I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That

I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That

Cypress Hill

After the hook this song samples the intro to “The Wizard” by Black Sabbath. The group were also banned from Saturday Night Live after they performed this song because DJ Muggs lit up a blunt on stage and they trashed the set after.

In an interview with The Village Voice in 2014, Sen Dog recounted the night, saying:

Well, there’s a lot of stories behind why Muggs lit that joint. I remember Saturday Night Live gave us a greenroom and said, “Do whatever you want in here, just don’t light up out of here.” Muggs felt like he needed to make a statement with his performance. It wasn’t just the Saturday Night Live people saying he couldn’t smoke up on air. It was everyone: our record label, our management, our friends. I felt like, to me, Muggs wanted to make that statement. He asked me to light the joint up on stage, and I said, “I’m not doing that, man.” Before we did that second song, we agreed that we weren’t going to light up nothing. If you look, I was surprised that he did that. People loved it — people at the show loved it, because at the after-party they said, “That was so cool.” But when the hammer swung and we were banned from Saturday Night Live forever, we understood how serious it was. And understandably so — the world wasn’t ready for anything near that at that time. If he did it now, I don’t know what kind of backlash he’d have, but in the early ’90s, it earned us a kick in the ass from Saturday Night Live, and I haven’t seen that episode in reruns. It would have been cool to do Saturday Night Live again, but me personally, I didn’t think it was a great thing to do for our first time on SNL, but we paid the price and we moved on.

Watch a video of their performance on SNL here: