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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