"What's Golden" is a song by American hip hop group Jurassic 5, from their third studio album, Power in Numbers. It features samples from Public Enemy's "Prophets of Rage" and Clive Hicks's "Look Hear".

"What's Golden"
Single by Jurassic 5
from the album Power in Numbers
B-side"High Fidelity"
ReleasedSeptember 11, 2001
Recorded2000
GenreHip hop
Length3:09
LabelInterscope
Songwriter(s)
Jurassic 5 singles chronology
"The Influence"
(2000)
"What's Golden / High Fidelity"
(2002)
"Freedom / One of Them"
(2002)

The song was featured in the 2002 video game ATV Offroad Fury 2, as well as in the 2016 video game Forza Horizon 3.

Single track listing

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No.TitleLength
1."What's Golden"3:09
2."High Fidelity"3:07

Music video

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The music video shows the band members, along with many unknown people, dancing in a hip hop club. All these people are later shown in a variety of urban settings (such as a cornfield, a bus, a dark alley, and the inner city) with Chali 2na, Mark 7even, Akil, and Soup rapping, seemingly oblivious to these settings.

Critical reception

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Allmusic reviewer John Bush cited "What's Golden", along with "A Day at the Races" as "old-school anthems" among the darker songs elsewhere in the album.[1]

Charts

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Chart (2002) Peak
position
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)[2] 90

References

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  1. ^ Bush, John. "allmusic ((( Power in Numbers > Overview )))". Allmusic. Retrieved April 6, 2010.
  2. ^ "Jurassic 5 Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved June 25, 2022.