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  Type Album
  Artist A Tribe Called Quest
  Cover ATribeCalledQuestMidnightMajpg
  Background Orange
  Released November 9 , 1993
  Recorded 1993
  Genre Alternative Hip-Hop
  Length 51:12
  Label Jive Records
  Producer A Tribe Called Quest , Skeff Anselm , Large Professor
  Last Album ''''' The Low End Theory '''''<br />(1991)
  This Album '''''Midnight Marauders'''''<br />(1993)
  Next Album ''''' Beats, Rhymes And Life '''''<br />(1996)


''Midnight Marauders'' is a Hip Hop album by A Tribe Called Quest , released on November 9 , 1993 (see 1993 In Music ). 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 forget to have spirituality.

The listener is guided through the program by a robotic voiced woman played by Laurel Dann.


TRACK LISTING

#"Midnight Marauders Tour Guide" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) - :45
#"Steve Biko (Stir It Up)" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) - 3:11
#" Award Tour " (featuring Trugoy ) (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
#"We Can Get Down" (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) - 4:19
#" Electric Relaxation " (Muhammad/Phife Dawg/Q Tip) - 4:04
#"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
#"The Chase, Pt. 2" (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


CHART POSITIONS

Billboard Music Charts - album
1993 The Billboard 200 No. 8
1993 Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums No. 1
Billboard Music Charts - singles
1993 Award Tour Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 1
1993 Award Tour Hot Rap Singles No. 7
1994 Award Tour The Billboard Hot 100 No. 47
1994 Electric Relaxation The Billboard Hot 100 No. 65
1994 Award Tour Hot Rap Singles No. 8
1994 Electric Relaxation Hot Rap Singles No. 13
1994 Oh My God Hot Rap Singles No. 15
1994 Electric Relaxation Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks No. 38
1994 Oh My God Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks No. 69
1994 Award Tour Rhythmic Top 40 No. 28
1994 Award Tour Hot Dance Music/Club Play No. 27
1994 Electric Relaxation Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 2
1994 Oh My God Hot Dance Music/Maxi-Singles Sales No. 2


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:



TRIVIA

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