Jungle Brothers
USA
Formed: 1987
Genres: Rap, Electronic, R&B
Styles: Alternative Rap, Hip-Hop/Urban, Hip-Hop/Urban, Jazz-Rap, Political Rap, Golden Age, Club/Dance, Dance
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Although they predated the jazz-rap innovations of De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, and Digable Planets, the Jungle Brothers were never able to score with either rap fans or mainstream audiences, perhaps due to their embrace of a range of styles -- including house music, Afrocentric philosophy, a James Brown fixation, and of course, the use of jazz samples -- each of which has been the sole basis for the start-up of a rap act. Signed to a major label for 1989's Done by the Forces of Nature, the JB's failed to connect on that album -- hailed by...
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