Lyricist Lounge featuring Jungle Brothers / DJ Kool Red Alert

Jungle Brothers is an American Hip-Hop group that pioneered the fusion of Jazz and Hip-Hop and also became the first Hip-Hop group to use a house-music producer. The group began performing in the mid-1980s and released its first album, Straight Out the Jungle, in 1988. With Afrocentric lyrics and innovative beats, the Jungle Brothers were critically acclaimed and soon joined the influential Native Tongues collective. In 2008, their single “What U Waitin 4” was ranked number 88 on VH1‘s 100 Greatest Songs of Hip Hop.


Kool DJ Red Alert is recognized and respected worldwide as one of the founding fathers of Hip-Hop Music and Culture. Red, the founder of Violator Records & Management, is considered a contemporary DJ icon and a pioneer of the Radio Mixshow Format. He was a major influence in the career developments of A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, The Jungle Brothers, Black Sheep, Fat Joe, Funkmaster Flex, Kid Capri, and many others. Red has been named one of the 50 Most Influential People in Music by Rolling Stone magazine, has been honored with his own exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, and even has a street named after him on The Bronx Walk of Fame in New York City. DJ Red Alert can currently be heard on 98.7 Kiss FM in New York City, The Sirius Satellite-XM Network in the United States and 92.5 Youth Radio in St. Martin, which transmits to 10 different surrounding Caribbean Islands.