Name: Midnight Marauders
Brand: A Tribe Called Quest

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

1241414901

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Colour

black

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Discogs ID

Discs

Download code

Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

Format Music US

Limited edition

Release date

1993-11-09

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier US

Sony

Tax rate US

Sales:8.875

UPC / Barcode

12414149015

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1 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

A Tribe Called Quest

Genre US

Hip Hop

Label US

Legacy

<b>Third and last of the "classic" <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/a-tribe-called-quest">Tribe</a> records it is arguably the group's most musically sophisticated album. </b>

The tracks balance jazz, soul, and even reggae influences with pure hip-hop to arrive at a completely distinctive <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/a-tribe-called-quest">Tribe</a> sound, the logical evolution of the bop-inflected hooks which characterised <i>Low End Theory</i>. Production-wise, Tribe graduates from a cool school aesthetic to an electric jazz sound (reminiscent of fusion-era <a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/artist/miles-davis">Miles Davis</a>). 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".

<a href="https://roughtrade.com/us/music/midnight-marauders">CD available here.</a>

Midnight Marauders

Music US