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A good listen, some songs I’d revisit in the future.
i love it
A couple of good songs here, and a sound that's had a degree of influence, but it didn't strike me as a particularly good album. They're probably a band where a best of is the way to go
A good deal more fun than I feared, knowing - with only three records left to go - that this was round the corner. But actually, it was upbeat, quite silly and all round reasonable. For some reason I'd totally misremembered them as much more nu-metal adjacent than they are.
Believe it or not, this is actually my very first time listening to this entire album from front to back, but I'm definitely familiar with most of the songs on here already. Even then, this is one of those albums where, despite never listening to it fully until now, every part of it feels comfortable and familiar. A lot of that comes from how much Cypress Hill's music has been sampled and referenced over the years by so many producers, DJs, and artists. This is definitely one of those classic, influential albums whose sound has had a huge impact on music in general, including styles outside of hip-hop.
I think these fellows might enjoy cannabis Great energy, but listening to full hip-hop albums from sort of pre-2000s era don't usually do it for me (except 36 Chambers which I can only assume will pop up on here, I'll save my praise for then)
Vocals were pretty grating and the beat selection was rather wack 1.5
Listening session: august 15th, while getting ready in the morning Listened to before: no Thoughts: I love when groups have a distinctive sound. This album has some great funky instrumentals Favourite tracks: Hole In the Head, Stoned Is the Way of the Walk & The Funky Cypress Hill Shit
Really not for me.
I loved this instantly. It’s everything I want from this genre at this time.
This album's anniversary was just on the 14th, so I heard this for the first time. I liked it. I am well aware of Cypress Hill just never fully listened to one of their albums. Not into the gangster rap but this is a good album.
Fun. Good to great grooves (GTGG). And their one huge hit wasn’t even on this album!
Fun! I don’t know this one that well but I will come back to it for sure.
Some pretty fun stuff, some unremarkable stuff.
This genre should not be anywhere on this list.
Good but gets a little repetitive after a while.
милые (но почему я думала что они женщина))
Trend-setting.
Not really my thing at the time, but honestly, I think it's held up really well - the confidence, fun and energy are pretty strong.
such a good vibe and simply iconic sound
Christ I feel old
I have fond memories of Cypress Hill and this album was okay but, in every respect, I think Black Sunday is by far the superior album. I guess this is on the list because it was first, but I don't think it shows the group at their best.
It's definitely not the kind of hip hop that I would be coming back to. It got pretty annoying and felt like i was listening to the same song for 46 minutes.
7.5 / 10
Meh
While their flow was slightly novel, the beats and lyricism are pretty pedestrian—nothing to write home about.
They are clearly having so much fun and it's infectious. Unfortunately points off because RATM did the best song on here better than cypress hill
Yeah this one was rough I respect them for trying something a little different with hip hop, and everyone once in a while they’ll throw together a stretch that sounds pretty solid. Messages are pretty well executed and pretty straightforward I just think the rest of this album’s kinda a mess. I don’t particularly care for the vocals and think they’re kinda all over the place. The beats in this one are way too weird for my liking; Break it Up in particular, even though it’s short, is just ear wrenching. I wasn’t particularly impressed with the wordplay or just general flow of any track either This is probably the most I’ve disliked any hip hop album we’ve gotten on here, it’s just not my thing at all. I understand a lot of west coast rappers got their inspiration from these guys, but there’s a reason this album’s been mostly forgotten in the swaths of better hip hop throughout the decade
just ok
First the rapping. As everybody knows by now, B-Real is a lead MC of the group while Sen Dog is the hype man. The titles of the songs "Pigs", "How I Could Just Kill a Man", and "Light Another" sum up the only things that B-Real and Sen Dog talk about. Neither B-Real nor Sen Dog are amazing rappers, but they're not awful either. The way the both of them deliver the lyrics make them sound like cartoon characters. Although they ramble about shooting people, it's impossible to take seriously. That's okay because it's not supposed to be. There are a bunch of problems with this album. I've explained my problems with the lyrics and Sen Dog and as good as Muggs' beats are, they're not good enough for me to completely forgive the juvenile rapping. The worst part is that all of these problems are present on EVERY song here. All the songs here are B-Real and Sen Dog rambling about cops, shooting you, or reefer over some funky Muggs beat, which means that every song sounds alike. If you've heard "How I Could Just Kill a Man" or "The Phuncky Feel One", you've heard Cypress Hill. I completely disagree with the assessment that this is a classic. If Cypress Hill was ever classic material, it was in 1991. Whatever made this album sound so amazing back then is completely gone in 2008. This just hasn't aged well at all.
Sadly hip hop is not my thing
Cypress Hill never really stuck with me. Some of their later stuff I have enjoyed. I thought the beats were good, sampling was creative even if I didn't fully recognize where they all came from, and the lyricism was inventive despite the subject matter being run-of-the-mill gangsta rap. They didn't waste our time with silly skits, and no recordings of simulated sexual encounters so at least there's that. I wish I loved anything in my life as much as these guys appear to love weed. Probably wouldn't bother spinning this up again. Didn't hate it, but not a lot here I was dying to listen to again.
Lyrically, it's gangsta rap; musically, it's a little less intense, but still repetitive and not especially interesting from my perspective. It seems like this is a really important and influential album, but it doesn't call to me.
I mean... It's fun. For a while. Then it gets annoying and repetitive.
I always thought these guys were a bit obnoxious. Why are you trying to rap through your nose? At least I finally get some old school rap. Not enough of it on this list.
Rap for white pot heads
Old school
Really fun beats but some of the lyrics didn't age so good
Was ready to say "come at me" for my 5 star rating at the start of this. Fucking pigs ✅ strapped with a sawn-off shotgun ✅ blazing joints ✅ acting kinda loco ✅ ... but after four songs they were no longer fuckin' up my program.
