March 4 - Cypress Hill - III Temples of Boom

3rd Studio from Cypress Hill (B Real, Sen Dogg, DJ Muggs) released on October 31, 1995

Producers: DJ Muggs, RZA Featuring: RZA, U God

I love this slower tempo, darker album and includes the song which would ignite the feud between Cypress Hill and Ice Cube, "No Rest For The Wicked" This album takes place during the time that Sen Dogg left the group.

"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."

This album has a long history with me. I originally bought this on cassette. This album was a classic right from the start. I still remember the day I gave this album away over the Ice Cube/Cypress beef. I have since then replaced it with the CD as well as the expanded version with the DJ Muggs Buddha Mix. Looking at it now it is a genius album of the times and while Cube was working with Enemy Cypress was working with Wutang.