Cypress Hill: Classic Or Dud?

So anyway, back to Cypress Hill: the production on the first album is FANTASTIC. Some of the best production I've ever heard. That album is without a doubt classic. Nearly every song is great. "Black Sunday" is pretty good, it's got some moments, but it's not nearly as good as the first. "Temples of Boom" is mediocre. "IV" has a couple good songs (ex. "Audio X"), but in general isn't that great. "Skull and Bones" is better than the previous two, but isn't that hot either. Haven't heard the latest one. But in summary, the first album is great, definitely pick that one up just for the great production.

Imagine if everything you said
IMAGINE IF EVERYTHING YOU SAID!!!
was then immediately shouted for emphasis by a friend
WAS THEN IMMEDIATELY SHOUTED FOR EMPHASIS BY YOUR FRIEND!!!

also, the production on the first album is really excellent. Although when it came out, i thought that DJ Muggs was going to produce a series of definitive records for every minority in Los Angeles.

next you will tell me the second record is actually quite good.

You see, it occurred to me that, conceptually, Cypress Hill were actually great. Only the music sucks.

I have never owned a pair of big shorts, btw.

My god, the lyrics.

UK equivalent?

That song should be buggered and drowned.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000027RY.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

that will do.

That first album is one of the strongest hip-hop debuts ever.

If Cypress Hill was Stevie Wonder:

first album = "Music of My Mind" thru "Song in the Key of Life"
second album = "Hotter than July"
almost everything after that = "Woman in Red"

This morning I think "Hand on the Pump" is the greatest song ever. The sample from "Duke of Earl" is total genius. The lyrics are a slice of evil. I am going to put on a bandana.

anyone who says dud is crazy.

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