A Tribe Called Quest’s Hip Hop MASTERCLASS | Breakdown & Recreation
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- Опубликовано: 8 ноя 2023
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Today I'm breaing down "Midnight Marauders" by A Tribe Called Quest - recreating some of the legendary beats from the original samples, talking with mixer and engineer Bob Power on the creation of this album, and seeing 4 distinct ways that this album is monumental for hip hop and music history in general. We hope that you will find this video precise, bass heavy, and just right.
Thanks again to Bob Power - check out more from him at www.bobpower.com/
Rest in Peace Phife Dawg
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TOPICS COVERED
A Tribe Called Quest
Midnight Marauders
The Low End Theory
Q Tip
Phife Dawg
Ali Shaheed Muhammad
Jarobi White
Bob Power
Engineer
Mixing
Hip Hop
Wu Tang Clan
#atribecalledquest #hiphop #musichistory
I am 41. This album was extremely important in my childhood. Thank you
Me as well… coming of age, best time of my life, best album of all time
Omg yessss! I knew you was going to do something special for Midnight Marauders! You can always count on Digging the Grates! I’m so excited! Happy 30th anniversary to this groundbreaking and influential album! 11/09/1993 🔥🔥🔥
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I see whatchu did there!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾
OMG YES!!
@@diggingthegreatsYou are Bad man!!! Your knowledge of all these musical elements and putting this stuff together is why subscribed in the first place. Keep up the (diggingthegreats) work.
Electric Relaxation's Mystic Brew sample is definitely in my Top 5 most legendary Hip-Hop samples of all time
Makes me think of the Wayans bros show. RIP pops
Absolutely. And the way J Cole remixed the sample and then reversed it on "Neighbors" is a testament to its innate musicality.
Opio said it was his favorite Tribe song when he was on stage.
Had to cop this Ronnie Foster album just for that beat
I approve this message ☝️💯
Bob played such an important and critical part in those albums, I always looked at him as a member of ATCQ
He's crucial, and one of the most humble people in the world - check out the full interview (links in description)
"Ayo, my mic is sounding bugged, Bob Power you there?" "Yeah"... that part ALWAYS kills me... LMAO... he says "Yeah" like such a square white guy.
@@KtotheGLOL he’s actually on the album if you think about it. I love it because they said they just did that randomly. Not intentionally.
@@KtotheG "I am Bob and I be really really tired of doing this you guys" another classic Bob Power being a white dude on a classic hiphop album moment
Absolutely nothing sounded like this when it came out. It just jumped out of the speakers
This is Tribe’s magnum opus in my opinion. The Low End Theory is more critically acclaimed and influential but Tribe really perfected their craft on Midnight Marauders, both production and lyrically
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100% agree. Like you said Low End is maybe on more critics lists but Midnight Marauders was just perfect to me. People's Instinctive... was full of fun, creativity and youthful exuberance. Low End was like, "boom, this is our sound." But still kind of raw and unpolished. Marauders was tight, focused and polished. This is a beginning to end album. No track lacks through the whole entirety. After listening to this I wanted to be from Linden Blvd. Everyone knows Award Tour and Electric Relaxation (maybe the best hip hop song ever imo) but Clap Your Hands, Sucka..., Lyrics to Go and We Can get Down still are etched into my memory, probably for eternity. There aren't many albums I can still listen to from Track 1 to the end after 30 years and countless listens, but this will be one of those, probably forever. I will never tire of this album. If hip hop had an equivalent to the Beatles it would be Tribe.
@@mjsburneraccount5591 I even like the interludes 😂
@@jonathanwilliams4872 The interludes are the only thing preventing this album from being perfect imo. I can listen to every skit on an mf doom album but always skip the digitalised voice on midnight marauders
Like Songs In The Key Of Life is to Stevie Wonder 💪🏿👊🏾👏🏿🏆
I saw them live in Chicago at the Riv when this album dropped. Only Shaheed on stage then those Steve Biko horns come on and Phife enters stage left with the handheld wireless mic... flips it in his hand and catches it right side up in perfect time to begin his verse when the beat drops dead center stage., "YO! Microphone check 1 2 what is this?" pure brilliance. this is my fav album of all time.
