How I Could Just Kill a Man

"How I Could Just Kill a Man"
Single by Cypress Hill
from the album Cypress Hill
Released	June 29, 1991
Recorded	1990
Studio	Image Recording (Los Angeles)
Genre	Hardcore hip hop West Coast hip hop Latin hip hop gangsta rap[1]
Length	4:08
Label	Ruffhouse Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Louis Freese Lowell Fulson Jimmy McCracklin Lawrence Muggerud Senen Reyes
Producer(s)	DJ Muggs
Cypress Hill singles chronology
"How I Could Just Kill a Man" (1991) "The Phuncky Feel One" (1991)
Music video
"How I Could Just Kill a Man" on YouTube

"How I Could Just Kill a Man" is the debut single by hip hop group Cypress Hill from their eponymous debut album, Cypress Hill, and was their first major hit in 1991. It was released as a double A-side to "The Phuncky Feel One". The song was also in the movie Juice (1992). It was re-released in 1999 with Spanish lyrics and a new video. It is featured as the first track on their greatest hits compilation Greatest Hits from the Bong. It was voted number 79 in About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs.^[2]

Towards the end of the song (approximately the 3:48 point) someone is heard saying, "All I wanted was a Pepsi". This quote is taken from the well-known Suicidal Tendencies song, "Institutionalized".

In 2001, Cypress Hill included a sequel to the song on their album Stoned Raiders entitled "Here Is Something You Can't Understand", using the same chorus but with new verses from B-Real, Sen Dog and guest Kurupt.