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Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group that pioneered the fusion of jazz

Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house-music

House music

House music is a style of electronic dance music that originated in Chicago, Illinois, USA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was initially popularized in mid-1980s discoth?ques catering to the African-American, Latino, and gay communities, first in Chicago, then in New York City and Detroit....
producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle
Straight Out the Jungle

Straight out the Jungle is the debut album from Hip hop music group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the rap crew Native Tongues Posse, later featuring popular artists like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep ....
, in 1988. With Afrocentric

Afrocentrism

Afrocentrism or Afrocentricity is a world view that emphasizes the importance of African people in culture, philosophy, and history. The roots of Afrocentrism lay in a reaction to the repression of Black people throughout the Western world in the 19th century and as a backlash against the scientific racism of the period, which tended t...
lyrics and innovative beats, the Jungle Brothers were critically acclaimed and soon joined the influential Native Tongues

Native tongues

Native Tongues is a book by the linguist Charles BerlitzIt is a list of words in different languages, etymology and questions with speculations far and wide about words....
collective. The trio is composed of Michael Small (Mike Gee), Nathaniel Hall (Afrika Baby Bam, an homage to Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an United States Disc jockey from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip hop music throughout the 1980s....
) and Sammy Burwell (DJ Sammy B).

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The Jungle Brothers are an American hip hop group that pioneered the fusion of jazz

Jazz

House music

Afrocentrism

Native tongues

Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an United States Disc jockey from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip hop music throughout the 1980s....
) and Sammy Burwell (DJ Sammy B). Sammy B left the group after the group released Raw Deluxe.

History

Their first album, "Straight Out the Jungle", was released on an independent label and featured a hip-hop/house

House music

Todd Terry

Todd Terry is an United States DJ and music Record producer and remixer, one of the producers who helped to define New York's house music during the 1980s....
. In spite of the commercial failure of Straight Out the Jungle, Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
soon signed the group and released Done By the Forces of Nature
Done by the Forces of Nature

Done By the Forces of Nature is the second album by the Jungle Brothers, released during November 1989 on Warner Bros. Records. Though the Jungle Brothers have not been remembered as well as chronologically similar alternative groups like De La Soul and Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature was extremely influential in its time...
in 1989. The album was a critical smash at the time, though it has since been largely ignored by hip-hop critics in favor of the similarly acclaimed alternative hip-hop album 3 Feet High and Rising
3 Feet High and Rising

3 Feet High and Rising is the influential debut album from American hip hop music trio De La Soul, released in 1989.The album marked the first of three full-length collaborations with producer Prince Paul, which would become the critical and commercial peak of both parties....
by De La Soul

De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
, released the same year. Following a four year break, the Jungle Brothers returned in 1993 with J Beez Wit the Remedy
J Beez Wit the Remedy

J. Beez Wit the Remedy is the third album by the Jungle Brothers, released during June 1993 on Warner Bros. Records. The album was the result of much label trouble, where Warner Bros....
, another commercial disappointment. V.I.P. was produced by Alex Gifford of Propellerheads

Propellerheads

Propellerheads are a British big beat music band made up of electronic music producers Will White and Alex Gifford. The term "Propellerhead" is slang for a nerd, and when Gifford and White heard a friend from California drop this into conversation, they thought it the perfect name for their band....
and, during production, they found time to add their vocal stylings to the Propellerheads tracks "Take California (And Party)" and "You Want It Back". Their latest album to contain any new releases is 2002's All That We Do.

In 2001, their song "What's the Five 0" was featured in the music video game

Music video game

A music video game, also commonly known as a music game, is a video game where the gameplay is meaningfully and often almost entirely oriented around the player's interactions with a musical score or individual songs....
FreQuency

Frequency

Frequency is the number of occurrences of a repeating event per unit time. It is also referred to as temporal frequency.The period is the duration of one cycle in a repeating event, so the period is the reciprocal of the frequency....
.

In 2004, the Jungle Brothers joined with British producer Mr On to produce "Breathe (Don't Stop)

Breathe (Don't Stop)

"Breathe " is a song released by Mr. On and the Jungle Brothers, from the Jungle brother's album You in My Hut Now. The song was not commercially successful, reaching #33 on the Australian ARIA singles chart, and #30 on the New Zealand RIANZ singles chart....
", a version of "Breathe and Stop" by Q-Tip

Q-Tip (rapper)

Q-Tip , is an American hip hop music artist, singer, and occasional actor from Queens, New York City, perhaps best known as the leader of the critically acclaimed group A Tribe Called Quest....
of A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
, combined with a sample of Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson is an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. The seventh child of the Jackson family, he debuted on the professional music scene at the age of 11 as a member of The Jackson 5 and began a solo career in 1971 while still a member of the group....
's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough

"Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough", released in July 1979, is the debut Single from Michael Jackson?s Off the Wall album. Written by Jackson, the track was the first solo recording over which he had creative control, and his debut single released under Epic Records....
").

