Skull & Bones (album)

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Skull & Bones
Studio album by Cypress Hill
Released	April 25, 2000
Recorded	1999-2000
Genre	Latin rap West Coast hip hop Hardcore rap Rapcore
Length	40:56 (Disc 1) 23:31 (Disc 2)
Label	Columbia Records
Producer	DJ Muggs
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Audio Video Revolution (7/10) link Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone link Yahoo! Music (favorable) link
Cypress Hill chronology
Los Grandes Exitos en Espanol (1999) Skull & Bones (2000) Live at the Fillmore (2000)

Skull & Bones is the fifth studio album by the rap group Cypress Hill, released on April 25, 2000.

Contents 1 Album information 2 Reception 3 Track listing 3.1 Skull (Disc 1) 3.2 Bones (Disc 2) 4 Personnel 5 Charts

[edit] Album information

While released on two discs, this is purely presentational, as the entire album could fit on one. It features Everlast, Eminem, N.O.R.E., Christian Olde Wolbers & Dino Cazares of Fear Factory, Brad Wilk of Rage Against the Machine and Chino Moreno of the Deftones.

The song "(Rock) Superstar" was once performed live by the band with Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum of the band Velvet Revolver.

The Intro includes a sample from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

[edit] Reception

Professional reviews:

Rolling Stone (5/11/00, p.132) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "A bipolar breakdown....proving hip-hop is more like T2...capable of morphing into anyone they wanna be."

CMJ (5/1/00, p.23) - "Proves rather convincingly that Cypress Hill still packs a mighty punch."

Vibe (6/00, p.223) - "Marks the first major shift in the group's direction....Half of [the album] is a head-banging jam session....Songs like '(Rap) Superstar' prove that the group still has that winning formula."

The Source (6/00, pp.218-20) - 3.5 mics out of 5 - "May be their most drastic turn yet....Cypress' flavor runs thick across the disc....They break down the barriers in order to transcend the industry-imposed terms of alternative and rap....another set for the weeded."

Rap Pages (6/00, p.42) - "...May be the best album you hear for the next 2 years....[it] is so artistically good that it [will] stay in your personal rotation..."

Mojo (6/00, p.113) - "Finds them sticking a finger in the air and finding the wind blowing in the direction of thrash-metal."

NME (4/29/00, p.33) - 7 out of 10 - "Picks up where the groggy metal/rap melange of '98s Cypress Hill IV left off....It's business as usual....They do hip-hop and they do funk-metal rawk....evolving slowly."

[edit] Track listing

[edit] Skull (Disc 1)

1. "Intro" (Muggerud) – 1:52
2. "Another Victory" (Freese/Muggerud) – 3:11
3. "(Rap) Superstar" (Freese/Muggerud) – 4:53
4. "Cuban Necktie" (Freese/Muggerud) – 4:13
5. "What U Want from Me" (Freese/Muggerud) – 3:50
6. "Stank Ass Hoe" (Freese/Muggerud) – 5:09
7. "Highlife" (Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) – 3:53
8. "Certified Bomb" (Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) – 4:03
9. "Can I Get a Hit" (Freese/Muggerud) – 2:47
10. "We Live This Shit" (Freese/Muggerud) – 4:20
11. "Worldwide" (Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) – 2:45

[edit] Bones (Disc 2)

1. "Valley of Chrome" (Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) – 4:04
2. "Get Out of My Head" (Freese/Muggerud) – 3:31
3. "Can't Get the Best of Me" (Correa/Freese/Muggerud/Reyes/Wilk) – 4:15
4. "A Man" (Correa/Fleener/Freese/Reyes/Zambrano) – 3:08
5. "Dust" (Cypress Hill/Fleming/Freese) – 3:56
6. "(Rock) Superstar" (Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) – 4:37
7. "Jack You Back" (Bonus Track, Freese/Muggerud/Reyes) - 3:32

[edit] Personnel

• B-Real - Vocals
• Sen Dog Vocals
• DJ Muggs - Producer
• Michael Barbiero - Engineer
• Eric Bobo - Drums
• Dino Cazares - Guitar
• Jeremy Fleener - Bass
• Rogelio Lozano - Guitar
• Reggie Stewart - Bass, Guitar
• Brad Wilk - Drums
• Christian Olde Wolbers - Bass
• Andy Zambrano - Guitar

[edit] Charts

Album - Billboard (North America)

Year	Chart	Position
2000	The Billboard 200	5
2000	Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums	4

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