Jurassic 5 – Quality Control

This album is one of my favorite in my collection. The clarity is unreal. Such a very clean pressing.

This was one of those brand new but absolutely filthy records that you discover once you take the shrinkwrap off. Fingerprints and dust from the paper sleeve everywhere! Ironic, given the album title.

Once I cleaned it up, sounds really great.

Perfect pressing - living up to its namesake! Don't hesitate.

Pretty quiet and solid pressing. Great soundstage, tight punchy bass, crystal clear vocals. In summary - Great pressing and release!

Really amazing box set for any J5 fan. The vinyls sound amazing and the included inserts and full color mini book is really interesting to read through. One of my personal favourite hip-hop groups of all time and this box set is one of my favourite special editions. The all wood slide box is a nice packaging touch. Makes it feel like it was made from the actual stump on the cover of their Quality Control album.

As of 8/17/17 still available on newbury comics $24.99... dont overpay!

Just purchased this from Newbury Comics and track 14 is actually Improvise not Concrete & Clay.

This sounds so great and the package is beautiful. J5 is just meant to be on vinyl. The book it comes with is really interesting too.

This CD is a great CD. It is one that I have listened to from time, to time, and still continue to listen to weekly. I'd say high points of this CD are Jurass Finish first, The Influence, and Swing Set. The first two show the talents of the lyricists of the group (Akil, Mark7, 2na Fish, and Zaakir) while the swing set is a ridiculous set of hooks meshed together to form a really catchy song. Just try to identify all the samples used in that piece. I dare you.

Good, if at times vanilla, group rap. Where this album really stands out, however, is in some of the production of a few songs.

'Monkey Bars' brings out nearly every sound in a drum kit, creating a collage of percussion and samples.

'Swing Set' is an amazing megamix of swing music offset with a bit of funk.

'Quality Control' uses a looping sample of a funk party that flows quite nicely along with the raps of the group.

A good pickup for fans of hip hop that would rather have fun rather than bravado in their music.