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Midnight Marauders

Midnight Marauders is the third album by hip hop

Hip hop music

Hip hop music is a music genre typically consisting of a rhythmic vocal style called rapping which is accompanied with backing beats. Hip hop music is part of hip hop culture, which began in the Bronx, in New York City in the 1970s, predominantly among African Americans and Latino Americans....
group A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest

A Tribe Called Quest is an United States Hip hop music group, formed in 1988. The group is composed of rapper/producer Q-Tip , rapper Phife Dawg , and DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad....
, released November 9, 1993 on Jive Records

Jive Records

Jive Records is a record label, based in New York City, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and operates as a quarter of the Zomba Label Group....
.

album Midnight Marauders was a critical and commercial success, especially the hit single "Award Tour

Award Tour

"Award Tour" is a song by A Tribe Called Quest, released as the first single from their third album Midnight Marauders.The B-Side of the single is a slightly differed version of Midnight Marauders track "The Chase, Pt....
", though its jazz rap

Jazz rap

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Midnight Marauders is the third album by hip hop

Hip hop music

A Tribe Called Quest

Jive Records

Jive Records is a record label, based in New York City, owned by Sony Music Entertainment, and operates as a quarter of the Zomba Label Group....
.

Background

The album Midnight Marauders was a critical and commercial success, especially the hit single "Award Tour

Award Tour

Jazz rap

Jazz rap is a fusion of alternative hip hop and jazz, developed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The lyrics are often based on political consciousness, Afrocentricity, and general Political positivism....
fusion and intellectual songwriting were subdued in comparison with the previous record, The Low End Theory
The Low End Theory

The Low End Theory is the second album by A Tribe Called Quest, released on September 24, 1991 through Jive Records. With the pairing of Q-Tip and Phife Dawg's lyrics, at turns socially charged, abstract and concretely grounded in reality, with groovy jazz sampling , the album includes guests Brand Nubian , Diamond D and Leaders of the...
, leading to some criticism. The album still contains important themes, like the use of the word nigga
Nigga

Nigga is a term used in African American Vernacular English that began as an eye dialect form of the word nigger ....
, but does not lose its spirituality.

The listener is guided through the program by a robotic voiced woman played by Laurel Dann. As this voice tells the listener at the end of "Award Tour", the meaning of the album's title derives from a figure that "seven times out of ten, we listen to our music at night", hence the "Midnight", and that the word maraud means to loot, and A Tribe Called Quest are "maraud[ing] for ears".

It is one of three A Tribe Called Quest albums on The Source's 100 Best Rap Albums. It is also one of three A Tribe Called Quest albums to be certified platinum by the RIAA

Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America is the trade group that represents the recording industry in the United States. Its members consist of a large number of private corporate entities such as record labels and distributors, which the RIAA claims "create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 90% of all legitimate sound recor...
.

The only video for this album that is fully displayed in full color is "Oh My God". The song "Electric Relaxation

Electric Relaxation

Electric Relaxation was the second single from A Tribe Called Quest's third album Midnight Marauders. It contains samples from "Mystic Brew" by Ronnie Foster....
" was used during the opening theme for the WB sitcom Wayans Bros.. The original version of "The Chase Part Two", called "The Chase" uses the same beat, but instead has one verse by Consequence

Consequence

Consequence can refer to a good or a bad result of your actions.* Consequentialism, in Philosophy concerns mainly about what would happen due to the act that is done and regards the act itself as being of less importance....
in it.

