Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom

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III: Temples of Boom
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Studio album by Cypress Hill
Released October 31, 1995
Recorded 1994-1995
Genre Latin hip hop, hardcore hip hop, West Coast hip hop
Length 55:54
Label Ruffhouse, Columbia, SME
Producer DJ Muggs
RZA
Cypress Hill chronology
Black Sunday
(1993)Black Sunday1993		 III: Temples of Boom
(1995)		 IV
(1998)IV1998
Singles from III: Temples of Boom
  1. "Throw Your Set in the Air"
    Released: September 26, 1995[1]
  2. "Illusions"
    Released: February 20, 1996[2]
  3. "Boom Biddy Bye Bye"
    Released: May 21, 1996[3]

III: Temples of Boom is hip hop group Cypress Hill's third album, released in 1995. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.[4]

Album information

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. With this album the band turned towards a more tranquil, sedate, slower, spooky sound with beats. The dark mood of this album reflects the strife within the band during this era, when member Sen Dog temporarily left the band to pursue other projects.

Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and U-God both make appearances on "Killa Hill Niggas". Also notable was track "No Rest For The Wicked", which ignited the feud between Cypress Hill and rapper Ice Cube, who they claimed stole material from the band.

On many shows of the "Temples Of Boom" tour, the group would take time in between songs to talk about this feud and get the crowd to yell obscenities about Ice Cube.

The song "Make a Move" contains an excerpt from the film Pulp Fiction.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic 3.5/5 stars [5]
Robert Christgau (dud) [6]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars
  • Rolling Stone - 3.5 Stars - Good - "…half of III bumps with a new and improved Cypress Hill sound that marks producer Muggs' progress.… For all the rude immediacy of its rhymes, III is an album of many musical hues…Cypress Hill still wield an intoxicating power that's all their own…"[7]
  • Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore."[8]
  • Melody Maker - Bloody Essential - "…resonates with freakish cheese-wire paranoia…a gobsmacking paradox of expansive claustrophobia.… The funk patters like an erratic heartbeat, the voices are stretched to bursting with menace and loathing and mockery…"[9]
  • Rap Pages - 7 (out of 10) - "B-Real spits out lyric after lyric lambasting critics, ex-homies and anyone else not down with his familia.… Some of the record might sound familiar, but, hey, that's the Cypress sound."[10]
  • NME - 7 (out of 10) - "At its most powerful, tuneful, sarcastic and entertaining, it's sneering '90s hip-hop.… In the weeks of the OJ fall-out and the Nation Of Islam Million Man March, Cypress Hill have made the album which reflects US and, therefore, global paranoia with spookily apt timing."[11]

Track listing

Tracks 1-4, 6-15 produced by DJ Muggs. Track 5 produced by RZA.

No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Spark Another Owl"   Freese, Muggs 3:40
2. "Throw Your Set in the Air"   Freese, Muggs 4:08
3. "Stoned Raiders"   Freese, Muggs, Reyes 2:54
4. "Illusions"   Freese, Muggerud 4:28
5. "Killa Hill Niggas" (featuring RZA and U-God) Diggs, Freese, Reyes 4:03
6. "Boom Biddy Bye Bye"   Freese, Muggs, Reyes 4:04
7. "No Rest for the Wicked"   DJ Muggs, Freese 5:01
8. "Make a Move"   Freese, Muggs 4:33
9. "Killafornia"   DJ Muggs, Freese 2:56
10. "Funk Freakers"   Freese, Muggs 3:16
11. "Locotes"   Freese, Muggs, Reyes 3:39
12. "Red Light Visions"   Freese, Muggs 1:46
13. "Strictly Hip Hop"   Freese, Muggs 4:33
14. "Let It Rain"   Freese, Muggs 3:45
15. "Everybody Must Get Stoned"   Freese, Muggs 3:05
Japanese release bonus track
No. Title Writer(s) Length
16. "Smuggler's Blues"   Freese, Muggs 4:23
Disc 2
No. Title Writer(s) Length
1. "Buddha Mix"   Muggs 20:54

Samples

Personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)[12]

Year Chart Position
1995 The Billboard 200 3
1995 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums 3

References

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  5. ↑ Birchmeier, Jason. "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom" at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
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  12. ↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011.

External links

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