Power in Numbers

Studio album by Jurassic 5

Released

October 8, 2002

Genre

Hip hop

Length

56:11

Label

Interscope
4934372 (Original)
06949344821 (Re-release)

Producer

Cut Chemist, DJ Nu-Mark, Juju, Sa-Ra Creative Partners

Jurassic 5 chronology

Quality Control
(2000)

Power in Numbers
(2002)

Feedback
(2006)

Alternative cover

Re-issue cover

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	76/100
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
The Guardian
Kludge	8/10
Pitchfork	7.1/10
Rolling Stone

Power in Numbers is the third studio album by American hop group Jurassic 5.

It picks up where their previous album, Quality Control "left off", with a short double bass sample playing the same riff that the last song on Quality Control, "Swing Set", ended with.

The album features a number of differing song styles. One track, "React", composed by Jurassic 5 DJ Cut Chemist, is sample-based and contains no raps. "Acetate Prophets" has the same structure, but is much longer and also features production from Jurassic 5's other DJ, DJ Nu-Mark. Many tracks start or end with a sample of speech, usually inserted by Cut Chemist. The track "DDT" is an a cappella track rapped by renowned underground emcee Kool Keith, featuring no raps by Jurassic 5 themselves.

The album later had a limited re-release, which came with an accompanying DVD. The DVD consists of three featurettes on the group, one of which is a live performance. The UK version of this re-release also included an additional track on the CD, an alternative version of the track "Thin Line", featuring Mýa in place of Nelly Furtado.

At Metacritic, which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, Power in Numbers received an average score of 76% based on 20 reviews, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

The album was also included in the book 1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die.

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