In 2005, the Jungle Brothers released a greatest hits and classic remixes & rarities double-CD titled This Is...
This is...

This is... is a series of children's travel books written and illustrated by Czechoslovakia author Miroslav Sasek between 1959 and 1974.Sasek originally intended to write three books: This is Paris, This is London, and This is Rome....
, which included remixes by The Wiseguys

The Wiseguys

The Wiseguys was a United Kingdom electronica and hip hop band that was responsible for creating the song "Start the Commotion" that was in a Mitsubishi Television advertisement, as well as the films Lizzie McGuire, Zoolander and Kangaroo Jack; and "Ooh La La", which was used in Budweiser commercials....
, Urban Takeover

Urban Takeover

Urban Takeover is a drum and bass record label founded by DJs and recording artists Micky Finn and Aphrodite . The label is often associated with the Hip hop music-influenced Jump-Up style of Drum and Bass which was highly popular in the mid-nineties....
, Natural Born Chillers and Stereo MCs

Stereo MCs

Stereo MCs are an England Trip-hop musical group....
.

Presently, their status as a group is in question, as Mike G and Sammy B are touring (Sammy B also toured as fellow Native Tongues member Black Sheep Dres' DJ), and Afrika now goes by B.A.M. and has a new movement called Pagan Society. In an interview with AllHipHop.com, B.A.M. expressed his discontent with today's rap music industry. B.A.M. also stated his disappointment in Pos (De La Soul) and Q-Tip (A Tribe Called Quest) in a Vibe magazine article, saying that they are the reason that a full-fledged Native Tongue reunion hasn't transpired.

In 2008, their single "What U Waitin 4" was ranked number 88 on VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.

Discography

Straight out the Jungle
Straight Out the Jungle

Straight out the Jungle is the debut album from Hip hop music group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the rap crew Native Tongues Posse, later featuring popular artists like De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep ....
(1988), Warlock
Done by the Forces of Nature
Done by the Forces of Nature

Done By the Forces of Nature is the second album by the Jungle Brothers, released during November 1989 on Warner Bros. Records. Though the Jungle Brothers have not been remembered as well as chronologically similar alternative groups like De La Soul and Queen Latifah, Done by the Forces of Nature was extremely influential in its time...
(1989), Warner Bros.
Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an United States record label that operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Music Group. It is also affectionately known as "Warners" and 'the Bunny', based on the Bugs Bunny cartoons released by Warner Bros....
J Beez Wit the Remedy
J Beez Wit the Remedy

J. Beez Wit the Remedy is the third album by the Jungle Brothers, released during June 1993 on Warner Bros. Records. The album was the result of much label trouble, where Warner Bros....
(1993), Warner Bros.
Raw Deluxe
Raw Deluxe (album)

Raw Deluxe is the fourth album by the Jungle Brothers, released on June 3, 1997 , on Gee Street Records. The group signed a new contract with the label when it was dropped by its previous label because of the extremely poor performance of its last two albums....
(1997), Gee Street
Gee Street Records

Gee Street Records was a hip hop record label. Jon Baker formed the label in 1984 in a converted warehouse on Gee Street in London, following a trip to New York City, where he had become enamored with hip hop music and culture....
/V2
V2 Records

V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 in music by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
/BMG Records
V.I.P. (2000), Gee Street
Gee Street Records

Gee Street Records was a hip hop record label. Jon Baker formed the label in 1984 in a converted warehouse on Gee Street in London, following a trip to New York City, where he had become enamored with hip hop music and culture....
/V2
V2 Records

V2 Records is a record label that is owned by Universal Music Group as of October 2007. The label was founded in 1996 in music by Richard Branson, five years after he sold Virgin Records to EMI....
/BMG Records
All That We Do (2002), Jungle Brothers
You in My Hut Now (2003), XYZ
XYZ Records

XYZ Records was a record label founded by Frank Slay and Bob Crewe, mainly as an outlet for their own songs. The label opened in 1957 in music and was sporadically active till about 1960, their only success was with The Rays "Silhouettes" that was taken over for national distribution by Cameo Records in Philadelphia....
This is... (2005)
I Got You (2006)

nevermind

Jungle Brothers

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