Track listing

Additional credits

#	Title	Notes
1	"Midnight Marauders Tour Guide"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Aquarius" by Cal Tjader Cal Tjader Callen Radcliffe Tjader, Jr. a.k.a. Cal Tjader was a Latin jazz musician, though he also explored various other jazz idioms. Unlike other American jazz musicians who experimented with the music from Cuba, the Caribbean, and Latin America, he never abandoned it, performing it until his death....
2	"Steve Biko (Stir It Up)"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Ekim" by Michal Urbaniak Group
3	"Award Tour"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "We Gettin' Down" by Weldon Irvine Weldon Irvine Weldon Jonathan Irvine, Jr. , also known Master Wel, was an United States composer, playwright, poet, pianist and organist.... Sample: "Lowdown" by Charles Earland Charles Earland Charles Earland was an United States jazz composer, organist, and Saxophone in the soul jazz idiom.... Sample: "Olinga" by Milt Jackson Milt Jackson Milton Jackson was an American jazz vibraphonist and one of the most important figures in the hard bop style, although he performed in several subgenres of jazz.... Sample: "Hobo" by Malcolm McLaren Malcolm McLaren Malcolm McLaren is a solo musician, and most famously, former management to the New York Dolls and the Sex Pistols....
4	"8 Million Stories"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor, S. Anselm Sample: "Bettina" by Bola Sete Bola Sete Bola Sete was a Brazilian guitarist born on July 16, 1923 in Rio de Janeiro and who died on February 14, 1987 in Greenbrae, California. Sete played jazz with Vince Guaraldi as well as with Dizzy Gillespie....
5	"Sucka Nigga"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor, H. Hubbard Sample: "Red Clay" by Jack Wilkins Jack Wilkins Jack Wilkins is an United States guitarist born on June 3, 1944. He has played with many jazz greats including Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Heath, The Mingus Epitaph, and bassist Eddie Gomez, as well as with singers Mel Torm?, Ray Charles, Morgana King, Sarah Vaughan, Tony Bennett, The Manhattan Transfer, Nancy Marano and Jay Clayton....
6	"Midnight"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Psychadelic Shack" by Albino Gorilla
7	"We Can Get Down"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Martin's Funeral" by Bill Cosby Sample: "My Melody" by Eric B. and Rakim
8	"Electric Relaxation"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Mystic Brew" by Ronnie Foster Ronnie Foster Ronnie Foster is an United States funk, jazz, and soul organist.He has worked with a wide range of musicians, including jazz guitarist George Benson and his 1976 album Breezin', where he plays the electric piano, Mini-Moog, and contributes one song, "Lady.".... Sample: "Outside Love" by Brethren Brethren The Brethren are a number of Protestant Christian religious bodies using the word "brethren" in their names. In some cases these similarities of name reflect roots in the same early Brethren groups, and in others the adoption of "Brethren" as part of the name reflects an independent choice to evoke the concept of religious brotherhood .... Sample: "Dreams" by Ramsey Lewis Ramsey Lewis Ramsey Emmanuel Lewis, Jr. is an United States jazz icon, composer, pianist and radio personality. He has been referred to as "the great performer", a title reflecting his performance style and musical selections which display his early gospel playing and classical training along with his love of jazz and other musical forms....
9	"Clap Your Hands"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor, B. James, Norcentelli, Porter, Neville, Modeliste Sample: "Nautilus" by Bob James Bob James (musician) Bob James is a smooth jazz and jazz fusion keyboardist, arranger and Record producer.... Sample: "Hand Clapping Song" by The Meters The Meters The Meters were an United States funk band based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Meters performed and recorded their music from the late 1960s until 1977.... Sample: "Ode to Billy Joe" by Lou Donaldson Lou Donaldson Lou Donaldson is a jazz alto saxophonist. He was born in Badin, North Carolina. He is best known for his soulful, bluesy approach to the alto saxophone, although in his formative years he was, as many were of the bebop era, heavily influenced by Charlie Parker....
10	"Oh My God"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Who's Gonna Take Weight" by Kool & The Gang Kool & the Gang Kool & the Gang are an American jazz/R&B/soul music/funk/disco group. They originally formed in Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S. in 1964 in music. They went through several musical phases in their career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, becoming practitioners of R&B and funk, progressing to a smooth disco ensemble, and ended the successfu... Sample: "Why Can't People Be Colors Too?" by The Whatnauts Sample: "Absolutions" by Lee Morgan Lee Morgan Lee Morgan was an American hard bop trumpeter....
11	"Keep It Rollin'"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor, W. Mitchell Sample: "Feel Like Making Love" by Roy Ayers Roy Ayers Roy Ayers is a funk, soul music and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a jazz player, releasing several albums with Arista Records before his tenure at Polydor Records, during which he progressed a new R&B style, slowly molding the new Disco genre....
12	"The Chase, Part II"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor, S. Arrington, V. Godsey, B. Hankerson Sample: "Beddie Bye" by Steve Arrington Steve Arrington Steve Arrington is an United States singer, songwriter, drummer, and minister of religion who grew up in Dayton, Ohio.In 1975, Arrington relocated from Ohio to San Francisco, California, California where he learned Latin percussion and drumming from Coke Escovedo and Pete Escovedo and Sheila E..... Sample: "Nobody Beats the Biz" by Biz Markie Biz Markie Marcel Theo Hall better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is a rapper, disc jockey, and comedian, best known for the single "Just a Friend"....
13	"Lyrics to Go"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Just Enough Room for Storage" by James Brown James Brown James Joseph Brown, Jr. was an United States entertainer. He is recognized as one of the most influential figures in 20th century popular music and was renowned for his vocals and feverish dancing.... Sample: "Inside My Love" by Minnie Ripperton Sample: "Mixed Up Cup" by Clyde McPhatter Clyde McPhatter Clyde McPhatter was an influential United States R&B singer....
14	"God Lives Through"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor Sample: "Dig It On" by Jimmy McGriff Jimmy McGriff James Harrell McGriff was a hard bop and soul-jazz organist and organ trio bandleader who developed a distinctive style of playing the Hammond B-3 organ.... Sample: "On Love" by David T. Walker David T. Walker David T. Walker is an United States guitarist born in Los Angeles, California. He attended David Starr Jordan High School in the Watts area of Los Angeles....
*	"Hot Sex"	Songwriters: J. Davis, A. Muhammad, M. Taylor

