Cypress Hill ready to make Simpsons joke real with orchestra gig
Nearly 30 years Cypress Hill's appearance on The Simpsons, its fictional collaboration with the London Symphony Orchestra will become real on Wednesday.
It's a classic case of life imitating art.
Nearly 30 years after hip-hop group Cypress Hill agreed to appear in an episode of "The Simpsons" that featured it playing with the London Symphony Orchestra, the band will make the unlikely fictional collaboration a reality Wednesday when it plays its "Black Sunday" album in the U.K. capital.
The Grammy-nominated artists will collaborate with the world-famous orchestra at London's Royal Albert Hall when it plays hits that include “Insane in the Brain,” which is also featured in the 1996 episode. Cypress Hill appear alongside The Smashing Pumpkins in “Homerpalooza,” in which Homer tries to impress his kids by getting involved in stunts as part of the music festival scene.
"The Simpsons" has developed something of a reputation in recent years for predicting the future — it correctly called the emergence of video calling, the winner of the Nobel prize for economics and the presidency of Donald Trump — although calling the real-life combination of the hip-hop act and the orchestra a coincidence might be a stretch.
Cypress Hill has been under fan pressure for years to realize the iconic clip from the show, in which a crew member backstage at a festival calls out that “somebody ordered the London Symphony Orchestra. Possibly while high.”
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