Cypress Hill - Still Smokin'

Still Smokin' is a comprehensive collection of promos from Hip-Hop's vatos locos, Cypress Hill, spanning the whole of their 10-year, seven-album career. Following a brace of songs recorded live at San Francisco's Fillmore Theatre, this selection settles into a tried and tested promo formula for half of its running time, using ghetto-real grainy footage of the moody trio stalking inner city streets. When the Ship goes Down branches out into conceptual territory with a three-minute epic concerning internecine gang warfare that breaks up the band's performance. On Dr Greenthumb they play on their Furry Freak Brothers of rap stereotype in the setting of a green-fingered General Hospital. (Rock) Superstar sees a Cypress fan winning a Willy Wonka-style ride through their Hall of Mirrors, where he is transformed into a bona fide, gold lame-wearing rock star. Set in a derelict warehouse, the hardcore romp of Can't Get the Best of Me is reminiscent of Fight Club's basement brawls.