Cypress x Rusko is a collaborative

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by American hip hop group

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and British

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producer

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. The five track album was released on June 5, 2012 digitally and on August 14, 2012 on

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. It debuted at number 50 on the

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. The EP produced two singles, "Roll It, Light It" and "Can't Keep Me Down" which features

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. On the amalgamation of the two styles of music,

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of Cypress Hill explains "I think dubstep is a natural progression of hip-hop... Especially the way that we formulated it with Rusko. There's definitely some roughness to it."

Track listing

Personnel

* Chris Mercer - producer, mixing * Louis Freese - vocals * Senen Reyes - vocals * Luca Pretolesi - mastering * Frank Maddocks - art direction, design, photography *

- vocals (track 4) * Demerick Shelton - vocals (track 5)

References

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