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| | Power in Numbers | | | Music Artist : | | Jurassic 5 | | Music Style : | | Turntablists | | Record Label : | | Interscope Records | | Release Date : | | 2002-10-08 | | Store Price : | | $13.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $13.98 | | Usually ships in 1 to 2 days | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. This Is
2. Freedom
3. If You Only Knew
4. Break
5. React
6. A Day At The Races (feat. Big Daddy Kane & Percy P)
7. Remember His Name
8. What's Golden
9. Thin Line (feat. Nelly Furtado)
10. After School Special
11. High Fidelity
12. Sum Of Us
13. DDT
14. One Of Them (Feat. JuJu of the Beatnuts)
15. Hey
16. I Am Somebody
17. Acetate Prophets
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Customer Reviews of This Album/CD |
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 Refreshing
Submitted on: 2009-02-18 |
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This has probably become a cliched story but I'm going to tell it anyway. For years I listened to nothing but rap/hip-hop. Nothing else. At all. But at some point I became really bored with it and ventured into other genres like rock, jazz, blues, etc. and my appetite for creative music was quenched and I had closed the door on my rap/hip-hop past.
My junior year in college we were on spring break and "If you only knew" played on my friend's ipod. Wow. I was amazed. There was something about the flute and the way the flow just you know, flowed, that I found very intriguing. I replayed that track over and over again till I knew the words. I later explored the rest of the album and was very impressed with tracks like "Freedom" and "What's Golden". They were reminiscent of the golden age of hip hop when the music was more responsible, creative and original.
Power in Numbers is part of the New Testament of Hip Hop music. It should be a benchmark for artists that want to make good music rather than music that just sells. |
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When you were as good as your word
Submitted on: 2008-08-26 |
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| The Five were one of the most successful recent collectives who brought back the seldom heard, unabashed old-school hip hop style centered more around unadulterated flow, fun, and positivity- a glaring contrast to the vast majority of grim faux-street cool depressants out there. The group of hungry emcees do not waste much time, tearing into their rhymes with a love for the syllable and usually enduring samples, forgetting to act cool and simply being it by selflessly honing delivery. |
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 the only GOOD rap band!
Submitted on: 2006-07-09 |
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| wicked album guys. Got a pre release version of this with a blue cover and DVD and errors on the track listing due to the time limit of a couple of songs. Nelly Furtado guest stars on one of the songs! This is an awesome old school politically orientated rap band who care for our planet. Theve got a new album coming out soon as well. So i guess "Stay Tuned" |
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Not *as* good as "Quality Control", but it's still an awesome rap album by J5!
Submitted on: 2006-01-14 |
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Even though I like "Quality Control" a lot more, their follow-up, "Power In Numbers", is still a great rap album that you definitely ought to check out. It follows relatively the same formula as their debut, although the songs don't seem as inspired or creative as they did on "Quality Control". However, there are 17 tracks here, and all of them are good-if-not-great. Rappers Akil, Zaakir, Marc 7even and Chali 2na are a tad worse than they were on "Quality Control" (they feel less natural), but they're still great and extremely appealing. They still have that oldschool flow and delivery that is severaly missed in today's rap scene. Lyrically the songs are always a lot of fun to listen to, and some of the songs are even quotable. The lyrics are definitely fun to memorize and sing. Musically it's a little different sounding than "Quality Control", but the producer here still has a good eye for great hooks and beats. Though every song here is good, there are definitely several stand-out songs here which I would argue bump the album's rating up - "Sum Of Us", "High Fidelity", "Remember His Name" and "A Day At The Races", for example, are GREAT rap songs that are very very memorable. I'm pretty sure that within one or two listens that you'll either have these stuck in your head or that you'll remember them forever. Basically folks, if you like rap or Jurassic 5 then "Power In Numbers" is another classic album by this classic group. Absolutely recommended!
Highlights include:
"Sum Of Us"
"Remember His Name"
"A Day At The Races"
"High Fidelity"
"Break"
"If You Only Knew"
"What's Golden"
the rest are good or decent |
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Great Music. Classic
Submitted on: 2005-12-06 |
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| If you don't have this album, you need to get this. Buy it, don't download it. Everyone needs to support good hip hop like this. Man, I first heard this at the end of 2002 I was captivated. The beats are a little grimier than the first ablum and the LP, but they still have that true hip hop sound, no club banger from that garbage 50 cent. The rhymes are clever and these guys mesh so well together. The rhymes are great, whether in a love/friendship story in Thin Line, to battle lyrics in One of Them, to old school flavord lyrics in A Day At the Races. They have great guests too. Legends Percee P, and Big Daddy Kane shine in A Day At The Races. They both showed that they still have it. Ju Ju spits fire at all of the glitz and glam mc's in One of Them (which thinking about it is pretty funny because the Beatnuts seem to be gearing towards that direction.) And a supriser, Nelly Furtado, pop superstar fits well in the song Thin Line. Get this, this group is in the same breath as both old school mc's in A Day At the Races, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang, you get the picture. |
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