The album was critically and commercially successful and received major airplay on urban and college radio.

The album went double platinum in the U.S. with over 2 million units sold.

The album is broken down track-by-track by Cypress Hill in Brian Coleman's book Check the Technique,[2] published in 2007.

Steve Huey of AllMusic calls Cypress Hill's debut "a sonic blueprint that would become one of the most widely copied in hip-hop.

[14] Rolling Stone called it "an album that is innovative and engaging in spite of its hard-core messages.