Sen Dog
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| Sen Dog | |
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 Sen Dog at the 2006 Bonnaroo Music Festival. |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Senen Reyes |
| Also known as | Sen Dog |
| Born | November 20, 1965 Pinar del Río, Cuba  |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California |
| Genres | Hip hop, rap rock, West Coast hip hop |
| Occupations | Rapper |
| Years active | 1986 to present |
| Labels | Columbia Ruffhouse Sony Suburban Noize Records |
| Associated acts | Cypress Hill, Kottonmouth Kings, SX-10, Rage Against The Machine |
Sen Dog (born Senen Reyes) is a Cuban-American rapper, and member of rap group Cypress Hill. He is the older brother of fellow rapper Mellow Man Ace.
Sen Dog has been developing his own solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill. Along with his brother Mellow Man Ace, he formed the duo "The Reyes Brothers" and in October 2006 released the album "Ghetto Therapy." In addition to his work with Cypress Hill and Mellow Man Ace, he headlines the rap rock band SX-10.[1][2]
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[edit] Biography
Sen Dog is a member of the popular rap group Cypress Hill. With Cypress Hill, Sen Dog has accomplished such things as having top ten records and a #1 album. Some of the most well known songs that Sen Dog performs with Cypress Hill are “How I Could Just Kill a Man, “Rap Superstar, and “Insane In the Brain.”
In the late 1990s Sen Dog took a leave of absence from Cypress Hill to develop a new rock/rap band called SX-10. Sen Dog wanted the band to have a funk sound with Latin influences. SX-10 released an album in 2000 called “Mad Dog American.”[3] In 1996, Sen Dog performed "Quien Es Ese Negro (Who's This Black Dude)" with Mellow Man Ace, MC Skeey, Mr. Rico, and DJ Rif for the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization.
On September 30, 2008 Sen Dog released his first solo album. The title of the album is “Diary of a Mad Dog.” The album was released seventeen years after the release of the first Cypress Hill album. In an interview with HipHopDX Sen Dog discussed how he felt that he had more control and could talk about personal aspects of his life with this album. Sen Dog said, “With Cypress, I never really felt that comfortable to put personal aspects of my life into the music. It feels good to have the opportunity to be the quarterback, if you want to call it that, in the studio, and be creative. I definitely found that I had more in me than I thought I did.” [4] Sen Dog stated that he wanted to have fun with this album. He said that he has tried out a lot of different types of music but had no agenda for the type of music on “Diary of a Mad Dog.” Sen Dog said, “We’ve done the whole dark, morbid thing. The rock n’ roll crossover; just a lot of things. I’m not going to have an agenda on this; I’m going to jam and record whatever is fun to me.” [5]
[edit] Personal life
Sen Dog and Dave Lombardo of Slayer are childhood friends. They went to school together. [1] In the 80's, Sen Dog was affiliated with a Bloods gang set known as "Neighborhood Family", and later introduced B-Real into the set before B-Real was shot in the lung in 1988.[6][7] Sen Dog is known to be an avid marijuana smoker. The group Sen Dog belongs to, Cypress Hill, has been known to make songs about the use of marijuana. Some of their best known songs relating to marijuana are “Legalize it,” “I Wanna Get High,” and “Hits From the Bong.” Sen Dog and B-Real were childhood friends and Sen Dog gave B-Real his first joint when Sen Dog was just 13 years old. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly Sen Dog said, "Pot got a bad name with the flower children of the '60s, and then all these hard drugs came in, and people started dropping like flies. Today, people want to get high on something that's not going to give them a heart attack, like speed or crack."[8]
[edit] Discography
[edit] Solo
- 2008: Diary of a Mad Dog
[edit] Collaborations
- 1998: Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin
- 2000: Mad Dog American (with SX-10)
- 2006: Ghetto Therapy (with The Reyes Brothers)
[edit] Mixtapes
- 2007: Fat Joints Volume 1
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ "SX10 tocara hoy en el DanZoo" (in Spanish). Mexico City: La Jornada. May 24, 2003. http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2003/05/24/21an2esp.php?printver=1&fly=2. Retrieved 31 December 2008.
- ^ "Sen Dog's Still All Bite with the Reyes Brothers". LatinRapper.com. November 18, 2006. http://www.latinrapper.com/sen_dog_interview.html. Retrieved 2 January 2009.
- ^ "SX-10". Spirit of Metal Webzine. http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-SX*10-l-en.html. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ "Sen Dog Explains Near Fatal Heart Attack, Solo Debut". HipHopDX. 5 October 2008. http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.7836/title.sen-dog-explains-near-fatal-heart-attack-solo-debut. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ "Sen Dog". Suburban Noize Records. 5 October 2008. http://www.suburbannoizerecords.com/sendog_bio.php. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
- ^ http://www.latinrapper.com/b-real-interview.html
- ^ http://www.brealonline.com/bio.html
- ^ Svetkey, Benjamin (20 August 1993). "High Fidelity". Entertainment Weekly. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,307752,00.html. Retrieved 15 November 2009.
[edit] External links
- Sen Dog interview — November 22nd, 2008
- Sen Dog interview
- Official Cypress Hill
- Sen Dog Article in Buzzine
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