Accolades

The information is taken from Acclaimedmusic.netand other website links below.

Publication	Country	Accolade	Year	Rank
Ego Trip Ego trip (magazine) *ego trip* was the name of a hip hop culture magazine started in New York City in 1994. It lasted four years and 13 issues and distinguished itself based on its irreverence and defiant attitude, eventually adopting the tagline, "the arrogant voice of musical truth."...	USA		1999	#2
Exclaim! Exclaim! *Exclaim!* is a monthly Canada music magazine that features in-depth coverage of new music across all genres with special focus on Canadian and cutting-edge artists....	Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean....		2000	*
Pitchfork Pitchfork Media Pitchfork Media, usually known simply as Pitchfork, is a Chicago-based daily Internet publication devoted to music journalism and commentary, music news, and artist interviews....	USA		2003	#75
The Source The Source (magazine) *The Source* is a United States-based, monthly full-color magazine covering hip-hop music, politics, and Hip hop culture, founded in 1988. It is the world's second longest running rap periodical, behind United Kingdom-based publication Hip Hop Connection....	USA	The Source 100 Best Hip-Hop Albums of All Time	1998	*
The Guardian The Guardian Sorry, no overview for this topic	UK		1999	#98
The New Nation	UK			#11
OOR Moordlijst	Netherlands Netherlands The Netherlands is a country that is part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It is a parliamentary democratic constitutional monarchy. The Netherlands is located in North-West Europe, and bordered by the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east....		1995	#31
Spex Spex (magazine) *Spex* is a prominent Germany rock and pop culture magazine located in Berlin, Germany. Besides music news, Spex also covers literature, cinema, fashion and contemporary social trends....	Germany		1999	#19

( * ) designates lists which are unordered.