Meh
Just another rap album. They seem urgent and of their time.
Definitely unique sound to vocals. Beats were a bit chill. Wasn't really My thing, everything blurred together pretty early on
I can see why some people like this, but it’s not my cup of tea.
I liked this, no stand out faves.
Great production and really trailblazing incorporation of rock into rap, but very poor lyrical work.
52 seconds before the use of the f-slur has to be some kind of record for this list.
Sick 90s LA vibes.
I think they were a two hit wonder unless you are a very specific type of person…
They have an iconic sound but it’s kind of annoying. I just kept expecting to hear Insane in the Brain
Awesome
Not for me really but I can't deny that pigs and how I could just kill a man are catchy.
1991, less than a year before the infamous LA Riots of 1992, and you can hear the anger in the lyrics. On the other hand, you also get a purely sunny, Californian vibe from the samples (we start with some reggae bass on 'Pigs'). The flow is refreshing after listening to a lot of old-school (80's into very early 90's) rap -- Cypress hill features variations in meter, liberal use of in-verse rests and triplets and the occasional clavé beat style. Later groups owe an enormous amount to Cypress Hill. A large number of them acknowledge it! Cypress Hill, for their part, noted the Beastie Boys as an influence, which is a whole other conversation but a fun thread to pull. Endlessly enjoyable and really radical if you listen to the lyrics. They get pretty violent but, as has been noted elsewhere, the violence is pretty cartoonish, so it's less jarring to me, at least. 4/5 this is awesome.
Here is something you can't understand...how we just killa man
The more "fun" beats of cypress hill has always been something I liked compared to a lot of other hiphop from this time. Since its not a genre I listen to a lot its not something I will listen to a lot in the future but I had a good time listening through the album today.
Black Sunday is one of my fav hip hop albums and id never heard this before not a bad album for a debut you can hear there influences the beats are tight and the rapping is solid overall a fun sounding hip hop album
I could not get past the cursing. Definitely fun beats and if I didn't understand, I would rate this higher
Better than Coldplay
Cypress Hill might be my favourite group from the 90s rap groups. They sounded the most different and that's what drew me to them. I would have included Black Sunday instead of this one though, but that is just my personal opinion. This record is still great. Very funky and filled with cool grooves.
Solid rap album.
This was ok. To be honest, I enjoyed the album but I was a bit disappointed. I was expecting this to be more rock influenced (actually, RATM has a cover for "How I Could Just Kill A Man"). Some tracks I enjoyed: "Pigs", "How I Could Just Killed A Man", or "Latin Lingo". "Tres Equis" has nice music...but the lyrics. Overall, I think this was ok. If not for my relatively high expectations, this may have reached 4 stars. However, because I was a bit disappointed, I'm giving it 3 stars.
I am getting a lot of Hip Hop and Rap lately. I like this but now I cannot remember it, sorry.
I had very low expectations with this but it was not too bad. The vocals grate a little but I can see it's appeal.
An easy listening, early 90s hip hop album, Cypress Hill's self-titled debut runs together but it's a head bopping fun time. Top tracks: "Pigs," "How I Could Just Kill a Man," "Light Another"
Her third worst album. Meh.
--Pigs...nice sample, lyrics are problematic --How I Could Just Kill a Man...a fun groove --Hand on the Pump...here we go. head bopper --Hole in the Head...solid groove but it's missing something --Ultraviolet Dreams...short interlude --Light Another...great sample fun groove --The Phuncky Feel One...this. this the complete package. beat, flow, great --Break It Up...another short interlude --Real Estate...nice beat. the guitar sample and vocals get a bit annoying --Stoned Is the Way of the Walk...the low end is nice. fun flow --Psycobetabuckdown...weird and fun but nothing I'd come back to often --Something for the Blunted...funky interlude --Latin Lingo...it's all working again. good work, fellas --The Funky Cypress Hill Shit...more fun but maybe too simplistic --Tres Equis...I like Dos Equis, Tres must be better! yes, I'm uproariously funny --Born to Get Busy...okay song ends halfway thru? hidden track upcoming? yes. unnecessary
I feel like this was an influential album, but I just had a hard time getting through it.
Uh....no. Boring.
Another confession from a 60 plus white guy. I thought Cypress Hill were a 90s grunge band just missed it. During this i have found i like rap this is also good. However by the time caps have been busted in asses and peelers massacred it all a bit silly.
Lækre beats og så er de bare gode at lytte til. Jeg er lidt overrasket over at det ikke er Black Sunday på listen
Rigtig sjovt lyt, fede beats!
TIL that Rage was basically just a cover band of Cypress Hill
Нудні біти, нудна читка, особливо під кінець. Оцінка: низька-середня 5
Haven't heard of rappers with a nasal tone. Has some nice funk beats but the MC's cadence turns me off. This is another case of gangsta rap sounding corny before the G-funk sound. This hasn't aged pretty well (2.5-3).
Oh man, the Beatles loving whites are gonna hate this 😂
Shocked how much I liked this? I think I put them in the nu metal bucket unfairly but they're just classic 90s rap.
I wasn't sure about it at first since I'm not a fan of this genre, but it wasn't as bad as I expected. Not something I'd choose to listen to but I wouldn't skip it on a randomized playlist.
Straight bangers. It's fun, it's funky and it's full of great vibes. Hole In the Head, Real Estate and The Funky Cypress Hill Shit were my highlights of the album
Buen hip hop pachecoide
not for me but i can see why people like it.
This isn't even music. This is just some guy angry about his life talking about it.
