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Cypress Hill (CD)

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Cypress Hill Artist Snapshot:

Cross hardcore rap, alternative rock, and a defiantly pro-marijuana agenda, and you get groundbreaking hip-hoppers Cypress Hill. The band's genre-bending approach, as well as its English-Spanish bilingualism and rapper B-Real's distinctive nasal style, has earned them a wide and varied following. They debuted in 1991, but hit the big time two years later with the crossover hit "Insane in the Brain." Along the way, they've managed to work with the likes of Pearl Jam and Sonic Youth without ever losing their hip-hop credibility.

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DISC 1 for Cypress Hill (CD) Album By Cypress Hill (Artist)
1   Pigs
2   How I Could Just Kill A Man
3   Hand On The Pump
4   Hole In The Head
5   Ultra Violet Dreams
6   Light Another
7   Phunky Feel One
8   Break It Up
9   Real Estate
10   Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk
11   Psycobetabuckdown
12   Something For The Blunted
13   Latin Lingo
14   Funky Cypress Hill Sh*t
15   Tres Equis
16   Born To Get Busy
 

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Review

Rolling Stone (5/13/99, p.72) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."
Rolling Stone (10/3/91) - 3 Stars - Good - "..an album that is innovative and engaging in spite of its hard-core messages.."
Spin (9/99, p.148) - Ranked #57 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."
Spin (9/91) - Highly Recommended
Q (12/99, p.70) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."
Q (5/97, p.137) - 4 Stars (out of 5) - "...the logic of Cypress Hill's 1991 debut is absolutely undeniable; and if it came along for the first time today it would probably ignite the hip hop scene with just as much force..."

Title Note

Cypress Hill: B-Real, Sen-Dog, D.J. Muggs.

Recorded at Image Recording, Los Angeles, California.

Latinos have been flexing their influence within hip-hop culture at least since the late '70s, when deejays like Charlie Chase and b-boy crews like the Rockwell Association and the infamous Rocksteady Crew made their presence felt at block parties and battles in the Bronx and uptown Manhattan. Throughout the '80s, Spanglish rappers like Kid Frost and (Sen-Dog's older brother) Mellow Man Ace saw some commercial success. But it wasn't until 1991 that a crew brought the Spanish language and sensibility into a hip-hop context at the level where it not only reached mainstream audiences, but also transcended ethnic lines within the inner city. Cypress Hill is that crew.

Their production style (crafted by DJ Muggs, a transplant to LA from the east coast), takes lessons from Prince Paul and the Bomb Squad, but tempered with a distinctly west coast feel reminiscent of the Los Angelino funk of War and Carlos Santana. Vocally, B Real and Sen-Dog achieve an off-kilter balance not unlike the counterpoint between Chuck D's boom and Flavor Flav's singsong interjections. Similarly, their lyrical content negotiates a truce between the urgency of NWA and the playful taunts of the Beastie Boys, interlaced with Spanish vocabulary.

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