Cypress Hill - Black Sunday

Yes, i am fully aware that you are loco, and no i don't particularly want to eat a bowl of dick up. Is it wrong to listen to Cypress Hill's Black Sunday on a Friday? 

Now, most rappers will try to diversify and rap about all sorts of stuff. Not Cypress Hill. Gun fights and legalizing marijuana, that's it. They are on message all day, all night, 100%. Looped bass line, simple drum pattern, one or two great samples, rap about pot and getting shot; one, the other, both at the same time. If you like variety, Cypress Hill is not for you. But here's the thing, the songs are good. Sen Dog and B-Real have great flows, they aren't cruising for trouble, life's just stupid violent in southern California. They're the first famous Latin American rap group.

Will it make you like hip-hop if you don't? No. Is it better than all the other Cypress Hill albums? Probably yes. Does it have anything to do with the actual 1935 dust storm of the same name? No, unless you've got a super secret method for growing plants when the dirt is moving sideways instead of not moving at all. Maybe all the bullets are like a devastating dust storm, sending migrants looking for places to live that don't have flying dirt. That seems like a good pothead metaphor. 

I heard a story once that marijuana was the reason Bob Marley could keep touring while he died of cancer of the everything. Willy Nelson is doing fine on his ranch in Texas. I think we all recognize that its classification as a schedule I narcotic is pure nonsense, it has more to do with the devastating effect it has on the economy of cotton, paper, and tobacco corporations than it does anything else. Don't get me wrong, a city full of marijuana dispensaries isn't much fun, but neither is a city without them so that's a pointless distinction. 

Am i a hypocrite for liking this album when i neither smoke pot nor shoot people? Some questions may just be too big for us mere mortals to answer.