A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders (Music CD)

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Third and last of the "classic" Tribe records (preceding the
addition of Jay Dee and the formation of "the Ummah" production team),
MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS is not as groundbreaking as PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS or
as consistently on-point as LOW END THEORY. However, it is arguably the group's
most musically sophisticated album. The tracks balance jazz, soul, and even
reggae influences with pure hip-hop to arrive at a completely distinctive Tribe
sound, the logical evolution of the bop-inflected hooks which characterised LOW
END THEORY.
Production-wise, Tribe graduates from a cool school aesthetic to an electric
jazz sound (reminiscent of fusion-era Miles Davis). Lyrically MIDNIGHT MARAUDERS
finds the group's abstract poetics in excellent form as usual, and Phife is
miles ahead of the "mayor-flavour" rhymes of "Can I Kick
It". As per the title, the album develops the introspection of "After
Hours" into a nocturnal feel which winds it's way through
"Midnight", the party-rock of "We Can Get Down", "Clap
Your Hands" and the complex layers of "God Lives Through".
1. Midnight Marauders Tour Guide
2. Steve Biko (Stir It Up)
3. Award Tour
4. 8 Million Stories
5. Sucka Nigga
6. Midnight
7. We Can Get Down
8. Electric Relaxation
9. Clap Your Hands
10. Oh My God
11. Keep It Rollin'
12. Chase Part II
13. Lyrics To Go
14. God Lives Through
15. Hot Sex