Cover art

Widely respected and admired for their success and artistry throughout the hip-hop scene, and preternaturally inclined to accept this adulation with grace and humility, the group elected to summon fellow hip-hoppers whose work as artists and actions as human beings they respected, and photographed headshots

Head shot

A headshot is a photographic technique where the focus of the photograph is a person's face. Headshot is essentially the same as portrait. However, headshot is an image that portrays people as they are and is more of a 'mug shot', however simple or stylized it might be....
of each for arrangement on the album's cover and liner-notes insert. And like The Beatles'

The Beatles

The Beatles were a rock music and pop music band from Liverpool, England that formed in 1960. During their career, the group primarily consisted of John Lennon , Paul McCartney , George Harrison and Ringo Starr ....
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the United Kingdom rock music band The Beatles. Recorded over a 129-day period beginning on 6 December 1966, the album was released on 1 June 1967 in the United Kingdom and the following day in the United States....
, it serves as a time capsule

Time capsule

A time capsule is a historic cache of goods and/or information, usually intended as a method of communication with people in the future. Time capsules are sometimes created and buried during celebrations such as a World Fair, cornerstone laying for a building or other event....
of the era; a who's who of hip hop circa 1993.

According to ego trip's

Ego trip (magazine)

ego trip was the name of a hip hop culture magazine started in New York City in 1994. It lasted four years and 13 issues and distinguished itself based on its irreverence and defiant attitude, eventually adopting the tagline, "the arrogant voice of musical truth."...
Book of Rap Lists, there are a reported 71 different hip hop luminaries and radio DJ's who adorned Midnight Marauders. The cover was issued in three different color schemes- red, black, & green (with black being the rarest). The book goes into detail as to which artists were on which particular album cover using a number scheme to easily identify each artist. The complete list of artists is as follows:

Afrika Bambaataa
Afrika Bambaataa

Afrika Bambaataa is an United States Disc jockey from the South Bronx, who was instrumental in the early development of Hip hop music throughout the 1980s....
AMG
AMG (rapper)

Jason Lewis better known by his stage name AMG, is a rapper from Cleveland, Ohio who later moved to Inglewood, California. He is known for his humor, sexually explicit lyrics, unorthodox style and most notably for songs like "Bitch Betta Have My Money", "Jiggable Pie" and "Tha Booty Up." The United Kingdom electronica group Hardknox la...
Ant Banks
Ant Banks

Anthony Banks, known simply as Ant Banks, is a hip hop production and rapping from Oakland, California....
Awesome Two
Beastie Boys
Beastie Boys

Beastie Boys are an American hip hop music group from New York City consisting of Michael Diamond, Adam Yauch, and Adam Horovitz. Since around the time of the Hello Nasty album, the DJ for the group has been Mix Master Mike, who was first featured in the song "Three MC's and One DJ"....
(Mike D, Adrock, MCA)
Black Moon
Black Moon

Black Moon is an album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1992 . The first studio album under the band's original lineup since 1978, it was regarded by fans as a triumphant comeback, although the band's subsequent career did not fulfill its promise....
Busta Rhymes
Busta Rhymes

Trevor Smith, Jr., better known as Busta Rhymes , is a Grammy Award-nominated Jamaican?United States rapping, songwriter, and actor. Chuck D of Public Enemy gave him the name Busta Rhymes after watching him perform....
Casual
Casual (rapper)

Jon Owens , known by his stage name Casual, is an United States rapper.Born in Oakland, California, Owens is a member of the influential alternative hip hop Musical collective Hieroglyphics ....
Chi Ali
Chi Ali

Chi Ali Griffith professionally known as Chi-Ali is an American rapper, best known musically for his album The Fabulous Chi-Ali which he recorded at the age of 14....
Chuck D
Chuck D

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy ....
Cold Crush Brothers (Almighty KG, Charlie Chase
Charlie Chase

Charlie Chase is a radio and television host best known for his work on Spike TV program Crook & Chase. Currently, he hosts the local television show Tennessee Mornings on Fox Broadcasting Company affiliate WZTV in Nashville, Tennessee....
, Easy AD, Grandmaster Caz
Grandmaster Caz

Grandmaster Caz a.k.a. Grandmaster Casanova Fly, , was born in the Bronx, New York, USA, and was a part of the hip hop music group The Cold Crush Brothers....
, DJ Tony Tone)
Daddy-O
Daddy-O (musician)

