Black Sunday (Cypress Hill album)

Black Sunday
Studio album by Cypress Hill
Released	July 20, 1993
Recorded	February 1992 – April 1993
Genre	West Coast hip hop Latin hip hop alternative hip hop hardcore hip hop
Length	43:38
Label	Ruffhouse Columbia
Producer	DJ Muggs T-Ray
Cypress Hill chronology
Something for the Blunted (1992) Black Sunday (1993) Cypress Hill III: Temples of Boom (1995)
Singles from Black Sunday
"Insane in the Brain" Released: June 22, 1993[1] "When the Shit Goes Down" Released: 1993 "I Ain't Goin' Out Like That" Released: 1993 "Lick a Shot" Released: 1994

Black Sunday is the second studio album by American hip hop group Cypress Hill. It was released on July 20, 1993, by Ruffhouse and Columbia Records. The album proved to be a massive success just like their debut, Cypress Hill. The album debuted at #1 on the US Billboard 200, selling 261,000 copies in its first week of sales^[2] and became the highest Soundscan recording for a hip hop group at the time. Also, with their previous album, Cypress Hill, still in the charts, they became the first hip hop group ever to have 2 albums in the Top 10 of the U.S. Billboard 200 at the same time. The album went four-times platinum in the U.S. with 3.4 million units sold.^[3]

As Cypress Hill advocates for medical and recreational use of cannabis, the booklet of the album contains 19 facts about the history of hemp and the positive attributes of cannabis.