Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill

It's possible - just possible - I owned this in high school. It would be a very un-me thing to listen to and yet the vague memory of this on cassette exists in a corner of my head. Anyway, listening in 2022 and it just feels like this is music that dudes who have Punisher stickers on the back of their trucks would love. Because these guys looooove rapping about guns! Those photos of the crazy gun families who have their kids posing with AR-15s for their Christmas cards? They would love some of these tunes. (Maybe not "Pigs.") And Cypress Hill is right about one thing: I can't understand how they could just kill a man. You got me, dudes. But dammit there's a lot of musicality to just the way these guys rap, to say nothing of the beats and samples and whatnot. And to make matters worse, some of the songs about guns and shooting fools are WAY more listenable to me than things like "The Phuncky Feel One" or "Stoned is the Way of the Walk." Nothing is less enjoyable to me than hearing dudes rap about weed. Not even rapping about shotguns, apparently. So, I have learned something about myself today. And just wait till you see our Christmas card this year!

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