Mellow Man Ace

Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12, 1967, South Gate, California) is a American rapper known as Mellow Man Ace and original member of the rap group, Cypress Hill. Reyes is best known for the song "Mentirosa" ("Mentirosa" also means liar in Spanish). The song took a riff from Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways" as the music, repeated and tweaked to fit the lyrics, which were sung in Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish). "Mentirosa" was the first Spang... more

Ulpiano Sergio Reyes (born April 12, 1967, South Gate, California) is a American rapper known as Mellow Man Ace and original member of the rap group, Cypress Hill. Reyes is best known for the song "Mentirosa" ("Mentirosa" also means liar in Spanish). The song took a riff from Carlos Santana's "Evil Ways" as the music, repeated and tweaked to fit the lyrics, which were sung in Spanglish (mixing English and Spanish). "Mentirosa" was the first Spanglish hit record. According to Reyes himself, B-Real came up with the "Check this out baby" line in the track. Reyes is the younger brother of Cypress Hill's Sen Dog and frequently utilizes Cuban slang in his rhymes. Musically, Reyes did a couple of hip house tracks, but mainly hip hop tracks, produced by the likes of Julio G, the Dust Brothers, Def Jef, the Baka Boyz, Johnny Rivers, Tony G (producer) as well as Cypress Hill's DJ Muggs, and himself. Not all of his music mixes Latin and hip hop. His first album contains only one wholly bilingual... less