Jurassic 5 Essentials

Jurassic 5 Essentials

First things first: Jurassic 5 are a six-piece, not a quintet—four rappers, two DJs. Formed in the Los Angeles underground in the mid '90s, the group kicked clever, jazzy rhymes over beats from Cut Chemist and DJ Nu-Mark that felt dusty yet cutting-edge. The ‘00s took the crew to new heights as they gave their funky backpacker jams a big-screen polish, but their bars—tackling topics like ghetto violence, black pride and freedom itself—kept a playful edge, even as the members went their separate ways after Feedback, the group's fourth and final album.

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