We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our site, provide personalised content and advertising, analyse our traffic, and ensure you see more of what you love. For life long Cypress heads and good time hip-hop DJs of all stripes, this is an essential nugget of funk.

By then Muggs had bangers in the bag, as well as industry experience from a jaunt with the New York duo 7A3. Along with Beastie Boys and Public Enemy, Cypress Hill were also one of the first rap groups to bridge the gap with fans of both hard rock and alternative rock. Cypress Hill’s debut went gold by the end of 1991 and has since pushed past double platinum status, making it the first album for a Latino-American hip hop group to do so. Cypress Hill' went gold by the end of 1991 and has since pushed past double platinum status, making it the first album for a Latino-American hip hop group to do so.When they introduced percussionist Eric Bobo to the mix in the early 90s, it brought new dimension to the band, making their live performances one of the most unique and accomplished shows in hip-hop.

Since its release, the album has won acclaim as one of Rolling Stone's Essential Recordings of the 90s and Top 100 Best Rap Albums by The Source Magazine.B and Sen realized that their diametric styles - the latter’s deep wrangle, the former’s inimitable high notes - complemented one another righteously. The original Cypress Hill album captures the group at their risk-taking best, mixing gangster posturing, LA street politics, Latin flavor and warped humor together under a thick cloud of weed smoke and innovative beats. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Besides getting schooled on industry pitfalls, Muggs had also grown into hip-hop's most formidable young producer, while straddling the bi-coastal gap. Es gibt nichts schöneres als mit einer guten Schallplatte von Cypress Hill und einer kleinen Sportzigarette mit seiner Crew abzuhängen und zu entspannen.

Cypress Hill's debut album was an immediate success, propelling them into the mainstream with funky samples, murky production from DJ Muggs steeped in an atmosphere of thick smoke, and the charismatic, unique rapping of B-Real and Sen Dog. Review: Get On Down are a trusted destination for classics cut to 7" - the kind of weapons it's always handy to have in quick and easy reach when you're ready to set the party alight. An important slice of history homing in on one of the few hip hop acts to straddle the rivalry between East and West Coast rap at the time. Although they weren't the first Latino rappers, nor the first to mix Spanish and English, they were the first to achieve a substantial following, thanks to their highly distinctive sound.After 25 years, it should come as no surprise that Cypress Hill is a cornerstone of the group’s live set to this day. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

Journalist and author Chris Faraone highlights the group’s relationship in the reissue’s liner notes (which is included only in limited edition Skull) saying, “[By the late ‘80s] the undisputed Cypress unit finally formed. yamaha 5000 + ortofon black MC) where you can more easily notice all mastering and pressing default.Not well known outside of the hardcore hip-hop scene at first, faces of the three group members weren’t usually shown clearly in press photos; they preferred the shadows. While this is a bold claim, it has some merit - at least to those who view the cannabis-obsessed Los Angeles crew's early-to-mid-'90s work as the artistic peak of their career. Housed in a premium outer slipcase, debossed with the iconic Cypress Hill logo in metallic red foil. Records like "How I Could Just Kill a Man", "Pigs", "Stoned is the Way of the Walk" and "Hand on the Pump" made this album an instant classic.