Cypress Hill

1	Pigs 2:51
2	How I Could Just Kill a Man 4:08
3	Hand On The Pump 4:03
4	Hole In The Head 3:33
5	Ultraviolet Dreams 0:41
6	Light Another 3:17
7	The Phuncky Feel One 3:28
8	Break It Up 1:07
9	Real Estate 3:45
10	Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk 2:46
11	Psycobetabuckdown 2:59
12	Something For The Blunted 1:15
13	Latin Lingo 3:58
14	The Funky Cypress Hill Shit 4:01
15	Tres Equis 1:54
16	Born To Get Busy 3:00

Barnes & Noble

Coarse, funky, and urgent, Cypress Hill emerged, seemingly from nowhere, to release one of hip-hop's finest albums. DJ Muggs's stellar production work and deft use of minor-key funk (often augmented by braying whistles and sirens) created an irresistible backdrop, while rhymers B-Real and Sen Dog spouted rugged raps like "How I Could Just Kill a Man" and "Stoned Is the Way of the Walk." Their avid embrace of marijuana made them New Dylans for blunted B-boys everywhere, but by delivering their billowy tales of guns and violence in the tone of kids living out a DIY action-adventure movie, cuts like "Hand on the Pump" seem less like realistic tales than fantasies. Hitting closer to home, "Latin Lingo" accents the band's Hispanic heritage, all but inventing brown-eyed rap long before anyone had heard of the term "rock en Espanol." Martin Johnson

All Music Guide

It's hard enough to transform an entire musical genre -- Cypress Hill's eponymous debut album revolutionized hip-hop in several respects. 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. 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. And, most importantly, they created a sonic blueprint that would become one of the most widely copied in hip-hop. In keeping with their promarijuana stance, Cypress Hill intentionally crafted their music to sound stoned -- lots of slow, lazy beats, fat bass, weird noises, and creepily distant-sounding samples. The surreal lyrical narratives were almost exclusively spun by B Real in a nasal, singsong, instantly recognizable delivery that only added to the music's hazy, evocative atmosphere; as a frontman, he could be funny, frightening, or just plain bizarre (again, kind of like the experience of being stoned). Whether he's taunting cops or singing nursery rhyme-like choruses about blasting holes in people with shotguns, {|B Real|}'s blunted-gangsta posture is nearly always underpinned by a cartoonish sense of humor. It's never clear how serious the threats are, but that actually makes them all the more menacing. The sound and style of Cypress Hill was hugely influential, particularly on Dr. Dre's boundary-shattering 1992 blockbuster The Chronic; yet despite its legions of imitators, Cypress Hill still sounds fresh and original today, simply because few hip-hop artists can put its sound across with such force of personality or imagination. Steve Huey