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Quality Control

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
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Album Info
Label: Interscope
Release Date: 06 June 2000
Discs: 1 disc
Genre(s): Rap
Summary
Although Los Angeles-based rappers Jurassic 5 formed in 1995, 2000's "Quality Control" is their first full-length release.
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What The Critics Said
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Billboard
Along with absolutely stunning MC'ing across the board, "Quality" heralds the long-awaited return of the DJ to street hip-hop.
Read Full Review >Spin Cycle
The refrains and horn tracks of "Quality Control" are all the ammo you'll need in your next argument about the rejuvenation of hip-hop.
Read Full Review >Mojo
This is a truly freeflowing masterpiece that stands shoulder to shoulder with Mos Def's 'Black On Both Sides.'
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club)
In the hands of a lesser group, such retro affectations would be little more than a clever gimmick... In the hands of Jurassic 5's four gifted rappers and two enormously promising DJs and producers, however, it's a brilliant musical strategy that draws on the energy and enthusiasm of the old school to take hip-hop in new, exciting, unexpected directions. A flat-out great full-length debut.
Read Full Review >All Music Guide
Quality Control hits all of the same highs as Jurassic 5's excellent EP of three years earlier...
Read Full Review >Wall of Sound
Moves with a quick tempo that whips through the album's 15 songs and assorted skits.... There's something innately joyous about many of the group's songs, whether it's how the J5 MCs play verbal double-dutch over the pulsating "Jurass Finish First" or the assembly of sampled snippets that drive the playground anthem "Monkey Bars."
Read Full Review >MTV.com
Spare as the overall sound of the album is, the interplay between the rhythms, samples and voices is vibrant and eloquent...
Read Full Review >CDNow
It is truly exciting stuff from a group that represents a sagging genre's vitally bright future.
Read Full Review >Ink Blot Magazine
There are echoes of every good movement in rap history on Quality Control, from old-school to Def Jam to Native Tongues all the way to Wu-Tang...
Read Full Review >Pitchfork
What sets the Jurassic 5 apart from the dead sea of generic hip-hop crews is their sheer charisma.... Quality Control serves as a fine follow-up to the Jurassic 5's self-titled 1999 EP, with more than its fair share of top-shelf tracks.
Read Full Review >Rolling Stone
The lyrics are down-to-earth and positive -- almost wholesome -- but Quality Control's overall vibe is uncompromisingly intense and hard to resist.
Read Full Review >Village Voice
As they proved on their debut EP a couple of years back, Jurassic aren't just Furious Five retro: They summon visions of lightly rocking grace like "I'll Take You There," the intro to "Dance to the Music," or the Harlem Globetrotters passing the ball around to "Sweet Georgia Brown." Like the more serious underground hip-hop acts, though, in the end they're not quite sure what to do with themselves beyond boasting.
Read Full Review >New Musical Express
Despite the fluid interplay of the four MCs and J5's evolving musicality, 'Quality Control' lacks the singalong pop immediacy of 'Jurassic 5'.... Quality then. But it's not the old-skool classic we'd hoped for.
Read Full Review >Select
Quality Control' finds them treading water with a set of technically crisp but strangely uptight tracks that neither appeal nor enthrall. [July 2000, p.108]
Resonance
Problem is, the harmonic rapping takes the edge off otherwise hard-hitting tracks. [#28, p.63]
Sonicnet
Why is Quality Control -- an album no doubt many will love simply because of its hip- hop politics -- so damn bland? For all their good intentions, J5's results are so monochromatic, of such a singular focus on staying true to a specific kind of hip-hop blueprint, that even the inclusion of grinning left-field randomness... lacks the fun it means to inject.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this album is 9.2 (out of 10) based on 4 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Mark :-) gave it a10:
Mark is... impressed and satisfiel by this work of fun genius!
ben h gave it a9:
Kickin' cd, sweet MCs cant get much better than the J 5
