Cypress Hill Back Online With New "Soldier Stories"; B-Real & Bobo Weigh In With Unexpurgated Road Diaries From Back 2 Basics Tour NEW YORK--(ENTERTAINMENT WIRE)--July 19, 2000--Cypress Hill, the legendary progenitors of alterna-rap, are currently on the highway with Limp Bizkit on the Back 2 Basics tour and hip-hop's most notorious road warriors are taking notes. In order to keep the record straight, B-Real and Bobo have resurrected the Cypress Hill "Soldier Stories": unvarnished and unexpurgated tales of life on the road available exclusively on the group's website (http://www.cypresshill.com). Updated daily during the tour, "Soldier Stories" are meaty dispatches from the frontlines of hip-hop consciousness, hardcore bulletins from the heart of the rock beast. The current "Soldier Stories" are the first since 1998's Smokin' Grooves and Japanese tour sagas. The new "Solider Stories" is the latest addition to the newly-designed official Cypress Hill website. Opening with a dynamic Flash animated intro and soundclip of "Superstar," www.cypresshill.com is the ultimate gateway to all things Cypress including hot news updated in real time, video clips for "(Rock) Superstar" & "(Rap) Superstar," a Cypress Hill chat room and bulletin board, a Saturday night video clips program, lyrics, photos, links, and a whole lot more. The group is currently riding the success of Skull & Bones, the latest in a series of platinum albums from Cypress Hill. Released on April 25, 2000, Skull & Bones debuted at #5 on the Billboard 200 and spent ten weeks in the Top 40 or better on the chart. The album was certified platinum by the RIAA as of June 28, 2000. To date, Cypress Hill have received fifteen gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications from the RIAA: Cypress Hill (gold, 2x platinum), "Insane In The Brain" (gold), Black Sunday (gold, 3x platinum), III (Temples of Boom) (gold, platinum), IV (gold), Unreleased & Revamped (gold), Los Grandes Exitos En Espanol (gold), and Skull & Bones (gold, platinum). The group has sold more than 12 million records worldwide with over 7 million albums sold in the United States alone. CONTACT: For more information, please contact Mark Ghuneim Online & Emerging Technologies, Columbia Records, New York, 212-833-7382; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cypress Hill online: http://www.cypresshill.com Columbia Records online: http://www.columbiarecords.com Announcement: America Online has added Reuters newswires to News Profiles. To add Reuters articles to your daily news delivery, go to KW: <A HREF="aol://5862:146">News Profiles</A> and click on "Modify Your News Profiles." Then click "Edit" and add Reuters from the list on the left. To edit your profile, go to keyword <A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles">NewsProfiles</A>. For all of today's news, go to keyword <A HREF="aol://1722:News">News</A>.
