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Midnight Marauders | 
 enlarge | Artist: A Tribe Called Quest
Label: Jive
Category: Music
Buy New: $20.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  140 reviews
Sales Rank: 44699
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Media: LP Record
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 12.1 x 0.2
UPC: 012414149015
EAN: 0012414149015
ASIN: B0000004Z9
Release Date: November 9, 1993
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| Tracks:
| • | Midnight Marauders Tour Guide | | • | Steve Biko (Stir It Up) | | • | Award Tour | | • | 8 Million Stories | | • | Sucka Nigga | | • | Midnight | | • | We Can Get Down | | • | Electric Relaxation | | • | Clap Your Hands | | • | Oh My God | | • | Keep It Rollin' | | • | Chase, Pt. 2 | | • | Lyrics to Go | | • | God Lives Through |
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Amazon.com essential recording
This might have been the album Tribe Called Quest wanted to make from the very beginning. It's their most even, consistent album of the original trilogy that also includes People's Instinctive Travels... and The Low End Theory. But in spite of this, or maybe because of it, it's also their most uninteresting. With so many competent tracks, there's no chance for something to stand out above the pack, like "Scenario" did on Low End Theory or "Can I Kick It" did on People's Instinctive Travels. The celebration is there ("Stir It Up"), the jazz drums kick ("Oh My God"), and the stand-up bass dribbles, keeping perfect pace with Q-Tip's unmistakable mic-touch ("Electric Relaxation"). There's even a Native Tongues armistice/reunion with De La Soul ("Awards Tour"). Although it comes together like a seamless tutorial in jazz hip-hop style, it comes together so damn well that it's hard for any one track to excel, cursing the album with consistent quality. --Todd Levin
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If You Could Only Pick 1 CD if you were stuck on a Deserted Island... September 3, 2008
and you had your choices (Hip Hop/Rap Music wise) between Rakim's Follow The Leader, KRS (Boogie Down Production) Criminal Minded, Big Daddy Kane's Long Live the Kane, NWA's Straight Outta Compton, Dre and Snoop's The Chronic, and a Tribe Called Quest's Midnight Marauder, which one would you seriously pick???
Well this almost happened to me literally- but figuratively speaking. My Junior year of high school my family moved from Jamaica Queens- home to ATCQ and moved me to the middle of west-bubblefuc-coondocks (where you have more racoons as neighbors than humans) woodland Virginia and I almost popped - like when Neo was pulled out of the matrix and wanted to go back at first.
It was a hard-time adjusting, but just when I moved- ATCQ came out with Midnight Marauders to save the day and my life. If it wasn't for my fellow Jamaica Queens Native tongue-Sons and this album to get me by until I at least graduated from high-school joined the military and escaped from the area- I might have went columbine at my school and on my parents. The most vivid memory even more clearer than the first time I lost my virginity was when I demanded that my mother drive me to the nearest mall out of the coondocks to get the Midnight Maurader album immediately when it dropped. As soon as the cash register printed the receipt I had the plastic wrapper off the casette tape case(yeah thats right - and your grandparents had 8-tracks -just ask them about that). I rush my mother to the car to get the tape in the crappy car's casette deck and pump the volume up as high as it would go. As soon as I heard Phife go "Linden Blvd. Represent, Represent" -thats all I needed- it was like taking a Bob Marley jumbo spliff to the head and entering Shri-La or Nirvana. I had climbed the seven steps to heaven and escaped from the cabin fever I was severely suffering from out in the coondocks of VA.
This album is one of the best MUSIC albums ever created and produced - period. How does that help you the Music Reviewer deciding whether or not to buy this album- I dont know- but confessing my passion for this album sure as hell helped me from going down the wrong route in life. This album served as my therapy like those sessions Tony Soprano used to get. Thank you ATCQ - you saved my life. Big Up & Nuff Respect!!!
Native Tongues Classic August 22, 2008
1993, a year of classic hip hop albums, east and west coast were releasing grounbreaking ones. Native Tongues were in full effect and A Tribe Called Quest, with already two classics under their name brought out their third album - Midnight Marauders.
Beats: Mostly produced by Ali Shaheed Muhammad, the beats focuse on jazz samples, from all types of older music like Kool And The Gang, and Weldon Irvine. Large Professor has a producer guest spot on 'Keep It Rollin,' without interrupting the flow between each track. The beats compliment Phife's and Q-Tip's smooth flow perfectly, and the DJ scratches from Shaheed are exceptional, complete genius. Heavy drums, horn samples, pianos, and tight basslines make the instrumentals a 10/10.
Rhymes: Q-Tip and Phife are one the greatest duo's in hip hop ever. Phife has so many classic hip hop quotes on this album, and Q-Tip shows his conscious style on 'Sucka Nigga,' a track about the use of the word nigga:
'Now the little shorties say it all of the time
And a whole bunch of niggas throw the word in they rhyme
Yo I start to flinch, as I try not to say it
But my lips is like the oowop as I start to spray it'
Tip, Phife, and Ali Shaheed create laidback, dark, upbeat, smooth, conscious tracks on this album, which are all brilliant tracks. It is not often when you love every track on an album, but Midnight Marauders is a perfect example.
This is alternative hip hop at its best, simply flawless.
Giving hip-hop a good name August 15, 2008
This album is great! Not only do they have great beats and amazing lyricism, but it's actually quite musical at times. "Sucka Nigga" has a super rad bass line that is actually from an old jazz tune and there are other aspects of jazz throughout the cd as well. I would definitely recommend this to any fan of hip-hop.
Hip Hop Perfection August 4, 2008
Hip hop does not get more soulful and pure than this. The Tribe's best work, and truly one of the greatest albums in hip hop history. Don't sleep on this one!
 How dissapointing... May 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Of course, that really doesn't mean much for ATCQ, since this album is still miles ahead from the boring gangster rap and miles times ten ahead of third rate try-too-hard rap artists like jay-z and kanye west these days (let's not even mention crunk and snap audio).
While the style isn't as intriguing as (especially) People's Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm or The Low End Theory, it's more darker sound is welcome. The first three albums offer something different for each listen. Quest proves that they can create a mood with the music, which is what all hip-hop albums should offer regarding (The Low End Theory's mood to me represents the need to just bring it no-nonsense. Some have more than others, but it's got to have something, even if it's just to dance).
It's opens with the coolest intro ever, The Midnight Marauders Tour Guide. Right from that, you know this album will be cool as night. And cool as night it is, with Steve Biko. Starting with old, horns that sound straight from downtown at 2 AM, Phife boasts and Tip flows. Skipping forward, you have Electric Relaxation, a rather, sexy song. Oh My God, while having an absurd title, contains more infectious beats. Award Tour has really jazzy, low key sampling with a cameo from De La Soul (not sure if it's Plug one or Plug two). Cool, dark, moody stuff. Tribe truly were one of the best rap artists, and one I've truly loved ever since TI.
While it's not as musically interesting, I feel they do some of their most accomplished rapping here. True, not as playful and wide-ranging as rap's best album ever, but they never fault.
Oh, and what's with the last two tracks? The Chase is just bad, with an annoying guitar solo and disrupts the album. And God Lives Through may be the worst Tribe song so far. The beat is bad enough, but the chorus (a repeat from Oh My God) isn't really praise to god. It sounds more like saying God's name in vain. So that song fails on every count. When those songs are taken out, the last track contains the outro to the Tour Guide, so those songs aren't a loss in any way.
While I find it a tad worse than The Low End Theory, all three albums are essential listens. Those looking for rap different than the usual stuff, give this a listen. It's not just different, it's crazy _______ good.
8.5/10
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