Cypress Hill: Classic Or Dud?

Best rock group of the 90s

First album was cool at the time. It sounded a lot different from everything else. B Real's delivery favorably compared to the Beastie Boys (who weren't a complete laughing stock yet).

I remember when Black Sunday came out, all of my friends kind of loved it it for about a month, then someone brought The Chronic home and put it on, and Cypress Hill was quickly forgotten about for the next two years.

Someone gave me a Temples of Boom tape years later, which I listened to it in my car a lot. I enjoyed "Killa Hill Niggas" and "Boom Biddy Bye Bye", mostly for the production and hilariously theatric lyrics.

Most of the people I know who have any serious reverence for Cypress, also listen to ICP and Kottonmouth Kings.

I like DJ Muggs, but If I'm ever making mid-90s rap compilation and a Cypress Hill song could fit, I'll take something by Beatnuts instead. Although "Light Another" is the one song by them I get in the mood to listen to every now and then.

First album = C++.

(Classic ++)

Nice on the classic++. For a record that was very popular at the time (double platinum in the US), it's very vulgar. I mean, the first song ("Pigs") finishes with a (presumably male) cop getting gang-raped. I don't think anything on The Chronic has anything that vicious---it's a very sexual album, but the sex seems mostly consensual, even if the kissing and telling isn't very respectful. Has any record this vulgar made it so big since? I don't know enough about Insane Clown Posse's record to say if they are competitive here.

"Sawed off shotgun, hand on the pump/Left hand on a forty, puffin on a blunt"

A pump-action shotgun would seem to be a two-handed weapon, to have one hand on a 40 AND be puffing on a blunt while operating one, well...this I'd like to see.

ILM is a strange place full of strange tastes.

― Jay Smooth (jsmooth995), Thursday, May 13, 2004 9:28 PM (4 years ago) Bookmark

tbomb

the debut is in my top 10 all-time rap. also loved the second.

This mix, man https://soundcloud.com/wax-poetics/cypress-hill-cypress-hill-25th-anniversary-mixtape-mixed-by-dj-matman

https://gothamist.com/news/two-alarm-blaze-smokes-out-suspected-marijuana-grow-house-cypress-hills

those first two Cypress Hill albums were both great

DJ Muggs ear for samples was always magnificent.

The first three albums are all great in their own different ways. But I lost interest in them after that.

One of the bosses at Pappadeaux the summer after high school would play "Rap Superstar" or "Rock Superstar" before a shift to get us hyped to go out and sell overpriced gumbo.

I seem to recall they lost out on most of their royalties for Insane In The Brain because they forgot (or just didn't bother) to clear the "I'm think I'm going crazy" sample at the very end of the track.

Cypress Hill has returned with their tenth studio album, Back In Black, produced entirely by Black Milk and due March 18, 2022 via MNRK. To ring in the announcement, the group has shared new single "Bye Bye," featuring a standout verse from rapper Dizzy Wright -- listen and pre-order Back In Black on all major streaming services. The new track comes on the heels of the announcement of the band's extensive slate of touring for the year, including a leg of Slipknot's Knotfest Roadshow 2022. Find all announced tour dates below. In yet another monumental move, the group has announced a brand-new documentary titled Insane In The Brain: Cypress Hill, which will be released this spring.

New song is pretty good:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL6V4PCcLkk

black milk production with cypress hill = i'm in