{"id":725,"date":"2002-11-07T05:03:00","date_gmt":"2002-11-07T05:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=725"},"modified":"2024-03-28T05:04:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T05:04:45","slug":"jurassic-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/?p=725","title":{"rendered":"Jurassic 5"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsreview.com\/media\/images\/articles\/featured\/2020\/07\/13539-01.jpeg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As Interscope Records ramps up for a bombastic fourth quarter, its trump card comes via Los Angeles\u2019 finest, Jurassic 5. Since 1993, this group has quietly conquered the hip-hop throne alongside such stiff competition as Mos Def, Talib Kweli and the Roots.\u00a0<em>Power in Numbers<\/em>\u00a0couldn\u2019t be a more appropriate album title, given the J-5\u2019s use of intelligently planned lyrics and abnormal rhyme schemes alongside soundscapes created by Cut Chemist and Nu-Mark. On tracks such as \u201cWhat\u2019s Golden\u201d and \u201cIf You Only Knew,\u201d Chali 2na, Zaakir AKA Soup, Akil, and Marc 7 set new standards for the genre and up the ante for aspiring MCs. Fans of early De La Soul and Rakim\u2019s best material will welcome Jurassic 5\u2019s latest and relish the attention to organic and not-so-organic rhythm tracks. Any group that uses samples from David Axelrod\u00a0<em>and<\/em>\u00a0Bill Cosby on the same album can\u2019t be half bad. Power in numbers? Indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(SN&amp;R)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Interscope Records ramps up for a bombastic fourth quarter, its trump card comes via Los Angeles\u2019 finest, Jurassic 5. Since 1993, this group has quietly conquered the hip-hop throne alongside such stiff competition as Mos Def, Talib Kweli and the Roots.\u00a0Power in Numbers\u00a0couldn\u2019t be a more appropriate album title, given the J-5\u2019s use of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":726,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/725\/revisions\/726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acloserlookmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}