Stoned Raiders by Cypress Hill

Stoned Raiders, Cypress Hill's sixth studio album, hit stores through Columbia on December 4, 2001, and even the title is a callback, borrowed from a song on Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom back in 1995. DJ Muggs produced it, fellow founders B-Real and Sen Dog are both on board, and the South Gate crew plants one boot in rap-metal and nu-metal crunch and the other in the smoky hardcore hip-hop they'd been cooking since 1988.

It's a record that likes to look over its shoulder. "Kronologik" runs back through the group's whole career from its 1991 debut, and "Here Is Something You Can't Understand" picks up the thread of their breakthrough, "How I Could Just Kill a Man". MC Ren, King Tee, Redman and Method Man drop in, and the group performed "Lowrider" in the film How High. "Trouble" and "Lowrider" were the singles, and most critics came away pleased.

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