Cypress Hill, Rage Against The Machine, Dope Art Work, Video Stills

Spotted on Hip Hop Bootleggers

With Cypress Hill‘s new album dropping April 6th, the leaks have begun to permeate the internuts. This track caught my interest, a collaborative effort between the legendary clique with Tom Morello of Rage Against The Machine acclaim.

Cypress Hill – Rise Up featuring Tom Morello

If you’re into this collab, then you will likely be into the other Morello feature on the album, titled, Strike The Match. The album is completely committed to the revolutionary theme, hence the inclusion of Morello on two tracks is hardly surprising. In fact, I recall a time when a lot of Rage fans were under the impression that B-Real of Cypress would be the new front man of R.A.T.M. after Zach was zapped out of the equation. The artwork for the single and the album is dope, hopefully the sonic boom comes in early April. Scope the track list and more screenshots of the upcoming music video, after the jump.

Video Stills From Rise Up Music Video

Spotted On The Boombox

The Last Ditch Effort Is Crunk Rock

My shit is real rock guitars with my beats, not keyboard guitars with ghetto beats. It’s gonna be a little different from what you hear right now, but I think everyone will love it

I know there are a good chunk of my guitar picking homies who are puking their dinner all over their keyboard right now. Sorry about that! But what you have to keep in mind is that in hip hop, instruments, actual string instruments, are rarely played. If such instruments are used, they are almost always imported labor from other genre camps. That being said, for the majority of Lil Jon fans, Crunk Rock, which drops in early 2010, will very much sound like a “rock” album, or at least “rocky.” Yes, it’s sad how the mighty have fallen. The devolution of the definition of rock: Chuck Berry, Elvis, Bob Dylan, The Allman Brothers, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, R Kelly?

Yeah, I know, no real point to be had there on the rock thing, apparently this is a Lil Jon attempt at a dubstep album anyways. Expect yawns across America on this one.

Lil’ Jon feat. R. Kelly & Claude Kelly – Hips and Ass