Cypress Hill - Black Sunday
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Free Music Notes for Black Sunday
Free Music Review: Good Follow-Up To The Excellent Debut.
Hit: 4 Stars
Although I Prefer "Cypress Hill" Their Debut Album,This Is In No Way A Bad Album.This Is The Highest Selling Of All Cypress Hill Albums To Date So Its Gotta Be Good.It Has Excellent Tracks Such As The Well Known Single "Insane In The Brain"(Come On If You Haven't Heard That Your A Total (...))The Other Single "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" And The Classic "Hits From The Bong".An Album Definately Packed With Good (...),I'd Advise You To Buy It!Free Music Review: take note
Hit: 5 Stars
TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AMAZON PACKAGE DEAL. THE G.LOVE "YEAH ITS THAT EASY" AND THIS BOMB GO TOGETHER LIKE TOAST AND JAM. TWO MODERN CLASSICS THAT WILL BE SPINNIN' LONG AFTER THIS WEEKS HIPSTERS HAVE FALLEN WELL UNDER THE WHERE ARE THEY NOW MARK. SO PUT THAT LIL' WAYNE RECORD BACK ON THE SHELF AND LET THE BIG BOYS ROCK YOU.Free Music Review: Hip Hop.....Cypress Style
Hit: 4 Stars
Cypress Hill hit the bigtime with this release. "Insane in the Brain" is just one of the original songs on this off-the-hook album. While some of the critics blast Cypress for recycling the same topics in their catalog of songs, I don't really think this is true. Sure, they talk a lot about shooting people, smoking pot, and hatin' da pigs, but what else is there in the world?Free Music Review: The Beginning Of An Era
Hit: 4 Stars
Until this album dropped, hip-hop was still largely a genre of music recorded for blacks by blacks about blacks. Cypress Hill changed the dynamics of rap by firstly being Latinos and secondly appealing to white college boys.It has been argued that the stoned sound of the group was partly responsible for Dr Dre's G-Funk. Whether you believe this or not, it is quite easy to see the similarities on this album.
"Black Sunday" is of course the album responsible for one of the most well-known tracks of early 90s hip-hop "Insane In The Brain" with the now well known "Insane in the membrane/Insane in the brain" chorus and that whining beat with Public Enemy influence - later to appear on House Of Pain's work produced by DJ Muggs.
What is often forgotten in the memory of "Insane In The Brain" is the fact that both B-Real and Sen Dog have skills of a very high order. B-Real's flow on "Insane" has some very clever changes of pace and inventive rhymes - the start of the third verse "Like Louis Armstrong/played the trumpet/I'll hit that bong and break ya off somethin'" is worth attention. In the same track, Sen Dog is able to send up his own size while in the thick of a very creative battle rhyme.
The are certainly some very good moments on this album, however the ideas remain slightly under-developed. It would appear that whenever B-Real and Sen Dog are running low on ideas they just put in something about smoking marijuana, the track "Legalize It" is entirely that - just a collection of pro-weed samples. Also the "Interlude" only serves to interrupt the flow of the album.
In short, the 4 stars are for originality - which the album still has almost a decade after it was released - and lyricism. The lack of a fifth star is simply due to the underdevelopment of some of the ideas on the album and the frequent degeneration into marijuana chanting more likely to be found in a Bob Marley concert.
Free Music Review: Insane in the brain
Hit: 4 Stars
The only reason I'm writing here is 'cause of the song "Insane in the brain." Listening to that song is a whole lot of fun. Goodbye.