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Following a successful album
is never easy, no matter what the style of music. In hip-hop, the
challenge is arguably more difficult since the whims of the genre are
constantly shifting, the sounds ever-evolving. On their second full length
album, Power In Numbers,
Jurassic 5 prove up to the task of answering one remarkable album – their
first, Quality Control – with
another. Nobody could really doubt the result. The Los Angeles-based
outfit has always displayed a blazing ingenuity and inventiveness in their
craft, earning the four MCs and two DJs of the group a loyal, dedicated
following that reaches throughout the world.
Jurassic 5 – MCs Chali 2na, Zaakir (Soup), Akil and Marc 7 and DJs Cut
Chemist and Nu-Mark – conjure an energy that recalls a throwback era in
hip-hop, when the only thing that seemed to matter was the music and
having fun. The time of park jams and block parties, of willful
braggadocio and stylish wordplay, of crafty disc jockeys and handclap
beats. J5 have always displayed characteristics of those back-in-the-day
jams, like their powerful vocal harmonizing and amplified funk beats, but
what the group embody more than stylistic flourishes is that era's spirit:
making good music that connects with the people.
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