Reception
| Professional ratings | |
|---|---|
| Review scores | |
| Source | Rating |
| Allmusic | |
| Audio Video Revolution | (7/10) |
| Robert Christgau | |
| RapReviews.com | (6/10) |
| Yahoo! Music | (favorable) |
- Rolling Stone - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "A bipolar breakdown…proving hip-hop is more like T2…capable of morphing into anyone they wanna be."
- CMJ - "Proves rather convincingly that Cypress Hill still packs a mighty punch."
- Vibe - "Marks the first major shift in the group's direction....Half of is a head-banging jam session....Songs like '(Rap) Superstar' prove that the group still has that winning formula."
- The Source - 3.5 mics out of 5 - "May be their most drastic turn yet.… Cypress' flavor runs thick across the disc.… They break down the barriers in order to transcend the industry-imposed terms of alternative and rap…another set for the weeded."
- Rap Pages - "May be the best album you hear for the next 2 years.… is so artistically good that it stay in your personal rotation…"
- Mojo - "Finds them sticking a finger in the air and finding the wind blowing in the direction of thrash-metal."
- NME - 7 out of 10 - "Picks up where the groggy metal/rap melange of '98s Cypress Hill IV left off.… It's business as usual.… They do hip-hop and they do funk-metal rawk…evolving slowly."
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“To the United States the Third World often takes the form of a black woman who has been made pregnant in a moment of passion and who shows up one day in the reception room on the forty-ninth floor threatening to make a scene. The lawyers pay the woman off; sometimes uniformed guards accompany her to the elevators.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
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—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)