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CYPRESS HILL - BLACK SUNDAY
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Black Sunday
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88985434451
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Vinyl record
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2x12" LP Repress of Classic 1993 Hip Hop / Rap LP - Comes On Heavyweight Vinyl & Includes Free Download Of The Album
We don't need to spend a lot of words on Cypress Hill's second album Black Sunday. The album's flagship song "Insane In The Brain" received major airplay on MTV, and struck a major chord with alternative youth as well as hip hop fans. This is a unique facet of Cypress Hill that sets them apart from other Hip Hop acts that appeal to Hip Hop heads exclusively: Cypress Hill managed to rise above the genre.
Their marijuana filled lyrics, detuned and cleverly found samples (for instance, the horse sound on "Insane In The Brain" is from a 60s children TV-show), funky beats and nasal raps of B Real make Black Sunday a little trip to an early '90s latino ghetto, with a huge fun factor.
Black Sunday made Cypress Hill's connection to rock & roll more explicit, with its heavy metal-like artwork and noisier, more dissonant samples (including, naturally, stoner icons Black Sabbath). It's a slightly darker affair than its groundbreaking predecessor, with the threats of violence more urgent and the pot obsession played to the hilt (after all, it was a crucial part of their widespread appeal). Apart from those subtle distinctions, the sound of Black Sunday is pretty much the same as Cypress Hill, refining the group's innovations into an accessible bid for crossover success. In fact, it's a little startling how often Black Sunday recycles musical ideas and even lyrical catch phrases from the endlessly inventive debut. And the rock-derived, verse-chorus song structures start to sound a little formulaic by the end of the record (how many choruses feature Sen Dog repeating part of whatever B Real just said?). But in spite of that, Black Sunday still sounds vital and lively, since the group has a surer sense of craft. Most of the tracks are fleshed out into structured songs, in contrast to the brief sketches that punctuated Cypress Hill.
We don't need to spend a lot of words on Cypress Hill's second album Black Sunday. The album's flagship song "Insane In The Brain" received major airplay on MTV, and struck a major chord with alternative youth as well as hip hop fans. This is a unique facet of Cypress Hill that sets them apart from other Hip Hop acts that appeal to Hip Hop heads exclusively: Cypress Hill managed to rise above the genre.
Their marijuana filled lyrics, detuned and cleverly found samples (for instance, the horse sound on "Insane In The Brain" is from a 60s children TV-show), funky beats and nasal raps of B Real make Black Sunday a little trip to an early '90s latino ghetto, with a huge fun factor.
Black Sunday made Cypress Hill's connection to rock & roll more explicit, with its heavy metal-like artwork and noisier, more dissonant samples (including, naturally, stoner icons Black Sabbath). It's a slightly darker affair than its groundbreaking predecessor, with the threats of violence more urgent and the pot obsession played to the hilt (after all, it was a crucial part of their widespread appeal). Apart from those subtle distinctions, the sound of Black Sunday is pretty much the same as Cypress Hill, refining the group's innovations into an accessible bid for crossover success. In fact, it's a little startling how often Black Sunday recycles musical ideas and even lyrical catch phrases from the endlessly inventive debut. And the rock-derived, verse-chorus song structures start to sound a little formulaic by the end of the record (how many choruses feature Sen Dog repeating part of whatever B Real just said?). But in spite of that, Black Sunday still sounds vital and lively, since the group has a surer sense of craft. Most of the tracks are fleshed out into structured songs, in contrast to the brief sketches that punctuated Cypress Hill.
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