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If you can't say something nice ... it's a no for me.
Not the best hip hop project.
Para mí, este disco de hip hop se salva por el poquito funk que de vez en cuando se cuela entre composición y composición. Por lo demás, me aburre y me cansa, hasta me irrita, por partes iguales. Poco más que decir se un álbum que no me ha animado a escucharlo una segunda vez.
Good, not really my thing but a good example of the genre
Punchy west coast beats sometimes hit and sometimes don’t for me. I enjoyed this album but it’s not up there with my favorites in this genre.
This one is FUN. The groove and the flow are irresistible. Funky samples. Perfect execution.
Break out the bong and channel your inner Beavis. Cypress Hill has a signature sound. It’s infectious but also can tend to get annoying after awhile. Small doses of Cypress Hill can be fun, no denying. But it all sounds very similar. Tough call here. These guys are good, but I got tired of it by the end. Couple of songs in I was leaning 4. By the end I can’t justify a 4.
3.62
Not a fan.
Muy buen disco de Cypress!!!
Lyrics are good
I means it’s ok not my favorite, I feel like they were speaking gibberish the whole time
Good flow, good sound. Didn't change my life but it's good to be on the list.
This has some good bounce to it. The lyrics just aren't great, as an instrument the vocals are fine, but the lyricism was hurting my head. This deserves to be be here for it's impact and to represent a time and a style. It's tricky, this was sonically fun for the most part, but I don't think I can go higher than a 3.
It's got quite a good vibe to it, and it was an easy listen.
The production feels fairly ahead of it's time: the heavy use of sorta unconventional samples- rock, funk, movies, Latino, psychedelic reminds me of Madlib or Alchemist production. It does start feeling formulaic- Hand on the Pump, Pigs, Real Estate & to a lesser extent Phuncky one & Kill a Man feel like proto Insane in the Brain. It feels cohesive, but also at the same time sorta starts to bleed together. I enjoyed this album quite a bit, high 3s I'd say.
Did anyone order a London Symphony Orchestra? Possibly while high? Cypress Hill, I'm looking in your direction. Great album. I used to have this on CD, but it disappeared years ago. Fun listen. Should have saved it until after work, tho. 🌳😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️😶🌫️🌳 4.5⭐️ because I need to be in a Cypress Hill mood
Surprising that this came out in 1991....the music sounds ahead of its time, although the themes remain the same. 'How I Could Just Kill a Man' and 'Hand on the Pump' are still classics....it just gets a little monotonous after a while and feels longer than 46 minutes. 3.5 stars
2.25 - I’m more familiar with subsequent albums. This holds up better than Run DMC, but I was a bit disappointed in this.
A hundred bands from the '60s and '70s still get regular radio play, half a century later. This album basically had two hits, and at most one still gets any airplay today. It definitely played a role in the evolution of hip hop, so it's warranted to be in the 1001 project, but in terms of listening experience, out of musical context, it's only 3 stars.
Not bad but kinda boring
05/10 31.03.26
Album No. 0177 on my list. I’m not sure what to make of Cypress Hill’s debut album to be frank. As I usually write when reviewing a hip hop album, I’m not that deep into the genre, so I sometimes find it hard to express my thoughts about hip hop records. “Cypress Hill’s” certainly has something to it, but I can’t really describe what exactly. It definitely will not become an all time favorite, but I can’t get something out of it. I found the lyrics somewhat monotonous (the members seem to enjoy the consumption of weed, but seem to dislike encounters with the police), but there are still some pretty good lines in this. The flow is solid and I like the extensive use of samples. Ah, in the end I find it rather good, actually, and will add “Pigs”, “How Could I Just Kill A Man”, “Ultraviolet Dreams”, and “Born To Get Busy” to my playlist. 4/5 stars!
By the lyrics to some of the songs they do not like the police and who can blame them? This album is something unique not in a bad way. Said the F slur which definitely plays a role in how I rate it, but otherwise the stuff like that it’s decent. Favorite song: How Could I Just Kill a Man
GREAT HIP HOP ALBUM
Eh.
The flow and delivery can feel a bit repetitive but when it’s powerful who cares?
Solid hip-hop. Didnt realize how many other artists covered and sampled this album.
How Could I Just Kill a Man Hole In the Head Psychobetabuckdown The Funky Cypress Shit Born To Get Busy
Pigs Hand on the Pump Ultraviolet Dreams Tres Equis Born to Get Busy
Sound very Cypress Hill, oh wait it is. The fact that I haven't heard this album but it was the same music I have heard before makes me think that the albums are just the same music.
I don't have anything positive to say about this album. I don't understand the people praising the sampling, it's largely like, a one-bar segment, played on repeat for the entire duration of the track. Lyrically, I think the entire album covers literally 3 topics: - Weed - Guns/killing people - Hating the police Which realistically is all the same topic. They also manage to throw in some occasional homophobia just as the icing on the shitty people cake. Easy 1.
shows how much some brass samples and guitar melodies do for hip hop. enjoyable!
I found myself absent mindedly tapping along with the beat occasionally and would start paying attention. Upon which I would realise that the current section was being repeated with no variation for the next 2 minutes. I have concluded that my ADHD stops me from enjoying hip hop. I struggle to appreciate the talent in putting together a bar of stuff that sounds alright and then selecting it and pressing CTRL+C -> CTRL+VVVVVV. Other than that I am not interested in the album. I decided for one song to try to listen to the lyrics to figure out if it was at least lyrically interesting, after about a minute of trying I couldn't make out a single word and gave up. Low 2 At least it was short.
It was SO stylish and cool I'm honestly amazed. Really liked the beats and the usage of samples on this one, as well as the recitative itself. It was entertaining the whole time, every track was great, I think I will now have to get to know Cypress Hill better.
Unfortunately, so much of this music sounds the same and I really could do without all the foul language, but then it wouldn't be culturally accurate, would it? I thought the song "Hand On The Pump" had the same three notes that the song, "Duke of Earl"' has, and every time I heard those three notes the words, 'Duke of Earl' went through my head and every time I heard those three notes, I was disappointed as it wasn't the song, "Duke Of Earl" and I wondered if there were any piracy issues. Mostly, I was just glad when the album was over, and I hoped there would be a little more time before another hip-hop album shows up in the rotation. I did like the way that "Tres Equis" started out with the single horn and then joined by other instruments, so best song for me was "Tres Equis" which the language was Spanish, so I didn't understand what the words were except for a few like calenti which means hot and the song title "Three X's"
Black Sunday was required reading when I was a teen, strangely I never got curious to listen to the rest of Cypress Hill’s discography, I’m stoked I got to listen to this one though. Their sound is definitely different to other artists, distinctive vocals, cussing in Spanish, DJ Muggs’ DJ skills. Going through this list has made me look at hip hop a bit different and appreciate how an awesome DJ really makes a difference; Muggs skills of blending old school funk with dirty drum and bass loops wasn’t something I thought too much about as a teen listening to hits from the bong, but as an adult find really cool
I want to like it more but I can’t
Really not bad - kind of fun - but not all that interesting, either. Nice beats and samples; lyrics are a little lacking, and borderline annoying at times. Wasn’t feeling it today. 3
I'm actually quite impressed. It's a lot more listenable than the later ear worm tracks.
