CYPRESS HILL - Black Sunday

How do you improve a solid start? AMPLIFY!

#Gangsta #Rap ultra-violence? Amplify! Tunes promoting the smoking of ganja? Amplify! B-Real's slightly cartoony but wildly unhinged rapping? Amplify! DJ Muggs' use of cello basslines? Oh hell yeah, amplify!

'Insane In The Brain' is the big one here, bringing the group into the rarified air of #HipHop crossover successes like House Of Pain, but damn, the whole album's great. Almost psychedelic, in a ghetto sort of way.