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badabingat writes:

5of 5 Stars

Midnight Marauders is possibly the most divisive of tribe albums. It surely is the most eccentric of all ATCQ and possibly the most dark and synical. The beats are massively more heavy than anything encoutered on either of the first two albums, lyrically less a comment than a more aggressive mouth-off of more or less anything they desire to slag off.
On Sucka Nigga, q-tip slates ghetto culture, through the LP, while Phife, throughout the album asks why mainstream rap regards him as being unworthy as an MC, just because of his height, diabetes and soft tones.
Yet even in this self-paradic undertone (aggressively critising other for being so god-damn aggressive) Tribe manage to create an album so lush with samples, keyboards, hooks and rhymes that at the same time as sounding schzophrenic, and possibly partly because they do so, they create work of pure magnificent brilliance. This was Tribe's master piece in many peoples eye's because of its' confusion of sound, direction and style. In no-way can Midnight Marauders can be described as a concept album, like Low End Theory, but who ever said that music had to built on solid foundations. Serenity is strangely combined with frantic aggression, god almost mentioned in the same breath as casual sex, but that is why this album is a masterpiece.

Mar 9, 2006 06:29:51