|
|
Jurassic 5 Album: “Feedback”
| Album Information : |
|---|
|
|
Release Date:2006-06-26
|
|
Type:Unknown
|
|
Genre:Hip-Hop/Rap, Mainstream Rap, West Coast Rap
|
|
Label:JVC Victor
|
|
Explicit Lyrics:Yes
|
|
UPC:4988005435354
|
Review - :
Leading up to the release of {^Feedback}, {$Jurassic 5} rapper {$Soup} distanced his group from the {\rap} underground that had embraced his music, but apparently had not paid enough of his bills. "It's a step up for us because we have been basically known as an underground group.... We've been known as a backpacker group." Indeed, after years of bringing their live show to thousands of scattered festival-goers ({~Lollapalooza}, {~Warped}, {~Bonnaroo}, {~Reading}), the group reached for the same type of commercialized sweet spot that had made {$Black Eyed Peas} one of the hottest things in {\rap} during the mid-2000s. That doesn't mean more sex, but it does mean more anthems, more featured appearances, and more sounds from the contemporary {\rap} charts. With producer {$Cut Chemist} gone for a solo production career, the group focused heavily on their other in-house source, {$DJ Nu-Mark}, who contributes an opener in {&"Back 4 U"} that makes it sound as though nothing has changed in the {$Jurassic} camp. His pair of {@Sugar Hill} tributes later in the album ({&"Radio,"} {&"In the House"}) end up being highlights of the album, not because they're stellar, but because the outside producers come up short so often. {@Interscope} may have sprung for some of the most expensive for-hire producers -- {$Scott Storch} (famous for {$50 Cent}, {$T.I.}, {$Lil' Kim}, and {$the Roots}) and {$Salaam Remi} ({$Fugees}, {$Nas}, {$Ludacris}, {$Joss Stone}) -- but any savvy listener can go right down the track listing and match nearly every production to the source that prompted it. {&"Baby Please"} is a horn-led {$Neptunes} rewrite, {&"Gotta Understand"} a signature {$Kanye West} production (complete with {$Curtis Mayfield}'s sampled crooning), and {&"Get It Together"} tries to capitalize on the fad of catchy whistling hooks already defined by {$Juelz Santana}'s {&"There It Go! (The Whistle Song)."} The first single, a sunny singalong titled {&"Work It Out,"} has the contributions of {$the Dave Matthews Band}. Against productions this commercialized, {$Jurassic}'s top-notch rhymers -- {$Chali 2na}, {$Soup}, {$Akil} -- usually end up spitting rhymes already familiar to listeners of their earlier work. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
|
|
|
Privacy PolicyTerms of UseContact Us