Not fan. Couldn't understand. Did not enjoy at all. But at least wasn't offended.
Ok for a hip hop album, although it’s not my kind of hip hop
Almost as funky as The Chronic or Doggystyle. Cypress Hill got darker and weirder with later albums but this one is a collage of awesomeness.
banger, maar de stemmen van cypress hill ben je op een gegeven moment wel klaar mee
eig ganz chillig. 3.5.
I liked the beat, tempo and style more than most in this genre. + for a decent debut too!
Great old school East Coast rap.
I'd give it 5 stars if not for the overabundance of explicit lyrics.
Tbh not super my style of rap, very partial to more modern sounds generally. Top songs: nothing stuck out, everything was the same to my ear
I'm kind of biased to like a lot of the boom bap stuff of this era and I want to give an extra star for the absolute non-presence of dumb skits that pervaded rap albums of this era. Probably not too many tracks I will play often but it was pretty good.
Did I hear an "odelay"?
They’re insane
650/1001 2026.07.03 🌕🌕🌑🌑🌑
What a fun surprise! Cypress Hill seemingly cracked the code on how to create funky and groovy hip-hop beats. The samples they employ and how they use them just makes for some fun songs on here all throughout. The album actually went by like a breeze. Overall this album achieves a great level of cohesiveness while still showing variety. Obvious highlights to me are How I Could Just Kill a Man, Stoned Is the Way of the Walk, Psycobetabuckdown and Latin Lingo. The rapping is also contributing to the atmosphere, not too self-serious but simply keeping up with the momentum of the beats and simply spreading cool vibes. Is this the only Cypress Hill album on the list? I’m definitely interested to listen to the rest of their discography.
I'm not super into gangsta rap, but this was ok. I like how funky the beats are.
The single tracks are o.k. but a whole album of any kind of hip-hop is slightly too much for me.
Gangsta hip hop Fk the police violence sex drugs homophobic themes more violence combinations of the above. Not much else. Turns out I don't like that much
Спонсоры хорошего настроения
I get a bit lost on the lyrics but it is a fun time.
Þetta er stemmari. Maður þarf að vera í smá old school stuði fyrir þetta. Textarnir barn síns tíma. En þetta er feitt það er ekki hægt að neita því.
Bouncy and funny. Not really my jam, but hard to resist their infectious exuberance.
I really found myself bored of the subject matter, unfortunately. I thought they had interesting beats and had smooth flow, but they didn’t have much to say.
Stone cold classic
Classic
I only liked the last track but the rest is all super beat heavy which isn’t my vibe.
goes hard
Struggled with this one. There’s some decent stuff tucked in here but they will have to be a playlist group for me. One song every once in a while on a playlist, not 45 minutes straight.
6/10
Not my bag, so not surprised I really really didn't like this.
Cypress Hill is always great, plus they played with the London Symphony Orchestra because of The Simpsons, so how can you hate that? First couple tracks on this are stellar. Fades a bit as it goes on but still enjoyable. Solid rap record, and I love how Cypress Hill always sounds a bit different from the rest.
In which my old, pasty ass falls in love with a new band.
There were some fun moments but overall this is just alright.
Not sure how I hadn't heard this one. It goes hard
All killer no filler. This album is still a banger.
Awesome
i love the beats, love the samples - but man that vocal delivery has always been so damn grating to me.
pas assez mélodique pour moi
I just found it kind of annoying honestly
Luv these guys
This started off really strong but fell away a bit towards the end apart from Latin Lingo which was pretty good. I wouldn’t mind listening to more from them but it’s not something I’m gonna rush to do. Top Track - How I Could Just Kill A Man
Really good flow, and really good beats. I don't know that they should be saying that word though... Knee-jerk aversion might get me more into the history of Latino rap.
Honestly these were some of my favorite beats I've heard. This album felt so 90s and I loved it. Definitely got a bit repetitive, but how horrible is that? Favorites: How I Could Just Kill a Man, Ultraviolet Dreams, Light Another, The Funky Cypress Hill Shit, Tres Equis
A key text in west coast/latin american/gangsta rap. Some music just sounds exactly like a time and a place, and this record transports you there. Every individual song is good, but it just gets kinnnnd of overbearing at record length. DJ Muggs certainly had a sonic signature and the samples are great, but the beats get kind of samey, and I've never really liked the group's vocal delivery. This is a vital record in hip hop history, I just don't ever really find myself wanting to listen to it.
It's a dynamic album that has some interesting samples
Spooky vibes, and honestly mad weird.
Dope
second song is a damn masterpiece. album is great. beats are awesome. voices are unique. loved it a lot. so much better than the albums (the smiths and lou reed- boring) i've listened to so far. glad i listened to this. hole in your head! in your mother fuckin' head! so damn sick.
Just grow up, for god's sake. I don't want to hear about your promiscuity or how much you hate gay people, just shut up. I have great concerns that the lack of quality music from the 90s may be due to a lack of Doctor Who. We may be going into another dark age folks x
PEAKANUMA SAMPLE SPOTTED
4.5
Good but quite repetitive at times.
I never minded their hits but I've always thought of them as a novelty act not to be taken seriously. On first listen, I was pretty annoyed with the nasally vocal delivery and thought the sampling wasn't particularly interesting. I rated it 2 stars. For some reason I decided to give another listen today and I've gotten use to the vocals a bit and found a couple favourite tracks. Uping it to a 3 star.
This was not good
nicht so packend.
