Back in Black (Cypress Hill album)

Back in Black is the tenth studio album by American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released on March 18, 2022.

Back in Black
Studio album by Cypress Hill
Released	March 18, 2022 (2022-03-18)
Length	32:29
Label	RuffNation MNRK
Producer	Black Milk
Cypress Hill chronology
Elephants on Acid (2018) Back in Black (2022)
Singles from Back in Black
"Bye Bye" Released: January 21, 2022

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	75/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
The A.V. Club	B[2]
The Arts Desk	[3]
Clash	7/10[4]
Gigwise	[5]
Kerrang!	4/5[6]
musicOMH	[7]
RapReviews	6/10[8]

The album includes 10 tracks. Unlike Elephants on Acid (2018), the group's previous album, which was produced by DJ Muggs, this album was solely produced by Black Milk.^[9]

Reception

Back in Black was met with generally favorable reviews from critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the album received an average score of 75 based on nine reviews.^[1] The aggregator Album of the Year has the critical consensus of the album at a 73 out of 100, based on twelve reviews.

Track listing

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Takeover"	Louis Freese Senen Reyes Demerick Ferm Curtis Cross II Itsuroh Shimoda Yutaka Higashi	3:15
2.	"Open Ya Mind"	Freese Reyes Ferm Cross	3:44
3.	"Certified" (featuring Demrick)	Freese Reyes Ferm Cross	3:09
4.	"Bye Bye" (featuring Dizzy Wright)	Freese Reyes Ferm Cross	3:48
5.	"Come with Me"	Reyes Ferm Cross	3:15
6.	"The Original"	Reyes Ferm Cross	2:54
7.	"Hit Em'"	Freese Reyes Cross	2:19
8.	"Break of Dawn"	Freese Reyes Ferm Cross	2:54
9.	"Champion Sound"	Freese Reyes Ferm Cross	3:03
10.	"The Ride"	Freese Cross	4:04

Personnel

Cypress Hill

• B-Real – vocals (all tracks), engineering (track 2)
• Sen Dog – vocals (all tracks), engineering (2)
• Eric Bobo – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

• Black Milk – production, mixing
• Drew Drucker – mastering, engineering (1, 3–10)
• Aaron Diaz – engineering (1, 3–10), vocal engineering (all tracks)
• Dominic Thiroux – engineering (1, 3–10), vocal engineering (all tracks)
• Raphael Lamotta – creative direction
• Dana Diaz-Tutaan – layout design

Charts

Chart performance for Back in Black

Chart (2022)	Peak position
Austrian Albums (Ö3 Austria)[10]	56
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Flanders)[11]	195
Belgian Albums (Ultratop Wallonia)[12]	128
French Albums (SNEP)[13]	123
German Albums (Offizielle Top 100)[14]	17
Scottish Albums (OCC)[15]	53
Swiss Albums (Schweizer Hitparade)[16]	12
US Top Current Album Sales (Billboard)[17]	69