Album
Straight Out The Jungle
1988 · Hip Hop
11 collectors on Gatefold own this
Straight Out The Jungle is a Hip-Hop album by Jungle Brothers, originally released in 1988. On Gatefold: 52 pressings tracked, owned by 11 collectors.
About
The Jungle Brothers’ visionary debut not only gave us "I'll House You," a hip-house track that swapped B-boy poses for jacking and voguing; it also laid the foundation for years of jazz-sampling hip-hop to come. A cornerstone of the Native Tongues tradition, the album combines socially conscious Afrocentrism, as on positive, funk-flecked tunes like "Straight Out the Jungle" and "Black Is Black," with playful puppy-love anthems like “Behind the Bush” and goofy schoolyard jokes like “Jimbrowski.” Just because the Brothers were smart doesn't mean they had to be serious.
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Straight Out The Jungle
- A2What's Going On
- A3Black Is Black
- A4Jimbrowski
- A5I'm Gonna Do You
Side B
- B1On The Run
- B2Behind The Bush
- B3Because I Got It Like That
- B4Braggin & Boastin
- B5Sounds Of The Safari
- B6Jimmy's Bonus Beat
Sound DNA
- Hip-Hop
- Boom Bap
- gritty
- playful
- urban
The debut album from the Jungle Brothers, released November 8, 1988. The album was largely recorded without the use of a sampler (with the exception of the tracks "On The Run", "What's Going On", "Because I Got It Like That", and "I'm Gonna Do You"). Instead, they would lay down a beat straight off the records they were using as source material, in the words of Afrika Baby Bam: "looping it around by hand, eight bars at a time, until you had six minutes on tape, so there'd be enough music to do your rhymes before it ran out...I just had one copy of each record. That's the way most of the album was done." In addition to being the first Jungle Brothers album, this was noteworthy for being Q-Tip's first appearance on LP, on the track "Black Is Black". He had previously only rapped (in his debut appearance) on the Jungle Brothers b-side track "The Promo". Both "The Promo" and the Jungle Brothers' smash hip-house hit "I'll House You" were added to subsequent pressings of the album.
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Afrika Baby BambaataaBACKING VOCALS PROGRAMMED BY
- The Voice Of TomorrowBACKING VOCALS
- Q-TipFEATURING VOCALS
- Red AlertFEATURING VOCALS
11 collectors on Gatefold own this · 52 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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