Sen Dog | |
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 Sen Dog performing in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Born | Senen Reyes (1965-11-22)November 22, 1965 (age 60) Pinar del Río, Cuba |
| Origin | South Gate, California, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 1986–present |
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Senen Reyes (born November 22, 1965), also known by his stage nameSen Dog, is a Cuban-American rapper who is best known as a member of thehip hop groupCypress Hill and as the lead vocalist for the nu metal bandPowerflo.[1] He has nurtured a solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill and Powerflo, and is the lead vocalist forrap rock bandSX-10.[2][3]
Sen Dog is a member of the rap group Cypress Hill, with whom he has had multiple albums in the Top 10 on theBillboard 200 album chart (including the No. 1 albumBlack Sunday). Some of the most well-known songs that he performs with Cypress Hill are "How I Could Just Kill a Man", "(Rap) Superstar"/"(Rock) 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. He wanted the band to have a funk sound with Latin influences. SX-10 released an album in 2000 calledMad Dog American.[4][5] In 1996, he performed "Quien Es Ese Negro (Who's That Black Dude)" withMellow Man Ace, MC Skeey, Mr. Rico, and DJ Rif for theAIDS benefit album,Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin, produced by theRed Hot Organization.
On September 30, 2008, Sen Dog released his first solo album,Diary of a Mad Dog, seventeen years after the release of the first Cypress Hill album. In an interview with HipHopDX, Sen Dog described how he felt that he had more control and could talk about personal aspects of his life with this album. He 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."[6] He said that he wanted to have fun with this album and that he has tried out a lot of different types of music but had no agenda for the type of music onDiary of a Mad Dog. "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."[7]
In the 1980s, Sen Dog was affiliated with aBloods gang set known as "Neighborhood Family", and later introduced his friend and later bandmate,B-Real into the set before B-Real was shot in the lung in 1988.[8][9] Sen Dog is known to be an avidmarijuana smoker and Cypress Hill has made songs about the use of marijuana, including “ Stoned is the Way of the Walk”, "Legalize it", "I Wanna Get High" and "Hits from the Bong". Sen Dog gave B-Real his first joint when Sen Dog was 17 years old. In an interview withEntertainment 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, likespeed orcrack."[10]
Reyes and formerSlayer drummerDave Lombardo are childhood friends who attended the same high school.[11]
He is the older brother ofMellow Man Ace (born Ulpiano Sergio Reyes). Reyes currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
| Year | Title | Artist(s) | Album |
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| 1992 | "Hypest from Cypress" | Mellow Man Ace, Krazy-D, Tomahawk Funk | The Brother with Two Tongues |
| 1994 | "How It Is" | Biohazard,DJ Lethal | State of the World Address |
| 1995 | "Feel the Blast" | DJ Hurricane | The Hurra |
| 1997 | "IFO" (uncredited) | Hed PE | Hed PE[12] |
| 1998 | "Quien Es Ese Negro (Who Is That Black One)" | MC Skeey, Mr. Rico, DJ Rif, Mellow Man Ace | Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin |
| "It's the Delinquentes" | Delinquent Habits | Here Come The Horns | |
| "Shed a Tear" | |||
| "Life Is a Struggle" | |||
| "Get Up, Get on It" | Delinquent Habits, Mellow Man Ace, Rude | ||
| "Sen Dog" | Everlast | Whitey Ford Sings the Blues | |
| 2000 | "Feel tha Steel" | Mellow Man Ace | From the Darkness into the Light |
| "Sly Slick & Wicked" | |||
| "Quem Tem Seda?" | Planet Hemp | A Invasão Do Sagaz Homem Fumaça | |
| "We the People" | Kottonmouth Kings | High Society | |
| 2001 | "Last Man Standing" | Biohazard | Uncivilization |
| "What's Next?" | Phunk Junkeez | Sex, Drugs and Rap N' Roll | |
| "1-2, 1-2" | Insolence | Revolution | |
| 2004 | "Vengo A Cobrar" | Mellow Man Ace | Vengo A Cobrar |
| 2005 | "Not Today" | Transplants | Haunted Cities |
| "Smockaz Roule" | Big Red,DJ Muggs | Raggamuffin Culture | |
| 2007 | "Living on the Edge" | Big B | More to Hate |
| "Dark Side" | Kottonmouth Kings | Cloud Nine | |
| 2008 | "Shoot Em Up" | OPM | Golden State of Mind |
| 2009 | "Bloody Sunday" | La Coka Nostra | A Brand You Can Trust |
| "1 Life" | B-Real, Mal Verde | Smoke N Mirrors | |
| "Bring tha Noize" (Public Enemy cover) | Subnoize Souljaz,Daddy X | Blast from tha Past | |
| 2010 | "All Day" | 1FIFTY1 | Lyrics Anonymous |
| "Just What You Feelin" | Kemo The Blaxican | Upside of Struggle | |
| 2012 | "West Coast Rock Steady" | P.O.D. | Murdered Love |
| 2013 | "Senny Sosa" | Eric Bobo,Latin Bitman | Welcome to the Ritmo Machine |
| "Evening News" | Cuete Yeska | Tales Of Cuete James | |
| 2014 | "Dubmundos" | Raimundos | Cantigas De Garagem |
| 2016 | "Shit Just Got Real" | Die Antwoord | Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid |
| 2017 | "California" | Delinquent Habits | It Could Be Round Two |
| "One Two Three" | |||
| 2020 | "Pure 90" | Shaka Ponk | Apelogies |
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