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Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom is the third studio album by Latin-American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released on October 31, 1995 by Ruffhouse and Columbia Records. It was the first album to feature Eric Bobo as an official member of the group. The album featured a stylistic change, as the group turned towards a more darker, tranquil, slower, and spookier sound with their beats. The album went Platinum[4] in the U.S. with 1 million units sold.

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

Background

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With this album, the group turned towards a more tranquil, sedate, slower, spooky sound with their beats.

Wu-Tang Clan members RZA and U-God both make an appearance on the track "Killa Hill Niggas".

Also notable was the track "No Rest for the Wicked", which ignited the feud between Cypress Hill and rapper Ice Cube who they claimed stole the hook from the group’s single "Throw Your Set in the Air", for his song “Friday” from the movie Friday. At the peak of the feud on the “Temples Of Boom” tour, the group would take time in between songs to talk about this and get the crowd to yell obscenities about Ice Cube.

The darker mood tone reflected the strife in the 90’s and the different aspects the group faced as they became more famous. During this era member Sen Dog temporarily left the band to pursue other projects.

Reception

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[5]
Chicago Tribune	[6]
Christgau's Consumer Guide	[7]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music	[8]
Entertainment Weekly	C+[9]
NME	7/10[10]
Q	[11]
Rolling Stone	[12]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[13]
Spin	5/10[14]

• 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…"[12]
• Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore."[15]
• 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…"[16]
• 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."[17]
• 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."[18]

Track listing

• All tracks produced by DJ Muggs, except track 5 produced by RZA

Personnel

Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)[19]

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

References

External links

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

На других языках

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[de] III: Temples of Boom

III: Temples of Boom (englisch für Tempel des Donnerns) ist das dritte Studioalbum der US-amerikanischen Rap-Gruppe Cypress Hill. Es erschien am 31. Oktober 1995 über die Labels Ruffhouse und Columbia Records und wurde in den USA für mehr als eine Million verkaufte Einheiten mit Platin ausgezeichnet.[1]

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- [en] Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom

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