Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom

Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom
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) Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (1995) Cypress Hill IV (1998)

Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom is hip hop group Cypress Hill's third album, released in 1995. The album was certified Platinum by the RIAA.^[1]

Album information

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	[2]
Robert Christgau	[3]

• 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…"^[4]

• Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore."^[5]

• 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…"^[6]

• 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."^[7]

• 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."^[8]

Track listing

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

"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" "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

Personnel

B-Real - Vocals Sen Dog - Vocals Shag - Backing vocalist Bobo - Conga Red Dog - Organ, Bass guitar DJ Muggs - Arranger, Producer, Mixing Jason Roberts - Engineer, Mixing RZA - Producer, Engineer, Mixing, Guest vocals U-God - Guest vocals Ben Wallach - Assistant Engineer Lamont Hyde - Assistant Engineer

Dante Ariola - Design Jamie Caliri - Cover Photo Codikow - Representation Ricky Harris - Interlude Manny Lecouna - Mastering Joe Nicolo - Mixing Ross Donaldson - Mixing Jay Papke - Design Ken Schles - Photography Chris McCann - Photography Happy Walters - Management

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)^[9]

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

References

1. ^ "American certifications – Cypress Hill – III (Temple of Boom)". Recording Industry Association of America. http://www.riaa.com/goldandplatinumdata.php?artist=%22III+%28Temple+of+Boom%29%22. 
2. ^ Birchmeier, Jason. "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom" at Allmusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
3. ^ Christgau, Robert. "Cypress Hill". RobertChristgau.com. http://robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=Cypress+Hill. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
4. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow): p. 109. 16 November 1995. ISSN 0035-791X. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8583315&desc=1. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
5. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Q (Bauer Media): p. 124. January 1996 (1996-01). ISSN 0955-4955. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8583315&desc=1. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
6. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Melody Maker (IPC Media): p. 39. 28 October 1995. ISSN 0025-9012. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8583315&desc=1. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
7. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Rap Pages (Beverly Hills, CA: LFP): p. 32. January 1996 (1996-01). ISSN 1063-1283. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8583315&desc=1. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
8. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". NME (IPC Media): p. 54. 28 October 1995. ISSN 0028-6362. http://www.cduniverse.com/productinfo.asp?pid=8583315&desc=1. Retrieved 20 October 2011. 
9. ^ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom > Charts & Awards > Billboard Albums" at Allmusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011.

External links

• Cypress Hill – III - Temples Of Boom at Discogs (list of releases)