Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom

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	^[5]
Robert Christgau	^[6]
Rolling Stone

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…"^[7]

Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore."^[8]

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…"^[9]

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."^[10]

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."^[11]

Track listing

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

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Spark Another Owl"	Freese, Muggerud	3:40
2.	"Throw Your Set in the Air"	Freese, Muggs	4:08
3.	"Stoned Raiders"	Freese, Muggerud, 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, Muggerud, Reyes	4:04
7.	"No Rest for the Wicked"	Muggerud, Freese	5:01
8.	"Make a Move"	Freese, Muggerud	4:33
9.	"Killafornia"	Muggerud, Freese	2:56
10.	"Funk Freakers"	Freese, Muggerud	3:16
11.	"Locotes"	Freese, Muggerud, Reyes	3:39
12.	"Red Light Visions"	Freese, Muggerud	1:46
13.	"Strictly Hip Hop"	Freese, Muggerud	4:33
14.	"Let It Rain"	Freese, Muggerud	3:45
15.	"Everybody Must Get Stoned"	Freese, Muggerud	3:05

Japanese release bonus track
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
16.	"Smuggler's Blues"	Freese, Muggerud	4:23

Disc 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Buddha Mix"	DJ 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"
- 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

Personnel

B-Real - Vocals
Sen Dog - Vocals
Shag - Backing vocalist
Eric "Bobo" Correa - 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)^[12]

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

References

↑ "Throw Your Set in the Air [Ruffhouse Single] - Cypress Hill". AllMusic. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
↑ "Illusions [12"] - Cypress Hill". AllMusic. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
↑ "Boom Biddy Bye Bye [Vinyl Single] - Cypress Hill". AllMusic. Retrieved February 21, 2015.
↑ "American certifications – Cypress Hill – III (Temple of Boom)". Recording Industry Association of America.
↑ Birchmeier, Jason. "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom" at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "Cypress Hill". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Rolling Stone (Straight Arrow). 16 November 1995. p. 109. ISSN 0035-791X. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Q (Bauer Media). January 1996. p. 124. ISSN 0955-4955. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Melody Maker (IPC Media). 28 October 1995. p. 39. ISSN 0025-9012. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". Rap Pages (Beverly Hills, CA: LFP). January 1996. p. 32. ISSN 1063-1283. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom". NME (IPC Media). 28 October 1995. p. 54. ISSN 0028-6362. Retrieved 20 October 2011.
↑ "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)

Cypress Hill

B-Real Sen Dog DJ Muggs Eric Bobo Mellow Man Ace

Studio albums	Cypress Hill Black Sunday Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom Cypress Hill IV Skull & Bones Stoned Raiders Till Death Do Us Part Rise Up

Compilations	Los grandes éxitos en español Greatest Hits from the Bong Super Hits Collections Strictly Hip Hop: The Best of Cypress Hill

Live albums	Live at the Fillmore

EPs	Unreleased and Revamped Stash

Singles	"How I Could Just Kill a Man" "The Phuncky Feel One" "Hand on the Pump" "Latin Lingo" "Insane in the Brain" "When the Shit Goes Down" "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" "Lick a Shot" "Throw Your Set in the Air" "Illusions" "Dr. Greenthumb" "(Rap) Superstar" "(Rock) Superstar" "Highlife" "Can't Get the Best of Me" "Trouble" "Lowrider" "What's Your Number?" "Rise Up" "Armada Latina"

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