Jurassic 5 - Quality Control
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Artist: Jurassic 5Edition: Music CD
Format: Explicit Lyrics
CD Release Date: 2000-06-20
Music Label: Interscope Records
Soundtracks:
- How We Get Along - Jurassic 5
- Influence
- Great Expectations - Jurassic 5
- Quality Control (Intro)
- Quality Control
- Contact
- Lausd
- W.O.E. Is Me (World of Entertainment)
- Monkey Bars
- Jurass Finish First
- Contribution
- Twelve
- Game
- Improvise
- Swing Set
Music reviews of Quality Control
Music Review: A Glorious Return to The Days of The Native Tongues Posse?
Rating: 4 Stars
No, but that doesn't mean Jurassic 5 don't serve up a fresh platter of hip hop goodness. Right from the start, you know what your in for with their intro How We Get Along. a voice talking about harmony. You, the listener, are in for some fresh beats, dope rhymes, and smooth rapping and choruses. All topped off with a cut chemist instrumental in the lines of jazz, like Amon Tobin without all of the foreign and weirdness.
Jurassic 5 add a lot of emphasis of sung choruses (three rappers harmonizing), and then going solo with their raps. Jurassic 5's formula works wonders, paying out into some of the smoothest transitions ever. They aren't afraid to mix things up, either, often singing, trading one rhyme, and then singing yet again. It's not one-sided, as there is variety between the formula of rapping, anyway. The beats on here are really fresh. It's reminiscient of what the Native Tongue Posse did so well, more low key and different kinds of beats, with an organic, fresh feel, in contrast to canned, boring, overtly electronic snap ______. It's not entirely low key, with a song like game, you won't. Also, I feel like the beats come from Los Angeles instead of New York City (just like country music only would fit in with the country, doesn't rap have a homegrown sound, only urban?).
This album knows how to go through quickly, with many different styles and the interludes certainly help. Highlights are really a tough one, simply because the album is very consistent throughout (aside from a few stinkers). I think there most creative track would have to be "Game", using the glorious game of Basketball to use as a metaphor to rap (or, you can just use it literatly, both work fine). Monkey Bars uses key samples, rhythm and voice interplay, and fresh . Finishing touches really stand out on tracks, such as emphasizing the pulsing, infectious beats with a punch of sampled guitar on Improvise, jazzy breaks on Lausd and Jurass Five First, and some sweet turntable work on Contact. Really, the whole album is solid, pretty infectious, and never dull aside from a few songs.
A few duds slow down this album (try the uber lame Twelve and Contribution, and the overrated Quality Control), but the grooves on this album will dig into your skin and stay there. A different feeling in the groove is the key to becoming different from the pack in the hip hop world (while De La Soul and ATCQ both tap into the rhythm, but do they feel alike when they do?) , and Jurassic 5 has that. So on that reason, add it to your collection.
8.0/10
Description of Quality Control
10 years since the original release of the Jurassic 5 debut full-length album, we are proud to bring you the long-awaited official re-issue of "Quality Control" instrumentals. This timeless record contains the trademark production of DJ/Producers DJ Nu-Mark & Cut Chemist controlling a majority of the beats, arguably the best production of their careers.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
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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