I maintain that The Low End Theory is their best work, but I still love Midnight Marauders a ton. Truly a perfect album.
I love them both, just incredible albums
Low End is Tribe's best lyrical album; Midnight to me had the best production sound. The sound was very polished!
Apples and tangerines. Both flawless albums. It’s like arguing about Nation of Millions vs Fear of a Black Planet. Same people, different animals. All brilliant
Low End is indeed their best album.
🎉🎉🎉🎉30 yrs later and this album is still rocking.
I 100% understand why people find the low end theory to be their best but growing up my dad would always play his midnight marauders cd in his car, I think with it being one of the first albums I ever listened to it really showed me what music can be. Only watched a few minutes of the video so far but you’ve always been making good ass content, so keep it up man!
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Because The Low End Theory was absolutely PERFECT. The samples were incredible... the beats were jazzy... Phife emerged as a serious lyricist and won "Most Improved MC" status... Busta Rhymes emerged as a superstar with his jaw-dropping cameo.... the entire album is unskippable and is diverse in mood and subject matter. It's a desert island album. It transcends hip hop. It's one of the best albums of the '90s in any genre. Low End Theory and Nevermind by Nirvana are probably the 2 best albums that year in 1991.
@@KtotheG don’t get me wrong I agree I just enjoy midnight marauders a bit more, What? Is a good song for example but comes off a little repetitive after a while, and I also don’t find myself coming back to rap promoter that much either
That’s so cool! Music is the closest thing we have to a Time Machine. It has the ability to transport us in time. Backwards at least. For me, it was Miles Davis’ Birth of the Cool! My Dad was a Coltrane guy, me too, but this album, along with Blue in Green shaped my childhood.
Thanks for giving an interview with Bob Power. He was involved with De La Soul's Buhloone Mindstate, Roots Do You Want More, and Midnight Marauders. I have been wanting to have a documentary on this guy.
He was involved with Mantronix and Just-Ice. A doc on him would be epic.
"Buhloone Mindstate" is a masterpiece.
1993 'til infinity! What a year
Unbelievable year 🔥
Souls of Mischief. Rap was at its peak in those years, and then it died shortly thereafter.
Since this dropped in 93, I have listened to this album uninterrupted at least once a month for the last 30 years. It is my favorite, a soundtrack to that time in my life, and a guide to living life dare I say. This will be played at my funeral. Wonderful breakdown, my man. Much love and go each and every place with a mic in your hand.
I totally agree
🤧😭 This album is special as hell to me. To me this is when Tribe finally put everything they had to offer in a perfect package. This is in my top ten most influential hip hop albums. It changed the way I listened to music. Also the very way I approach beat making.
Amen
One of the first vinyl records I ever got. What a classic.
We really got two masterclass hip-hop albums on the same day.
It's really insane 🔥
Bob “Pump” Power has been involved with more hip-hop classics than probably anyone on the planet.
I've been falling in love with this album since I was 13. This was the collective pinnacle of the Hip Hop I knew and loved as a child. When speaking on producer's, Q-tip is far too underrated....
30 years in. Still hits. My kids love it as much as I do. Literal award tour.
Midnight Marauders is my favorite ATCQ album. This is Tribe's most mature, and best sonically album. The music production was so fresh and high quality. There was a mystique of that album that made it sound so polished. I never skipped a song on this album. The Album cover is just genius!
Alongside 36 Chambers, November 9th, 1993 concludes the final chapter of the Golden era of hip-hop and ushered in the next chapter of a new wave of Hip Hop dominance in commercialism and mainstream.
My favorite album from tribe. Brings back memories as a junior in high school 💪🏿 93 was a dope year for hip hop music.
