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Article: PRO-POT CYPRESS HILL FIRES UP FANS, JOINTS.(Entertainment)(Review)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- March 11, 1996
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Who will get the rock and hip-hop vote in '96? From the sounds of the Cypress Hill concert Saturday night, it won't be either Bob Dole or Pat Buchanan.
``There's us and there's them,'' shouted rapper B-Real. ``Don't vote for Bob Dole or Pat Buchanan. Use your power to make sure none of them get in there.''
The rapper then dedicated a song to Dole and Buchanan. And the sold-out crowd chanted along on the refrain.
While the multiracial hip-hop group didn't have a specific candidate to endorse, they do have a platform. Cypress Hill is anti-gangs, anti-violence and pro-pot. Among their most rousing tunes was ``Throw Your Set in the Air,'' the first ...