Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom | 
| Artist: Cypress Hill
Label: Sony
Category: Music
List Price: $7.99
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Rating:  47 reviews
Sales Rank: 31230
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
MPN: 66991
UPC: 074646699126
EAN: 0074646699126
ASIN: B000002B0S
Release Date: October 31, 1995
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| Tracks:
| • | Spark Another Owl | | • | Throw Your Set in the Air | | • | Stoned Raiders | | • | Illusions | | • | Killa Hill Niggas | | • | Boom Biddy Bye Bye | | • | No Rest for the Wicked | | • | Make a Move | | • | Killafornia | | • | Funk Freakers | | • | Locotes | | • | Red Light Visions | | • | Strictly Hip Hop | | • | Let It Rain | | • | Everybody Must Get Stoned [*] |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Four years since the L.A. group's first pro-pot anthem, "Stoned Is the Way of the Walk," Cypress Hill is still telling us they love to smoke ganja. How B-Real and Sen Dog waste their days is their business, but it makes you wonder: What's wrong with their personal lives that they need to be stoned all the time? And how can they be so enthusiastic about it? III (Temples of Boom) exhales the same clouded sentiments of past albums, but offers no answers. Herb is never far from the conversation on Cypress Hill records--how they smoke more than anyone, how they were rapping about it before anyone--but they never explain why, never suggest they derive something positive (or negative) from pot. Though III's "Illusions" begins with an Indian sitar, presumably a reference to '60s drug culture's Eastern influence, there's no expanded consciousness in the accompanying raps. Cypress Hill champion drug use, it seems, to bolster their outlaw image; they place pot smoke alongside beat-downs, just another illegal activity to prove they're bad dudes. --Roni Sarig
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| Customer Reviews: Read 42 more reviews...
 The Amazon Review Is No Good... April 21, 2006
Lucas A. Freeman (Atlanta, GA)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
This album is the pinnacle of the Cypress Hill sound. This is the CD where the beats and the lyrics really come together and create one of the most sonically superb albums out, period. Temples of Boom--most all tracks are bass heavy contrasting nicely with B-Real's signature nasal delivery. Though this album would make an awesome backdrop for your next smoke-session, the CD has a lot more depth than suggested by the amazon.com reviewer. Cypress Hill admits they started the pro-marijuana genre of songs and it's true--for anyone who smokes, we don't search Cypress Hill CD looking for the explanation for why we smoke. This CD is not an ethical argument for legitimate pot use, but it wasn't designed to be, either. Cypress responds to more than one beef in this CD--the famous "No Rest for the Wicked" which was a response to Ice Cube jacking B-Real's lyrics and the chorus from "Throw Your Set In The Air" for the Friday Soundtrack. B-Real calls out commercial rappers and those who have supposedly "sold-out" the hip-hop culture doing soda ads. They take a strike at The Source as well, writer James Bernard in particular. If that wasn't deep enough, a collaboration with RZA and UGod from Wu-Tang make this one of the most well rounded CDs I've EVER heard. This isn't the Bible, so if you're looking for inspiration go elsewhere, but if thick sounding beats full of highs and deep sounding bass, this CD delivers. I've been listening to this CD since it came out and it still holds its own in today's hip-hop scene. For 8$, it's possibly the best music experience you'll have if you feel true hip-hop...LF
 To steal from Steve King, "It Grows On You" August 25, 1999
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
When I first heard "Temples of Boom", I was disappointed. After all, I loved "Black Sunday", and I guess I was expecting more. But the more I listened to it, the more I liked it. The beats are phat as hell, piled on top of each till they reach critical mass. I really digged the Ice Cube put down. Just goes to show ya the boyz from Cypress don't give a f**k who they piss off. The best thing about this album, as well as "Cypress Hill" and "Black Sunday", is that all three albums are unique sounding in a homogenized rap scene; they stand out like a green herb in a wheat field. And how many rap groups would have the guts to try all the different sounds Cypress includes in their tracks. When was the last time you heard a sitar on a hip-hop album? Check out Black Sunday, Cypress Hill, and definitly Temples of Boom
BEST CYPRESS ALBUM December 20, 2000
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Temples Of Boom is easily the best Cypress Hill album to date... and the least know of Cypress Hill's work.. which is unfortunate, for example, see the ammount of reviews written for this album compared to their other albums. DJ Muggs production on this album is his best in my view... dark and psychotic, which fits B-Real and Sen Dogs (not on the album much) raps perfectly. The beats are just so undeniable... even thou the raps are about the same ol' same ol' (weed) it is still great to hear B-Reals nasal raps. My favorite tracks are Spark Another Owl, Illusions, Boom Biddy Bye Bye, Killafornia and Everybody Must Get Stoned, and more...
the best hill album! May 28, 2000
avdr (san diego, CA USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
temples of boom againstays true to the trademark cypress hill dark beats.i consider this the best cypress hill album,followed by black sunday.as usual dj muggs produces some of the best beats in hip hop today or ever.and he also ends some of the songs with snippets that are also good as the songs,if not better.best songs in this album are,"spark another awol","stoned raiders","illusions","killa hill niggas" where the rza and u god guest star,"make a move","killafornia","locotes","red light visions","strictly hip hop","let it rain",and "everybody must get stoned" which is only on the cd version.the whole damn album is dope!get it.
Best Hill Album ever June 23, 2004
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Cypress Hill has had great sucess with their Black Sunday. This CD takes more of a dark approach then their past albums. The whole album has dark, mysterious beats that match the great lyrical mind of B-real. Pick this album up! There is not a negative side to this CD. Its one of the best cypress hill albums- if not the best, You Wont Be Dissapointed!
-(Illusions the best song, F**k it there all good!)
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