Straight out the Jungle is the debut album by the American hip hop group Jungle Brothers. The album marked the beginning of the Native Tongues collective, which later featured popular artists such as De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and Black Sheep. The album's masters have a lower quality to other hip-hop albums of its kind, compared to the singles.
The single "I'll House You", added to the album in late-1988 reissues, is known as the first non-Chicagohip-house record to be a sufficiently big club hit.[citation needed]
The Los Angeles Times noted that, "From romance to racism, the JB's tell it like it is with a charismatic and suave funkiness."[12]Trouser Press concluded that "despite strong entries like 'Because I Got It Like That' and 'Sounds of the Safari', several duff tracks diminish the album, while the vestigial old-school beats and rapping style leave the rest sounding dated."[13]
In 1998, Straight out the Jungle was selected as one of The Source's "100 Best Albums".[14]