Real Estate
I liked this more than I thought I would
Ekki það sem ég kannast best við frá þeim, en fínasta samplvinna og alveg skemmtilegt.
A Hip-Hop group from Southern California.
Faded into the background surprisingly easily
you will never be the Pharcyde
Very easy to see how this inspired guys like Eminem, which was cool. However, this album wasn't really for me, and I don't think I could see myself listening to them again.
Really great during a sunny but cold day where you go around doing a bunch of errands
Inte min bag. En etta.
decent fun
i actually liked it more than i thought, but a lot of the beats and backing was off-putting to me. idk i can’t really explain it.
So sick. (Those fucking beats!) reminds of me Danny brown.
Not my style, but the music still had quality.
Jaja
You need to admire the nuisanced arguments about the police, focusing on reallocation of a percentage of resources to other important public services. On marijuana, Cypress Hill discuss its cultural significance in parts of the world as well as the important medicinal uses. Ok none of that is true. Cypress Hill are maybe caricatures of 90s hip hop but they made some good beats and have a distinct rapping style. I could do without the homophobic slurs though.
Pigs - 2.5/5 How Could I Just Kill a Man - 4.5/5 Hand On the Pump - 4/5 Hole In the Head - 3/5 Ultraviolet Dreams - 3/5 Light Another - 3/5 The Phuncky Feel One - 3.5/5 Break It Up - 2/5 Real Estate - 3/5 Stoned Is the Way of the Walk - 4/5 Psycobetabuckdown - 5/5 Something for the Blunted - 2.5/5 Latin Lingo - 4/5 The Funky Cypress Hill Shit - 4/5 Tres Equis - 3.5/5 Born to Get Busy - 3/5
I'm sorry, this is just noise to me.
Fun to revisit but not required reading. And I'm glad we did revisit it, for today I learned that Cypress Hill have nothing to do with Cypress Hill. By that I mean Cypress Hill the neighborhood in Brooklyn. They are in fact from southern California. Wow. Ha! My bad! I guess I shoulda paid more attention to the lyrics?!? So all those times I would ride my bike through the desolate and creepy but gratefully traffic-free Cypress Hill Cemetery and fantasize about running into B-Real smoking a blunt behind a tombstone was even more ridiculous than I already thought? Damn, that's really funny. I feel like I need to walk back through all my priors now. it certainly explains why they didn't have the East Coast sound other than a tiny Bomb Squad influence with the wheezy sounds in How I Could Just Kill A Man, and the same sample De La Soul used ("What does it all mean?") So I never really loved these guys like a lot of my friends did, but they had some good tunes. Doesn't hold my interest for a whole album though, to be honest. But I respected them, and while I wouldn't necessarily put them on the stereo, under certain circumstances I might turn it up.
I'm not sure I've ever heard anything from this album aside from the classic "How I could just kill a man" (with its legacy of some excellent covers by later bands), and maybe "Hand on the pump", so it's nice to get a larger sampling of an interesting early 90s group. It feels like they managed to channel and mix the sounds of De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest with harder-edged rap/hip-hop (plus of course some nice Parliament samples in "Psycobetabuckdown"), and it also feels like you can hear their influence on later bands like The Fugees and Fun' Loving Criminals. It may not be the most accomplished album music-wise, but it's fun and refreshingly absent of non-stop braggadocio and violence, and just due to that fact alone makes me torn between three and four stars; the addition of Spanish-lyric songs pushes it into four star territory.
I like their West Coast rap sound a lot, but they fall just a little short--it's all pretty good, but it never seems to be great. The beats are a little too similar across the album.
Perfectly fine and of historical importance. Not really into it though.
Die musik ist hörhbar. Irgendwie funk oder?
Not as good as Black Sunday. Still some banging moments though.
Not too many notes, a great rap debut with nothing crazy.
I really enjoyed this one in high school
Garbage. Reminds me of Insane Clown Posse. I think I was a bit too harsh on this one. Bumping to a 2.
some bangers on here for sure. excellent when the voice matches the repetition and impact of the production. doesn’t feel essential overall but still a great listen.
I figured I would be down with this album. After the first 3 songs I was tired of it. Same sound, same themes.
First of all, an extra star is awarded for the total non sequitur sample of “All I wanted was a Pepsi” at the end of “How I Could Just Kill a Man.” Second of all, I really like whatever this style of production is called, heavy on the samples, a mix of genres, heavy bass lines, idk. Ultimately I like De La Soul’s version of it a bit more. But, the lyrical content was pretty repetitive, and the flows were all kinda the same. I ended up listening to this a time and an half and liked it a lot more on the second run through.
DJ Muggs snapped with this one
Another rap album that I ultimately just find quite boring. Some good songs that I may add to a playlist but won’t listen to album again
7/10 Favorite: How I Could Just Kill a Man
Getting this immediately after Straight Outta Compton it's pretty clear how brazenly they're wearing their influences on their sleeves
A lot of fun. Jazzy, funky hip-hop beats with great flows and writing.
Funky, fun, and real. A breath of fresh (dank) air when it dropped, and an original sound that reverberates throughout this album
Probably nostalgia from my teen years.
Solid flow and very interesting early hip hop elements mixed with rock. Very unique in style and performance.
This album is psychedelic rap for stoners with a bit of a gangster edge to it. As a stoner I enjoy that. For some I can see how B-Reals voice can be annoying or grating, which is fair but I really liked this album and How I Could Just Kill A Man is soooo good.
Not what is was expecting at all with those visuals, but pretty good.
I enjoyed this more than I thought I would - not my usual type of music but I know and like their big hits and this album was more of the same sort of thing.
I dont think i’ve ever listened to a whole Cypress Hill album. I should have. Their style reminds me of early Beastie Boys rock rap funky beats with easy rythm flow, hook chorus, etc. It’s great.
Personal enjoyment: 4/5 Relevance to this list: 5/5
One of the benefits of this project: hearing some of the original songs that Rage Against the Machine covered on the "Renegades" album. I spent many years thinking that album was original material. Anyway, this is fine for 90's rap. The minimalist vibe is kinda interesting, but overall I gotta say I was bored by the end. 2.8
Garbage
nah
The biggest shock of my life is that I’m giving this album a 4
no estoy para rap hoy
Not really for me
I had no idea they were so prolific. Not for me, but impressive.
