Indeed, this shouldn’t be shocking to anybody remotely familiar with Cypress Hill. The group was banned from “Saturday Night Live” after one member was, how shall we say it, caught “eating a sandwich,” as Ted Mosby used to put it on “How I Met Your Mother.” In plain and simple terms, DJ Muggs lit up a joint as Cypress Hill was performing their second song of the night,”I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That,” on the late-night program’s October 2, 1993, episode, and “SNL” head honcho Lorne Michaels decided that the band would be going out like that … and never returning to the show.

Speaking to Village Voice about the incident, Cypress Hill’s Sen Dog recalled that DJ Muggs smoked a joint onstage as a way of sticking it to everyone who didn’t want them engaging in their favorite pastime on air. “I remember ‘Saturday Night Live’ gave us a green room and said, ‘Do whatever you want in here, just don’t light up out of here,'” he said, as quoted by Far Out Magazine. “Muggs felt like he needed to make a statement with his performance. It wasn’t just the ‘Saturday Night Live’ people saying he couldn’t smoke up on air. It was everyone: our record label, our management, our friends.”

Sen Dog went on to explain that the group had seemingly agreed to toe the line; smoking up was fine in the green room, but not onstage. As such, Muggs’ decision to light up a joint while they were performing “I Ain’t Goin’ Out Like That” came as a surprise to his bandmates.

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