Kush was an American rap metal band formed in 2000 by rapper B-Real, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter, and former Fear Factory members Raymond Herrera and Christian Olde Wolbers.
[3] In 2001, B-Real expressed an interest in releasing the band's debut album by the following year or in 2003.
[4] Kush performed at the fifth annual Cypress Hill Smoke Out in 2002, opening with a song entitled "Psycho Killer", one of ten completed tracks that were prepared for an eventual album.
[5][6] B-Real stated that the band's music is "unlike any other rap-metal type stuff.
"[6] In April 2002, it was reported that Kush had completed its debut album, but that it would be difficult to release because all of the band members were signed to different labels.