Cypress Hill’s debut is an impressively consistent listen. Even as someone who doesn't typically gravitate towards hip-hop, I found the album’s rhythmic swing and funk-heavy sampling compelling. The vocals are sharp and distinctive, maintaining a momentum that never flags. A four-star album. 1 "Pigs" (3/5) 2 "How I Could Just Kill a Man" (4/5) 3 "Hand on the Pump" (5/5) 4 "Hole in the Head" (4/5) 5 "Ultraviolet Dreams" (3/5) 6 "Light Another" (3/5) 7 "The Phuncky Feel One" (3/5) 8 "Break It Up" (3/5) 9 "Real Estate" (3/5) 10 "Stoned Is the Way of the Walk" (4/5) 11 "Psycobetabuckdown" (3/5) 12 "Something for the Blunted" (3/5) 13 "Latin Lingo" (3/5) 14 "The Funky Cypress Hill Shit" (5/5) 15 "Tres Equis" (4/5) 16 "Born to Get Busy" (4/5) Total - 57 Average - 3.56 235/1001 131/235 albums reviewed were new to me.
periodt, mexican gangsta
very my mom rap kind of music so i enjoyed it, i don’t think i would really like this music on the daily but good background noise
Thoroughly enjoyed! -1 star for F slur. Faves in album order: Hand on the pump Hole in the head Ultraviolet dreams Light another The phuncky feel one Stoned is the way of the walk Latin lingo Tres equis Born to get busy
I know them, but didn’t know a single song on the album. But it was good!
Not for everyone but this live album showed the true skills of the band.
I am pretty familiar with Cypress Hill's later works, but I haven't listened to this album at all. They gained mainstream success with the release of their second album. The beats on this one are impressive. I'm a fan of West Coast rap, and Cypress Hill are pioneers of this genre. Will I be listening to them on repeat, though? Probably not. 3/5
Some bangers. Great sound, good flow and beats. Overstays its welcome with 16 tracks, but worth the listen ultimately. I like any rapper where you know immediately who it is, and B-Real fits the bill with his unique delivery.
Musically meh. Happy to tour Russia.
hilarious and amazing 5/5
Enjoyed this. The rapping is fun, lyrics might seem a little generic for gangster rap as we think of it (guns, weed, police) but for 1991 this was good. The beats might be the real highlight, funky with latin influences, never boring at all. Good album
Favorite Track: Hole In the Head
Pretty generic and uninteresting. A lot of the album sounded like test tracks for various sound clips
This felt generic by my modern standards. Maybe it was more important when it was first released; I do like some of the messaging, too. But I disliked more than I liked.
8/10
Ik kijk even tien albums vooruit en ik zie: hip hop, punk, nog meer punk, nog meer hiphop, en dat slappe gedoe van de Pet shop boys. Moet ik dat nog allemaal luisteren of mag ik meteen al dood? Ik ben er wel een beetje klaar mee. Ik ga de komende tijd alleen muziek luisteren waarvan ik verwacht dat er nog een kans is dat ik het een drie of meer ga geven. Kortom, ik zap door naar Stevie Wonder.
Het album Cypress Hill is wat simpel en rommelig. Het gaat inhoudelijk niet heel veel verder dan het commentaar op de politie en de odes aan hun rookwaar. Muzikaal is het nog wat kaal. De liefde voor muziek straalt er nog niet van af. Tja, ik kan het de heren niet kwalijk nemen. Ze waren nog jong en ontdekkende. En dat ontdekken dat hebben ze gedaan. Na dit album leverde ze het 5 sterren album, dat de basis van de band definieert: Black Sunday. Met de hit Insane in the Brain. Vanaf daar werd hun muzikale hokje steeds wat ruimer. Geen ander genre was te gek. Waarbij ze hun unieke geluid toch telkens overeind wisten te houden. Dat geluid is niet alleen de ijzersterke rapper B-real met zijn uniek stemgeluid en rapstijl, maar ook de muzikaal creativiteit die niet ten koste gaat van de toegankelijkheid. Cypress Hill leverde bijvoorbeeld nog een 5 sterren-album Skulls & Bones. Met als tweede helft een combinatie met stevig gitaarwerk. En wederom een flinke hit met de combinatie Rap Superstar en Rock Superstar. Even later werken ze samen met Rusko en leveren ze een paar stevige Dubstep nummers. En niet lang geleden stonden met een symfonie-orkest op de planken. Cypress Hill zijn veelzijdige muziekliefhebbers die voor ieder wat wils bieden. En dit debut toont daar niets van. Ja, het had invloed en ja, het is best ok. Maar met enkel dit album in de lijst doe je de band heel erg te kort.
Ik dacht dat we af waren van de obsessie van onze snobs voor debuutalbums, maar hier hebben we er weer eentje. Op zich is er niks mis met dit album, maar het had denk ik logischer geweest om opvolger Black Sunday te pakken, waar de grote hit op staat. Maar goed, het gaf wel weer de gelegenheid om wat uitgebreider naar het oeuvre te kijken. Waar een zure broeder in zijn review al aangaf dat andere albums interessanter zijn, omdat Cypress Hill daar de verbinding zoekt met andere muziekgenres, heb ik die albums ook even geluisterd. Ik vind het zelf nog wel meevallen, er komt af en toe een gitaar bij, maar zelfs op rockgedeelte Bones van Skull & Bones is het toch merendeel een hiphop-sound. Het is net als zeggen dat een Rodenbach echt iets voor een wijnliefhebber is. Ik vind het dan dus interessant om nog dieper te gaan en juist een paar sideprojects van de rappende heren er uit te pakken. Om te beginnen Prophets of Rage, waar B-Real samenwerkt met Rage Against the Machine/Audioslave. Het project Kush samen met Deftones en Fear Factoryleden is helaas niet van de grond geraakt, dat had ik graag geluisterd. En Sen Dog met zijn rap metal Powerflo, samen met leden van Biohazard en Fear Factory. Het eerste album van Powerflo is een heerlijk staaltje hardcore metal. Leuk om te luisteren. Anyway, nu het al grote oordeel. Dit debuutalbum is niet meer dan 3 sterretjes waard, de opvolger een 3,5. Ik hou van de fusion met rock en metal en ondanks dat de samenwerkingen geen megagrote successen hebben opgeleverd, vind ik het wel interessant om te luisteren. Powerflo kan ik zo nog eens opzetten. Ik maak van de 3,5 een krappe 4 voor het totale oeuvre.
Okay, but far from great. There are much better early 90s hip hop groups.
A good funky groove, although now that weed is legal, this doesn’t pack the same punch it once might have.
Enjoyed it. Sick beat and flow on most of the songs
A little better than the other early 90s hip hop we've been getting
Not the worst rap/hip-hop, but not great. I’m happy I don’t have to listen to this again. 2/5
this is incredible
This one is interesting. The first quarter is all bangers. But it hasn’t aged super well lyrically and’s production-wise but is still very unique and original in its sounds. These guys definitely know who they are and what they are about. 6/10. Favorite tracks- “How I Could Just Kill a Man” “Hand On the Pump” “Tres Equis”
5* - made me go and listen to the next CH album
noioso
I'm surprised by how boring I found the album. Everything just ran together; there was nothing that stood out. It wasn't awful, but I've heard better elevator music.
