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- Artist: Cypress Hill
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- Release Date: April 25, 2000
- Type: Contains explicit content
- Genre: Rap
Review
Despite the best efforts of DJ Muggs, Cypress Hill ran out of gas fairly quickly, entering a tailspin as soon as their third album. Back at full strength with the return of Sen Dog, Cypress Hill devised a full-scale comeback with their fifth album, Skull & Bones. The idea behind the album was to divide it into two -- a hip-hop disc ("Skull") and a rock disc ("Bones"). This would guarantee some publicity, at the very least, and, hopefully, it would win over the new generation of adolescents who flipped for rap-metal acts like Kid Rock and Limp Bizkit. On paper, it's a sound theory, but there was a slight flaw -- the group is kind of lame when they rock. Their band is competent enough, and B Real's voice does sound good with overdriven guitars, but their rock songs utterly fall apart, since they have no hooks, no catchy riffs, and no character. If rap-metal was all there was to Skull & Bones, it would be a bit of an embarrassment. Fortunately, the "Skulls" disc is their finest effort since Black Sunday. Muggs is in prime form, creating funky, ominous, evocative soundscapes, which B Real makes the most of with fluid rhymes. At times, B Real does descend into tastelessness ("Stank Ass Hoe"), and neither he nor Sen Dog really find any new lyrical ground, but sonically, "Skulls" is a blast; B Real's whine and Sen Dog's gruff, blunt style are the perfect match for Muggs' darkly cinematic soundscapes, and, on a purely sonic level, it's quite intoxicating. At their best, Cypress Hill are a hip-hop experience unlike any other, and, ignoring the "Bones" disc, this is the best they've been in a long, long time. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine, All Music GuideTracks
CD 1
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Intro | Cypress Hill | (1:52) | |
| Another Victory (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (3:11) | |
| (Rap) Superstar | Cypress Hill | (4:53) | |
| Cuban Necktie (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (4:13) | |
| What U Want from Me (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (3:50) | |
| Stank A** H** | Cypress Hill | (5:09) | |
| Highlife | Cypress Hill | (3:53) | |
| Certified Bomb (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (4:03) | |
| Can I Get a Hit (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (2:47) | |
| We Live This S*** | Cypress Hill | (4:20) | |
| Worldwide | Muggs, |
Cypress Hill | (2:45) |
CD 2
| Track Title | Composers | Performers | Time |
| Valley of Chrome (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (4:04) | |
| Get Out of My Head (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (3:31) | |
| Can't Get the Best of Me (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill | (4:15) | |
| A Man | Cypress Hill | (3:08) | |
| Dust (Lyrics) | Cypress Hill, |
Cypress Hill | (3:56) |
| (Rock) Superstar | Cypress Hill | (4:37) |
