Jurassic 5 - Quality Control (New Vinyl LP)

Double vinyl LP pressing. Jurassic 5 flexed serious old-to-the-new muscles in the ”90s, beginning with their independently released single “”Unified Rebelution”” in 1994, and book-ending with their stellar debut full-length: 2000”s Quality Control. They walked a tightrope between underground and mainstream hip-hop, and toured alongside rap peers as well as punk rockers on the Vans Warped Tour. With double the pleasure of your average hip-hop group – two DJs and producers (Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark); and four MCs (Chali 2na, Akil, Marc 7 and Zaakir aka Soup) – they brought the late 1970s “”unison MC”” style of pioneering groups like the Fantastic 5 and the Force MCs to a new generation. Even more surprisingly, they did so out of Los Angeles, whose hip-hop flavors generally leaned towards Gangsta, G-Funk or Electro lines. Musically inventive and lyrically forward-thinking, each song on Quality Control is a new adventure, exploring engaging territory, delivered via one of the best live hip-hop shows fans had seen in years. From singles like the strutting groove of the title track to the throwback doo-wop samples on “”The Influence”” and the catchy, keyboard groove-driven “”World of Entertainment (WOE Is Me),”” to deeper album tracks like the lyrical gymnastics of “”Jurass Finish First”” and the thought-provoking “”Lausd,”” Jurassic 5 consistently stepped to the plate and their fans responded in kind, nearly pushing the album to Gold status. Add the innovative DJ-and-sample workout which closes out the album, “”Swing Set,”” and you have one of the 2000s” most unique and solid full-length platters.

• 1 How We Get Along
• 2 The Influence
• 3 Great Expectations
• 4 Quality Control Intro
• 5 Quality Control
• 6 Contact
• 7 Lausd
• 8 World of Entertainment (W.O.E. Is Me)
• 9 Monkey Bars
• 10 Jurass Finish
• 11 First Contribution
• 12 Twelve
• 13 The Game
• 14 Improvise
• 15 Swing Set