Cypress Hill Album: “Stoned Raiders [Clean]”

This cd everybody is ragging on. Everyone wants TOB or Black Sunday, so then just go listen to that cd. They are expirementing with new styles and integrating sounds which for the most part is done very well. Of course it's not like their old stuff, because that would just be lame redoing old beats and lyrics. All and all, this really is a good cd for any CYPRESS HILL fan, not just a TOB fan.

I'm fully aware that bands need to grow as musicians, but this is getting pretty bad. After "skull and bones" I was worried about what this album would sound like. The metal sound of cypress hill was good when it was a novelty and was rarely heard, but putting it all over an album is getting tired. I listen to metal and hardcore (not limp bizkit, or linkin park, but real metal like slayer, chimaira, VOD) as well as rap to a great extent, so a song like "trouble" is cringe worthy to me to say the least. However, that's not the problem with this album, the problem is that although cypress maintains the trippy stoner image, the music doesn't. "Temple of boom" and "IV", were the perfect blend of good rap and "chillin" stoner beats, but on Stoned Raiders and Skull and Bones, Cypress has opted for more commercial west coast rythems, which is fine because i enjoy lots of rap, but the persona cypress once had is fading. "Bitter" is as close as you'll get folks. Regardless, the album is still quality and will please rap fans no doubt and even fake metal fans. If you like the old school sound, you wont be too impressed but if your open in musical tastes, then by all means, give it a go.

I was really impressed by this lp.It starts off really well with trouble and then on to kronologic, my favourite tracks were trouble,it aint easy,amplified ,lowrider,red and meth.It is really solid,its only just better than the previous title.

Cypress Hill are brilliant...I have nt heard much fo their old stuff....but this CD is awesome......songs like the weed man and lowrider....they are all so chilled out...amplified and L.I.F.E. are also good tracks....actually the whole damn CD is good...go get the CD!!!!! This is a good CD to just sit back , messed in the head and chilled out....!!!!!

DJ Muggs has been known for his awsome producing and his new styles, easily one of the best in the last decade or so (along with dre and rza), but this album just wasn't that innovative. They seemed to pick up the annoying habit of all the rappers chanting the chorus. "Red, meth & b" and "lowrider", though, are really tight. Being a cypress hill fan, I would still pick it up, but the album is not as good as a whole as many of their other ones.