The 100 Greatest Native Tongues Songs
By Complex Magazine | Dec 15, 2010 | 1:23 pm | Permalink
#25. A Tribe Called Quest "Midnight"
Year: 1993
Produced By: Midnight Marauders
Album: A Tribe Called Quest
Label: Jive
"Midnight" is a pulsating excerpt of highly obscure '70s guitar rock that hovers anxiously over stark drums and menacing low-end sounds. Over this moody, disquieting music, Q-Tip delivers his first and most successful inner-city "State of the Union" address. The Abstract Poet's observations are thoughtfully diffused across two verses, the first a piercingly descriptive narrative of a night on the town and the second a keenly detached overview.
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..."???