Midnight Marauders
Label : Jive
Catalogue No: 12414149015
["Midnight Marauders Tour Guide\nSteve Biko (Stir It Up)\nAward Tour\n8 Million Stories\nSucka Nigga\nMidnight\nWe Can Get Down\nElectric Relaxation\nClap Your Hands\nOh My God\nKeep It Rollin'\nThe Chase, Part II\nLyrics To Go\nGod Lives Through"]
Media Condition : Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition : Mint (M)
Third and last of the "classic" Tribe records 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.