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2 unusual facts about Jungle Brothers


Sheila Chadwick

Chadwick contribulted to Crystal Magazine and Mahogany Magazine (where she interviewed Adina Howard, Mellow Man Ace and The Jungle Brothers).

Tom Novy

Novy started producing music in 1994 when he signed for the Munich based record label, Kosmo Records, with his first record, "I House U", a cover of the Jungle Brothers' "I'll House You", with lyrics by Novy.


Fat Larry's Band

The opening drum break from "Down on the Avenue", from the band's first album, Feel It (WMOT 1976), has been sampled by many hip hop artists, including N.W.A (Straight Outta Compton), Ice-T, Jungle Brothers and Run-D.M.C. The bassline of their 1982 single Act Like You Know was prominently sampled in 1991 in the song Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) by American hip hop band De La Soul.

J Beez wit the Remedy

Beez Wit the Remedy is the third album by the Jungle Brothers, released during June 1993 (see 1993 in music) on Warner Bros. Records.

Kool DJ Red Alert

Red, who is of Antiguan heritage, also had a small hip hop management company in the late 1980s called Red Alert Productions, which managed the careers of Native Tongues acts such as the Jungle Brothers, A Tribe Called Quest, and Monie Love.

True Ingredients

The band has played gigs all over the UK as well as in many other European countries alongside a number of high profile artists such as DJ Vadim, Finley Quaye, Kele Le Roc, Jungle Brothers, Aquasky, Foreign Beggars, High Contrast, Bugz in the Attic, and The Gap Band who feature as the brass section on True Ingredients' single Who's Next?.


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Done by the Forces of Nature

Rolling Stone writer Michael Azerrad praised the album's lyrical substance and said that "the Jungle Brothers' positive, spiritual vibe (a direct descendant of Earth, Wind and Fire's) is as hip as their music".