jurassic 5 are so fucking terrible!!

HA HA HA!!!

i liked quality control quite a bit, but this one's grating on me for reasons i can't quite put my finger on. then i think about how this album is basically quality control pt. 2 and i get even more confused.

Firstly, yes, I like Jurassic 5. Woo-fucking-hoo. This obviously makes me a racist. I also heard that Nu-Mark was personally responsible for apartheid, and slavery was entirely Soup's idea. So it's old school? So what? So, like, some white people like them. Woop-de-Do The Right Thing-doo. They are (were) one of the few hip-hop bands in the past... wheneverthefuck to have actually managed a good party sound. Not Def Jux's radio set thrown into a bath beats, not Rawkus' "Hey, look, we're not mainstream but we are"ness, and certainly not whatever Tommy Boy's subsidaries are shitting into the charts nowadays. They were good, all was good. The beats were functional and sometimes great, and the MCing was FUN. It was fun. Remember it?

Anyway, so I get the new album. I'm thinking I haven't heard a godlike rap album this year, so this must be it... and... well... it's fucking dull. I mean, so... eh. It sounds like they'd rather not be in the studio. 2na appears to have used up his greatness on the 2,492 guest appearances he's done since the last album, and the product is lacklustre. Nothing stands out. I'm going to listen to it again, and again, and again until I like it. The Nelly Furtado thing is basically their attempt at "Request + Line", isn't it?

just fucking kill me already!!
This statement I agree with though.

And I thought the last one was "worthy" but dull, and this one sounds duller. Aw hell.

It was a shame we had to take that down.

Hey, did somrone even mention Missy on that "is there one performer we can all agree to like" thread? I think she could've given James Brown a run for his money...

When they say "Soul music something we can all relate to"...I think to myself, but but I can't relate

Ah, but soul music *is* something we can all relate to, since we can all relate to the soul in the music we like, whatever music that may be. Else we wouldn't listen to it.

HowI feel it's the whole "the past was better, these MCs these days don't do it like I want them to do it therefore they must be rubbish" subtext to them which winds me up, especially when it's the central theme of the song. This is the same thing that annoys me about Jakki's rap on RJD2's FHH, which, while musically brilliant, has the most "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"-inspiring lyrics I've heard for a very long time.

Worst part of it is that it feeds little kids like my friends this feeling, giving them this air of superiority that they don't really know if they deserve. I was talking to a friend of mine on IM and I told him to download Work It, and he said that the more reliable, more intellectual hip hop fans he knows told him to stay away from mainstream rap. I got him to download the track and when he did he said that the music was okay but the lyrics sounded like they were "just about having sex." Well, yeah. In conclusion J5 have THINKIN BRAINS but Nelly and Timbaland could still kick the shit out of them.

Anyway I like J5 in small doses (they're in my car stereo right now) but only one song of positivity at a time before I need to turn them off.

Around about the same time J5 urge us to "Do it for Kid Rock, do it for Fred Durst".

Lord, at least give j5 some credit.

Chali 2na has done some verses I really really like and I don't think any of them have been on j5 songs, ha ha.

J5 are cool live (so are UD for that matter, saw 'em both at 2001's Essential Festival), and decent folks besides, except maybe CC, but they make some shit records. After all this time, I only truly treasure 'Action Satisfaction' (I'm probably alone there) and I only needed to see them live *once*.

In fact, I think I'll listen to UD's Fresh Mode EP after work. Ah, good times.

Pulled out my copy of Quality Control for the first time in, like 8 years. It wasn't as good as I remember it being in college. :(

Something tells me Delton 3030 might hold up tho

Good beat on "Jurass Finish First"

They're OK, but you only need two or three of their songs to get the idea.

I never cared for that album, somehow. It seemed like it had this studied quality of academicized hip-hop. I liked Dilated Peoples better.

Yeah, "Jurass Finish First" and "Improvise" are still pretty dope IMHO. Combine that with the first EP and "What's Golden" off the second record and that's pretty much all you really need.

I always thought Jurassic > Dilated, but I think now that I'm a little older, I might switch that opinion.

i like what's golden a lot

does quality control just repeat the same hook over and over or was i just jamming a shitty limewire copy back in middle school?

i still kinda dig that first EP with concrete schoolyard on it

u were jamming a shitty limewire copy. Early copy protection lolz.