While the grooves are there, the lyrics have not aged well. The usual gangsta rap garbage that has almost no value. It also lacks anyone of the hits that any knows at large. No thanks. Next...
Bringing plenty of Latin American flavour to West Coast hip-hop, Cypress Hill took the scene by storm in 1991 with their groundbreaking self-titled debut. Right up there with Ice-T, Ice Cube and Dr Dre, Cypress Hill ensured the West Coast hip-hop scene had plenty of solid foundations to branch out from at the turn of the 90s, however their sound also honoured the alternative rock boom that was happening at the same time. 'Cypress Hill', while very much a hip-hop record, also incorporates plenty of funky guitar riffs, dub-heavy bass and glitchy electronic songs that wouldn't be out of place on most 90s record. The group certainly understood the wider music scene at the time and there's no doubt this record inspired Korn and Limp Bizkit as much as it did Snoop Dogg or Outkast. Rappers B-Real and Sen Dog play off each other as well as plenty of the other great rap duos of the time (Public Enemy's Chuck D and Flava Flav, Run-DMC's Run and DMC), but what sets the Cypress Hill duo apart from the rest is how they manange to make quite extreme lyrics so fun and playful. There's no doubt they had plenty of fun putting this record together. Perhaps it was all the weed, given the fact that Cypress Hill are one of the most famous stoner groups around. As far as I'm concerned, 'Cypress Hill' walked so Outkast's 'Stankonia' could run, and both records are the perfect bookends for 90s hip hop, and while Snoop is probably the most famous stoner rapper now, Cypress Hill did it first. Best songs: How I Could Just Kill A Man, Hand on the Pump, Hole in the Head, The Phunky Feel One, Stoned is the Way of the Walk, Latin Lingo
Not my Taste
Slept on this one, some nice 90s rap
OK, a big part of this rating is nostalgia but even so... these guys are pretty great. I've never listened to this album and really only knew "How I Could Just Kill a Man". But there are some solid tracks here.
Cypress Hill made their place in hip-hop, becoming one of the first notable Latin American acts in the genre. Most probably remember them as the weed-loving, stoner rappers (which is apt) but I think the group still brought something unique to the table in a golden age of hip-hop. Just in their debut album here, you hear an interesting production filled with unique sampling. I guess it really is “stoner” sounding for lack of a better term. Funky, psychedelic, a little strange too (B-Real’s nasally vocals kind of lend a hand there). These guys are bad boys and aren’t afraid to show it and have a little fun. Are there better hip-hop acts from this era? Yes, but it’s undeniable that Cypress Hill made some sort of mark during their time in the spotlight.
Solid stuff, but they really upped their game with black Sunday
Absolutely loved it. The only issue I had was that some transitions between songs were awkward.
tried to give this an honest listen despite me not being a fan of cypress hill. while it has some unique aspects, it’s just not my vibe.
I have never felt so out of place as I did listening to this. I am completely not the audience for this. I can appreciate it as an album. But I just don't connect with it
Enjoying the tempo, lyrics are fine
I don't really listen to that much hip hop, so I didn't really know what to expect. Some of the songs were really catchy, although I probably wouldn't listen to the album again. I just couldn't get into it. That being said I enjoyed the song Light Another a lot.
I liked the start of this but got a bit repetitive as it went on. Glad to have heard it but not one for keeping around.
I recognize its cultural relevance, but it never really clicked for me.
not bad. just not my thing. I can appreciate the art though, I know it's good because I can sit through it. But I wouldn't listen again.
Nah
Kinda liked it when it came out but not my favourite type of hip hop. Might listen to a couple of tracks now and again but it's not an all time great, even for hip hop.
It was fine. Didn't feature the classic Insane in the Brain which was disappointing. Not really our vibe.
10 albums to go. This is fine for what it is, some funk and groove in the production but it doesn’t give me anything else. I’m not a fan generally of boast rap or songs that are wholly about drugs - so this isn’t a great combo for me.
En algunos momentos se me hizo repetitivo, igualmente el ritmo es bueno.
Not a fan. I don’t know if it’s his voice or the constant scratching like they just discovered they could do it.
Het was niet zo slecht maarja hip hop
This album is the birth of the sound that made the super-prolific Muggs the most sought after producer in hip-hop in the 1990's, Dr Dre aside. Bass-driven beats built from dusty soul samples, Latin drum breaks, rock guitar licks and scratches on the chorus. All sat in 90-96 BPM, the preferred time for most 1990s rap music. Other notable Muggs productions around this era are House of Pain's self titled debut album, including Jump Around, Funkdoobiest's Which Doobie UB? containing Bow-Wow-Wow (one of the best rap singles of all time) and key contributions to Ice Cube's The Predator, an albumWhat came next was Cypress Hill's Black Sunday, The vocals by B-Real and Senen/ SenDog, plus guests Mellow Man Ace (Sen's brother) were new, fresh and exciting in '91. They were the perfect match for the music Muggs was churning out at the time.
Dwa odsłuchy. Nadal nie czuję tej muzyki.
i really liked it, was a really fun album to listen to. i like tres equis a lot. 7/10
Album’s Best: Born to get busy
This is one of those records I respect more than I actually enjoy. The footprint is obvious, helping bridge the gap for this style to hit the masses. The energy is wild and the delivery is totally unhinged. It’s like the Beastie Boys with a much nastier attitude and better weed. Spins: 1 Playlist Additions - How I Could Just Kill a Man - Hand on the Pump - Hole in the Head
I'd sort of forgotten about Cypress Hill. When Black Sunday came out in '93 they were pretty much inescapable - they seemed to me to be at the more tolerable end of the genre and I would go so far as to say I quite liked that record once I got past the whiny vocal delivery. I'd never heard this record before but I do quite like their sound, even if the words are a bit shooty for my tastes. As with pretty much every record I've ever heard in this genre, I can't relate to a single word of it, but I guess I don't need to. It also starts to sounds very samey after a while - when it finished playing, I couldn't really remember any of it, and I was left with no real desire to remind myself.
Seem to repeat myself about hip hop generally. My knowledge of it is low. My enjoyment of it very mixed. The hypermasculinity and misogyny of so much of it seems to be mercifully absent from Cypress Hill, or did I just switch off as I wasn't very interested in it? Think they smoke a lot.... this could take things either way... ??
cool production and creative sampling, but it doesn’t blow me away. b-real’s voice is a bit annoying, and stops me from fully immersing myself in the album. not bad, but doesn’t do much to set itself apart from other hip-hop albums of the early 90s. lacking the charisma of the beastie boys, timelessness of atcq, and grit of wu tang clan. just a meh hip-hop record.
