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Started it, skipped it.
(C)rap music. I refer to my previous (now many) reviews of this genre. In happier news just bought a new car today. 0.1/5 19/9/24
There's too much hip hop/rap in this list. This more of the same.
No
mpuai c'est vieux quoi
If I could rate it a zero I would. I don't want to hear about pu$$y in my music
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Not for me
meh. very repetitve beats
Not for me. Also probably not aimed at me. They were good in the Simpsons.
non lo so, non mi ha convinto tanto. razionalmente non saprei nemmeno spiegare perchè ma a pelle non mi ha suscitato proprio nulla. sarebbe 1.5
Hip Hop - aka. Hard Pass. 1/5
j'aime pas
not into "Gangstah Rap"
1 . Rap de Mierda
Not my style of music so I didn't enjoy the albums and couldn't finish it.
Took two songs to turn off. Pigs is horrible and I gave Kill a Man a chance for being the most played song. No interest, easy DNF.
I'm sure this appeals to someone but it is not for me. I listened to as much as I could stand which was about 11-12 songs or so. The sample choices are good, it keeps things interesting, but my complaint about that is the loops are too short and repetitive. I don't like rap either so there's really not much here for me.
Not my cup of tea.
Incredibly repetitive.
no thanks
OMG! No music here, just noise! Need drugs to listen through this!
Hip hop is the genre I know least about. I can see how this album was influential to the genre especially coming out so early in the 90s. It's just not for me. 1/5
Again, its not my thing. Did not finish.
I tried. I couldn't get into the album.
Good but not for me
Not great. Some of the backing musical ideas are good for the first ten seconds, but they aren't varied or developed. Combined with the lack of melody or (cohesive) harmony, this creates a very monotonous listening experience that's only slightly improved by engaging vocal rhythm and attitude. The lyrics were probably relatable for someone, but not me. There just wasn't anything in the music to latch onto, and I felt myself unconsciously tuning out the noise. A great deal of 90s rap and hip-hop can be summarised with a description like this, and Cypress Hill is no exception. At least the album length wasn't excessively stuffed with dull, scripted skits. It's got that going for it.
Still hate it 30 years later. Listens: Could only put myself through one run through. Fave track: Something For The Blunted because it had the fewest lyrics. Rating: 1
I endure
Not my thing, at all
For some reason sounds so much repetitive to me than other rap. Some of these beats feel like torture listening to. Couldn't make it through the album.
I didn’t like this all and was surprised it was a success. I didn’t think the rapping was creative at all. But what do I know? Maybe by the end of my 1001 album journey I’ll feel differently.
awful
Awful
More silly than intimidating now, apart from the homophobia, which is downright terrifying.
Nope. The music of emotionally stunted frat boys who think they can rap. Nope nope nope.
Can't sit through this album. Not my cup of tea
Not a rap fan, but this one did have some more interesting instrumental samples underneath
Did not like at all, some creepy lyrics
hip hop no
Don't like the lyrics, at least I dont want to drive these in to my subconscious mind. No thanks, trying to make the world a more positive peaceful place because I think it's the right thing to do. Who knows if I am right or wrong but it feels wrong to dwell on stuff like this.
Quite possibly the worst thing I've ever listened to
Didn't find much joy here
Don’t get it. One listens was enough for me Cover art. Confused
Nah.
juvenile and irritating
This does not belong on this list.
Whinge about life....check. Use the n word.....check. Brag.....check. It starts off interestingly, but it's still this boring genre where you make a beat and talk over it. The cliches, misogyny, glorification of violence and conspicuous consumption are just another reason to hate this shallow shit.
