Editor’s Note: Black Sunday by American hip hop group Cypress Hill was released 30 years ago, on 20 July 1993. In this piece from the 2017 “Long Players” series, Joe Dunthorne reflects on why it is one of his most cherished albums.
It’s a Sunday afternoon in 1994 and I am 12 years old, sitting on the floor of my attic room, holding Scabeiathrax the Bloated to the light, admiring the septic wounds on his belly that it took me two days to paint. On the carpet, the rest of my Forces of Chaos are lined up for battle against my neighbour’s Wood Elves. I watch him neaten his ranks of bureaucratic archers. If I want to defeat this hideous pragmatism, I will need to make use of my home advantage.
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