Ya de entrada Cypress Hill me parece genial y siempre he creído que tienen toda la onda del mundo. Ahora, además, encontré este disco en donde le meten una onda medio latina y hasta canciones en español, así que no había cómo no amarlo. Y para quien se espante de lo pelado de la música actual, escuche Tres equis en este disco, y recuerde que esto fue en 1991. Vaya madrazo.
Great beats and holds up in the face of modern RnB and rap
The first half was solid early '90s Hip-Hop with whacky lyrics, and cleverly used rhythm, and beats. The second half just drug on too long, and began sounding like the same song over, and over. Favorite Track: "How I Could Just Kill A Man".
Much more fun than I thought, good old school with plenty of fun beats and a fun delivery. Fun.
I was expecting something a lot more outdated, but it's still quite enjoyable. Good stuff.
I think I prefer it when my hip-hop is Conscious rather than Stoner.
Much better than Dr Dre in the same genre. Has a real fell that is unmistakably Cypress Hill you'll.
It's a great latino west coast hip hop album. Not the greatest I've heard, but great nontheless. Cypress Hill are legends for a reason. 5/5
another og rap album but i’ve never listened to them. will be interesting to compare this to the method man album from earlier this week. just off the first song i am getting more of a west coast vibe
5/10 - some fun beats but generally not my thing
GREAT beats
Part of the 1991 soundtrack to my freshman year of college. I still love this album. Such a weird and unique release when it came out. Production is amazing, sampling from funk, jazz, soul, and bossa nova; then blending them into something that is totally its own. A lot of stuff from this era sounds dated now, but this holds up really nicely.
Flawless perfection
3/5
An all around solid early hip-hop record full of memorable tracks.
it was ok, good start the rest however was not for me.
Trip trip hop
It had a good start and I was hopeful that the beat would keep up but it fell away for me
Love the laid back funky groove.
Revisited a couple of times and it’s good but nothing really stood out among the rest
Good beats but never a fan of B Real's flow
Not my speed
Much more of an entertaining listen than I was expecting. Good flow and good vibes.
Hmmm I am sure there are going to be plenty of times when I question the inclusion of an album on this list at the expense of another. None more so than this. At best this one merely lays the groundwork for Black Sunday which is vastly superior in every aspect. On its own, it’s ok but does get repetitive towards the end. Would have been a 5 if the author picked the right album.
So this hasn’t changed my pre-conception that these guys really really really love their weed, and they produce some of the best head nodding tunes out there. Tbh i don’t recall ever listening to this album, so it’s a funny one to review given half the time you’re thinking you’ve heard it before, and then realising they clearly borrowed a lot for their excellent 2nd album. They’ve got a very similar vibe, albeit this one seems to sample more funk (a bit like Beastie Boys of the similar time). The beats and lyrical patterns are just great, and the lyrical content, well it is what it is. And my head nods on.
This album is fine. I can’t really find much more than that to say. It’s a bit repetitive and sounds like 1991, but there is nothing specifically wrong with it. I just don’t like it much.
Meh, I really didn’t care for this one much.
Not a genre I usually listen to. They earned the explicit rating on those songs. I liked the energy though.
80
Fun listen. They were an original.
We get it. You smoke weed and hate the cops
Seems like this album was relevant for the evolution of West Coast hip-hop. I am very disconnected from this genre and I simply do not see it.
I really admire the ability that this band has to release a 15+ song album where all of them sound exactly the same.
Greit nok, ganske samey hele albumet men liker sounden
I knew this would be a good album when the first song was "Pigs." Go OFF, Cypress Hill.
It's easy to tell, even for a hip-hop novice like me, that these guys played a heavy influence on 90s hip hop and beyond. There are elements of gangsta rap here, yes, but even more so, I picked up on dark, eerie, atmospheric, and cinematic elements in their music, voices, and lyrics that also remind me of certain rap acts who embraced these elements. All in all, I found this to be a pretty good hip hop album!
Hell yeah
Just incredible vibes and production. Feels like rap on the edge of insanity (they should make a song about that). I aspire to hate cops as much as these guys hate cops.
Pretty cool
It was alright, I prefer Sublime if I'm going to listen to this type of music
I loved the song they did with the London Symphony Orchestra
Shotguns, Pigs, Niggas, Gangstas, lalalalalalalalaaaa. Music for mental midgets. Boring.
Some good tunes and interesting samples on this one (Duke of Earl!) Highlights: "How I Could Just Kill A Man" and "Real Estate"
Not a bad album and a good debut with some real hits but it seems clear how much better they got with subsequent releases. "How I could just kill a man" and "Hand on the pump" were standouts for me
very 90's & fun. don't think i'll revist, but I enjoyed the listen
I really like a lot of the less traditionally hip hop beats used here. It actually reminds me a lot of Beck in some moments, and that style suits the vocals surprisingly well with the almost industrial type sounds. On the whole, I think that the project overall could be a lot better, it is quite messy and rough around the edges, but the ideas and the talent are definitely there.
There's something to be said about the importance of lyrics in hip hop ... I mean, maybe not a whole lot, 'coz it's a real "no shit" kind of topic ... but there's something, nonetheless. What **is** hip hop if not the lyrics? I know in the past I've tried to look at this stuff without much focus on 'em, and I'll tell you in short that it didn't go over too well. But let's back up for a second and give a word to a larger topic: subject matter. Of course the exact words are the most important things, but what about what these songs are generally about? And the variety of topics? It's not something I often think about when it comes to rap albums, but with this album it ended up being more on my mind than not. Cypress Hill, on the album 'Cypress Hill', seem to cycle through three or four different topics: "we don't like cops", "we can kill you", "we're hot shit", and "weed". And in the back half, it's mostly "weed". That's not really exactly a lot of variety, huh? I mean, heck, there's the thought that they don't even talk about this stuff in a lot of different ways. This is a problem, innit? Well ... see, I don't wanna say there are some albums where lyrics don't matter. Y'know, to excuse a rap song just because it can get by on vibes or hype or whatever, that feels like ... well, an excuse. "Don't focus on the fact that the lyrics are a bit shit and that they're not really saying anything; just live off the hype." I know there's a lot of stuff, especially these days, that gets a pass for that exact excuse. And I'm pretty sure I'm not exactly innocent of this either, y'know? But I wanna pretend that at the very least I have enough respect for the artform that, even being someone who's melody first, I'd never say that the lyrics are **that** unimportant. And it's not like the lyrics are **that** bad on this album. For what they're rapping about, I think they do a pretty fine job. But being completely honest with myself here, I think 'Cypress Hill' is a rap album where most of the appeal comes in everything that isn't the lyrics. The flow, for one. I'll be real, there was a good chunk of this album where their flow reminded me of Insane Clown Posse, though I'll put that up to the idea that ICP got it from these guys. And either way, it's a fun flow, particularly with the one guy's nasally voice. I think they could've rapped about anything in that flow and I would've been enjoying myself; it's just that sort of charismatic, y'know? Then you've got the beats. I don't know if this is my favorite production of the 90's (certainly I prefer beats that go harder), but damn, does DJ Mugg put on a good show. Every sample flip on here is done very well, and when a beat goes off, goodness me, it goes off. I can see how some people might think it gets a little same-y after a while, but when you're just groovin', damn, it don't even matter. And I was groovin' all over this thing, I swear. I mean, I just think about it all like this: I gave Dr. Dre's 'The Chronic' full marks despite it having less and, honestly, **worse** subject matter. I'm not someone who gets all up in arms because a 30 year-old album is **so misogynistic**, but all the same. If I can let that album slide by on flow and beats, I don't see why an album like this can't. I don't like it as much as 'The Chronic', but that's 'coz this could never compare to G-funk. And all this to say: of course the words are important on rap albums. But I think sometimes (though not all the time) it's alright to just let it take you on vibes. And 'Cypress Hill' is one of those albums where it's absolutely alright.
