Ace producer and studio hound DJ Muggs will be hitting the road with Cypress Hill for this year's Smokin' Grooves tour in June, rapper B-Real told ATN. "Muggs is gonna be on the whole tour," Real said.

Last summer, the DJ

and producer sat out the Smokin' Grooves shows, preferring to work at home

in the studio. "I think he missed the whole thing. He was the only one out of the whole

crew, producing things by himself. I think he got a little lonely. I

think he wanted to be with the boys again on the road, and that's not bad."

Does this mean he's returning to the road for good? "Well, for this one, I believe so," Real said of his collaborator.

Real said the pair will be using their down time to craft songs for Cypress' fourth album. "Probably on the bus, we'll be coming up with the concepts and things of that nature," Real said. "Eventually we'll record some of those concepts somewhere between, on our days off.

"Once we get to working, it's an easy flow for us," Real added. "Me

and Muggs got good chemistry like that. If he's got something good, I vibe

right away off of it, and I'm ready to go. Sometimes it takes 15 minutes

for me to get a song together, depending on what kind of vibe he's giving

me, if I can deal with it."

The album is currently slated for an October release--just three months

after Real's solo project, The Psycho Realm, and seven after the Muggs' hip-hop all-star

assembly Muggs Presents...The Soul Assassins.

Real said that he and Muggs have, thus far, recorded four songs for the

upcoming Cypress Hill album. "Right now they're just in the getting 'em

together stages," the rapper said. "We're trying not to rush anything,

but you have deadlines that you have to submit to sometimes."

Meanwhile, the Psycho Realm will drop their self-titled

debut next month, and will join Cypress Hill on stage for an extended

Smokin' Grooves set.

Also joining Muggs and Real on stage will be percussionist and frequent live

contributor, Eric Bobo. The Smokin' Grooves tour kicks off June 30 in

Mansfield, Mass.

On stage, Real will be mixing it up with Cypress Hill and Psycho

Realm. Listeners anticipating a simple side project from the Psychos are

liable to be surprised by the verbal strengths of Real's cohorts, Mr. Duke

and Jacken. The 15-track Psycho Realm lands in stores next month,

so Real says it was only natural that both groups would tour together.

"I try to use everything to my advantage," he said. "The single [Psycho

Realm's "Psycho City Blocks"] comes out the second day of the tour. Now

there's gonna be a lot of attention on Cypress right now because we're

doing the Smokin' Grooves tour, and the record company's gonna want us to

do a promotional tour for Psycho Realm. So, while we have all this

attention, what better time to take Psycho Realm on the road with Cypress?

"I'm using it as a tool to help out the new group," Real said. "And also to just have

some fun for the summer for Chris' sakes."