Track Listing
1. Psycho City Blocks / Psycho Interlude
2. Showdown
3. Big Payback, The
4. Premonitions
5. Stone Garden / Interlude
6. Temporary Insanity
7. Doors Intro / Confessions Of A Drug Addict
8. Who Are You Interlude / Bullets
9. Love Letters Intro / Love From The Sick Side
10. R. U. Experienced / Outro
11. Psyclones
12. Lost Cities
13. La Conecta Intro / La Conecta (Pt. 1)
14. La Conecta (Pt. 2) / Goin' In Circles Outro
| Details | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Psycho Realm includes: B-Real, Jacken Gonzales, Duke Gonzales.
Additional personnel: Bobo (keyboards, bass, percussion, background vocals); Randy Cantor (keyboards, Mellotron); Jason Roberts (bass); DJ Jazz, TRT (scratches).
Producers: B-Real, Jacken Gonzales, Psycho Ward, TRT.
Engineers include: Steve B., Ross Donaldson, Eric Janko.
Recorded at Amerycan Studios, North Hollywood, California; The Hill, Larrabee Studios and Cherokee Studios, Los Angeles, California.
The Psycho Realm's eponymous debut album is an impressive collection of hardcore West Coast gangsta rap. Led by B Real, one of the masterminds behind Cypress Hill, the trio is a dark hardcore outfit -- there's genuine menace in their rhymes and music, which is why it hits so hard. Where other crews deal with cartoonish violence, the Psycho Realm's surrealistic imagery and impressionistic music -- which is still grittily funky -- creates genuine tension. It's not a perfect record -- it runs on a little too long, which has the unfortunate side effect of dulling their message -- but it tries more things than the average hip-hop record, and that alone makes it worth a listen. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Editorial Reviews
...this is grimy gris-gris psychedelia better than anything since The Meters jammed with The Chocolate Watchband.
Melody Maker (08/09/1997)
3 Mics (out of 5) - ...Though his partners often prove to be worthy lyricists, B-Real is undoubtedly the anchor of this union...
The Source (08/01/1997)
The Psycho Realm represent the unificacion of Cypress Hill's B-Real with two vatos simpaticos in a modern-day Western epic, loco style...
Vibe (08/01/1997)
...simple, repetitive beats in which texture is everything....samples that range from Dennis Hopper to Shakespeare add a bit of drama to the accomplished relay raps, which mostly avoid wiseguy yuks to present a cold, wised-up view of the streets...
Musician (09/01/1997)
...The Mexican-American rapper snarls gloomy but compelling visions of urban apocalypse in Spanish and English, but neither of his two new compadres, Jacken and Mr. Duke, complements his voice as perfectly as his regular sidekicks. A solo album might have been better. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/07/1997)
...The Mexican-American rapper snarls gloomy but compelling visions of urban apocalypse in Spanish and English, but neither of his two new compadres, Jacken and Mr. Duke, complements his voice as perfectly as his regular sidekicks. A solo album might have been better. - Rating: B
Entertainment Weekly (11/07/1997)
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