I still like "Concrete Schoolyard" really. God there's a lot of boring shit around it tho.

didnt they have some hot track w/ big daddy kane or something?

And now I'm listening to J5 and my officemate just called me corny.
Thanks ILX.

hahaha

"sampleslaya" by armand van helden is like 1,000,000,000 times better than j5

TS: J5 vs. The Saturday Knights

(I like the Knights tbh)

Shame to forksclovetofu
I saw them at Reading fest I think (I saw a lot of things, too many pills) but they were great then, the crowd were really into it. I think they can put on a good show and bring out a good tune but they aren't of any real significance imo. Or I may have confused them with The Young Knives.

i still like Charlie 2na's voice too. (he's the deep baritone dude right)? the rest i can never even remember anything they say

I think Kanye's emblematic teddy bear is lifted from the J5 furry video... True or false?

FALSE

J5 is awesome cuz every dumbass i know who doesn't like rap always sites them as being an example of "good rap"

"Man yeah there's a lot of bad hip hop out there, but there's some really intelligent stuff going on in underground rap...like Jurassic 5"

lesson 6 is aight for nostalgia but generally pffffft

Okay, why the teddy bear then?

Also, I'm done listening now; they're good for like fifteen minutes once every six months.

we're all passing over the nascent dom-ethan beef upthread ;)

love for remember his name tho'.
I love songs that are supposed to take place over the phone.
There should be a thread.

I was just saying, 1-900-Hustler by Jay-Z is like OMG

Saying to myself, because all my friends listen to Wolf Parade and shit

And now I'm listening to J5 and my officemate just called me corny.
Thanks ILX.

-- forksclovetofu, Friday, June 27, 2008 12:35 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

He would have called you corny anyway.

Probably.

I can't remember any J5 song. I really need to update my hard drive. :-(

J5 makes me really miss the Muppets :(

turble. just turble.

The strawman of the white, DJ Shadow/Jurassic 5 loving, university student hip-hop fan

i'm white btw

J5 is awesome cuz every dumbass i know who doesn't like rap always sites them as being an example of "good rap"

"Man yeah there's a lot of bad hip hop out there, but there's some really intelligent stuff going on in underground rap...like Jurassic 5"

THIS IS SO F'ING OTM ^^^

around 8-9 years ago, J5 was so much fun to see live. their EP is a classic, their first album has a couple really nice joints on it, but that was already the beginning of the end. plus, the first Ozomatli album is pretty much the shit directly because of the presence of Chali 2na and Cut Chemist and i think that was around the time of that EP just before Quality Control. that was a pretty good couple year run for them.

Favorite Music:

If you can show me a band I haven't heard of, I'll be amazed.

Some Favorites:::::--- Sublime, Atmosphere, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mat Kearney, Paul Wright, Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, +44, Sonic Flood, 311, A Tribe Called Quest, A.F.I, Aesop Rock, Beastie Boys, Blackalicious, Blink 182, Bob Marley, Bob Schneider, Bonobo, Brand New, Broken Social Scene, Cake, Dave Mathews Band, Deltron, Easy Star All Stars, Everclear, Gorillaz, Gym Class Heroes, Jedi Mind Tricks, Jurassic 5, Lil Wayne, Matisyahu, Modest Mouse, O.A.R, Oasis, People Under The Stairs, Radiohead, Relient K, Slightly Stoopid, Something Corporate, Sum41, Taking Back Sunday, Thievery Corporation, Jeezy, This Beautiful Republic.

The list goes on.

-- from a fratty Facebook profile i just checked out. note the presence of Jurassic 5 in such wonderful company as Sublime, Atmosphere, RHCP and the rest of this decked out list.

"If you can show me a band I haven't heard of, I'll be amazed."

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this must be added:

Favorite Books:

Bible, Wakeboard Magazine (that counts as a book)

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wow you are easily amazed. must be nice.

I still bet that guy is a shitload more fun to be around than "stephen" though

At this point, I'm way more suspicious of people who rep Matisyahu.

i saw Charlie Tuna in a record store last weekend. he's FUCKING HUGE. like 8 feet tall 400lbs. i wanted to kick him in the shins

wow you are easily amazed. must be nice.

there's this thing called "beer"... :)

omg THE STARK REALNESS OF THESE NIGGAS IS CHOKING ME SOMEBODY OPEN A WINDOW

-- s trife (simon_tr), Saturday, 12 October 2002 19:53 (5 years ago) Link

loll