Cypress Hill
Till Death Do Us Part
Release Date: Mar 23, 2004
Genre(s): Alternative, Rap
Record label: Sony
Music Critic Score
How the Music Critic Score works
Buy Till Death Do Us Part from Amazon
Album Review: Till Death Do Us Part by Cypress Hill
Average, Based on 2 Critics
Based on rating 3/5
After seven albums of banging on about drugs and guns to diminishing effect, LA's falling hop-hop kings have finally woken up from their dope-induced doze. Cypress Hill's first offering since 2001's so-so Stoned Raiders doesn't break with the formula, but at least it stretches it. The 16 tracks here dip into Latin hip-hop, rock, dancehall, salsa, fast 'n' furious gangsta (the brutal Another Body Drops) - while the unlikely instrumentation features everything from a melancholy piano to a harp.
Based on rating 4/10
B Real: "Throw it on the wall/See if it sticks/If it don't work/Take another hit." Sen Dog: "Take another hit!" Those are not quotes. However, if Cypress Hill were to take the lead from every other MC who has declared honesty to be the only policy, the group might've included lines like that somewhere near the beginning of their eighth album. More restless than ever, fleeting flirtations with Jamaican music of most stripes -- dancehall, dub, and ska included -- are handled clumsily.
'Till Death Do Us Part'
is available now