Jurassic 5 (EP)

Jurassic 5
EP by Jurassic 5
Released	October 13, 1997 (1997-10-13)
Genre	Hip hop
Length	23:31
Label	Rumble Records J0001 Interscope INTD-90289
Producer	Cut Chemist DJ Nu-Mark
Jurassic 5 chronology
Jurassic 5 (1997) Jurassic 5 (1998)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
RapReviews	8.5/10[2]
Rolling Stone	[3]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[4]
Spin	[5]

Jurassic 5 is the first official release by American hip hop group Jurassic 5. It is an EP that includes much of the material that would later appear on the full-length album Jurassic 5.

Release

The first version of the EP to be released contained nine tracks and was available in CD single or double-12" single formats. It was released in October 1997 on the band's own short-lived label, Rumble Records.

Although the label only released one record, it did give the band a platform and allowed them to be heard.

"I urge every independent artist to put something out first. Prove yourself to yourself, to people that pick up the records, then the [labels] will come looking for you. If they know that you can score, they gonna pass the ball to you." — Akil^[6]

The band signed to a major label, Interscope Records, in 1999. Their first release on Interscope was the re-issue of the Jurassic 5 EP in an 8-track version in 1999. This had the same listing as the original EP, excluding the final track "Blacktop Beat".

Track listing

No.	Title	Length
1.	"In the Flesh"	4:07
2.	"Quality Control Part II"	0:42
3.	"Jayou"	3:00
4.	"Lesson 6: The Lecture"	6:35
5.	"Concrete Schoolyard"	5:23
6.	"Setup"	0:32
7.	"Action Satisfaction"	4:00
8.	"Sausage Gut"	0:22
9.	"Blacktop Beat"	1:25

References

1. Bush, John. "Jurassic 5 – Jurassic 5". AllMusic. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
2. Ridge, B. (September 1998). "Jurassic 5 :: Jurassic 5 EP :: Interscope". RapReviews. Retrieved February 1, 2017.
3. Kun, Josh (February 5, 1998). "Jurassic 5: Jurassic 5 EP". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 1, 2002. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
4. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Jurassic 5". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 445. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
5. Hultkrans, Andrew (February 2009). "Reissues". Spin. Vol. 25, no. 2. p. 82. Retrieved March 31, 2020.
6. Jurassic 5 – The Elements

External links

• Jurassic 5 at Discogs (list of releases)