Jurassic 5

Product Details

* Audio CD (June 20, 2000)
* Number of Discs: 1
* Format: Explicit Lyrics
* Label: Interscope Records
* Catalog Number: 490664
* ASIN: B00004THKW
* Also Available in: Audio Cassette | LP Record
* Average Customer Review: based on 212 reviews. (Write a review.)
* Amazon.com Sales Rank: #3,214 in Music (See Top Sellers in Music)
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1. Intro : How We Get Along Listen Listen
2. Influence Listen Listen
3. Great Expectations Listen Listen
4. Quality Control (Intro) Listen Listen
5. Quality Control Listen Listen
6. Contact Listen
7. Lausd Listen Listen
8. W.O.E. Is Me (World of Entertainment) Listen
9. Monkey Bars Listen
10. Jurass Finish First Listen
11. Contribution Listen
12. Twelve Listen
13. Game Listen
14. Improvise Listen
15. Swing Set Listen
Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com's Best of 2000
The thrill of invention never stops on this first full-length album from Jurassic 5. Coming out of L.A.'s kinetic hip-hop underground, the multitalented combo whips up an irresistible flow of charisma and keeps the fun at a high-voltage level. J5 can pivot on a dime from one style to the next--street-corner barbershop, turntable friction, or kick-ass swing. But the constant focus is on the essentials of the art: Quality Control fuses fantastic wordplay and MC skills with a killer grab bag of beats. It's the achievement of J5 to look back in a way so fresh it shines a light ahead. --Thomas May

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L.A.-based Jurassic 5 have unearthed the lost art of flow. With a style reminiscent of the Native Tongues, J5 delivers one of the most consistent rap albums in recent memory. Cuts like "The Influence" and "Great Expectations" exhibit a wonderfully organic quality that could help us all to forget the tired rap formulas of money, hoes, and gats. Comprised of four MC's and two DJs (DJ Nu-Mark and the legendary Cut Chemist), J5 is near Ellingtonian in size for a hip-hip troupe. The interplay between the members reeks of old school, the place where rap sounds honest and evolves as an art form. As well it should, because J5 aren't new to hip-hop; after all, they've been "rockin' since the '84 Fresh Fest." --Marc Calhoun
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
Instant Classic, February 7, 2004
Reviewer: blakletter (Brooklyn, NY United States) - See all my reviews
For all the airplay J5 got, they are still underappreciated. Somehow this group is able to take progressive beats and forward-thinking lyrics and build them on a foundation of old school hip-hop that works together so well, its magical. Every time I play a song from this album at a party (especially Great Expectations- the best track on QC), I get multiple people asking me to identify the incredible music.

No hip-hop fan should be without this album.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
Without the elements, it's all irrelevant, August 18, 2004
Reviewer: Alan Pounds "music obsessor" (Minneapolis, MN) - See all my reviews
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These guys formed in 1993, but they took 7 years to come out with a full release. After hearing the album, you can tell they've been crafting it for quite some time; because it is absolutely perfect.

This CD is packed with funky fresh harmonies and some of the most skillful songwriting and rhythms hip-hop has ever seen. Not to mention some great turntable action by Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark. Each song has a pretty similar formula (that never gets old). It starts off with 5 man harmonics and then branches off into solos from Zaakir, Chali 2na, Akil, and Mark 7even.

They have an sweet old-school rap sound that keeps you coming back for more. When you listen to "Lausd" for the first time; you really know what these guys are all about; keeping it real, doing it for the love, not for the dollar. This CD will stay in your stereo for a long time; definitely an instant classic.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
I represent the real from the beginning to the end of it, March 2, 2006
Reviewer: HipHop4eva (Maldonado, Uruguay) - See all my reviews
This is the best HipHop group I've ever heard. The lyrics are incredible, original and with content not like 50 cent, Nelly, Ludacris etc etc etc all those fake MC's, J5 is real HipHop, they are the truth and they tell you the truth without those gangsta lyrics so common in HipHop nowadays. After I heard J5 for the first time I came to realise that this is real HipHop, this is what i was looking for, Jurassic 5 will make you heard the lyrics and try to understand them because they do have content. Every song is different and have different beats and lyrics, you cant get bored listening to Jurassic. I think is the perfect HipHop group, I dont see anything wrong on them, you just listen Quality Control and you will realise, songs like Lausd and Great Expectations (not only those all the album as well) make you realise what they are, they DO love HipHop, they DO make music for pleasure and for love not like others MC's or so called Mc's, they are not interested in money etc etc, they are just perfect. Quality Control is the best album they have so far but that doesnt mean that the others are bad because what I see in Jurassic is that they always keep it real, you can see that in the 3 albums they have not change for bad even more they have change for better, for example Chali 2na flow have improved so well that it will make flip out your seat and the lyrics always have kept the Underground flavour. Definitely if you like real non commercial HipHop you have to buy Jurassic 5 albums especially Quality Control.
HipHop is in good hands......as long as they rest on Jurassic 5 ones. Go J5!!!!… (más)