"Back in the days on the boulevard of Linden" Tribe was just otherworldly as I remember it . Thanks for doing this man , 'classic material' .
Check the Rhime was on LET but yea...
Wow the way they processed drum samples is special
This album is in my top 5 hip hop albums of all time. I got my 1st new car right when this album dropped & I wore this CD out🙌🏿🤘🏿😎
The greatest hip hop album ever. When I first heard it I played it over and over for days. There’s not a song on there that I skip.
Midnight Marauders is one of my all-time favorite albums of any genre. On a side note. Skeff Anslem has an uncanny resemblance to Lord Jamar of Brand Nubian.
I still bug out at the fact I was a high school freshman when Marauders and Enter dropped. What a time to be alive.
The first time I heard "Lyrics To Go" I thought that high note was a synthesizer. Then I heard "Inside My Love" ... 🤯
That started me down the rabbit hole of Minnie's music and I subsequently discovered Tribe made two separate classics from the same album.
Interestingly enough, Tip uses the word "sheen" to describe Marauders because it definitely was more "polished" than Low End. It was like Tribe was just scratching the surface of what was to come.
Great thoughts. It was a perfect bridge from LET to BR&L. My personal preference is Low End Theory but Marauders is such a perfect start to finish listening experience. It's more of a comprehensive album. BR&L is where I started losing interest. It was partly the "polish" (as you say) of that era. It was partly being resistant to Consequence who I didn't vibe with. And my interests started branching out from Hip hop into other areas. Hat tip on the Ripperton sample note. I need to explore more of her stuff. -Class of '95
@@deepzone31 Though J Dilla is my favorite programmer, I wasn't as receptive to BR&L because it didn't sound like Marauders. That was the cloudiness in my judgment. I later began to appreciate BR&L in hindsight.
Drove today listening to the same CD I purchased in Nov 93. The depth & soul of the production. The back & forth btwn MCs. Such a pinnacle album.
That intro! I love it! And yes, this album was perfect!
This is maybe my favorite intro so far
@diggingthegreats that whole presentation, weaving the voice in at certain points, masterfully done!
@@diggingthegreats Can you ever go wrong with some fanfare horns to intro your album?! such a classic all around!
This guy's nuanced approach to breaking down music is amazing. Keep up the very insightful and respectful work.
That feeling when hearing a beat, a note, or a verse, and being completely speechless is that indescribable power that music has on the soul.
Midnight Marauders from start to finish is a masterpiece. Beats, rhymes, and skits are perfect!
Goodness, the album’s in that era, Chronic, 36, Straight out, Snoop, and this? Wow, all ultimate classics, everyone inspired by the other with all incredibly different sounds! Gotta love hip hop! ❤️
Best ATCQ Album Ever. Lyrics To Go is just a fire joint🔥
You are a LEGEND for this. A tribe called quest is everything. Super dope!
An absolute masterpiece in all aspects!
I’ve always felt it sounds like a really harmonious album so was good to hear Bob Power say that was his aim.
Tips sample choices on this album are unreal, the man is a genius, as is Bob Power, the mastering on this was amazing, you could tell Bob spent a lot of time on it.
RIPhife
I normally re-listen to the ATCQ albums at least once a year and they are so good that I can’t pick a favourite from the first three.
I still have my first pressing vinyl copies and treasure them.
Absolutely great album. This comes second for me after The Low End Theory
You should upload an OutKast album soon
Absolutely on the list 🔥
Thanks for this Brilliant Breakdown of my all time favorite Hip-Hop album...
A True Musical Masterpiece!!! 🔥🔥🔥
YOU ARE A BAD BAD MAN!!! Your knowledge of all this music and how it was put together is mind boggling. Great job my friend. The first video that I watched of yours, I was hooked and subscribed. 😊❤😊❤
I remember being in highschool when this album dropped and it was crazy! And yes Wu tang dropped at the same time. We were all trading mixtapes and getting our minds blown on a weekly basis with all the music that was coming out. Midnight Mauraders has been with me ever since and aged incredibly well over the years, absolute classic record that will be played forever
I was discovering Minnie Riperton a few years back, and the instant I heard the bass I knew it was a Quest sample. Love that song
I needed this, my favorite album. 30 years old today!
