Quality Control (album)

Quality Control
Studio album by Jurassic 5
Released June 20, 2000 (2000-06-20)
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)Jurassic 5 LP1998		 Quality Control
(2000)		 Power in Numbers
(2002)Power in Numbers2002
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 through Interscope Records on June 20, 2000.

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic77/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[2]
Entertainment WeeklyB[3]
The Guardian[4]
Los Angeles Times[5]
Mixmag[6]
NME6/10[7]
Pitchfork6.1/10[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 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

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-Mark1:14
2."The Influence"DJ Nu-Mark3:56
3."Great Expectations"DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist3:37
4."Quality Intro"Cut Chemist0:31
5."Quality Control"Cut Chemist4:48
6."Contact"Cut Chemist1:15
7."LAUSD"Cut Chemist4:07
8."World of Entertainment (W.O.E. Is Me)"DJ Nu-Mark3:57
9."Monkey Bars"DJ Nu-Mark4:06
10."Jurass Finish First"DJ Nu-Mark4:35
11."Contribution"Shafiq Husayn3:45
12."Twelve"Shafiq Husayn4:25
13."The Game"Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark4:34
14."Improvise"DJ Nu-Mark3:28
15."Swing Set"Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark5:18

Charts

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

References

  1. 1 2 "Reviews for Quality Control by Jurassic 5". Metacritic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  2. ↑ Bush, John. "Quality Control – Jurassic 5". AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  3. ↑ Hermes, Will (June 23, 2000). "Quality Control". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  4. ↑ Cox, Tom (June 13, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control (Interscope)". The Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  5. ↑ Baker, Soren (July 9, 2000). "Jurassic 5 'Quality Control' Interscope". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Mixmag: 166. July 2000.
  7. ↑ "Quality Control". NME. July 1, 2000. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
  8. ↑ Schreiber, Ryan (May 31, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Pitchfork. 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. ↑ Sarig, Roni (2004). "Jurassic 5". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian. The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. Simon & Schuster. p. 445. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
  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)". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
  14. ↑ "Jurassic 5 Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
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