(London) The Simpsons imagined it 30 years ago, fans demanded it and a prediction has (again) come true: the famous 1990s hip-hop group Cypress Hill will give a concert Wednesday night at the majestic Royal Albert Hall with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Twenty-eight years after the broadcast of an episode which featured a collaboration between the American group and the British symphony orchestra, this duo will share the stage to reinvent the hits of the cult album of 1993, Black Sunday.
In the episode “Homerpalooza”, which first aired on American television in 1996, the members of Cypress Hill realize that they have accidentally organized a concert with the musicians of the London Symphony Orchestra while under the influence of cannabis.
For years, fans have been begging the rappers and the London orchestra to make this collaboration a reality, something the iconic “West Coast” rap group and the London Symphony Orchestra began discussing in 2019.
The Los Angeles-based band and British orchestra musicians worked on unique arrangements of the hits Insane in the Brain Or I Wanna Get High.
This is not the first time that the cult American TV series has predicted – or influenced – reality. A famous episode from March 2000 featured Donald Trump as president of the United States, more than 15 years before his real election.
In recent months, Cypress Hill’s 1990s hits have also been given a new lease of life on the social network TikTok, with videos using their songs garnering millions of views from its young users.