This came out in 2000 — or at least that’s when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):
Rappers and DJs these days spend so much time trying to be harder and faster than each other.
But hip-hop veterans The Jungle Brothers — Afrika Baby Bam (grandson of rap pioneer Afrika Bambaataa) and Mike G. — remember back in the day when you could play it soft and silly and still get props. Like their late-’80s contemporaries De La Soul, Fresh Prince and A Tribe Called Quest, this New York duo take a playful approach, patty-caking kitschy samples, kooky lyrics, helium-balloon voices and candy-coloured melodies into cartoon-pop surgar-rushes of sound. From the buzzing, I Dream of Jeannie-based bounce of the title track to the soulful, downtempo scritch-scratch of Strictly Dedicated, the brothers’ funky, old-school flow is a cool breeze in the overheated hip-hop arena.
