at the Springfield Fairgrounds where Cypress Hill and other performers are hanging out. Event staff members are surprised to see the London Symphony Orchestra show up, and suspect that the cannabis-advocating crew may have had something to do with it. \u201cSomebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra. Possibly while high, Cypress Hill I\u2019m looking in your direction,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n \n\tA beloved joke amongst fans of the series and the band, the Californian group turned fiction into fact last year when they appeared at the Royal Albert Hall in London to perform 1993 album Black Sunday<\/em> and other tracks while dressed in suits.<\/p>\n \n\tBlack Sunday <\/em>arrived in July of that year and debuted atop the Billboard 200<\/a> with 261,000 album units sold in the first week. Triple-platinum lead single \u201cInsane in the Brain\u201d went on to crack the Billboard Hot 100<\/a> top 20, where it peaked at No. 19.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s been something that we\u2019ve talked about for many years since The<\/em> Simpsons<\/em> episode first aired,\u201d B-Real told the BBC<\/em><\/a> ahead of the highly-anticipated performance. \u201cSo it\u2019s very special for us. And it\u2019s coming off the heels of our 30th anniversary for our Black Sunday<\/em> album. We\u2019ve played a lot of historical venues throughout our career and stuff like that, but nothing as prestigious as this.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tNow, the full show \u2013 titled Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra: Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall<\/em> \u2013 will be hitting theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada for three days and on March 30, 31, and April 2. Full ticketing information can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tTwo months later, a full recording of the performance will be released on June 6 via Mercury. To accompany the announcement, the band have released a video of 1995 track \u201cIllusions,\u201d which originally featured on their Black Sunday<\/em> follow-up Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom<\/em>.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIt\u2019s a trip to see that hip hop can be done in this form \u2014 and at a venue as prestigious as the Royal Albert Hall,\u201d B-Real said in a statement. \u201cIt was truly an honor and a privilege, and now that experience can be shared.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\t\u201dI\u2019ve always been excited by the idea of merging genres, and to do it with the most prolific hip hop group of all time and the most exquisite symphony orchestra in the world was an honor,\u201d added Troy Miller, who handled arrangement and conductor duties of the performance.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cThe band gave me free rein on the arrangements and we made something truly unique and mesmerizing \u2013 what a sublime collaboration!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n