I remember tripping out on the cover art and trying to ID everyone only to realize they did 4 different versions. Classic release and day of releases on that same day. Hate to be that old, get off my lawn head, but those days aren't happening now for my beloved genre, but so much has changed. Thanks for putting in work on this. Appreciate the creative touch of using same narrator style as the album.
Went to Lollapalooza in 1994… i went for Tribe, gigging on this amazing album. Will never forget hearing those incredible classic tunes, banging out over that sound system, with them live on the mic. Even though Tribe were too low on the totem pole on that tour (rock artists were always at the top at Lollapalooza; wtf Smashing Pumpkins headlining, really?), it was still a good show. P Funk, Pharcyde (on 2nd stage!), Beastie Boys & Breeders were all amazing as well. Music industry never knows what it’s got til it’s gone. The fans know. The industry, not so much.
PS. Is that AI doing the female announcer voice?! WTF it’s perfect. ..
I can still listen to this album from the first song to the last with no skips!! Amazing album, amazing group!!!
LOVE your content but you MUST do something with Digable’s Blowout Comb. Its brilliance is under appreciated.
Legendary mix engineer, uses an sm57 for a vocal mic in an interview 😎😎
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Tribe and Wu-Tang on the same damn day! Boy was I in heaven listening to those albums! Midnight Marauders is my favorite Tribe album!
How can this video have 486 comments but only 4 likes? Come on people. Support this guys great work. If you like the video; like the video!
Incredible episode! Could have made it over an hour long and Id have eaten it up, fascinating to see your sample recreations showing the building blocks of each track, but then the meticulous work it took to turn those into the timeless songs we all love. Bob Power! Huge get! Questlove talks about him like he was the secret weapon of soulquarians, just a legendary producer, his fingerprints are on hundreds of the best tracks of the 90s and 2000s.
And huge shout to whoever did the voiceover, she nailed it! 👏
Using the phone voice thats used on the album is a nice touch man. fantastic video! (im only a few min in) but what an AMAZING album. grats on the interview with bob powers btw! legendary man
Maybe my favorite intro so far
Dude!!! Midnight Marauders!!!
I've always thought this album was perfect. I can't believe you covered this album right after Madvillainy which is also perfect in my eyes. Super Excited for the next video!!! 😭😭😭😭💚❤🖤
Awesome vid man!! I love how much effort goes into these🔥
Your Channel is the only one I watch @ 1X speed!
Well worth investing the time To Educate myself on the soundtrack of my late teens.
Thank You for all you do, I LOVE it!!!
Love your videos man, thanks for all the work!
I was in the 8th grade when this came out,it was the first cd i bought in my life. This was at the time and still is a CLASSIC album.
This is by far the best ATCQ album and is one of few in all music with no songs you skip.
I wouldn't say BY FAR....but id rank it as the best 😂
theres so many albyms with no skips
Low End Theory >>>
@@dn30001I like Midnight Marauders more by a good margin but Low End is fuckin perfect also
@@NovidProkteps i guess all perfect albums cant be our favorites 😂
He got the Gawd Bob Power!!! That whole era wouldn’t have hit the same without that man. Let’s go!!!
Another great video and keep on learning new things to love more about music as a whole
YESSIR!!!!! As usual, you never disappoint! Great episode!
I’ve been cranking this album again lately and it is my most favorite album. It’s close to perfect.
I am a 58 year old 1980s metalhead who was introduced to Hip Hop by the Anthrax/PE collab. Fell in love with ATCQ and Marauders is my all-time favorite LP
Thanks for another dope video! Love the album!
One of my favorites of all time. I really appreciate the research and dedication you put into these videos. You couldn’t hide being star struck when talking with Bob Power. I can dig it.
