The 100 Greatest Native Tongues Songs
By Complex Magazine | Dec 15, 2010 | 1:23 pm | Permalink
#10. A Tribe Called Quest "Electric Relaxation"
Year: 1993
Produced By: Midnight Marauders
Album: A Tribe Called Quest
Label: Jive
"Bonita Applebum" is Tribe's classic romantic record; "Electric Relaxation" is a little nastier, but just classy enough to throw on a Valentine Day's playlist. Ronnie Foster's "Mystic Brew" gets transformed into the backdrop that inspires Phife to utter some of his most famous lines, including "I like 'em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican, and Haitian" and the punny "Bust off on your couch now you got Seaman's furniture." Q-Tip opts for the smooth and debonair role, forthright but respectful. This will be a fixture at "grown and sexy" parties for some time to come, but unlike most of the other selections, this one isn't too slick or over the top.
Rel December 15th, 2010 at 12:46 PM
Wait no God lives through, are you serious.
R. Poole December 15th, 2010 at 12:59 PM
ha-ha... remember PM Dawn thought they were dissin' them with this?
Eloh December 15th, 2010 at 01:14 PM
Ya'll should post a download link.It is Christmas you know!
joe December 15th, 2010 at 01:47 PM
my mental is excelling cause i dabble in the books
seymour glass December 15th, 2010 at 02:48 PM
Little low. Jimbrowski for president.
ox December 15th, 2010 at 06:50 PM
#63 used to be my joint...bumped it in the whip constantly...that is an example of a hip-hop song that is perfected, stripped down beats and rhymes....crazy
FTW December 15th, 2010 at 07:46 PM
I don't care who you are—if you were even remotely curious about the process of producing hip-hop music, your mind was blown the second you realized that Tribe had turned Minnie Ripperton's whistle-pitch vocals into an instrument ^^^^^ This.
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:38 PM
Greatest Complex List EVER
Madlib December 15th, 2010 at 08:40 PM
the greatest complex list ever created.
Slick Savage December 16th, 2010 at 03:31 AM
Simply classic... But yo, WTF iz,"Subbups, subbups..."???