CYPRESS HILL: Rise Up – 2010 – Album review

CYPRESS HILL: Rise Up – 2010 – Album review
HIGHLIGHTS: Light It Up – K.U.S.H.
SOUNDBITE: “The beat is on, the heat is on/ If Sen Dog’s Cheech I must be Chong”
RATING: 3/5
In which we continue with this week’s guest review style (courtesy of Rolling Stone). Honestly. - I’ve written longer notes to the milkman:

As with fellow Californians Souls Of Mischief, Cypress Hill’s early work was so huge they’ve been living in its shadow ever since. Still, maybe that’s the price of creating a classic and it sounds like they’re still paying as the LP begins with a compere referencing how in 1991 an ‘artist’ in Compton was blown away by Cypress Hill’s ‘futuristic funk’ and ‘dedication to a certain herb,’ followed in short order by the lumpen, staccato, programmed beats of It Ain’t Nuthin’. Well, quite. The scratchy-sample on Light It Up is much more ear-friendly and perhaps the most successful track here at updating the classic Cypress Hilll ‘shit’ which it does so well it’s the LP highlight. Elsewhere…READ THE REST AT MONKEYBOXING.COM