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Hand on the Pump

A debut single built on Duke of Earl, later re-recorded as Hand on the Glock.
Cypress Hill, from Cypress Hill (1991)

Released
1991
Length
4:02
Album
Cypress Hill

A single from the debut that, though successful, did not match the popularity of How I Could Just Kill a Man and The Phuncky Feel One. It peaked at six on the Bubbling Under R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart. It samples Gene Chandler's Duke of Earl and Junior Walker and the All Stars' Shotgun, and Rolling Stone noted the running Duke of Earl sample in 1991. The video shows the group performing in various locations, cut with clips from a film shot in Red Hook, New York.

In 1992 the group re-recorded it as Hand on the Glock, which was released on the Latin Lingo single, first as a B-side on the 12-inch, and later placed on Black Sunday.

More songs by Cypress Hill

How I Could Just Kill a Man, Latin Lingo, Insane in the Brain, I Ain't Goin' Out Like That, Throw Your Set in the Air

Sources

  1. Hand on the Pump, Wikipedia
  2. Cypress Hill review, Rolling Stone (1991-10-03)
  3. Cypress Hill's Black Sunday turns 25, Albumism