With Hip Hop Honors just around the corner several artists are paying homage to the honorees in varying ways.

Killer Mike recently spoke with Rhapsody to share his opinion on Cypress Hill, one of this years honorees.

"1991, there was a mom and pop gospel and hip-hop store -- in the hood you find the same stores do well with both of those genres -- and there was one right up the street from my high school. I walked in there and saw, in the 99-cent bin, a single for 'How I Could Just Kill a Man.' 'Pigs' was on the B-side, I think. It was a cas-single," Killer Mike told Rhapsody [click here]. "The walk from the record store to the train station was about five minutes. And in the span of those five minutes, I was a fan. I was like, 'This is the dopest shit ever.' I wouldn't even let my man listen to it."

A Hip Hop group from Los Angeles, Cypress Hill gained Hip-Hop stardom with albums such as Cypress Hill, Black Sunday, and Skull & Bones.

"I didn't even know they were from California when I first heard 'em," Killer Mike explained to Rhapsody. "At first I thought they were from New York. I bought that first Cypress album and I put my whole school onto them. Back then, on the Westside of Atlanta, we really identified with the west coast."

In similar news, deejay Mick Boogie is creating a Hip Hop Honors compilation in tribute to this year's honorees.

The mixtape, entitled Mick Boogie: The Honor Roll, will include artists such as Kidz In The Hall, Alchemist, Freeway, and Mistah FAB putting a modern touch on the honorees classic hits.

Mick Boogie: The Honor Roll will be available for download at no cost on www.pressplayfashionforward.com and www.nahright.com.