Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom

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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 darker, tranquil, slower, and spookier sound with their beats. The album went Platinum in the U.S. with 1 million units sold.

Background

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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. Cypress Hill claimed that the hook in Ice Cube's single "Friday" (from the film of the same name) was stolen from their song "Throw Your Set in the Air". At the peak of the feud, on the "Temples of Boom" tour, the group would take time 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 1990s 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

• 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…"<ref name=rs>Template:Cite news</ref>
• Q - 4 Stars - Excellent - "The production is sophisticated, incorporating Indian sitar and sloping, almost psychedelic bass grooves to create a vaguely threatening ambient hardcore."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 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…"<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
• 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."<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Track listing

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

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

Charts

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

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