Cypress Hill - What's Your Number？ ft. Tim Armstrong

2004

Cypress Hill - What's Your Number？ ft. Tim Armstrong (2004) Director: Dean Karr Era: Post-Millennium Hip-Hop/Punk Crossover (2004) - Late major-label Cypress Hill era marked by genre fusion, punk collaboration, and reggae influence on the album 'Till Death Do Us Part' (Columbia Records) High curatorial value as a documented crossover artifact connecting Chicano hip-hop royalty with punk lineage via a Clash sample, directed by one of the era's most recognizable dark-aesthetic music video auteurs. The confirmed IMDb production record, quantitative sepia-saturation metrics, and rapid-cut editing fingerprint make this an ideal case study for genre-fusion and visual-style research within the 2000–2005 MTV window. Context: Released in March 2004, 'What's Your Number?' arrived during an era of aggressive hip-hop/rock genre hybridization, following the commercial peak of rap-rock in 2000–2001. Cypress Hill, pioneers of Chicano hip-hop and psychedelic rap from South Gate, California, collaborated with Tim Armstrong of Rancid, one of the defining punk/ska voices of the 1990s. The track samples The Clash's 'Guns of Brixton', anchoring it in a transatlantic punk lineage while remaining firmly West Coast in delivery. The album 'Till Death Do Us Part' also integrated reggae elements, reflecting Cypress Hill's ongoing genre restlessness and their sustained effort to bridge subcultural divides across hip-hop, punk, reggae, and Latino identity. Director notes: Confirmed director per IMDb (tt8924312). The video was produced for 'What's Your Number?', the lead single from Cypress Hill's seventh studio album 'Till Death Do Us Part' (Columbia Records, March 23, 2004). The track samples the bass line from The Clash's 'The Guns of Brixton.' Quantitative metrics (brightness 30.40/255, saturation 213.72, color temp 2.54) are consistent with Karr's signature low-key, sepia-saturated, amber-lit aesthetic documented across his broader filmography. The rapid edit pace (125 scene changes, 1.86s avg shot length) reflects the kinetic punk-rap energy of the collaboration.