Solider Hip Hop der gefällt.
i don't like this
They are on the upper end of enjoyment in terms of 90s hip hop albums. The compositions by DJ Muggz sound so unabashedly from its era which make this album even more so relevant. Overall, a fun and interesting listen but far from their third, 'Temples of Boom'. 7/10 [SWAP]
wasn't really for me
Funky for real shit
Super Duper, I love Cypress hill - before we all jumped around, and were insane in the brain……🤪🤪
Not really my jam, even within the hip-hop sphere, but I can really appreciate the development of a unique sound and the passion. 80s and 90s hip-hop is something special, imo.
I recognised many samples used by the tribe called quest and de la soul, which is interesting. I know 90s rap a little bit, it is alright, but dated sometimes. Gonna be harsh though
I was excited when I saw this album come up. I was a massive fan of “Black Sunday” in highschool. I also knew the song “how I could just kill a man” before listening to the full album. The only issue for me personally is that I only ended up saving 7 songs which is one shy of half the album. I don’t think that makes this a terrible album, it’s just a lot of the same over and over again. The good news is that they must’ve anticipated this and put a lot of my favorite tracks at the end so you are still engaged by the end. But I did think it was getting old about half way through. Again not a bad album, but even for a rap album I hope for alittle more variety in sound. (Small side note if Black Sunday had made the list instead of this album it’d probably be higher cause “Insane in the Brain” might be one of my favorite rap songs ever even to this day).
Rv
Has anyone considered that maybe they are actually opposed to the band The Police and pigs the farm animals, and not the law enforcement apparatus? Makes ya think.
Hits a lot of my usual talking points for hip-hop from this time: some stuff that has aged poorly, some fantastic sample work we’ll never hear again, and a homespun charm. I respect it as one of the most influential hip-hop albums ever made and enjoyed my listen fine, but I don’t expect to revisit in full.
Peak
I've listened a bunch to Black Sunday, but have never actually put their debut on. It's *excellent*. DJ Muggs does not get enough love for these beats! If you're struggling to contextualize this, check out their NPR Tiny Desk concert. B-Real talks a bunch about the backdrop for this stuff.
This genre of hip hop is classic. Not something I would have found without this recommendation, but something I enjoyed listening to.
Leuk album. Al wel bekend
West Coast hip hop, Latin hip hop.
Infectious. But I hate the easy violence. I love the ringing alternative quality, the loud bass lines, the stoned delivery, the latin mix. I wish I could scrub the nonsense and leave the crazy fun.
More funky than I expected.
I find the tone of the rap annoying, supplemented by backing tracks that are annoying.
It's funny listening to this and 3 Feet High so close together. What an interesting and goofy period in hip-hop. I'm sad we lost that (that I know of), though at the same time, the shtick wears a little thin. Still, these guys were cool, though that F slur took me out a bit on that very first track.
I’m a 90s hip hop fan
hip-hop selection on this list largely canonical and stellar but i find this one pretty annoying, sorry :(
When listening to hiphop I do prefer this old-school feel. I was pretty busy today and didn’t get to listen as close as I should have
Good
It’s fine, good beats, but nothing too special. Likes: Pigs; Hand On The Pump; Psycobetabuckdown
glad to give this a spin probably would not otherwise listen to debut cypress hill all told, not bad. some good stuff 💥how i could just kill a man 💥hand on the pump
Listened to on my Apple EarPods. God, what a fun rap album. You know, for as much as rap can excel at personal storytelling, political fire, or energizing success bars, there is a true lack of rap that not only sounds great, but sounds like it was fun to make. I think of stuff like Beastie Boys' 'Paul's Boutique', Wu-Tang Clan's debut, or something more modern like Brockhampton's 'Saturation'. Cypress Hill's eponymous debut is one of those albums, even when main rapper B-Real delivers bars that are sometimes brutal and dark. Now, I'm not unfamiliar with Cypress Hill, but I've never really delved deep into any of their work. Really giving them a try with this album filled a hole I didn't know was waiting to be filled in my rap knowledge. This is just stacked with incredible flow and unique beats. For me, my closest reference point is Public Enemy, a group I'm very familiar with, who have the same kind of energy, just trade their social-consciousness for a lot more pot-headed lyrics. DJ Muggs serves as the beatmaker for the album and he is just an absolute force, filling the rhythm with heavy bass and thumping drums that contrast with the thin melodies and chopped up vocal samples that glide over top in weird and funky ways. There are just a lot of weird samples on here that you can only make work if you let it serve the song without any judgement, like if "ahh, I don't know if we should use that, it sounds kind of bizarre" was a statement that never said in the making. The voice of B-Real and the hype-man energy from Sen Dog are also from left-field and mix well with that production. B-Real never really grabbed me with his lyrics in general, but there is an undeniable mastery in his ability to flow from line to line and even word to word, with a lot of internal rhyming in the lines, and that combined with his voice makes him fit like a glove on these tracks, and super entertaining. Sen Dog has a more hidden presence, occasionally offering his own verses with a great voice and unmistakably shouting in the back of a lot of tracks, which add a lot of character. In particular, tracks like the opener 'Pigs', 'Light Another', and especially 'The Phuncky Feel One' stuck out to me. That last track in particular--I think--showcases Cypress Hill at it's fullest power. This isn't just cause it sounds great, but because it has such a cool three part structure, B-Real rapping over the main beat, then Sen Dog coming in for a half verse over a beat switch before going back to the main beat and B-Real, and finally closing with the pair trading bars over the beat switch. This song just truly encapsulates the fun of this album as everybody gets a chance to shine. There is just a lot of great stuff all over this record. The beat switches from DJ Muggs that actually add to tracks by transitioning nicely and sticking around for a bit (wish beat switches nowadays were as masterful and exciting as this). The bi-lingual rapping in Spanish that adds some icing to the cake near the end of the record, courtesy of the Latino roots of B-Real and Sen Dog. The unstoppable flow from B-Real that refuses to quit on any of these tracks, and the energy from Sen Dog's interjections. I mean, even the hooks on this are good, and they are mostly just repeating the same line over and over. It's a testament to the delivery of B-Real and the production of the tracks that it never gets boring in those moments when it could come off as weak. This is an album that is not afraid to get freaky and weird, all in the pursuit of making something that sounds unique and fun. Fun, fun, fun! I keep saying it all over this review, cause there really is no better way to describe it. There were some moments on this that I didn't super jam with like the rest of the album on my walk yesterday, but listening to it again during this review, it's just so damn hard to find fault here. Just a resounding, excellent work of hip hop, that even nowadays stands out as wholly unique. You listen to one of these tracks, and it's undeniably Cypress Hill. It couldn't be anyone else.