Might not be as well-known as their later work, but it shows that Cypress Hill knew what their sound was right from the start. 4.5 bumped down to 4.
I’m at a 4. This is my first time hearing anything by Cypress Hill that’s not “Insane in the Brain”, and for the most part, I liked it. Lots of flows here that feel familiar / close to “Insane in the Brain”, sure, but the longer the album went, the less I felt compelled to compare it to my only point of reference. This album & these guys have their own distinct identity outside of that track, and it’s showcased very well here. Their Latin-American experiences shine through well, and it gives the album a little more flavor than some of the more generic ‘90s rap that exists out there. I think B-Real & Sen Dog have great rapping voices (especially B-Real), and their flows are super fun. They find a melody on most of these sample-heavy beats, excellently produced by DJ Muggs (especially for ‘91), and as a whole, I really like listening to them. I wish it were easier to comprehend them, and that’s really where my single issue lies in the album, one that builds up over the course of the whole thing to pull this down to a 4 for me. A super fun 4, mind you, but one that just gets a little tiring by the end of it. B-Real & Sen Dog DO have great rapping voices, but the vocal filters they use on a number of the tracks start to feel overplayed by the end of it. Their flows are super fun, although for my ears, they’re arguably a little too fast to truly understand behind these sample-heavy beats, which are excellently produced, but not super well *mixed* – a lot of the time, the vocal filters mix with the reverb in the beats that sort of muddles the soundscape of both, eventually leading to an effect where it’s hard to hear the nuances in either. It wouldn’t be as big of a deal if it weren’t for these being very lyric-heavy tracks, including some with Spanish lyrics. It’s genuinely hard to follow along & capture the essence / basic intent of some of these tracks since they’re moving really fast whilst being pretty witty, and that includes the English ones, for the record. It makes each track feel fun in the moment, but for my brain, not as memorable long-term as it could be. I understand that maybe for ‘91, and for an album that’s more of a smoker’s record to throw on while you do the doobie, the lyricism matters a lot less than how the soundscape makes you feel. I did generally get the *feeling* of each track, and I did catch a flow state a few times while following along to their flow to the best of my ability. This is a delightful 46 minutes to listen to; I just wish they had made it a little easier to truly *get* what they’re saying, and that’s why I think I’m gonna be at a 4 here. I do think the momentum of the album / super fast pace between tracks doesn’t leave much room for the listener to breathe, and that pace did catch up with me by the end of “The Funky Cypress Hill Shit”; that also plays a factor here. Overall, it’s a super enjoyable record, I’m glad it’s on the list, and it’s one I’d recommend. I hope it can get up to a 5 for me in the future, since there’s really not a bad track here. For now, I’m just at a 4.
Love this “pigs”!
Helt ok bakgrunnsmusikk Noen stikker seg litt ut, men ikke mer
This is an album that I’m questioning as why another more popular album by them was not chosen. The style is almost exactly the same. Black Sunday is the album that should be on this list.
I like this a lot. B-Real’s nasal delivery is instantly iconic, and the beats DJ Muggs spins are catchy, if not sometimes a bit repetitive.
Hasn't stood the test of time that well
If I have to listen to hip hop, this isn't bad.
I partly understand why this album is on the list. Cypress Hill is popular and sells a lot of albums. In that way he has become an important part of the hip-hop history. And yes, he has also been copied a lot, so a sort of role model for others. It doesn't change anything about his "music", though. Not interesting, not good, not anything at all.
never like these guys
Didn't mind Some later tracks but not a fan of this.
31/11/2025 I dunno why, I just prefer the vibe of the older stuff. It rings different in the ears, compared to this modern day guff. Spotify listeners: 5.4 million
Favorite track(s): How I Could Just Kill a Man, Real Estate, Psycobetabuckdown
Decent, but not their best work. Certainly Black Sunday would be the better inclusion.
Definitely did not enjoy this, but I’ve heard worse.
Really enjoyed this album, will be returning to this
It's fine but I think I need to imbibe in the weed to really appreciate this album. But since I don't partake in the smoke, I'll leave it as decent and move on.
This doesn't reach me at all. The lyrics are clever but, unfortunately, I can't relate. The music is monotonous, overly simple, boring. I'm the wrong audience for this.
Olihan siinä tunnelmaa ja meininkiä. Oon aina tykännyt cypress hillin taustabiiteistä ja onhan tää tosi ikoninen levy kaikin puolin.
Ihan hyvänä taustamusana meni. Nykynäkökulmasta kuitenki aika geneerista kamaa
Jatketaan nyt ykköslinjalla kun on hyvä putki päällä. On tämä ehkä enemmän musiikkia ku eilinen, mutta vain vaivoin..
Ihan jees, mut ei tää oo koskaan oikeen lähtenyt itelle. Varmaan enempi rajut jutut ohjaa kun ite musa. Sillai, että jää semmonen semi tasapaksu kuva. Jännästi nää kyl löi läpi täällä Härmässäkin. Mut Kepu taas kerran ainoona vaihtoehtona.
Ihan hyvää räbäytystä ja hyviä biisejä. Ei ollut yksikään entuudestaan tuttu. Kyllä tätä jatkossakin voisi kuunnella!
I’ve heard it when I was a stoner kid. It had trippy stuff in it. Not your normal hip hop album from the 90s.
