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Title: Jungle Brothers - Straight Out The Jungle (Instrumental Show Vinyl)
Year/Genre/Sub-Genre/City: 1988, Hip Hop, Native Tongues Alternative Rap, New York, New York 6/26
Matrix #: TEG-75511
Condition: EX (LM) | Members: N/A
Cultural Facts:

1. Personal Struggle: Jungle Brothers broke through before alternative rap had a safe industry lane, building from school ties, club floors, and crew loyalty instead of a clear commercial path.
2. Scene Ecology: The group helped form the Native Tongues circle with De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest, giving late-80s New York rap a more Afrocentric, eccentric wing.
3. Media Narrative: Straight Out The Jungle is often treated as a quiet blueprint record, less mythologized than its descendants but crucial to the whole backpack rap family tree.

6/13/26 LM