LONDON.- The Simpsons They predicted it almost 30 years ago and now it’s coming true: the famous 1990s hip-hop group Cypress Hill will give a concert Wednesday night next to the London Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Albert Hall.
The American band will share the stage with the British Symphony Orchestra on Wednesday to reinterpret the hits from the 1993 album Black Sundaywhich sold more than three million copies in the United States and stayed on the UK charts for a year.
In an episode of The Simpsons first broadcast on American television in 1996, the members of Cypress Hill realize that they have inadvertently organized, under the influence of cannabis, a concert with musicians from the London Symphony Orchestra.
A request fulfilled
For years, fans have been asking the rappers and the London orchestra to make this collaboration a reality, and the latter have joked about this possibility on several occasions on social media.
“Let’s do it @londonsymphony,” proposed the famous West Coast rap group — a genre of hip hop from the west coast of the United States — five years ago on X, which in 2019 earned its star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The London orchestra responded by quoting the line from the Simpsons episode: “We mainly play classical music, but we’ll try.”
For this collaboration, the musicians of the British orchestra, which claims to be the most recorded orchestra in the world, worked on arrangements of the hits Insane in the Brain o I Wanna Get High from the Los Angeles trio, which sold more than 20 million copies worldwide.
“We’ve been talking about this for many years, ever since the first Simpsons episode aired,” band leader B-Real told the BBC in an interview Wednesday.
“It’s a very special moment for us. We’ve played in many historic venues during our career (…) but none as prestigious as this one,” he added. “Thanks to The Simpsons, because without that episode, we would never have done this!”
This is not the first time that the famous American series has correctly predicted – or influenced – reality. In a famous episode from March 2000, Donald Trump appeared as the president of the United States, more than 15 years before he was elected in real life.
FUENTE: AFP