688. Cypress Hill

Cypress Hill
Cypress Hill

1991

Tracks

1. Pigs
2. How I Could Just Kill A Man
3. Hand On The Pump
4. Hole In The Head
5. Ultraviolet Dreams
6. Light Another
7. Phuncky Feel One
8. Break It Up
9. Real Estate
10. Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk
11. Psychobetabuckdown
12. Something For The Blunted
13. Latin Lingo
14. Funky Cypress Hill Shit
15. Tres Equis
16. Born To Get Busy

So yet another West Coast hip hop album, but this one is (thankfully) a little different. For one thing, it's Latino hip hop, and the Latin influence makes it much better than other hip hop albums of the time. 

For another thing, the lyrics were also weren't the typical self-aggrandizing, hate speech fare I've come to know and despise. They actually covered interesting social issues in a unique way. It's still not my favorite style of music, but this album was much more enjoyable to me than the previous entries on the List.

I also got the sense they were more influenced by Public Enemy than N.W.A....always a good thing.

RATING: 3/5