Daddy-O is an American hip hop record producer and rapping. He began his career as a member of the pioneer hip-hop group Stetsasonic with Prince Paul....
(of Stetsasonic
Stetsasonic

Stetsasonic was an USA Hip hop music group formed in 1981 in Brooklyn, New York. It is remembered as one of the first hip-hop crews to use a live band, and their positive, uplifting lyrics have made the group forerunners of alternative hip hop and jazz rap....
)
Dallas Austin
Dallas Austin

Dallas Austin is an American songwriter, record producer, and musician, based in Atlanta, Georgia. Some of his most notable clients include Michael Jackson ,TLC , Boyz II Men, Pink , Monica , Madonna , Gwen Stefani, Stacie Orrico, Another Bad Creation, Fishbone, Sugababes, Anastacia and Japanese singer, Namie Amuro....
Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Del tha Funkee Homosapien

Teren Delvon Jones , better known as Del tha Funkee Homosapien, is an alternative hip hop artist....
Diamond D
Diamond D

Diamond D is a Hip hop production and rapping from The Bronx, New York City and one of the founding members of legendary NY crew D.I.T.C.He started out as a DJ for Jazzy Jay back in the early 1980s and was at the same time perfecting his skills in beat making and turntableism, and together with parther rhyme partner MC Rob he was one half of...
Doug E. Fresh
Doug E. Fresh

Douglas E. Davis , better known by the stage name Doug E. Fresh, is an United States rapping, record producer, and beatboxing, also known as the Human Beat Box....
De La Soul
De La Soul

De La Soul is an American hip hop music group formed in 1987 in Amityville, New York. They are best known for their eclectic sampling and quirky, surreal lyrics, and their contributions to the evolution of the jazz rap and alternative hip hop subgenres....
(Posdunos
Kelvin Mercer

Kelvin Mercer is a rapping, record producer, and one-third of the hip hop trio , De La Soul. He is known more famously by his nickname Posdnuos, or simply Pos....
, Dave
David Jude Jolicoeur

David Jude Jolicoeur , also known under the stage name Trugoy the Dove, is a rapper, music producer, and one third of groundbreaking hip hop Trio De La Soul....
& Mase
Vincent Mason

Vincent Mason , is a rapper, music producer, Disc jockey, and one third of groundbreaking hip hop Trio , De La Soul. He is also known as Mase....
)
DJ Jazzy Joyce
Kool DJ Red Alert
DJ Red Alert

DJ Red Alert Harlem, New York) is a disc Jockey on WRKS, and has been recognized as a hip-hop pioneer. Red Alert has been noted for breaking in such acts and artists as A Tribe Called Quest, Queen Latifah, and Black Sheep ....
DJ Ron G
DJ Silver D
Dr. Dre
Dr. Dre

Andre Romelle Young , primarily known by his stage name Dr. Dre, is an American record producer, rapper, record executive, and actor. He is the founder and current CEO of Aftermath Entertainment and a former co-owner and artist of Death Row Records, also having produced albums for and overseeing the careers of many rappers signed to tho...
Grandmaster Flash
Grandmaster Flash

Joseph Saddler better known as Grandmaster Flash, is an United States hip hop musician and disc jockey; one of the pioneers of Hip hop music disc jockey, cutting, and audio mixing ....
Heavy D
Ice-T
ICE-T

* Ice-T is a U.S. rapper and actor.* ICE-T is a tilting model of the German DBAG Class 411 series of high-speed trains....
Jazzy Jay
Jazzy Jay

Jazzy Jay , also known as The Original Jazzy Jay or DJ Jazzy Jay, is a pioneering United States hip hop Turntablism and producer....
Jungle Brothers
Jungle Brothers

The Jungle Brothers are an American hip-hop music group that pioneered the fusion of jazz and hip-hop and also became the first hip-hop group to use a house music producer....
(Afrika Baby Bam, Mike G)
DJ Kid Capri
Kid Capri