Man, I’m in tears. I glad I’ve found your channel. Definitely subscribed.
You're videos are always fire but just the intro already I knew this would be amazing. This is amazing work on an amazing work of art
This is where you really shine, when you're breaking down album's that we can tell you truly love! I've had arguments with people about what the best ATCQ album is, with a lot of my friends saying "Low End Theory" but I've always maintained that "Midnight Marauders" is the masterpiece.
Man your content is gold!!! U can tell how much effort goes into it with the recreations interviews etc. Congrats on the great videos!
Keep up the great work man!!!! I go back and listen to all of these every single one of your videos educates me and I love it.
Man I love your channel! It’s great how you break down the production on these classic albums! I’d love if you did a video on souls of mischiefs 93 til infinity. Keep up the amazing work!
i've waited YEARS for a breakdown like this! one of the greatest albums EVER, the album that got me into hip hop and introduced me to sampling. GOATed album, GOATed channel💯
Still listening to this one regularly. GREAT content!!
Kudos to you. This is one of my favorite album and I appreciate all the time and energy that went into the deep dive of the album. Most of this info I didn't know. Thanks
Great video, you never miss! I would love a feature length film of you fully breaking down each track on this, my favorite Tribe album. Happy 30th to Midnight Marauders!
love to see u getting better and honing ur craft, the editing and narrative flow of this vid was really great! Quickly rising in the ranks of the best RUclips essayers
i love seeing your videos pop up in my feed.
I’ve never watched one of your episodes at a higher volume. Well done!!!
What an amazing video. Thank you. Had to rock the vinyl to honor it
This album is so dear to my heart.
Great video. ❤️
Man truly you KILL these videos. Extremely well done work!
The first vinyl I ever purchased. Another great video!
i saw ur through the wire vid when u had a few hundred subs but ive been enjoying everything ever since. great work man always high quality
Heck yes, I've been waiting for this one! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
SAME
I hope this doesn’t get taken down, another great video
I've always loved this album more than " low end" it's the definition of " soul" food. Perfection on wax.
BRO! This is fantastic! Im all up in my feels over here!
Uhhh yeah!!! 🎉 More awesome music analysis!
Awsome video. Now I realised that after a while watching your channel you have shaped my music shape a lot, thank you for teaching the youth abt great music
Fascinating breakdown, thank you!
Been waiting for this 👏👏👏👏
Gold is gold, this album is magic. I remember my friend and I went to buy an album each this day. I got Wu he got Tribe, we bumped these two gems back and forth for months on end. You could feel Hip Hop had just been elevated. An absolute magical time. Great job on this, keep em coming 💯
Best Tribe album and dare I say the best and most complete Hip Hop album ever crafted. Thanks for the breakdown!
Now this is an actual masterclass. Loved this👏
Your operator narration is gold! Another great video. You get better and better and you were outstanding from the jump…
Completely agree, many ride with low end, MM is pure magic and genius
I ride with both, any and all 🔥
Thank you, thank you, thank you! It is one of the best albums in hip hop history! There is so much to unpack it would take you 5 videos! I probably listen to at least one song off this every week! ❤️❤️❤️✊🏽✊🏽✊🏽
Awesome content on one of my fav albums. Kudos for shipping my shirt shortly(same day) after I ordered. I’m looking forward to representing. 👊🏼
I’m happy to see this because I 100% agree I don’t even listen much to oldschool hiphop nowadays but this album is always in my recently played. Its one of those rare no skip albums
CONTENT. Your passion is inspiring bro.
Thx for doing this video and taking me back to 1993 second year at Berklee College of Music in Boston. I listened to this album for the first time at the Tower records that was on Mass Ave and of course I purchased it (still own it). Tribe is one of my all time fav groups of any genre. Thx again for the vid 🙏🏾❤️
Just from hearing the mention of the polished Low end theory & then goin gritty for Midnight marauders recordings. I understood exactly the difference & 90’s hip hop embraced the gritty sound it filled in the voids.