Who you tryna be crazy with, ese? Don'tcha know I'm loco?
Released in 1993, Black Sunday is Cypress Hill's second album.
Tracklist:
- "I Wanna Get High"
- "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That"
- "Insane In The Brain"
- "When The Shit Goes Down"
- "Lick A Shot"
- "Cock The Hammer"
- "Lock Down (interlude)"
- "3 Lil' Putos"
- "Legalize It"
- "Hits From The Bong"
- "What Go Around Come Around, Kid"
- "A To The K"
- "Hand On The Glock"
- "Break Em Off Some"
"These tropes ain't goin' out like that":
- As the Good Book Says...: "Legalize It" quotes Genesis 1:12:"I have given you all the seed bearing plants on earth to use."
- Badass Boast: From "Insane In The Brain":SEN DOG: "Punks just jealous 'cause they can't outwrite me"
- Bulletproof Vest: Mentioned in "Hand On The Glock"
- Cluster F-Bomb: Would you expect anything else from an album with a song titled "When The Shit Goes Down"?
- Continuity Nod: "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" and "When The Shit Goes Down" both reference "How I Could Just Kill A Man" from their debut Self-Titled Album.
- Cool Guns: So much. Gats, Glocks, AK-47s, .45 automatics... Would you expect anything else from an album with songs titled "Lick A Shot," "Cock The Hammer," "A To The K" and "Hand On The Glock?"
- Dem Bones: Right there on the cover.
- Everybody Must Get Stoned: "I Wanna Get High," "Hits From The Bong," etc.
- "I Want" Song: "I Wanna Get High"
- Instrumentals: "Lock Down (Interlude)"
- N-Word Privileges: Whether the band has them or not is a heated discussion in and of itself, but the word does get used a lot in this album regardless.
- Near-Death Experience: B-Real gets shot in the lung but survives in "Lick A Shot."
- Officer O'Hara: From "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That":"Gonna put a slug in Captain O'Malley"
- Rearrange the Song: "Hand On The Glock" is this to "Hand On The Pump" from their first album.
- Reference Overdosed:
- Then-President Bill Clinton in "I Wanna Get High"
- Billy Ray Cyrus and Stevie Wonder in "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That"
- Son of Sam, General Electric, Sumo Wrestling, Louis Armstrong AND The Three Little Pigs in "Insane in the Brain"
- Yosemite Sam in "When The Shit Goes Down"
- Song of the South and Scooby-Doo in "Lick A Shot"
- B.B. King in "What Go Around Come Around, Kid"
- Sampling: As just a few examples...
- "I Wanna Get High" samples Albert King's "Get Out Of My Life, Woman," "One Draw" by Rita Marley and their own "Stoned Is The Way of the Walk"
- "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" samples Harry Nilsson's "Rainmaker" and Black Sabbath's "The Wizard" and "Wicked World."
- "Insane In The Brain" uses James Brown's "Say It Loud, I'm Black And I'm Proud," Sly and the Family Stone's "Life," Buju Banton's "Boom Bye Bye" and their own "How I Could Just Kill A Man"
- "When The Shit Goes Down" uses "Grab This Thing" by The Mar-Keys, "Stratus" by Billy Cobham and "Deep Gully" by Outlaw Blues Band
- "3 Lil' Putos" uses Lou Donaldson's version of "Ode To Billie Joe"
- "Hits From The Bong" uses Dusty Springfield's "Son Of A Preacher Man"
- "What Go Around Come Around, Kid" uses their own "How I Could Just Kill A Man"
- "A To The K" starts with a quote from the 1983 rap movie Wild Style.
- "Hand On The Glock" uses EPMD's "You're A Customer."
- Take That!: According to B-Real, "Insane In The Membrane" was meant to be a diss track towards Chubb Rock - Chubb Rock's "Yabbadabadoo" referenced "How I Could Just Kill A Man" in a way they thought was meant as an insult.
- Your Head Asplode: From "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That", doubling as another The Three Little Pigs reference:"I'll huff and puff and blow your head off"
