 NEW YORK (Cypress Hill Fan Website) - Cypress Hill, the legendary godfathers of hip-hop/rock fusion, will return in early 2004 with the group's first new studio recordings since 2001's Stoned Raiders. Till Death Do Us Part, the eagerly-awaited new Cypress Hill album, is scheduled for release on Tuesday, March 23, 2004. Cypress Hill fans will get their first taste of the group's new work in February with the release of the groundbreaking "What's Your Number?," the first single from Till Death Do Us Part. Cypress Hill has created a hip-hop ode to the Clash with "What's Your Number?," which incorporates musical elements - performed by a scorching live band featuring Rancid's Tim Armstrong on guitar - of the Clash's anthemic "Guns Of Brixton." Widely-acknowledged as the sonic pioneers who first bridged the worlds of alternative rock and hip-hop more than a decade ago, Cypress Hill has generated a string of highly-influential smash recordings unprecedented in either genre.
To date, Cypress Hill has received 15 gold, platinum, and multi-platinum certifications from the RIAA: Cypress Hill (gold, 2x platinum); "Insane In The Brain" (gold), Black Sunday (gold, 3x platinum); III (Temples Of Boom) (gold, platinum); IV (gold); Unreleased & Revamped (gold), Los Grandes Exitos En Espanol (gold) and Skull & Bones (gold, platinum). Cypress Hill has sold more than 15 million records worldwide with more than nine million albums sold in the United States alone. Till Death Do Us Part provides a full-range overview of the group's palette of musical styles including straight-up gangsta rap ("Can't Stop the Gunshot"); Hispanic hip-hop ("Latin Thugs" featuring Puerto Rican reggaeton star Tego Calderone); dancehall reggae ("Smoke It Up" featuring righteous toasting by Bob Marley's son, Damian) and pure cinematic Cypress Hill ("Street Wars").
Guests on the album include Mobb Deep's Prodigy and Twin on the classic Cypress joint "Last Laugh" and ace producer The Alchemist turning the knobs on "Bang Out" and "Latin Thugs." "This is one of the first albums where everything just fell into place," says B-Real. "Songwise, it just really came together. It felt right."
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