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Midnight Marauders
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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
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Track listing
- "Midnight Marauders Tour Guide" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 0:45
- "Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:11
- "Award Tour" (featuring Trugoy the Dove of De La Soul) (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:46
- "8 Million Stories" (Anselm/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:21
- "Sucka Nigga" (Hubbard/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:05
- "Midnight" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:25
- Contains a sample of "Psychadelic Shack" by Albino Gorilla
- "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
- "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
- "Clap Your Hands" (James/Modeliste/Muhammad/Neville/Nocentelli/Phife Dawg/Porter/Q Tip) – 3:16
- "Oh My God" (featuring Busta Rhymes) (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 3:29
- "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
- "The Chase, Part II" (Arrington/Godsey/Hankerson/Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:02
- "Lyrics to Go" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:09
- "God Lives Through" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) – 4:15
Album singles
| Single cover
| Single information
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| "Award Tour"
- Released: November 1993
- B-side: "The Chase (Part II)"
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| "Electric Relaxation"
- Released: March 1994
- B-side: "Midnight"
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| "Oh My God"
- Released: May 30, 1994
- B-side: "Lyrics To Go (LP Version)", "Lyrics (Remix)", "One Two Shit"
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Album Chart Positions
| Year
| Album
| Chart positions
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| Billboard 200
| Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums
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| 1993
| Midnight Marauders
| #8
| #1
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Singles Chart Positions
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:
Miscellanea
- The only video for this album that is fully displayed in full color is Oh My God.
References
- ^ http://www.rocklist.net/source.htm
- ^ http://www.riaa.com/gp/database/default.asp
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