NO COPYRIGHT INTENEDED. FOR PROMOTIONAL USE ONLY. Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom is hip hop group Cypress Hill's third album, released on October 31st, 1995. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA. ** 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 Labels: Ruffhouse, Columbia, SME 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. 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…" Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore." 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…" 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." 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." ** CHARTS Album - Billboard (North America) Year Chart Position 1995 The Billboard 200 3 1995 Top R&B;/Hip-Hop Albums 3 ** SAMPLES "Spark Another Owl" "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by The New Apocalypse "The Beautiful and Omniprescent Love" by Azar Lawrence "Killafornia" "Pacified" by Rita Jean Bodine "Illusions" "Las Vegas Tango" by Gary Burton "9MM Goes Bang" by Boogie Down Productions "Killa Hill Niggas" "90% of Me Is You" by Gwen McCrae "Make A Move" "Money Move" by Barrington Levy "Ezekiel 25:17" by Samuel L. Jackson "Strictly Hip Hop" "Repent Walpurgis" by Procol Harum "Stoned Raiders" The Exorcist William Friedkin "Hydra" by Grover Washington Jr. "Everybody Must Get Stoned" "Rainy Day Women #12 & 35" by Bob Dylan "Stoned Is The Way of the Walk" by Cypress Hill "Throw Your Set In The Air" "Sorcerer of Isis" by Power of Zeus "Life Could" by Rotary Connection "Boom Biddy Bye Bye" "Get Out of My Life, Woman" by Iron Butterfly "Just Rhymin' With Biz" by Big Daddy Kane

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