Quality Control (album)

Quality Control is the second studio album by American hip hop group Jurassic 5. It was released through Interscope Records on June 20, 2000.

Quality Control
Studio album by Jurassic 5
Released	June 20, 2000
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	53:36
Label	Interscope Records
Producer	Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark, Shafiq Husayn
Jurassic 5 chronology
Jurassic 5 LP (1998) Quality Control (2000) Power in Numbers (2002)
Singles from Quality Control
"W.O.E. Is Me (World of Entertainment)" Released: 2000 "Quality Control" Released: 2000

Critical reception

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	77/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Entertainment Weekly	B[3]
The Guardian	[4]
Los Angeles Times	[5]
Mixmag	[6]
NME	6/10[7]
Pitchfork	6.1/10[8]
Rolling Stone	[9]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[10]
The Source	3.5/5[11]

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Quality Control received an average score of 77 out of 100 based on 17 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[1]

In 2015, it was ranked at number 2 on Paste's "10 Hip-Hop Albums for People Who Don't Like Hip-Hop" list.[12]

Track listing

No.	Title	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"How We Get Along"	DJ Nu-Mark	1:14
2.	"The Influence"	DJ Nu-Mark	3:56
3.	"Great Expectations"	DJ Nu-Mark, Cut Chemist	3:37
4.	"Quality Intro"	Cut Chemist	0:31
5.	"Quality Control"	Cut Chemist	4:48
6.	"Contact"	Cut Chemist	1:15
7.	"LAUSD"	Cut Chemist	4:07
8.	"World of Entertainment (W.O.E. Is Me)"	DJ Nu-Mark	3:57
9.	"Monkey Bars"	DJ Nu-Mark	4:06
10.	"Jurass Finish First"	DJ Nu-Mark	4:35
11.	"Contribution"	Shafiq Husayn	3:45
12.	"Twelve"	Shafiq Husayn	4:25
13.	"The Game"	Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark	4:34
14.	"Improvise"	DJ Nu-Mark	3:28
15.	"Swing Set"	Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark	5:18

Charts

Chart (2000)	Peak position
US Billboard 200[13]	43
US Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums (Billboard)[14]	33

References

1. "Reviews for Quality Control by Jurassic 5". Metacritic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
2. Bush, John. "Quality Control – Jurassic 5". AllMusic. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
3. Hermes, Will (June 23, 2000). "Quality Control". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
4. Cox, Tom (June 13, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control (Interscope)". The Guardian. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
5. Baker, Soren (July 9, 2000). "Jurassic 5 'Quality Control' Interscope". Los Angeles Times. Archived from the original on October 5, 2016. Retrieved October 3, 2016.
6. Neate, Patrick (July 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Mixmag. 2 (110): 166.
7. "Quality Control". NME. July 1, 2000. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016. Retrieved May 30, 2016.
8. Schreiber, Ryan (May 31, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Pitchfork. Archived from the original on October 1, 2002. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
9. Farr, Kathryn (May 30, 2000). "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on October 15, 2008. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
10. Sarig, Roni (2004). "Jurassic 5". In Brackett, Nathan; Hoard, Christian (eds.). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide (4th ed.). Simon & Schuster. p. 445. ISBN 0-7432-0169-8.
11. "Jurassic 5: Quality Control". The Source (130): 209–10. July 2000.
12. Spinelli, Adrian (October 12, 2015). "10 Hip-Hop Albums For People Who Don't Like Hip-Hop". Paste. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
13. "Jurassic 5 Chart History (Billboard 200)". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2015.
14. "Jurassic 5 Chart History (Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums)". Billboard. Retrieved December 28, 2015.

External links

• Quality Control at Discogs (list of releases)