How I Could Just Kill a Man

Infobox Single
Name = How I Could Just Kill a Man


Artist = Cypress Hill
from Album = Cypress Hill
Released = 1991
Format = CD|, Cassette, Vinyl
Recorded =
Genre = Hardcore hip hop
Length = 4:08
Label = Ruffhouse/Columbia Records
Producer = DJ Muggs
Chart position =
Last single =
This single = "How I Could Just Kill a Man"
(1991)
Next single = |"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" and the music video featured cameos by A Tribe Called Quest's Q-Tip and Ice Cube, with whom B-Real would later feud. 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". The song was also featured on the 2004 video game , appearing on the West Coast hip hop station . It was voted #79 in About.com's Top 100 Rap Songs. [ [http://rap.about.com/od/top10songs/ss/Top100RapSongs_3.htm Top 100 Rap Songs] ]

Towards the end of the song (approximately the last 25 seconds) someone is heard saying, "All I wanted was a Pepsi". This quote is taken from the well-known Suicidal Tendencies song, "Institutionalized (song)".

Rage Against the Machine version

Single_infobox
Name = How I Could Just Kill a Man


Artist = Rage Against the Machine
Album = Renegades
Released = 2000
track_no = 8
Recorded =
Genre = Rap metal
Length = 4:04
Writers =
Label = Epic Records
Producer = Rick Rubin, Brendan O'Brien, Rage Against the Machine
Chart position =
next = "The Ghost of Tom Joad"
next_no = 9The song was famously covered by rock band Rage Against the Machine on their cover album, "Renegades". Rage Against the Machine performed the song live along with Cypress Hill on their DVD, "Live at the Grand Olympic Auditorium".