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Cypress Hill | 
| Artist: Cypress Hill
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 4755
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 47889
UPC: 074644788921
EAN: 0074644788921
ASIN: B0000027RY
Release Date: August 13, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Pigs | | • | How I Could Just Kill a Man | | • | Hand on the Pump | | • | Hole in the Head | | • | Ultraviolet Dreams | | • | Light Another | | • | Phuncky Feel One | | • | Break It Up | | • | Real Estate | | • | Stoned Is the Way of the Walk | | • | Psycobetabuckdown | | • | Something for the Blunted | | • | Latin Lingo | | • | Funky Cypress Hill Shit | | • | Tres Equis | | • | Born to Get Busy |
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Amazon.com
Led by the deep-toned Sen Dog and the deliciously adenoidal whine of B-Real and backed by DJ Muggs's beats--as thick as the smoke they inhaled--Cypress Hill spun dope-fueled tales of revenge, revolution, recreational drug use, gangbanging, and cultural pride. Like R. Crumb's Mr. Natural, but with a hardened voice and a B-boy attitude, Cypress Hill slow-walked their funk-flavored way through a minefield of anthems (the still sizzling "How I Could Just Kill a Man") and comic manifestos ("Stoned Is the Way of the Walk"). Heavy on the bass line and punctuated by flashes of wit and rage, Cypress Hill's joint was definitely one to draw deep on. --Amy Linden
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| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Kings of the Hill. July 10, 2005
H3@+h (VT)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cypress Hill was a major breath of fresh air when they came out. They were rapping from a latinos perspective, they dropped beats that were more than dope, and wrote lyrics about everything including weed. You can't deny that as soon as you hear B-real, you know just who it is. I'd hesitate to call this the best album of theirs, but I like it just as much as "Black Sunday", "Temple Of Boom", and "Skull And Bones". Top tracks for me are "Pigs", "Hand On The Pump", "Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk", and "Born To Get Busy". It's all good though. It's a fact that in the summer of 1992, if I wasn't playing House Of Pain or the Beastie Boys, i was listening to Cypress Hill. Of course, I could pretty much say that now as well.
 This (along with "Black Sunday") is their finest work..... February 2, 2004
fetish_2000 (U.K.)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cypress Hill's Debut Album (along with second album "Black Sunday") is their best album effort......After Virtually coming from nowhere to take a firm stranglehold on the then floundering Hip-Hop scene, which was lacking innovation, sleazy Lo-fi fat Beats with a distinctive sound all of their own (Courtesy of D.j Muggs) , coupled with rapper "B-Real's" latino-voiced pro-marijuana rhetoric (which was to prominently feature in all their albums)....tracks such as "How I Could Just Kill a Man", "Hand on the Pump" & "The Phuncky Feel One" went on to became Club Classic's thanks to Cypress Hill ability to back up "B-Reals" Pot-smoking fantasies with Thumping Funky Beats (that have been nicked for various Latin / Jazz & Soul artists, and given reworked to work within a Hip-Hop Blueprint, endlessly Drug-influenced but with a playful Rambunctious Party feel, that defined Cypress Hill throughout the 90's. And although people will debate which of the Cypress Studio albums is/was their best work...the majority of people will usually cite this & "Black Sunday" as a careers best.
a classic! May 28, 2000
avdr (san diego, CA USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
if you know anything about treur hip hop,then you know that this cd is one of the best.when cypress hill came out in 91,they brought a very different sound to the hip hop arena and soon became one of the best without getting that much air play.on there first album they create memorable songs like "hand on the pump" and "how could i just kill a man".they also throw in some funky kind of beats that work.dj muggs is a mastewr at creating beats and he shows it in this first album of the hill.must have!
South Central Bong Music May 29, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was not expecting what I got when I picked up this CD. The only member of this crew that I was familiar with was Grandmixer Muggs, from his days with the 7A3. I knew he was a good D.J., but I was skeptical when I heard that he was producing this album. My fears were unfounded, though. Muggs provided this album with the freshest sounds that have ever come from the West Coast. His beats fit perfectly with B-Real's nasal delivery. Another good thing about this record, that you don't find anymore with hip-hop albums, is that one talented producer handled the entire project, giving it a cohesive sound. A lot of albums nowadays have 10 or more different producers, so the record comes out disjointed. Not so with this one. I also like the fact that Grandmixer Muggs didn't choose obvious samples when making the beats. I mean, who would think of sampling "The Duke of Earl"? I can't really pick a favorite cut off this record, because the entire album is bombay. But the most memorable cut is "Latin Lingo". The beat is smoky and surreal,and the video was insane. This was one of the best joints of '91, or any year for that matter. I'll just say, if you want a record that reminds you of what hip-hop was meant to be, and how it used to be, then "Cypress Hill" is the joint for you. But bring your own bong.
A true gangster classic January 16, 1999
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Back when Cypress Hill first started rapping, they utilized beats and lyrics in a way that only they could. But, after they started focusing on only the "weed" aspect of their music, they dropped off considerably. I don't recommend any of their newer albums, but this album is in a class all it's own. Definitely a must-own for any rap fan.
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