Solid 3.7
Didn’t leave much of an impression to me idk
I’d give this 10 stars if I could
I don’t know this album very well, as the debut was so good and seemed unsurpassable.
I love 90s hip hop production. Insane in the Brain will always be their magnum opus though.
This isn’t their best work, but it’s a very important debut that clearly set the tone for everything that came after. With this album, Cypress Hill showed the world exactly who they were — raw, rough, tough, and completely unfiltered. While listening I felt that thick, dark, smoky West Coast energy all the way through. The beats are absolutely killing it, heavy and hypnotic, while the lyrics hit hard with that signature attitude. B-Real’s unmistakable voice gives the whole record its own unique identity — once you hear it, you never forget it. The whole project just oozes confidence and personality. It’s the album where they introduced their sound, their style, and their world to everyone. Even though it’s not their absolute peak, I’m always happy when I put this record on again. It still feels fresh, dangerous, and full of that early 90s fire. A strong debut that earned its classic status.
Classic
Not sure who did more for the legalization of cannabis, NORML or Cypress Hill
Real Estate was a vibe
I know 'Cypress Hill', but don't really know them. And I enjoyed truly meeting them for the first time. This album was solid. Good beats. Good times. Liked it.
When to listen: party, unity, community, hype. I found myself bopping my head to every song. Loved the samples, especially the latin influence. Creative. V v good.
I mean come on this is the sickest
I don't do any drugs, which hindered my ability to enjoy this but I did save one song for the giggles. So one star.
I honestly had no idea what to expect with Cypress Hill other than it being a Rap Collective project akin to Wu-Tang Clan, and when listening to this album I was pleasantly surprised with what was delivered. If there was any part of this album I'd like to highlight, let it be the instrumentals/beats as they take the cake for the most striking parts for myself. Yes the rapping is good and all but I wasn't super blown away by any of the lyrics and the higher pitched rapping voice of one of the main MCs. For being 46 minutes it zips by and doesn't ever try to do anything too crazy or serious. It feels nestled in the grit and edge of 90s Hip Hop and stands as a perfect capsule of what to expect when digging into that time frame. I wish I liked this more but I just don't think it does enough for me to be truly wowed by it.
os clássicos do rap
Good writing, great beats and a lot of fun
Love the early 90s hip hope. Thought this would be cheesier, was pleasantly surprised
Better than some in this genre, but still not my favorite genre.
It was a change of pace but not in a good way. I understand why it’s on the list
Did not like. Annoying voice, lyrics were just mid, production was fine at best. Felt a lot longer than the 46 minute runtime.
meh. it was better than I expected though
Оо
Hits from the 90s
Not for me.
1. Puff puff 2. Play Cypress Hill 3. Close eyes 4. Bob head (Attempt to ignore misogynistic lyrics)
Nunca pensé encontrarme con el under yanki, la verdad no me gustó
It’s hard to talk about influential hip-hop records without mentioning Cyprus Hill’s eponymous debut. Not only was this record very important in shaping the decades of stoner, Hispanic, and hardcore hip-hop, it also had a huge influence on the rap/rock/nu-metal that dominated the 90’s and early 2000’s. It’s not hard to see why this album was appealing to a broad spectrum of music fans. DJ Muggs’ samples alone are on the verge of mindblowing. His use of old soul records to create deep, textured, and psychedelic sounds is really cool. His production work is also shockingly good, considering this was indeed their debut. There is something very interesting in B-Real’s vocal style too, it’s high pitched, nasally, but for some reason I never find it to be grating or difficult to listen to. Lyrically I think this album is really something to behold as well. I’ve always had a soft spot in my heart for Cyprus Hill, and I had fun listening to this album for the first time in forever. 4*
I really enjoy the sound Cypress Hill creates on this album through some creative mixing and sampling. I only wish the lyrics were as creative. It’s really all about smoking weed and shooting people and even to that end isn’t written in a way that’s especially engaging or surprising.
I recognize a few of these tracks by name, but otherwise have not listened to this album. I feel like DJ Muggs is the real unsung hero of this album. The beats are all fantastic.
I really enjoyed the production to this album which feels like the limk between gangsta rap and artists lile Tribe and the Beasties with a latino element. Despite the lack of ‘Insane in the Membre’, the one CH track i actually remember this is s really strong offering
Rap and hip-hop, especially of this era, is very hit and miss for me, for reasons I’m not always able to ascertain. Cypress Hill are mostly in the “hit” category. Songs like “Hold in the Head” and “Real Estate” are catchy and, whilst I’m not actively aware of hearing any of these tracks before, they feel familiar. You can see the influence on the others who came after, which is the kind of rap / hip-hop I largely do like.
I sort of feel like I probably shouldn't like this album. But I did. Loved the sampling, the funkiness of it, the flow of the rapping. I am however massively unhappy to discover Insane In The Brain has not made it to the generator. Should really be a 3.5 but it's not a 3 so: 4/5
можна більше без репу
SOLID, very much of the area this came out (to me now).