90s hip hop is fun but this is the beginning of the shift to gansta rap so, one star deduction for content
Not the type of music I reach for but I did enjoy this more than I thought I would - does kinda sound dated / of its time even though i feel like it’s not that old but I guess it is ha - more funky than I thought there would be - would give this between a 2 and 3 if possible
Cypress Hill’s debut record is pretty great and ahead of its time for 1991. You get a good blend of rock and funk samples flipped to hip-hop, with at least one P-Funk sample, which was a pre-requisite of the era. It’s a bit psychedelic and the flow, particularly going between the nasal sing-song of B Real and Sen Dog’s hard attack, is great. Still enjoyable, even if nostalgia plays a factor in it for me. Still, their follow up album Black Sunday is more worthy of a spot on the list. 4⭐️
Enjoyable! Plan to listen again! Need to me genre, but I loved the rythm.
Did not enjoy this.
Great album. Super fun, danceable, great beats. Love this record.
Good shit, but their tracks/samples are pretty damn repetitive and I don’t see myself going back for more than a few songs.
*copy / paste en text woni schriibe dasi kei fan vo old school hiphop bin*
Cypress hill scho vill erinnerige Au am konzert innsins im mexicano gsi. Legend. Aber sie hend na besseri albe, woni na chönt lose. Das leider too early hiphop
What do you mean Jump Around is not their song Wow, these tryhards actually put effort in their rap. Wild
How I (wish I) could just skip a track
Shitty degenerate ghetto culture. Nothing of any value on this album.
I've never really been a Cypress Hill fan. I think I've always kind of grouped them with ICP, Slightly Stoopid and 311. Which, none of those bands are inherently bad. They all have songs and albums that work, but they've just never really scratched the itch for me. This album is pretty cool though. Its verrrrry California / West Coast. Which I wasn't expecting. (though that's really obvious now). Cool beats, definitely more on the chill side of hip hop, which I tend to appreciate. Its kind of silly and maybe cheesy at points, but other parts are really dialed and visceral. The beats and production kind of have a trippy / psych element to it, which is really fun. I like the stoner vibes of this. This was cool!
Very reminiscent of Beastie Boys (in that one member sounds like they belong on The Muppets) and Public Enemy (the production). They can write a hook, which is fun. But they can also write a super annoying backing track (see: Hand on the Pump, Psycobetabuckdown), which looking back is a very early-90s hip-hop Thing To Do. Its fine - isn't my style - kind of annoying. TWO STARS
Sin letras se queda en nada. Aburrido
DON'T YOU KNOW I'M LOCOOOOO
Cypress Hill has a very unique sound, cool vibe. I feel like it does get a bit repetitive but I liked the album overall. 3.5/5.
Debut album from them and it sucks nuts.
Break it up, Cypress Hill.
Good old school hip hop. Be Real's nasal voice gets a little grating at times but not as much as I remembered.
A decent golden age rap album. Not quite distinctive enough to merit a 4 for me but a solid 3.
Not my thing.
If I was a 13 year old upper middle class white boy this would be 5 stars.
Phunky. Liked some of it. Gets repetitive but could keep you poppin if it was in the background. Just not loving some of the message.
Great.
Repetitive but funky-fun!
eeehhh... not a fan
1. Pigs - 4 Beat is okay but the instruments are too loud and drown the vocals out, which contain some pretty nasty slurs in them as well. 2. How I Could Just Kill a Man - 10 Lyrically very good. The flow of the lyrics is superb both into and out of the choruses. Verses have gems of lines littered throughout them as well. Awesome track. 3. Hand On the Pump - 9 Chorus on this track is amazing as is some of the excellent scratching. It's an awesome hip-hop classic. 4. Hole In the Head - 7 Decent rap overall with a good beat and some some lyrics. The chorus while repetitive, is the best part of the track. 5. Ultraviolet Dreams - N/A Track is too short to rate. 6. Light Another - 7 Very good lyrically with a solid flow but the beat and instrumentals are a bit uninspired. Still a very well written track none-the-less. 7. The Phuncky Feel One - 5 It's lyrically the weakest thing so far on the album. There's parts in the verses, particularly the second one, where the lyrics crash into themselves as well. 8. Break It Up - N/A Is an interlude. 9. Real Estate - 6 Decent rap with some solid lyrics but I'm not a big fan of the effect on the vocals. They also get drowned a bit in the bridges/choruses. 10. Stones Is the Way of the Walk - 5 Pass over track. It's lyrically okay, instrumentally good, but nothing that will blow you away. 11. Psychobetabuckdown - 3 Very boring topic on the track that causes the track to just be very repetitive. Really there's much better on the album. 12. Something for the Blunted - N/A It's an interlude. 13. Latin Lingo - 9 Very very clever rap using words from two languages to make a brilliant point about growing up mixed or at the very least, being bilingual. Super track. 14. The Funky Cypress Hill Shit - 8 The "I know you're gonna dig this" part at the very beginning would later be remixed in the video game Jet Set Radio Future. Love that small treat at the beginning of the track. The rap is good and the beat is solid. It's an enjoyable track. 15. Tres Equis - 5 Beat and instrument wise it's very good it's just a bit too short. I feel like this should have been a full 3-4 minute track. 16. Born to Get Busy - 3 Lyrically it's a little bit weak. Then after two minutes it fades before a news story comes in and sees the track out with some sound effects. Generally the album could have ended and probably should have ended at The Funky Cypress Hill Shit. Average Rating: 6.23 Adjusted to 5-Point Scale: 3.12 Rounded Down: 3 Stars
Very good. Liked Tres Equis. Very nice arrangement. Many layered instruments but it doesn’t feel all tracks are fighting each other. A good hiphop album, nice vibe, nice beats and nice flows. Rhythms are just a bit repetitive and straightforward, and I guess it was designed to be simple. I like an album that doesn’t set the target to be super high, and lands perfectly on what they want to achieve.
Between a 2 and 3. 3 for style and energy, 2 for standouts. Cypress Hill feels like an authentic rap/rock group. It’s a genre that quickly turns to shit but I think Cypress Hill overall has had some really solid songs, and while this album itself isn’t amazing, How I Could Just Kill a Man is enough for me to bump it to 3.
i think that was a really fun album. dope beats and really smooth lyricism. would love to give this a 3.5, but alas. i don't know how often i would go back to this album, so i think ill stick with a three for now. also, i love hearing the original version of 'How I could Just Kill A Man'. shout out to rage against the machine for covering a sick hip hop song and turning it into a killer rock song.
I really like the general style and especially the Latin rap that appeared in the last few songs.
Pretty typical 90s rap sounds but nothing that blew me away. Middle of the road once again.
They've got solid beats and a really good flow. I like their sound overall, but nothing really stuck with me after listening to the album.
sawed off shotgun prst na obaracuu jebacu ti kevu u muriji pevacuu
Awesome stuff!
