CYPRESS HILL Vinilo y CD

Review: Get On Down's mission to bring you the finest hip-hop pressed up on 7" continues apace with this slice of vintage Cypress Hill lifted from their breakout debut album. 'The Funky Cypress Hill Shit' is every inch the party joint, with a raucous break that sounds like it could derail at any moment, but of course Muggs keeps it on lock and B-Real and Sen Dog get busy on the mic all over the track. It's a guaranteed slice of good time business that will never let you down when you need to juice up the crowd good and proper.

Review: Cypress Hill, got' er 'ultraviolet' on their euphemistic debut single, in which lyricist Larry Muggerud aka. DJ Muggs delved into his own dark and depraved dream with his anger-filled micro-track 'Ultraviolet Dreams'. This new reissue of the Hill's first and most well-known singles also includes 'Light Another' and 'The Phuncky Feel One', and comes to a limited retro-styled 7" record.

Review: Surely most of us had a period in our lives - probably during our teens, when we discovered smoking weed at a time when all new musical world are opting up to us - that we fell for the silly charms of noxious hip-hop stoners Cypress Hill? Well 30 odd years ago their debut album make a real mark on the musical landscape and some of the joints from it still bang to day, stoned or not. Here come a bunch of them on this today 7" 45 rpm. 'Break It Up,' 'Real Estate' and 'Stoned Is The Way Of The Walk' all feature and will have you reliving the good old days in no time.

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. On this occasion, we're tracking back to Cypress Hill's 1991 debut, which, let's face it, is loaded with heat from start to finish. Skipping past some of the more obvious picks, we kick off with the P-funk sampling freakery of 'Psycobetabuckdown', which has more than enough juicy hooks to get everyone wiggling. Likewise, DJ Muggs was keeping the pressure up with the sweet licks that power 'Something For The Blunted', albeit a short interlude before we get into the eternal 'Latin Lingo' on the flip. For life long Cypress heads and good time hip-hop DJs of all stripes, this is an essential nugget of funk.

Review: This classic from acclaimed hip-hop duo Cypress Hill breaks down all the different kinds of corruption in law enforcement, proving that there's more to police corruption than just the kind that Frank Serpico found. Indeed, police brutality is an ill that rappers know more than any other kind of artist; 'How Could I Just Kill A Man', on this flip from Get On Down, details the reality that good people have the capacity to catch bodies too. A paradigm-shifting pair of tunes.

Review: Chief stoners and innovative hip hop heads Cypress Hill remain a much-loved act with a distinctive sound of their own that leans on their unique flows, groundbreaking beats and weed-laced rhymes. One of the band's biggest early tunes was this one, 'Hand on the Pump'. Lyrically it muses on the dangerous mix of rap life and thug life in LA at the time they wrote it and of that time they have said before "It wasn't uncommon for us to go party out with like fifteen cars and everybody has got weapons in the cars." Either way, it remains a classic joint today with the bonus tune 'Hole In The Head' on the flip.

Review: To commemorate the 30 year Anniversary of Cypress Hill's debut album, Get On Down presents the complete album on 7 inch vinyl singles for the first time ever housed in a deluxe casebook. Cheeky, goblin-like rhymes come courtesy of lead vocalist B-Real and hypeman Sen Dog, doing justice to the two-tone rapper-hypeman formula of the day, trailblazed by Public Enemy. 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.