Product Description

Back with a renewed energy and purpose, Latino-flavoured rappers Cypress Hill climb back into the ring for another round in the fight for Hip-Hop supremacy on IV, an album which is as much at home with ghetto street-kids as it is with California surfers. Right hand man Sen Dog is back in the fold, completing the circle that B-Real and DJ Muggs drew as one of the most influential groups in Rap. B-Real's vocal stylings sound as crisp as the day we first heard "How Could I JustKill a Man".
"Tequlia Sunrise" is a mid-tempo head- nodder where Sen Dog opens the track with his trademark Spanglish. B-Real pops into the chorus and then rips the next verse wide open. DJ Muggs tracks run deep as he retools the Cypress sound to include samples as well as vintage sounding instruments, like the serenading guitar of "Tequila Sunrise". Other tracks to check are "Checkmate", which has an early 90's uptempo, energetic classic Hill sound and "Prelude To U ComeUp", which features an appearance from MC Eight.

Track Listing

1. Looking through the eye of a pig
2. Checkmate
3. From the window of my room
4. Prelude to a come up - feat. MC Eight
5. Riot starter
6. Audio X - feat Barron Ricks
7. Steel Magnolia - feat Barron Ricks
8. I remember that freak bitch (from the club) - feat. Barron Ricks/Interlude part 2
9. (Goin all out) Nothin' to lose
10. Tequila sunrise - feat Barron Ricks
11. Dead men tell no tales
12. Feature presentation - - feat Barron Ricks and Chace Infinite
13. Dr Greenthumb
14. 16 men 'til there's no men left
15. High times
16. Clash of the titans/Dust
17. Lightning strikes
18. Case closed

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #9481 in Music
• Released on: 2001-08-20
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics

Customer Reviews

different
the boys are evolving and this is where it all seems to begin as the basslines start to get bolstered with guitar riffs and the much more prominant use of sampled strings to form the melodies starts to kick in. the raps are still there and at the high end of quality, the humour is starting to kick back in again witness Dr.Greenthumb (awesome song) and the boys sound vital again not paranoid not overwhelmed but enjoying the game. probably helps that this album was recorded with the fresh return of sen dog and b-real had got the last of his issues out of the way on the psycho realm project (well worth checking out too) and they could all return to their day jobs.

Cypress Hill 4 eva
Brilliant album, truly raw hip hop from the east side LA kings. A worthy follow up to the also excellent temples of boom, my personal favourites on this album include Audio X, Steel Magnolia, Dead men tell no tales and my favourite Prelude to a Come up. Guest appearances from the already established Barron Ricks and MC Ren from NWA work well on this album. CYPRESS WHAAA

Fantastic! Buy this album!
This is definitely their best in a long time, almost as good as their first album. The opening track, Through The Eye Of A Pig, is extremely dark and powerful and will hook you on the first listening. The album is lyrically excellent with plenty of smooth sounds and hard licks. As usual it's blatantly Cypress Hill - it's all original and not the same old same-old that seems to flood the hip-hop charts. If you only have one Cypress Hill album (and I hope it's the first one!) you'd be a fool not to own this one as well!