Da Lench Mob Releases Guerillas In Tha Mist on September 22 (1992)
Written by Mister Anderson on September 22, 2022
September 22, 1992 – On This Date In Hip-Hop, Da Lench Mob released their debut album Guerillas In Tha Mist on Street Knowledge. Led by the title track “Guerillas in tha Mist” and “Freedom Got An AK”, the album peaked at 24 on the Billboard 200, number 4 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and was certified Gold by the RIAA on December 18, 1992,
The album title is a pun on the popular movie titled Gorillas in the Mist and guerrilla warfare. The title was also perceived as a clever reference to a comment made by one of the police officers who had arrested Rodney King. Laurence Michael Powell, one of King’s arresting officers, had described through radio message a domestic disturbance involving two blacks as something straight from Gorillas in the Mist. Powell’s comment was considered highly racist, comparing black people to gorillas, and was used against the officer during the Rodney King trial.