Consistent all the way through, no particular standouts but a solid album.
Strong
No. 189 Enjoy the album, I kinda phased out and got into the beats. No idea what the lyrics were about.
Vibe and cgeck
2/5
My third eponymous album in a row. I think the algorithm wanted me to learn a new word. A good example of it's genre.
Lo tuve que pausar muchas veces para poder concentrarme en mi vida. Después me decidí a prestarle más atención… grave error, me hizo replantearme por qué estoy escuchando estos albumes.
Gangster Rap is where I draw the line on this list. I get that this is important music for a lot of people….im just not one of them.
Didn't expect to enjoy this as much as I did. The beats, the samples, the wild guitar squeal or horns bleating or vocal wail or trill or scratch on a loop, all that was top notch and much more engaging to me than, say, Ice-Ts OG, which just recently came up as my album of the day. No real annoying tracks that wreck the flow of the album for me, it was just loaded with hooks the whole way through. An album that helped define the 90s. 4/5
How I Could Just Kill a Man Hand on the Pump
292/1089 this was a fun and interesting enough listen as part of this project but none of it stood out to me as something i need to revisit 24/100
Not my genre but not unenjoyable to have on in the background
Le tenía expectativas mucho más altas y me defraudó, hasta un poco racista lo sentí
First half: songs about being a gangster. Second half: weed. Not the Cypress Hill album that I wanted or that should be on this list. There are a couple good tracks on here though. They pretty much all come from the first half.
Oh man… incredible debut album for a hip hop group. The unsung hero here is the legendary DJ Muggs who created the signature sound for groups like Cypress, House of Pain, Funkdoobiest and Soul Assassins. The beats and samples on this record are a good time and B Real is one of the best. Not the best Cypress record but a classic.
Giving it a 4 but I think Black Sunday would have been a better pick!
Enjoyable blend of chippy early 90s hip hop.
I guess this is a hood classic but I found it pretty grating.
nostalgic, i just don't think it aged that well or I would listen to it if I hadn't played tony hawk for my whole life
Hip-Hop
DJ Muggs' production is the star of this record, and it's genuinely exceptional — dark, hazy, cinematic beats built from deep low-end and carefully chosen samples that create an atmosphere so complete it could function as a full listening experience without a word being rapped over it. In a genre where production often serves the vocals, this record almost reverses the equation. Which is also the limitation. B-Real's nasal, stylized delivery is immediately recognizable and completely distinctive, but it disappears into the mix as texture rather than asserting itself as a voice saying things that demand attention. At times the vocals function less like a rapper and more like another sample — present, purposeful, and ultimately absorbed into the atmosphere Muggs built around them. The lyrics become wallpaper over extraordinary furniture. The adolescent hip-hop connection that made NWA land with real personal weight doesn't quite activate here in the same way. The production pulls you in completely while the lyrical content adds limited resonance — similar to the Common experience earlier in this project, where the music underneath was doing more work than the performance on top. The beats deserve a four. The record as a whole lands at three. A genuinely impressive sonic achievement that stops just short of full connection. The production alone makes it worth knowing — just don't expect the vocals to match it.
Cypress Hill to me is mostly about the charm and charisma of the guys. It’s good. I did get bored midway through.
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Better than expected. Beat is pretty much of its time, but the production stays fresh even now
Good music if you hit bongs all day. Quite liked it but it’s a samey album
buena me agradó algo diferente
Basic but this one mostly missed me until now
This one still slaps. Great musical energy, and the lyrics still make me chuckle with their cleverness. Hard not to get the head bobbing and hips moving when this one is spinning.
Not entirely sure how this passed me by at the time - it shouldn't have. It's going on the list. Heard before ✅️ Listened this time ✅️ Revisit ✅️ ★★★★☆ (7/10) Total reviewed : 301 Already owned : 68 Purchased : 15 To buy : 4 Nope : 214
What a throwback. Had this on cassette back in the day. 4/5
I was wondering if we were going to get Cypress Hill in here considering some of their contemporaries making the list. This was a great throwback to early 90's rap. Its funky, its weird, and sounds a little bit off but I think that works in its favor. Great lyricism, even though it runs way longer than I remember.
Really enjoyed this one. Cypress Hill is just such a fun group. Funny lines, unpolished sounding tracks, funky funky beats. It’s too long but I’m glad I’ve finally heard this one
Nothing wrong with it but not my music
90’s hip hop. A category all of its own. I hope there’s more hip hop on the list.
I had never listened to this album. I only knew a few songs off of it. But this album was exceptional. I really enjoyed it.
I'm guessing which of the two Cypress Hill classics you prefer entirely depends on which one you encountered first. For me, that was Black Sunday, an album with a storied place in my childhood, and an album that I still listen to with some regularity today. But that's not on this list, so I'll gladly give their debut its flowers. They're so funny, the beats go hard, and that grimy, hazy, jazzy sound is ultra recognizable. There's maybe too little variation, but that's more or less true of nearly every rap album. I've never really partaken in the circumstances that this album almost requires, but I still love it to pieces.
This is pretty good and cool, but the main thing that stood out is that it feels Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater coded. A whole genre, for guys my age
I've never really opened myself up to old school gangster rap, but I am somewhat familiar with Cypress Hill so I knew some of what to expect. What I didn't expect was to bob my head and dance in my chair smiling for a straight hour while I worked. Great album, maybe a touch repetitive but honestly, that's the worst I can come up with, I get why this isn't everyone's jam but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I just have never been a fan of gangsta rap so this just doesn't do it for me. Could not make it through this absolute trash of an album, every song sounds the same. They sound just like ICP, not sure who bit who's style but it's all bad.
