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Rise Up

Cypress Hill

Rise Up

The longstanding Latino rap act return with album No.8 after a 6-year break, with guests galore

ADM rating[?]

5.0

Label
Parlophone
UK Release date
19/04/2010
  1. 7.0 |   The Digital Fix

    Whilst this doesn't seem dangerous any more, Rise Up is a solid and enjoyable album that doesn't drop the ball or try anything stupid
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  2. 6.0 |   The Skinny

    Rise Up? They just might, but will The Hill ever levitate away from the towering shadow of their 90s output?
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  3. 6.0 |   Q

    Beneath the veneer of baffling musicality, it's evident there's nothing new under the sun, no matter what galaxy you're in

  4. 6.0 |   Rolling Stone

    When they write what they know, they strike a nice balance between visions of bong-water Armageddon and Nineties light-'em-up boom-bap
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  5. 6.0 |   musicOMH

    It delivers what you'd expect, but ambition is unfulfilled and the constant pursuit of seemingly random stylistic tangents reveals a lack of focus
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  6. 5.0 |   Rave Magazine

    A handful of worthwhile tracks aren’t enough to stop this feeling like they’ve smoked their gimmick down to the roach
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  7. 5.0 |   PopMatters

    Is Latino-drenched R&B next on the Cypress Hill agenda? Hell, why not?
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  8. 5.0 |   Drowned In Sound

    If hip hop has taught us nothing else it’s to keep… it… real, but Cypress Hill seem to have forgotten lesson number on
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  9. 4.0 |   Evening Standard

    They still drone on at indulgent length about the joys of the bong, most drearily on K.U.S.H
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  10. 4.0 |   The Observer

    Rap-rock is rarely if ever a good idea, and so it proves here
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  11. 4.0 |   Eye Weekly

    Other than a few more pot anthems and occasional rap-rock revivals, there are no revolutions here, in sound or otherwise
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  12. 4.0 |   Uncut

    Print edition only

  13. 4.0 |   The List

    This is a one-note affair, too addicted to weed to let in any rock
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Cypress Hill: Rise Up

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  • 1. It Ain't Nothin' (feat. Young De) N/A
  • 2. Light It Up N/A
  • 3. Rise Up (feat. Tom Morello) N/A
  • 4. Get It Anyway N/A
  • 5. Pass The Dutch (feat. Evidence and The Alchemist) N/A
  • 6. Bang Bang N/A
  • 7. K.U.S.H. N/A
  • 8. Get 'Em Up N/A
  • 9. Carry Me Away (feat. Mike Shinoda) N/A
  • 10. Trouble Seeker (feat. Daron Malakian) N/A
  • 11. Take My Pain (feat. Everlast) N/A
  • 12. I Unlimited N/A
  • 13. Armed And Dangerous N/A
  • 14. Shut 'Em Down (feat. Tom Morello) N/A
  • 15. Armada Latina (feat. Pitbull and Marc Anthony) N/A
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