As both B-Real and Muggs loved Hip Hop they became friends and the three of them would hangout together "They used to come to my house and listen to records, but I wasn't sure whether Sen liked Hip Hop because he never communicated to anyone. Anyway one night we were hanging out and B just started rapping, but because he was rapping quite fast and over beats, I think that confused Sen because he copied not the last few words of B's rhyme but the first few words and sometimes he would even finish what B was going to say, it was some crazy sh*t!"
Sen Dog showing how he would punch a homosexual if he met one at a bar.
Although it worked on records, Sen's strange ways were beginning to take it's toll on the other two members of the group, so once they got signed to Columbia records, they entered into group therapy. "I loved having Sen around, but he was beginning to make us look stupid especially when we were being interviewed or when I would be speaking to someone on the phone" said B-Real. "At first it wasn't working but then the therapist asked me about Sen's family. Sen Dog's father left his mother when he was just a puppy for some other bitch, so when I spoke about that, Sen copied me and as he did he started to cry. Then to everyones amazement he began to speak about his father in his own words". Sen revealed that he blamed himself for his father leaving and just stopped speaking until he met B-Real, but because he lacked self confidence he didn't feel that he could speak in his own words, so he just copied what B-Real would say.
Sen Dog's father, Ben 'Woofie' Dog.
After therapy, the group went into the studio and recorded their first album, with Sen feeling confident enough to write his own lyrics and rap on the album whilst still acting as B-Real's echo. "Sen's lyrics and rhyming sucked, he would write stuff like "I'm a chicken hunt hunting for a chicken" and think it was dope, but we couldn't tell him that it wasn't, because it would have knocked his confidence and then we would have been back at square one, plus with him on the record it made B Real look good because he wasn't that good either, so the pair helped each other" said Muggs.
Sen Dog with his 3rd wife Shelia Dog, they divorced shortly after this photo was taken.
As the group became more and more popular, Sen's confidence began to grow along with his ego and now, some 17 years after Cypress Hill signed their first record deal, he has released his debut solo album titled 'Diary Of A Mad Dog'. "When Sen told me that Surburban Noize records had asked him if to make an album, I looked at the calendar to make sure it wasn't April 1st, when I saw it wasn't I looked at him and asked why he was lying to me. When he told me he wasn't I was stunned. He then said that it was now time for him to shine as a real MC and that he was gonna go after Nas and Jay-Z to become the world's number one MC. I then wished him good luck with making a fool of himself" recalls Muggs.
Sen Dog on stage hoping the audience will rap the lyrics to his song 'Fumble' as he forgot them. Problem was, they didn't know them either. Embarrassing!
The 15 track album, which was released on September 30th 2008, has so far sold 543 copies worldwide on CD, that includes the 86 copies which were returned to stores by disappointed customers. Z-Share, the online file sharing site, reported that of the 4901 copies that were downloaded illegally for free, 3789 were deleted within 2 hours of being downloaded.
Sen was not available for comment and wished not to be interviewed. He was last spotted last Sunday evening filling up a shopping trolly with cheap cuban rum and tequila. When asked what he was doing he said that he was leaving for Las Vegas.
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