Kid Capri is an Afro-Italian United States musician.He was born in the The Bronx, New York City, New York, United States.He is the son of Prudence Centorino, a Home Health Aide and David Love Sr., a Musician/Singer....
Kool Moe Dee
Kool Moe Dee

Mohandas Dewese , better known as Kool Moe Dee, is an United States Old school hip hop MC prominent in the late 1970s, throughout the 1980s and early 1990s....
Large Professor
Large Professor

Large Professor also known as Large Pro and Xtra P , is a New York City-based hip hop music record producer and emcee. He is also best known as a founding member of the influential underground hip hop group Main Source, and for discovering popular emcee Nas ....
Lords of the Underground
Lords of the Underground

The Lords of the Underground are a Hip hop music trio based out of Newark, New Jersey. MCs Mr. Funke and DoItAll Dupr? met DJ Lord Jazz when all three were undergraduates at Shaw University....
MC Lyte
MC Lyte

MC Lyte is rapping musician who has scored several Rap and R&B hits. She has released several albums since 1988. She was born October 11, 1971 in Brooklyn, New York...
MC Serch
MC Serch

MC Serch is an United States hip hop music rapping and former member of 3rd Bass....
Neek the Exotic
Organized Konfusion
Organized Konfusion

Organized Konfusion was an alternative hip hop duo from Queens, New York. Though not commercially popular, the duo was one of the most respected and acclaimed underground hip hop acts of the 1990s, largely due to the duo's intelligent rhymes, and the groundbreaking lyrics of Pharoahe Monch and Prince Poetry....
The Pharcyde
The Pharcyde

The Pharcyde is an alternative hip hop group from the West coast of the United States. The group was formed in South Central Los Angeles , where the group's members grew up....
(Fat Lip
Fat Lip

"Fat Lip" is the first single off the pop punk band Sum 41's second album All Killer No Filler. It is the band's most successful single, topping the Billboard Modern Rock chart, as well as MTV's Total Request Live and MuchMusic's MuchMusic Countdown in the summer of 2001....
, Imani, Romye, Slim Kid Tre')
Pete Nice
Pete Nice

Prime Minister Pete Nice is a former rap artist who is most noted for his role in the hip hop group 3rd Bass....
Rashad Smith
Rock Steady Crew
Rock Steady Crew

Rock Steady Crew is a breakdancing crew and Hip hop culture group that was established in the Bronx, New York City in 1977. The New York Times called the Rock Steady Crew "the foremost breakdancing group in the world today."...
(Crazy Legs, Mr. Wiggles
Mr. Wiggles

Steffan "Mr. Wiggles" Clemente is one of the more well-known street dancers, particularly for his Popping skills. He is a member of the Rock Steady Crew, The Electric Boogaloos, Tribal Click and Universal Zulu Nation....
, Pee Wee Dance, Ruel
Ruel

Ruel may refer to:In places:* Ruel, OntarioPeople with the surname Ruel:* Claude Ruel* Muddy Ruel* Pat Ruel* Paul Durand-Ruel...
)
Sean Combs
Sean Combs

Sean John Combs , known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and now Diddy, is an American record producer, rapper, actor, men's fashion designer, entrepreneur and dancer....
Skeff Anselm
Souls of Mischief
Souls of Mischief

Souls of Mischief is an alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop musical collective, Hieroglyphics ....
Special Ed
Special ed

Special ed may refer to:*Special education, a form of alternative education*Special Ed, a New York based rapper from the late 1980s and early 1990s...
Sweet Tee
Too Short
Whodini
Whodini

Whodini is a hip hop music group from New York that was formed in 1981, made up of Jalil , Ecstasy and Grandmaster Dee ....
(Grandmaster Dee)
Zulu Nation Supreme Council (Zulu King Muhammad, Unknown)

The album artwork of Midnight Marauders was the source of inspiration for a collection of products released by Jordan Brand that includes T-shirts and the Air Jordans.