In July 2024, three decades after The Simpsons predicted it, Cypress Hill teamed up with the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) for a historic concert at the Royal Albert Hall toasting 30 years of their iconic album Black Sunday.

Today, Cypress Hill commemorate that storied concert with Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall, a three-day theatrical event and live album both immortalizing the hip hop icons’ now legendary collaboration with the LSO.

Black Sunday Live at the Royal Albert Hall is set to drop on 6th June. You can pre-order it here.

Cypress Hill and the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall. Photo Credit: Eitan Miskevich

The album will also see its theatrical release in select US cinemas, although there are currently no UK/EU dates for a release on the big screen.

The film and its accompanying album find B-Real, Sen Dog, Eric Bobo and co. in top form, performing atop monolithic arrangements running the gamut from ominous to sublime. It was an unprecedented collision of hip hop and orchestral music, with the classical embellishments to the Black Sunday concert offering the album a breath of fresh air.

“It’s a trip to see that hip hop can be done in this form — and at a venue as prestigious as the Royal Albert Hall,” says Cypress Hill’s B-Real. “It was truly an honor and a privilege, and now that experience can be shared.”

Watch Cypress Hill perform ‘Illusions’ with the London Symphony Orchestra below.

The groundwork for the Royal Albert Hall concert was laid nearly 30 years ago, when an episode of The Simpsons, titled ‘Homerpalooza’, featured a joke where Cypress Hill assumed they had mistakenly booked the LSO.

Speaking about the show’s connection, B-Real told the BBC that the idea for a concert with the LSO has been in the works since the episode’s release: "It's been something that we've talked about for many years since the Simpsons episode first aired," he said at the time.

“We salute the Simpsons because if they had not written that episode, we probably wouldn’t be doing this.”

As pioneers of the West Coast hip hop scene in the 1990s, Cypress Hill have sold more than 20 million albums worldwide. Their out-of-the-box artistry has blazed endless trails for the next generation of artists with their cutting-edge blend of hip hop, rock, metal, punk, reggae and electronic music.