Leading up to the release of Feedback, Jurassic 5 rapper Soup distanced his group from the rap underground that had embraced his music, but apparently had not paid enough of his bills. "It's a step up for us because we have been basically known as an underground group.... We've been known as a backpacker group." Indeed, after years of bringing their live show to thousands of scattered festival-goers (Lollapalooza, Warped, Bonnaroo, Reading), the group reached for the same type of commercialized sweet spot that had made Black Eyed Peas one of the hottest things in rap during the mid-2000s. That doesn't mean more sex, but it does mean more anthems, more featured appearances, and more sounds from the contemporary rap charts. With producer Cut Chemist gone for a solo production career, the group focused heavily on their other in-house source, DJ Nu-Mark, who contributes an opener in "Back 4 U" that makes it sound as though nothing has changed in the Jurassic camp. His pair of Sugar Hill tributes later in the album ("Radio," "In the House") end up being highlights of the album, not because they're stellar, but because the outside producers come up short so often. Interscope may have sprung for some of the most expensive for-hire producers -- Scott Storch (famous for 50 Cent, T.I., Lil' Kim, and the Roots) and Salaam Remi (Fugees, Nas, Ludacris, Joss Stone) -- but any savvy listener can go right down the track listing and match nearly every production to the source that prompted it. "Baby Please" is a horn-led Neptunes rewrite, "Gotta Understand" a signature Kanye West production (complete with Curtis Mayfield's sampled crooning), and "Get It Together" tries to capitalize on the fad of catchy whistling hooks already defined by Juelz Santana's "There It Go! (The Whistle Song)." The first single, a sunny singalong titled "Work It Out," has the contributions of the Dave Matthews Band. Against productions this commercialized, Jurassic's top-notch rhymers -- Chali 2na, Soup, Akil -- usually end up spitting rhymes already familiar to listeners of their earlier work. ~ John Bush, All Music Guide
Videos from Feedback
All Music Guide Review
Track Listing
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Credits
- Salaam Remi
- Bass, Drums, Keyboards
- Tim Roberts
- Assistant
- Scott Storch
- Producer
- Serban Ghenea
- Mixing
- Dave Matthews Band
- Instrumentation
- Kevin Crouse
- Mixing
- F. Scott Schafer
- Photography
- Kathy Angstadt
- Video
- Chali 2na
- Photography
- Kent Hitchcock
- Guitar, Engineer, Mixing
- Chris Clancy
- Product Manager
- Nicole Frantz
- Creative Assistance
- Mitchell Long
- Guitar
- Kaveh Rastegar
- Bass (Upright)
- John Mark Harris
- Digital Editing
- Greg Miller
- Publicity
- Exile
- Producer, Mixing, Engineer
- Bill Brendel
- Piano
- Scott Enright
- A&R
- Andrew Flad
- Product Manager
- Ben Gordon
- A&R
- Dan Dalton
- Management
Notes
Global hip hop super stars, Jurassic 5 are back with their highly anticipated fourth album Feedback. The new album was recorded
over the past 3 years during the bands endless world wide touring cycle. Feedback is another chapter in the Jurassic 5 sound and is
the perfect follow up to their critically acclaimed albums Power In Numbers and Quality Control. With the ever changing fads and
styles in hip hop today, Jurassic 5 remain on top of their game and continue to deliver mind blowing beats and the classic J5 rhymes.
With Feedback, J5 stands apart from popular music’s fleeting fads and offers creativity and daring music. Fans have everything to look
forward to with this album’s release, as J5, perhaps the best live performers in music today, start their tour bus engine with classic
new material in hand.













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