Quality Control (album)

Quality Control
Studio album by Jurassic 5
Released June 6, 2000 (2000-06-06)[1]
Genre Alternative hip hop
Length 53:36
Label Interscope Records
Producer Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark, Shafiq Husayn
Jurassic 5 chronology
Jurassic 5 LP
(1998)		 Quality Control
(2000)		 Power in Numbers
(2002)
Singles from Quality Control
  1. "W.O.E. Is Me (World of Entertainment)"
    Released: 2000
  2. "Quality Control"
    Released: 2000

Quality Control is the second studio album by American hip hop group Jurassic 5. It was released on Interscope Records in 2000.

Reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[2]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[1]
Encyclopedia of Popular Music[3]
Entertainment WeeklyB[4]
The Guardian[5]
Los Angeles Times[6]
NME6/10[7]
Pitchfork Media7.3/10[8]
Rolling Stone[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide[10]
The Source3.5/5[11]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Quality Control received an average score of 77% based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[2]

In 2015, it was ranked at number 2 on Paste's "10 Hip-Hop Albums for People Who Don't Like Hip-Hop" list.[12]

Track listing

No. TitleProducer(s) Length
1. "How We Get Along"  DJ Nu-Mark 1:14
2. "The Influence"  DJ Nu-Mark 3:56
3. "Great Expectations"  DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist 3:37
4. "Quality Intro"  Cut Chemist 0:31
5. "Quality Control"  Cut Chemist 4:48
6. "Contact"  Cut Chemist 1:15
7. "LAUSD"  Cut Chemist 4:07
8. "World of Entertainment (W.O.E. Is Me)"  DJ Nu-Mark 3:57
9. "Monkey Bars"  DJ Nu-Mark 4:06
10. "Jurass Finish First"  DJ Nu-Mark 4:35
11. "Contribution"  Shafiq Husayn 3:45
12. "Twelve"  Shafiq Husayn 4:25
13. "The Game"  Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark 4:34
14. "Improvise"  DJ Nu-Mark 3:28
15. "Swing Set"  Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark 5:18

Charts

Chart (2000) Peak
position
US Billboard 200[13] 43
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[14] 33

References

  1. 1 2 Bush, John. "Quality Control – Jurassic 5". AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  2. 1 2 "Reviews for Quality Control by Jurassic 5". Metacritic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Larkin, Colin (2007). The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (5th ed.). Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-857-12595-8.
  4. ↑ Hermes, Will (June 23, 2000). "Quality Control". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Pop roundup". The Guardian. June 13, 2000. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  6. ↑ Baker, Soren (July 9, 2000). "Jurassic 5 'Quality Control' Interscope". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Quality Control". NME. July 1, 2000. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  8. ↑ Schreiber, Ryan (May 31, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Pitchfork Media. Archived from the original on October 1, 2002. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  9. ↑ Farr, Kathryn (May 30, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  10. ↑ Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian, eds. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 445. ISBN 0-743-20169-8.
  11. ↑ "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". The Source (130): 209–10. July 2000.
  12. ↑ Spinelli, Adrian (October 12, 2015). "10 Hip-Hop Albums For People Who Don't Like Hip-Hop". Paste. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  13. ↑ "Jurassic 5 – Chart history" Billboard 200 for Jurassic 5. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Jurassic 5 – Chart history" Billboard Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums for Jurassic 5. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

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