Midnight Marauders

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Midnight Marauders
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Studio album by A Tribe Called Quest
Released	November 9, 1993
Recorded	1993
Genre	Alternative hip hop
Length	51:12
Label	Jive Records
Producer(s)	A Tribe Called Quest Large Professor Skeff Anselm
Professional reviews
All Music Guide Image:5 stars.png link
A Tribe Called Quest chronology
The Low End Theory (1991)	Midnight Marauders (1993)	Beats, Rhymes and Life (1996)

Midnight Marauders is a hip hop album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on November 9, 1993. The album was a critical and commercial success, especially the hit single "Award Tour", though its jazz rap fusion and intellectual songwriting were subdued in comparison with the previous record, The Low End Theory, leading to some criticism. The album still contains important themes, like the use of the word Nigger, but does not lose its spirituality.

The listener is guided through the program by a robotic voiced woman played by Laurel Dann. As this voice tells the listener at the end of "Award Tour," the meaning of the album's title derives from a figure that "seven times out of ten, we listen to our music at night," hence the "Midnight," and that the word maraud means to loot, and A Tribe Called Quest are "maraud[ing] for ears."

It is one of three A Tribe Called Quest albums on The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums.^[1] It is also one of three A Tribe Called Quest albums to be certified platinum by RIAA.^[2]

Contents 1 Track listing 2 Album singles 3 Album Chart Positions 4 Singles Chart Positions 5 Personnel 6 Cover art 7 Miscellanea 8 References

Track listing

1. "Midnight Marauders Tour Guide" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 0:45
2. "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:11
   • Contains a sample of "Ekim" by Michael Urbaniak
3. "Award Tour" (featuring Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul) (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:46
   • Contains a sample of "Lowdown" by Charles Earland
   • Contains a sample of "We Gettin' Down" by Weldon Irvine
   • Contains a sample of "Olinga" by Milt Jackson and the Ray Brown Big Band
   • Contains a sample of "Hobo (Scratch)" by Malcolm McLaren
4. "8 Million Stories" (Anselm/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:21
   • Contains a sample of "Bettina" by Bola Sete
5. "Sucka Nigga" (Hubbard/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:05
   • Contains a sample of "Red Clay" by Freddie Hubbard
   • Contains a sample of "MC Battle" by DJ Grand Wizard Theodore
6. "Midnight" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:25
   • Contains a sample of "Psychadelic Shack" by Albino Gorilla
7. "We Can Get Down" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:19
   • Contains a sample of "Martin's Funeral" by Bill Cosby
   • Contains a sample of "My Melody" by Eric B. & Rakim
8. "Electric Relaxation" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:04
   • Contains a sample of "Outside Love" by Brethren
   • Contains a sample of "Dreams" by Ramsey Lewis
   • Contains a sample of "Mystic Brew" by Ronnie Foster
9. "Clap Your Hands" (James/Modeliste/Muhammad/Neville/Nocentelli/Phife Dawg/Porter/Q Tip) – 3:16
   • Contains a sample of "Nautilus" by Bob James
   • Contains a sample of "Handclapping Song" by The Meters
   • Contains a sample of "Ode to Billy Joe" by Lou Donaldson
10. "Oh My God" (featuring Busta Rhymes) (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:29
    • Contains a sample of "Funky President" by James Brown
    • Contains a sample of "Damn Right, I am Somebody" by The J.B.'s
    • Contains a sample of "Who's Gonna Take the Weight" by Kool and the Gang
    • Contains a sample of "Why Can't People Be Colors Too?" by The Whatnauts
    • Contains a sample of "Absolutions" by Lee Morgan
    • Contains a sample of "Sorcerer of Isis" by Power of Zeus
11. "Keep It Rollin'" (featuring Large Professor) (Mitchell/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:05
    • Contains a sample of "Feel Like Makin' Love" by Roy Ayers
12. "The Chase, Part II" (Arrington/Godsey/Hankerson/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:02
    • Contains a sample of "Beddie-Biey" by Steve Arrington
13. "Lyrics to Go" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:09
    • Contains a sample of "Just Enough Room for Storage" by James Brown
    • Contains a sample of "Mixed up Cup" by Clyde McPhatter
    • Contains a sample of "Inside My Love" by Minnie Riperton
    • Contains a sample of "Cosmic Reign" by The Crusaders
14. "God Lives Through" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:15
    • Contains a sample of "On Love" by David Walker
    • Contains a sample of "Dig it On" by Jimmy McGriff

