Senen Reyes (born November 20, 1965), also known by his stage name Sen Dog, is a Cuban-American rapper who is best known as a member of the hip hop group Cypress Hill and as the lead vocalist for the nu metal band Powerflo.[1] He has nurtured a solo career in addition to his work with Cypress Hill and Powerflo, and is the lead vocalist for rap rock band SX-10.[2][3]
Sen Dog | |
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 Sen Dog performing in 2016 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth name | Senen Reyes |
| Born | November 20, 1965 Pinar del Río, Cuba |
| Origin | South Gate, California, U.S. |
| Genres | |
| Occupation | Rapper |
| Years active | 1986–present |
| Labels | |
| Member of | |
Career
editSen Dog is a member of the rap group Cypress Hill, with whom he has had multiple albums in the Top 10 on the Billboard 200 album chart (including the No. 1 album Black Sunday). Some of the most well-known songs that he performs with Cypress Hill are "How I Could Just Kill a Man", "(Rap/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 called Mad Dog American.[4][5] In 1996, he performed "Quien Es Ese Negro (Who's That 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, 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 on Diary 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]
Personal life
editIn the 1980s, Sen Dog was affiliated with a Bloods gang set known as "Neighborhood Family", and later introduced his younger cousin 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 avid marijuana 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 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."[10]
Reyes and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo are childhood friends who attended the same high school.[11]
He is the older brother of Mellow Man Ace (born Ulpiano Sergio Reyes). Reyes currently resides in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Discography
editSolo
edit- Diary of a Mad Dog (2008)
With Cypress Hill
edit- Cypress Hill (1991)
- Black Sunday (1993)
- III: Temples of Boom (1995)
- IV (1998)
- Skull & Bones (2000)
- Stoned Raiders (2001)
- Till Death Do Us Part (2004)
- Rise Up (2010)
- Cypress x Rusko (2012)
- Elephants on Acid (2018)
- Back in Black (2022)
With SX-10
edit- Mad Dog American (2000)
- Temple of Tolerance (Unreleased) (2006)
- EP (2008)
With The Reyes Brothers
edit- Ghetto Therapy (2006)
With Powerflo
edit- Powerflo (2017)
- Bring That Shit Back! (2018)
- Gorilla Warfare (2024)
Guest appearances
edit| Year | Title | Artist(s) | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
Mixtapes
edit- Collabo Killa (2000)
- Fat Joints Volume 1 (2007)
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Powerflo, 'Victim of Circumstance' – Exclusive Video Premiere". Loudwire. June 2, 2017. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ^ "SX10 tocara hoy en el DanZoo" (in Spanish). Mexico City: La Jornada. May 24, 2003. Retrieved December 31, 2008.
- ^ "Sen Dog's Still All Bite with the Reyes Brothers". LatinRapper.com. November 18, 2006. Retrieved January 2, 2009.
- ^ "SX-10". Spirit of Metal Webzine. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ "Popular Uprising". Billboard. Nielsen Business Media, Inc. June 17, 2000. pp. 28–. ISSN 0006-2510.
- ^ Paine, Jake (October 5, 2008). "Sen Dog Explains Near Fatal Heart Attack, Solo Debut". HipHopDX. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ Paine, Jake (October 5, 2008). "Sen Dog". Suburban Noize Records. Archived from the original on October 29, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ http://www.latinrapper.com/b-real-interview.html [bare URL]
- ^ "パート先に毎日来るお客さんと不倫してました☆ - 心に優しい出会い体験談発掘所". www.brealonline.com. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
- ^ Svetkey, Benjamin (August 20, 1993). "High Fidelity". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on December 21, 2009. Retrieved November 15, 2009.
- ^ Katel, Jacob (November 7, 2012). "Cypress Hill's B-Real and Sen Dog Talk Weed, Rap, Punk, Gang Life, and Being Cuban". Miami New Times. Retrieved June 26, 2013.
- ^ "Mixed Media Slang: (hed) PE Self Titled (1997)". BEATDUST. Retrieved November 30, 2017.
External links
edit- Official Cypress Hill website
- Sen Dog discography at Discogs
