on reflection this is quite cringe, the LOL SO RANDUM IM HIDING MY DEPRESSION THROUGH LAYERS OF IRONY XDD style of humor became dated so quick

it really annoys me that they're called Jurassic 5 but there's 6 members

anyway this album is a strong tribute to old school hip hop of the early 80s, with a light-hearted b-boyism attitude and gang-rapped choruses and verses but with a more modern twist

their origin from the Good Life cafe really shows in the MCs' fantastic flows with lots of multi-syllabic rhyming (the extended rhyme schemes on Jurass Finish First really tickles my fancy)

Basically the equivalent of someone making a song called "Chinese Food" with the chorus being "Ching chong bing bong orange chicken fried rice herro herro" and the verses making references to Japan, the Philippines and Indonesia.

Highly underrated; super fucking angry, political, racial rap, for fans of Elucid, especially For Madmen Only and even Fantastic Damage. Dude has a nice off-beat, fast talking/ranting flow. Producer ATD, who did barely much else except for the awesome Things That Happen at Night, provides some heavy fucking beats that are completely different from the cloudy beats he provided Milo

In an alternate better universe Armand Hammer is billy woods + skech rather than elucid.. sorry el

weird collection of artists and weirdest thing is that the first Junior Mafia song is the weirdest one here, sounds like a Numbers on the Boards type beat

Immaculate rapping, great beats, questionable hooks. Pharrell should NEVER sing ever, no matter how much effects he puts on his voice. He's so bad.

Kool Keith and Sir Menelik do their thing but Killah Priest and especially fucking Organized Konfusion are fantastic

Incredible, consistent album throughout almost ruined by two horrible songs at the very end that completely kill the mood. I really wish in any future re-releases or remasters that those two tracks are removed.

I remember ages back a mate of mine was asking me why I liked this album cause it really sucks outside of a few tracks and I told him he's trippin', but when I looked back at it, the first three songs (Straight Outta Compton, Fuck tha Police, Gangsta Gangsta) are so goddamn iconic and full of bombastic anger and energy, I honestly kinda forgot about the rest of this somewhat spotty track list. I honestly feel like those first three songs alone completely changed hip hop forever and ... read more

Best song on Life Is Good, and one of the best post-Illmatic Nas songs. This is fucking flames, goes hard asf. Very diff type beat for a rapper like Nas, some Raekwon level stuntin'

"Rocking Roberto Cavalli, no shirt on, convertible Mazi
My Colombiana mommy riding beside me"

This is what I love about this era of Neptune's production (for the most part, Superthug is booty...). Like early El-P, their sound is very electronic but does not shy away from embracing the artificiality; being super synthetic and jagged instead of trying to poorly emulate live instrumentation like cheap, fake piano, brass or strings that were prevalent around the time, especially in the south. It kinda calls back to the post-Electro days of hip hop like when Miami Bass was popular but ... read more

Metro Boomin and Offset tricked me into listening to a 21 Savage album (feat. Offset), some great songs but jesus.. 33 minutes never felt so long

My Choppa Hate Niggas is on an infinite loop with me tho

Birchwood is one of the hardest hip hop songs of all time and How Far Can a Dead Man Walk is one of the best combinations of rap and free jazz

I mean as far as an instrumental hip hop album goes, I guess this is not all that bad. It definitely has some experimental flourishes and showcases El-P's unique take to hip hop production. But with 16 tracks and clocking in at just over 1 hour, this is not the most enjoyable album for repeated listens. This feels less like an album and more like a collection of unused instrumentals from El-P's basement.

It's a shame it took until Madlib and especially Dilla's Donuts for ... read more

Pretty cool crazy beats, but the vocals are completely drowned out and extremely hard to make out.

some good songs at the core slathered in terrible instrumentals and wack RnB hooks, a bad sign of mainstream hip hop to come

Overall, I think I enjoyed the first Soundbombing more on first listen, but Monch's verse on "WWIII" is fucking flames. And holy shit, "Patriotism" might be the best political rap song possibly ever. El-Producto CRUSHES it; he's insanely relentless. If you ever dismissed the super wordy, off-beat style of a lot of abstract rappers as pretentious or unenjoyable, then this track single-handedly justifies the existence of that style with it being a super angry political tirade ... read more

On their debut, the group still did not fully establish the dense, wall-of-noise, scraping metal, part Public Enemy, part My Bloody Valentine trademark sound. This album includes a very diverse showcase of styles, not just industrial noise-gaze political rap, but a really nice mix of boom bap, Hindustani music, sound collage, melancholic guitar chords, distorted jazz rap, muted piano interspliced with spoken word audio clippings.

Wow this is good, significant improvement from the previous album, much more in line with the first album/ep

Cole has been a disappointment to me since 2011 when he flipped a kingdom hearts sample into an amazing beat but then rapped "I let you feel like you the shit, but boy you can't out-fart me"