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Straight out the Jungle
1988 studio album by Jungle Brothers From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Straight out the Jungle is the debut album by the American hip hop group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the Native Tongues collective, which later featured popular artists such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep. The album's masters have a lower quality to other hip-hop albums of its kind, compared to the singles.
The single "I'll House You", added to the album in late-1988 reissues, is known as the first non-Chicago hip-house record to be a sufficiently big club hit.[citation needed]
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Critical reception
The Los Angeles Times noted that, "From romance to racism, the JB's tell it like it is with a charismatic and suave funkiness."[12] Trouser Press concluded that "despite strong entries like 'Because I Got It Like That' and 'Sounds of the Safari', several duff tracks diminish the album, while the vestigial old-school beats and rapping style leave the rest sounding dated."[13]
In 1998, Straight out the Jungle was selected as one of The Source's "100 Best Albums".[14] In 2022, Rolling Stone placed it at number 116 on their list of the "200 Greatest Hip-Hop Albums of All Time". The magazine's writer Christopher R. Weingarten said, "[T]he inaugural volley from the Native Tongues collective, the debut from the Jungle Brothers was a playful, loose, try-anything album that machete'd its own path."[15]
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Track listing
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Charts
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Singles
References
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