JURASSIC 5 - Feedback Review

JURASSIC 5 put together one of hip-hop’s seminal records when they dropped Concrete Schoolyard back in the day.

The track is timeless, mixing the best elements of old-skool hip-hop without resorting to the bling-fixated excesses of a lot of today’s contemporaries....full text With visionary producer/DJ Cut Chemist off doing the solo thing, Jurassic 5 is officially down to, strangely enough, five members. But more than the lineup has been stripped down on Feedback, a collection of tight, three-minute pop songs that breeze by without wearing out their welcome, or at worst, making much of an impression....full text After nearly a decade, J5 remain the hip-hop casual’s act of choice. Laconic four-way delivery, cunning hooks and socially aware rhymes mean the fundamentals haven’t been fiddled with on Feedback, and though they continue to add studio sheen to their once spartan sound, they could still be The Temptations doing Cold Crush Brothers’ numbers at an LA house party. That rare mix of success and credibility remains theirs....full text