Standouts How I Could Just Kill a Man
3.25
More uninspiring hip hop improved with the occasional horn and strings.
This is the sound of every college party worth going to in the mid/late 90s. Great flows, great beats, great sampling. the album would be a lot more fun if they'd toned down some of the violence in the lyrics. But all in all, its an easy listen from start to finish
The sound that plays beginning at 0:30 in The Phuncky Feel One is the sound of a Pikmin dying. Cypress Hill is admittedly been a blind spot in my knowledge of classic hip hop. This album holds up. Very clearly B-Real’s voice inspired the likes of Danny Brown. Lyrical content tends to be somewhat shallow here to the point where it tends to get repetitive towards the end here. Still fun. Favorites were How I Could Just Kill A Man, The Phuncky Feel One, and The Funky Cypress Hill Shit.
Never listened to a full cypress hill album before and I wasn’t disappointed, great samples and great interplay between the members and great rapping. No skits too which is always a plus on a rap album. The only downside is that I wasn’t into some songs and I feel you could’ve cut the fat and made a super tight album with all bangers
Was an instant classic. Still stands up today.
this was so boring
It's a no from me
Pretty decent, but not a favorite
Favorite Track: Hand On the Pump Least Favorite Track: Break It Up
9.5/10
It's honestly been a long time since I've listened to Cypress Hill. That said, it's still enjoyable and a lot of fun.
é ok
Floating between a 3 and 4, there’s a lot of great moments on this and the vocals/production are quite strong
listening to this just makes you wish you were latino... #real
It grooves. It flows. It's still kinda annoying to me. Can't get past some of the vocal tones.
🌿💨👌🏻
Solid, musical. I like the funk and the Latin influences. 3.5?
This is exactly why I wanted to do this project - I would never have picked this up/discovered this myself, it is so different to my normal listening and the lyrics feel a bit dated and far from my own experiences or views. And yet, I loved this! The samples and mixing was fantastic and I enjoyed every track. Hoping for more surprises like this!
holy moly, that’s awesome.
kinda boring. Some interesting sounds.
High school era, hits from the bong …could of waited another 30 yrs to revisit this effort
I feel bad because I think my average rating for hip hop is pretty low compared to how I think I enjoy the genre. But that's a factor of this list having a lot of old-school hip hop prior to gangsta rap (Which is about when I started enjoying hip hop with the more intricate and complex rhyme schemes that flow better). And unfortunately, this is still that old-school flow with the more sparse, early 90's sound. So yeah, just not really doing much for me.
This is #day606 of my #1001albumsyoumusthearbeforeyoudie challenge, and… here's another record from the golden age of hip-hop, aka one I'd never heard before. Cypress Hill is a name that definitely rings a bell, though. I'm not even sure what to say here, really. This kind of hip-hop always feels like quality by default. It's all about the atmosphere and the vibe, and this debut is no exception. A sonic time machine back to the early '90s. This is a 4 out of 5. I might even bump it up later. Looking forward to #day607.
Good to hear this again. Super original. Listened a lot in my college years.
it's just so fun Will I listen to again: 100%
2.8/5
Phuncky
Pretty solid
Familiar with the big hits, but don’t think I’ve ever listened to a full album start to finish. It’s a great grove, and the arrangements are really impressive. There is something of the beat being pretty much the same across each track (as well as vox) but still enjoyable enough and variety in the mixes. I enjoyed it and a nice journey all together. Not something I’m amazed but or would listen front and centre, but would happily come back to and have on in the background 3.5-4
Cypress Hill as fuck, which is to say that it's really good.
Another boom bap album, but this time it's a group of Latin Americans, which I only figured out upon hearing the song "Latin lingo." Goes to show how closely I was listening.. that might be my favorite song on the album; the songs with bilingual bars were pretty cool. It's still really hard to rate albums like this because the style of music is characterized by having minimal instrumentals to make room for the spoken word, so to speak. But like ray, I also don't internalize lyrics very much, nor do I look for them as the main point of appeal in music. The instrumentals, sampling, and flows are all funky and rhythmically interesting, but that's about all that I can say. All the music from this genre sounds the same because it's supposed to. I think rap music reached its peak after the 21st-century, when an artist started using more musical elements. Some of the samples on this album made me think how it's cool that you can loop sounds from daily life and create a rhythm from that.
I really did not like the first 4 tracks, the . . . violent nihilism? Any excuse I can think of for those tracks doesn't fly, and most of the explanations I can think of are cynical and self-serving and irresponsible. Ok, after that -- a number of the tracks sound pretty cool; the music/rhythm, I mean - the rapping is kind of annoying (to me); I don't even know what they're saying, half the time, but it SOUNDS like obnoxious braggadoccio, which really rubs me the wrong way. Some of the sound collages and beats and whatnot are pretty cool. So, like 3 or 4 (lean toward a 4) for that part, but 1 or 2 (lean toward a 1) for the "vocals" (and the lyrics). But, overall 2 or 3. I think I dislike the vocals (delivery, and lyrics, and nihilism posing as cool) so much that I'll give it a 2 overall. But I did like the beats and the samples and the bass and the whatnot -- basically, everything except the vocals.
there's not a ton of variety, but I enjoyed listening to that funky Cypress Hill shit I appreciate how simple and effective the beats are. There's a distinctive style. The lyrical content is fun too
good 90s rap
Not for me
I remember listening to this album years ago. Not bad 3.5 stars
The perfect formula for 90s rap success: 80s hip-hop music bed, meaningless interludes, glorified gun violence, celebrate drug culture, hate the cops and novelty vocals. Pass.
