Black Sunday (album)

Black Sunday
Studio album by
Publication (s)	July 19, 1993
admission	1992-1993
Label (s)	Ruffhouse, Columbia Records
Format (s)	CD
Genre (s)	Alternative hip-hop , Latin hip-hop , west coast hip-hop
Title (number)	14th
running time	43:48
production	DJ Muggs T-Ray
chronology Cypress Hill (1991) Black Sunday III: Temples of Boom (1995)
Single releases June 22, 1993 Insane in the brain 1993 When the shit goes down 1993 I ain't goin 'out like that 1994 Lick a shot

Black Sunday ( English for Black Sunday ) is the second studio album by the US rap group Cypress Hill . It was released on July 19, 1993 on the labels Ruffhouse and Columbia Records . With, among other things, a three-time platinum award in the USA for more than three million copies sold, it is the group's most successful album to date.

Cover design

The album cover is sepia colored. It shows a hill littered with tombstones with a tree on top. In the foreground you can see skulls. At the top right are the words Cypress Hill and Black Sunday .

Track list

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
Rolling Stone
allmusic

#	title	producer	length
1	I want to get high	DJ Muggs	2:55
2	I ain't goin 'out like that	T-Ray	4:28
3	Insane in the brain	DJ Muggs	3:33
4th	When the shit goes down	DJ Muggs	3:09
5	Lick a shot	DJ Muggs	3:24
6th	Cock the hammer	DJ Muggs	4:24
7th	Lock Down (Skit)	DJ Muggs	1:18
8th	3 Lil 'Putos	DJ Muggs	3:40
9	Legalize It (Skit)	DJ Muggs	0:47
10	Hits from the bong	DJ Muggs	2:41
11	What Go Around, Come Around, Kid	DJ Muggs	3:42
12	A to the K	DJ Muggs	3:28
13	Hand on the Glock	DJ Muggs	3:32
14th	Break 'Em Off Some	DJ Muggs	2:47

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Black Sunday   DE 36 08/09/1993 (27 weeks)   CH 38 02/27/1994 (4 weeks)   UK 13 08/07/1993 (57 weeks)   US 1 08/07/1993 (56 weeks)

Singles

Insane in the brain   DE 93 09/27/1993 (3 weeks)   UK 21st 07/31/1993 (9 weeks)   US 19th 07/10/1993 (20 weeks) When the shit goes down   UK 19th 10/02/1993 (4 weeks) I ain't goin 'out like that   UK 15th 12/11/1993 (7 weeks)   US 65 01/08/1994 (7 weeks) Lick a shot   UK 20th 05/07/1994 (4 weeks)

The album entered the German charts at position 87 in the 32nd calendar week of 1993. In the following weeks it rose steadily and recorded the highest rank with 36th place. In total, Black Sunday stayed in the top 100 for 27 weeks. In the USA the album climbed to the top position straight away and was able to stay in the charts for a total of 56 weeks.

As singles were Insane in the Brain (DE # 93, 3 wks.) When the Shit Goes Down , I Is not Goin 'Out Like That and Lick a shot decoupled. Insane in the Brain is one of the group's best known songs to this day and received a gold record in the USA .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} RIAA : Search Results Gold and Platinum Awards from Cypress Hill
2. ↑ album cover
3. ^ Matt Diehl: Reviews: Cypress Hill - Black Sunday. Rolling Stone , July 17, 1993, archived from the original on September 22, 2009 ; accessed on July 5, 2016 . 
4. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
5. ↑ Chart sources (singles): DE ( Memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. AT CH UK US 
6. ↑ DE: Black Sunday chart tracking ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ US Charts: Cypress Hill Albums
8. ↑ Singles from musicline.de ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.