V.I.P. | ||||
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Released | January 4, 2000 | |||
Recorded | 1998–1999 | |||
Genre | Hip hop | |||
Length | 74:46 | |||
Label | Gee Street • V2[1] | |||
Producer | Alex Gifford[2] | |||
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music | ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
Entertainment Weekly | C+[2] |
RapReviews | 7.5/10[6] |
V.I.P. is the fifth studio album by hip hop group Jungle Brothers, released in 2000.[7]
"Freakin' You" peaked at #70 on the UK singles chart.[8]
The album was written in Jamaica, and produced by Alex Gifford of Propellerheads.[9]
AllMusic called the album "fun, funky, and infectious -- a party record where everyone sounds like they're having a blast."[3] Entertainment Weekly wrote that "excessively eclectic production ... smothers the hip-hop duo’s jazzily organic rhymes."[2] The Riverfront Times called it "a great ... melding of progressive electronic grooves and rhymes, a contender for Album of the Year."[10]
Salon wrote: "Most disturbing, the pallor of the dead lingers all over V.I.P. Not dead like Tupac and Biggie but, rather, the end of an era and a style, and of the individuals who were first responsible for those innovations."[11]
All tracks produced by Alex Gifford.