This sounds like an uninspired knockoff of Insane Clown Posse.
Todas as canções aqui são sobre homicídio, praticamente. Ao menos este disco não cai nas clássicas armadilhas do Rap da década de 90, não possui interlúdios desnecessários, nem duração inflada, e nem humor sem graça. Apenas carnificina mesmo. As batidas são universalmente ótimas, todas as canções são agitadas por samples interessantes e únicos. Os vocais são decentes, não possuem os melhores flows mas ainda são o suficiente pra dar uma mexida na cabeça. Batidas boas, vocais ok, o resultado é um disco funcional. Adjetivo estranho, mas descreve bem. O que está aqui está conforme o esperado, não decepciona mas também não surpreende. Talvez se eu gostasse mais de homicídio eu gostaria mais do álbum, visto que este é um foco dele. Só por não ser horrível, já quebra algumas expectativas do gênero neste período de tempo específico. Às vezes o vocalista me lembrou o Danny Brown, isso é bom. Essa voz nasal, agitada mas não hiper-agressiva agrada. Mas chegando mais perto do final do álbum, ele fica bem cansativo. Monótono, e a única coisa que salva são os instrumentais. 3/5
Solid album, not something I would typically listen to, but I appreciate this. It's fun.
Better than I thought it would be.
definitely not for me but I love the acab vibe
So much energy, a lot of fun to listen to
So much deprivation. Lol
Liked the first song, but flow and sound aren't really my thing
Great for the old school style, but knocking them one star for every song sounding the same
I liked some of DJ Muggs' projects (Dust and the Grandmasters collaboration with GZA).but only really know the Cypress Hill hits. The closest I've been to a bong is walking past the head shop in town but I quite enjoyed this and I think it's mainly due to Muggs grooves. Favourite song Pigs.
Great
The beats are OK, if a little eccentric (and a touch annoying), but not much else is good to me.
really not for me it was fun, but it got repetitive and boring after a while. It's not something I would listen to again but if it was on I could vibe to it
I never got into Cyrpress Hill as a youth and have maintained a low opinion of them since. Was therefore surprised to discover that I quite enjoyed the album and that it had quite a groove. The songs do tend to sound all the same and lyrically there does not appear to be a lot going on but I enjoyed the listen (mostly in my car being a mean bitch in South Gloucestershire). Its probably a 2/5 but will give a bonus point for surprising me.
Cypress Hill I didn’t have many particular expectations either way going into this. Pigs is a great opener, the hook sample is excellent and that overall funk/soul vibe continues with How Could I Just Kill a Man’s using Tramp, and throughout the rest there are further great samples including Muddy Waters on Ultraviolet Dreams, giving the whole thing a pleasing sound. Rhythmically, however, and despite the great soul samples, I found it curiously un-groovy, feeling a bit leaden footed in places, with the exception of the insistent Latin Lingo Vocally I like their Latin American tone, giving them a distinctive sound and also a slightly different point of view from their contemporaries, however I don’t find their lyrics to always be that interesting or that convincing, I don’t get the same sense I get from Nas or Wu Tang Clan about the violence and inequality around them - although I do believe they aren’t fans of the police. But overall I enjoyed it, the extensive soul sampling pointing to the West Coast sounds to come and giving it a very listenable quality, even if rhythmically and lyrically it left less of an impression. I’ll go for a high 3. 🇨🇾🇨🇾🇨🇾 Playlist submission: Pigs
A lovely marriage of hip-hop with funk and soul. The, now classic, DJ Muggs sound is evident throughout. The walking bass on 'Pigs' is excellent, (although the police's job is hard enough without these garbage lyrics). 'Light Another' is another superb bass-driven highlight, as well as 'Tres Equis' ('Very Hoarse'), and I am reminded of Fun Lovin Criminals' weed-induced funk rap. It's also like a breezy forerunner to House of Pain, and Cypress Hill are pretty much inventing the frat-boy rap sound (although I'm sure they'd bristle at such a claim, given they have a much more serious outlook, and maintain a more sinister and weed-induced atmosphere (B-Real was in the Bloods after all)). It also has early elements of rap-rock, melodic beats, and Latino-rap, without making any of those elements the album's defining feature. It's a clever mix of all of it, and hence a suitably commercial sounding affair, without losing credibility. What's more it's a rap album barely over 40 minutes, with no fake answering phone messages, nor any tracks where the rapper is having a conversation and imparting his inconsequential view on the world. These fellas just stick to business the whole way. Excellent.
Very good
I actually liked Black Sunday back in the day when they were blowing up, listening to this now, not so much. The nasal vocals are seriously irritating and it’s all rather teenage boy style annoying. Yep, I’ve grown out of this one
Employed this hip hop album. I’ll say that a lot of the tracks feel samey, but are still enjoyable. Notable tracks include Pigs, How I Could Just Kill A Man, Hand On The Pump, Hope In The Head, The Phuncky Feel One, Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk, Latin Lingo.
Not my genre but I thought this was pretty good! I added “Born to Be Busy” to my Generator playlist.
I'm not familiar with much of the Hill's discography, but this was surprisingly good. Respect to DJ Muggs, his production is really clean, he uses a lot of classic sampled music, but blends well with the west coast latino vibe they display on the whole album. I wish the lyrics and flow were sharper which they focused it more on the next album, but this one shines because of the production.
Too repetitive. Not for me
Major Album that I never got into
3.75. Made for a fun grocery trip. I listened to later Cypress Hill but for some reason not this album. I dig it.
2 notes into the first track and there was no denying it was Cypress Hill. I appreciate their sound but it never was high on my list of bands to listen to.
They are so damned underrated.