Album singles

Single cover	Single information
Image:Award Tour Cover.jpg	"Award Tour" Released: November 1993 B-side: "The Chase (Part II)"
Image:Electricrelaxation.jpg	"Electric Relaxation" Released: March 1994 B-side: "Midnight"
Image:Ohmygod.jpg	"Oh My God" Released: May 30, 1994 B-side: "Lyrics To Go (LP Version)", "Lyrics (Remix)", "One Two Shit"

Album Chart Positions

Year	Album	Chart positions
		Billboard 200	Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums
1993	Midnight Marauders	#8	#1

Singles Chart Positions

Year	Song	Chart positions
		Billboard Hot 100	Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks	Hot Rap Singles	Rhythmic Top 40	Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales
1993	"Award Tour"	#47	#27	#7	#28	#1
1994	"Electric Relaxation"	#65	#38	#13	-	#2
1994	"Oh My God"	-	#69	#15	-	#3

Personnel

• A Tribe Called Quest - Producer, Engineer, Mixing
• Skeff Anselm - Producer
• Busta Rhymes
• Pete Christensen - Assistant Engineer
• Patrick Derivaz - Assistant Engineer
• Chris Flam - Assistant Engineer
• Eric Gast - Assistant Engineer
• Gerard Julien - Assistant Engineer
• Large Professor - Producer
• Tim Latham - Engineer
• Hoover Le - Assistant Engineer
• Ali Shaheed Muhammad - DJ
• Bob Power - Engineer, Mixing
• Q-Tip - Vocals
• Raphael Wiggins
• Tom Coyne - Mastering
• George Spatta - Assistant Engineer
• Brad Schmidt - Assistant Engineer
• Carol Weinberg - Photography
• Phife Dawg - Vocals

Cover art

Widely respected and admired for their success and artistry throughout the hip-hop scene, and preternaturally inclined to accept this adulation with grace and humility, the group elected to summon fellow hip-hop acts whose work as artists and actions as human beings they respected, and photographed headshots of each for arrangement on the album's cover and liner-notes insert.

Among the dozens of rappers featured or shouted out were:

• De La Soul
• Souls of Mischief
• The Jungle Brothers
• Busta Rhymes
• Del tha Funkee Homosapien
• Queen Latifah
• Chi-Ali
• Monie Love
• Black Sheep
• The Beatnuts
• The Pharcyde
• Subroc
• Heavy D
• Puff Daddy
• Pete Rock and CL Smooth
• MC Lyte
• Chubb Rock
• Daddy-O (representing Stetsasonic)
• Big Daddy Kane
• Organized Konfusion
• Da Youngstas
• Large Professor
• Das Efx
• Lords of the Underground
• Black Moon
• Kool G Rap
• Ice-T and AMG (both gangsta rappers who nonetheless earned Q-Tip's respect)
• 3rd Bass
• Beastie Boys

Miscellanea

• The only video for this album that is fully displayed in full color is Oh My God.

• The song Electric Relaxation was used during the opening theme for the WB sitcom Wayans Bros..

References

1. ^ http://www.rocklist.net/source.htm
2. ^ http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp

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v • d • e A Tribe Called Quest
Members: Q-Tip | Phife Dawg | Ali Shaheed Muhammad | Jarobi White
Albums: People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm | The Low End Theory | Midnight Marauders | Beats, Rhymes and Life | The Love Movement
Compilations: The Anthology | Hits, Rarities, and Remixes
Singles: "Bonita Applebum" | "I Left My Wallet in El Segundo" | "Can I Kick It?" | "Check the Rhime" | "Jazz (We've Got)" | "Scenario" | "Hot Sex" | "Award Tour" | "Electric Relaxation" | "Oh My God" | "1nce Again" | "Stressed Out" | "Find a Way" | "Like It Like That"
See also: Native Tongues Posse | The Ummah

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