Skull & Bones (album)

Skull and Bones
Studio album by
Publication (s)	April 25, 2000
admission	1999-2000
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Format (s)	Double CD
Genre (s)	Alternative hip-hop , crossover , rap metal , hardcore rap
Title (number)	CD1: 11 / CD2: 6/7
running time	CD1: 40:57 / CD2: 23:32 / 27:05
production	DJ Muggs
chronology IV (1998) Skull and Bones Stoned Raiders (2001)
Single releases March 28, 2000 (Rap) superstar March 28, 2000 (Rock) superstar August 8, 2000 Highlife August 18, 2000 Can't Get the Best of Me

Skull & Bones ( English for "Skull & Bones") is the fifth studio album by the US rap group Cypress Hill and was released on April 25, 2000 on the Columbia Records label . It is the band's first double album and went platinum in the US with sales of more than 500,000 .

Cover design

The album cover is kept in brown tones. It shows a skull with a cannabis leaf on its head, based on a pirate flag , two bones are crossed behind it. The words Cypress Hill and Skull & Bones are located above or below the skull .

Guest Posts

The song (Rap) Superstar contains spoken statements by the rappers Eminem and Noreaga , while the (Rock) Superstar contains statements by the rock musicians Chino Moreno and Everlast .

Track list

CD1

The first CD ( Skull ) contains eleven songs in classic hip-hop style:

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
1	Intro		DJ Muggs	1:52
2	Another victory		DJ Muggs	3:11
3	(Rap) superstar	Eminem and Noreaga	DJ Muggs	4:53
4th	Cuban necktie		DJ Muggs	4:13
5	What U Want from Me		DJ Muggs	3:50
6th	Stank Ass Hoe		DJ Muggs	5:10
7th	Highlife		DJ Muggs	3:53
8th	Certified Bomb		DJ Muggs	4:03
9	Can I get a hit		DJ Muggs	2:47
10	We Live This Shit		DJ Muggs	4:20
11	Worldwide		DJ Muggs	2:45

CD2

The second CD ( Bones ) contains six and seven songs in crossover (rap-rock) style, with Christian Olde Wolbers and Dino Cazares from Fear Factory , Brad Wilk ( Rage Against the Machine ), Chino Moreno ( Deftones ) and Rogelio Lozano ( Downset. ) Contributed:

#	title	Guest Posts	producer	length
1	Valley of Chrome		DJ Muggs	4:04
2	Get Out of My Head		DJ Muggs	3:31
3	Can't Get the Best of Me		DJ Muggs	4:15
4th	A man		DJ Muggs	3:08
5	Dust		DJ Muggs	3:56
6th	(Rock) superstar	Chino Moreno and Everlast	DJ Muggs	4:38
7th	Jack You Back (Bonus Track)		DJ Muggs	3:33

Chart successes and singles

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Skull and Bones   DE 4th 05/08/2000 (11 weeks)   AT 5 05/07/2000 (11 weeks)   CH 7th 05/07/2000 (16 weeks)   UK 6th 05/06/2000 (6 weeks)   US 5 05/13/2000 (26 weeks)

Singles

(Rap) superstar   DE 22nd 04/17/2000 (12 weeks)   CH 21st 04/16/2000 (12 weeks)   UK 13 04/29/2000 (6 weeks) (Rock) superstar   UK 13 04/29/2000 (6 weeks) Can't Get the Best of Me   DE 99 09/25/2000 (2 weeks)   UK 35 09/16/2000 (2 weeks)

Skull & Bones entered the German charts at number 4 in the 19th calendar week of 2000, which is still the best placement for a Cypress Hill album in Germany. In the following weeks, the album occupied position 6; 8 and 13. In total, it stayed in the top 100 for eleven weeks. In the German 2000 annual charts, the sound carrier was 96th.

As singles were (Rap) Superstar , (Rock) Superstar , High Life and Can not Get the Best of Me decoupled.

reception

Professional reviews
Reviews
source	rating
laut.de
Rolling Stone
allmusic
RapReviews

From laut.de the album two out of a possible five points received. The reviewer Stefan Friedrich writes that Cypress Hill “still sound different from the rest of the hip-hop world, but not automatically good too.” The hip-hop CD is “made loveless and shallow”, with the production mainly consisting of string samples contain and little bass. The rap-rock CD, on the other hand, “mostly looks like a crossover from the early 90s.” Only the songs (Rap) Superstar and Stank Ass Hoe are positively highlighted.

Individual evidence

1. ^ RIAA : Search Results Gold and Platinum Awards from Cypress Hill
2. ↑ album cover
3. ↑ Chart sources (singles): DE AT CH UK US
4. ↑ DE: Annual charts # 96
5. ↑ ^{a b} Evaluation: laut.de
6. ↑ Rating: Rolling Stone
7. ↑ Rating: allmusic.com
8. ↑ Review: RapReviews.com