AMG Review of Till Death Do Us Part

Andy Kellman
All Music Guide

Till Death Do Us Part sees Cypress Hill more restless than ever, flirting with Jamaican music of most stripes -- dancehall, dub, and ska included. On "What's Your Number?," Rancid's Tim Armstrong is drafted in to help replicate the dubby lope of the Clash's "Guns of Brixton"; though it would've been more fitting to hear B Real spit another grimy rhyme in this setting, he chooses instead to spin a tale of picking up a woman. Unsurprisingly, the highlights all take place when the group sticks to what it has done best in the past. The Alchemist-produced and Tego Calderón-assisted "Latin Thugs" is one example of the group retaining its strengths, since it's full of fire and swagger.