Black Sunday would have been a better inclusion. The lyrics are never very strong with Cypress Hill (haha weed, get it?) but at least that album is catchier and better production. 3/5
Good
I know of Cypress Hill, but the only song of theirs I know is "Insane in the Brain." Well, you know what, maybe I know "How I Could Just Kill a Man" too, but I'll wait until I listen to the album to find out for sure. I think I have a decent idea of what to expect from this album's sound, and I'm curious to see how I'll feel about this. I didn't really care for this self-titled debut from Cypress Hill. It wasn't a bad album, but my dislike for it was just a matter of personal preference. This album had a unique sound, with good samples, interesting Latin influences, and some funny lyrics. But for the most part, this album just wasn't interesting to me musically. I didn't care for the stripped down production style, with the static and how the album was mixed, and the overall sound got a bit repetitive as the album went on. Again, it's just my personal taste that I didn't care for those production choices, and that's something that's held true for me with most of the west coast hip-hop albums I've reviewed. But there were some things that did work for me. I know it's a small detail, but I really liked those hand claps on "Light Another." That sort of punchier sound on the beat worked really well for me, and I don't know why Cypress Hill didn't use that sort of sound more often. Also, I liked the more funk reliant sound on "Real Estate," "Psychobetabuckdown," and "Something for the Blunted." Those songs were easily the best on the album, and I would have loved to hear more funk samples utilized like that on this album. Cypress Hill's debut is impactful, but it's just not my style.
That‘s so bad.
Nice background. The whole album is good
Lowkey distinctive.
Slightly repetitive but not bad. Maybe I’m just not in the headspace to listen to this right now.
Good beats but a bit samey.
Shocked to see their debut album and not Black Sunday, which is a damn near perfect album. Not saying this one doesn’t deserve to be on the list, but Black Sunday is more of a must listen than this one. Still a banger of an album, and great debut. 4.5 out 5
After carefully listening and dissecting lyrics I've came to the executive decision that they may not appreciate the police in the slightest, but i might be wrong
Good. Brings to mind smoky rooms and bouncy beats.
Meh
> the Beatles
This could be an album with different versions of “Pigs” and I’d be happy. That’s all I need. That one aside, this is the only Album by these guys that I like. That doesn’t mean much to you dear reader but that’s ok. My opinion matters. This album is less about weed smoking and more about being a troublemaker and that’s what I dig. Choice cut: Pigs
Cool
There was a time when alternative and rap converge. Almost like each genre was giving cred to the other. Rap reviving rock and rock helping rap make inroads into the mainstream. I miss that. We are so siloed these days. Sometimes this sounds just like Beasties and that makes sense, contemporaries will contemporary.
I don't think they liked the police, but I did like this
Funky hip hop. A delight of an album. Big hits and no filler.
I love the groove of CH, it all seems so smooth
Once again, Mr. Dimery missed the mark by including the wrong album from the right artist. The must-listen Cyprus Hill album is their sophomore effort, "Black Sunday." "Black Sunday" is chock full of pro-cannabis anthems that brought together the formerly disparate Rappers and Hippies. United under a marijuana leaf flag, the two groups formed a stoner army that marched toward the social acceptance and eventual regional legalization of recreational pot use. Maybe the real treasure was the weed they smoked along the way.
Incredible production by DJ Muggs. You can feel the influence this album has had on future hip hop releases
Not even remotely my kind of thing - and yet - still better than so much of this list.
Surprised I didnt enjoy this more- it was good but dodnt have as much standouts as I would expect for an iconic hip hop album.
90s hip hop. Was okay, but nothing impressive. But it did not seem to be misogynistic like the rest of hip hop at the time
Cool album. Standout songs: Hand on the Pump Real Estate
English is not my native language - I can hardly understand rap lyrics. So the voices, the beats, the samples need to carry me through the album - with enough variety since obviously there are no melodies. The album started strong (that voice! isn't that from "insane in the main brain?") but then got boring quickly, and the past 30 minutes was a chore. Would not want to listen to this again.
Amazing such a unique sound. Always feels like a few mates getting together to enjoy themselves.
This has such a party vibe. The beats are real foot-tappers, and it sounds like the band are having fun performing the songs, which I always like in an album. I'm not a massive fan of the main rapper's voice though
After about 20 albums, I finally have a hip hop album. As a Californian (not SoCal), I must support one Cypress Hill, who helped put West Coast Hip Hop on the charts and to be noticed. Just as groundbreaking as Cypress Hill was for that fact, they were also essentially the first mainstream Latino Hip Hop acts. Also they love marijuana, otherwise known as a million other things, like cannabis. The more I reflect on this album and listen, the more I really see its importance in the world, its ripple effect on gangsta rap and what would follow hip hop throughout the decade, on its image for hip hop throughout the world. And all I can say is: damn I am incredibly high.
2,5
Great album bangers all around
Very short loops, production has too strong emphasis on drums and vocals, a funny voice that isn't funny. It's like listening to the same song over and over. And not even a good one.
Not too bad here. Although I can never get it out of my head that the trashiest people ive ever known were big into this group. Still holds that context for me but actually listening to it, it doesnt feel that trashy. A hit maybe but not the same level. I was thrown off that the opening song is mixed horribly. The beat is blasting and the vocals are just buried. I haven't a clue what they are even doing. It gets better but that was a bad 1st impression. These guys love public enemy by the way. They wear that influence on thier sleeves for sure. I like public enemy too but I like them more than cypress hill. Also nwa is the same thing. Its an ok record with a few songs I like but nothing that changes my life. Just a good enough effort
No doubt it is great hip-hop, but it definitely made me a little uncomfortable. Maybe that's the point.
The positives: a hip hop album coming in under an hour without all the pointless skits! Interesting flows, instrumentation and approaches. The negatives: fairly repetitive within and across songs. Still, made a change.
I think this is likely the sort of album that inspired loads of others, you can definitely hear where some of the besties boys may have got their sound from. It's all fine, I just got a bit bored after a while. The backing tracks were good and aggressive, just not really for me. I'm not exactly their target audience though.
Probably better than the ilk of its peers, but I don’t know why this made the list. Waste of time.
We had N.W.A., now how about N.W.a sense of humour? This shits groovy and goofy in equal measure, and the sampling is sublime. Enjoyed it more than I expected to, frankly.
I remember back in the days this album was released. I went into rockin soul on sixth Avenue in New York City and to my surprise, they were sitting Cypress Hill to sign my vinyl. This album holds a special place in my heart, especially the first six songs after that no Bueno. This is an important piece of art however it is not that good. Hate to say it but as a classic body of work, this is not it.
I think I prefer Black Sunday to this one, but Cypress Hill set the standard for stoner rap.
Man I love this album, haven’t listened to it in its entirety in a while. The memories of that time in my life are coming back in waves.
I like
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2.5/5
Cops. What a bunch of bastards.
At first I really didn’t like it, and I’m not sure if it grew on me or if the sound and organization of the songs actually grew sharper in the second half, but I started to enjoy myself beginning at Stoned is the Way of the Walk and on. I probably wouldn’t put this on just to listen to, but it’s an interesting look into a genre/time period I don’t know much about