Years ago, while living in Texas, I would join forces with likeminded folks crossing the border from El Paso and on into Juarez, Mexico for the purpose of building very simple homes made of concrete blocks and stucco for extremely poor working families. I didn’t mind the physical labor, the heat, the camp food; but the trash? That was another matter altogether. Juarez, situated in an otherwise quite beautiful desert landscape, is entombed in litter. This distressed me worse than being offered a glass of water drawn from one of the crude cisterns they had made from old steel drums of the sort shown on the cover photo of 'Cypress Hill.' Rather than collecting water, Cypress Hill is using theirs to burn garbage. And I guess if I lived in Juarez permanently, or an environment like the one captured on the cover of this LP, then I might be plenty pissed off, too, like Cypress Hill. Or, maybe I’d just get really high and ‘feel one with the earth,’ as they rap about in conclusion. But both at the same time, together? Conflict of interest, in my experience. And Cypress Hill’s not just plain pissed off, either. They are ready and willing, even eager to destroy. Most of this LP is, if not a celebration, certainly an approval of violence (mostly firearms, but there are other methods offered, like prison rape) for the purpose of retributive (perceived) justice, territorial defense, preemptive strike, and because I just feel like it motherfucker. These vatos mean business, bad bidness. In 2005, a Canadian pop singer named Daniel Powter scored a huge hit with, ‘Bad Day.’ I’m sure you know it (and loathe it, or love it- there’s virtually no middle ground on this one): ‘ ‘Cause you had a bad day. You’re taking one down. You sing a sad song just to turn it around. You say you don’t know. You tell me don’t lie. You work at a smile and you go for a ride. You had a bad day. The camera don’t lie. You’re coming back down and you really don’t mind. You had a bad day.’ This is Powter’s response to times when ‘the system goes on the blink and the whole thing turns out wrong.’ I’m guessing that a cover photo of his neighborhood would look a lot different than Cypress Hill’s. No doubt Daniel’s more measured response to adversity is due, at least in part, to a good dose of white privilege. Or maybe he managed to escape any significant childhood trauma, and was mentored by loving parents who taught him how to deal maturely with adversity. It’s possible that it might just be too cold in Canada to stay angry for too long. Who knows? What I do know is that ‘Bad Day’ is a terrible (albeit, catchy) song with a sweet message. 'Cypress Hill' samples some sweet music over which to rap; but their message inspires far more terror than the sappiest sounds of Powter’s crooning. During this month of America’s honoring of black history, I’m reminded of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s warning that, ‘If we do an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, we will be a blind and toothless nation.’ I fortunately, gratefully escaped 'Cypress Hill' with nothing more than a black eye, one loose tooth, a couple of ringing ears, and a broken heart for anyone whose life experiences have been such that they feel a smoking gun with a stream of bullets, and a stream of smoking blunts before, during, and after the killing, to be their only recourse.
Beats are very simple and I am not a big fan of the funk mixed with the beats. Additionally, the rap is boring, classic 'I have the biggest dick'-rap, I am not struck but the lyricism. Additionally, the vocal style is grinding me down. It has this retarded twang. Overall, the album is pretty annoying and boring to listen to for me. The interlude Something for the blunted which is guitar driven with a funky notes is the best thing on the album for me (likely because it doesn't feature rap. Furthermore, it seems more like a sample that can looped which I enjoyed).
Nope nope nope nopenopenopenope. NOPE.
Ugh. I hate this shit. I considered giving this another star since it was a huge part of my late "high" school years, but giving it another go thirty years later reveals it's total disappointing garbage with little substance. Also, B-Real's whiny girl-voice makes this even less tolerable. Cypress Hill, along with Chronic set the stage for all the shitty gangster spliff crap to come for years afterward. I hate it.
Good God... I wish I could give 0/5
nope
nope. but I will say I like some of the beats.
Trite, repetitive, and boring as fuck.
I simultaneously think that there should be more rap/hip-hop on this list and then, every time a record from the genre comes up, I don't really want to listen. After that, one of two things happens. I am pleasantly surprised and end up really liking it (see Frank Ocean from a few days ago), or I just want it to be over. Cypress Hill falls into the second category.
horrible
So far, all the songs sound alike, repetitive and annoying. It's like an ice pick to the brain. Literally. I'm 3 songs in and I have an excruciating headache.
Not really for me. I could listen to one of the songs on here and that would be all I need of the album. Reminds me of playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater though which is cool :P
Hiphop, urgh
Nah...
Sorry, I still can’t stand this genre
No thanks, got to track 5, there's much better at this sort of thing.
No.
Dang, bad stretch lately. I didn't like this at all.
Just wasn't a huge fan.
bad
Vengaa vaa que se me pone el cuerpo de cachondeito macho, cypress hill manteca... Es verdad que son muy jaja fumag pogos, pero macho son bastante vacilones osea tienen un álbum que se llama elephants on acid nenes... Tened en cuenta que esta review esta sesgada porque a mí personalmente me molan, pero es mi review así q a chupar la, las bases que usan son locas, meten sonidos y adlibs bastante raros y no se, me da la impresión de que me llevaría bien con ellos en persona, son canciones disfrutonas y eso se agradece. Como en la producción beben mucho del funk y del Cuban soul les quedan esos beats bastante melosos
good